Happy New Year ardent reader, It has been 3 years of sports writing. I started via this blogspot some years back as a hobby and a therapy against the monotony of the corporate world. It garnered great interest, lovely reviews & and I graduated to writing for other sites (both international & local). The old phrase 'Third time's a Charm ' is highly evident in my 3rd year of writing. Since it was a milestone year with notable achievements & unforgettable exposure; In January, 2 of My articles placed 5th and 8th in AIPS,s Top 10 African submissions for 2018 https://www.aipsawards.com/single-news?id=85 Thanks very much to an astute host, Yaw Ofosu of TV3 for helping me make my debuts on 📻 3fm 97.3  in 2017 & 📺  TV3 in 2019. Grateful Fentuo Tahiru of Citi fm also grateful to you for putting me on with Nathan Quao and Kojo Nkestiah for premier league show on CitiTv 📺 & inviting me to do premier league 📻 punditry with You.

Continental football is back again, albeit this time in a different season (June-July instead of January-February) and a different format (16 to 24 teams). If the razzmatazz of the draw - held at the picturesque Sphinx and the Pyramids in Giza -   was the hors d'oeuvre, the actual competition which is in full swing is showing glimpses of delivering on its promise as the main course. From the ancient aura of Alexandria through the principal streets of Bangui to the shipping yards of Port Elizabeth, the allure for football on Pharaoh’s grass is certainly at an all-time high. In Ghana, issues pertaining to religion, politics and football garner a lot of interest. If the assertions made by sportswriter Fiifi Anaman’s AIPS award-winning article in 2015 * (“Where is the love: How the Black Stars stabbed the nation in cold blood”) still holds, then interest in activities of the Black Stars by its citizenry has waned tremendously since the disgraceful events at the 2014