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The Soccer Whiz: Gunning for glory
Five wins on the trot and another expectant routine victory awaited them at Old Trafford on the weekend.
By Zak Hawa
Sep. 11, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: Countdown to World Cup 2022
The late Diego Armando Maradona is that man and his impact on the modern game is unprecedented.
By Zak Hawa
Sep. 18, 2022
Countdown to World Cup 2022
What’s gone wrong, what’s the matter, why has African football failed to reach the highest pinnacle?
By Zak Hawa
Sep. 25, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: Which players will illuminate Qatar 2022?
In a team full of superstars he stood head and shoulders above them all as France claimed the World Cup for the second time in their history.
By Zak Hawa
Oct. 2, 2022
ARSENAL'S NEW ARSENE
To put things into context, this was no ordinary run of the mill match day, not any arbitrary Arsenal fixture and certainly no average derby match either.
By Zak Hawa
Oct. 9, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: The greatest game of all!
The rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona has been a major part of both clubs’ existence since their inception.
By Zak Hawa
Oct. 16, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: BENZ WINS THE RACE
The Benz was streets ahead in a year where his performances for Real Madrid ensured that no one else stood any realistic chance of winning the coveted prize.
By Zak Hawa
Oct. 23, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: A new dawn for English managers
I apologise for the Harry reference but Potter has quite literally walked into the most demanding arena in English football and waved his magic wand.
By Zak Hawa
Oct. 30, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: QATAR 2022: THE MISSING STARS
Spurs striking Son and Chelsea’s Ben Chilunwell were such casualties this week to add to a growing list.
By Zak Hawa
Nov. 6, 2022
The Soccer Whiz : The greatest World Cup ever
On Sunday November 20, the most anticipated soccer World Cup in history finally kicks off in Qatar.
By Zak Hawa
Nov. 13, 2022
The soccer whiz: Qatar Word Cup 2022, Here we go
As for South Korea, they will be reflecting on a father who wishes he had more sons!
By Zak Hawa
Nov. 20, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: Qatar World Cup journal
Shocks and surprises, twists and turns, interest and intrigue, ebbs and flows, VAR and often VARLESS, stars and even a few stripes and loads and loads of injury time!!
By Zak Hawa
Nov. 27, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: Greatest World Cup of all time
This has not been the typical, traditional, testing phase of a tournament that we are generally dished out.
By Zak Hawa
Dec. 4, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: Don't cry for me Argentina
Furthermore there is widespread support from local Qataris and other neutrals for Messi to end off his career with a World Cup triumph.
By Zak Hawa
Dec. 11, 2022
The world bows to Messi
It’s a dream final between the two standout teams, Argentina and France and it promises to be a match for the ages.
By Zak Hawa
Dec. 18, 2022
The Soccer Whiz: KING LEO’S HOMECOMING
The Albiceleste heeded the call eventually in the most dramatic of circumstances to get the celebrations underway.
By Zak Hawa
Dec. 25, 2022
The Soccer Whiz : Long live King Pele
It’s a country famous for its pyramids and pharaohs, Queen Cleopatra and the endless river Nile.
By Zak Hawa
Jan. 2, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: Long live king Pele
Through a stroke of genius or just good fortune, Pele made the important career move to the New York Cosmos in 1975.
By Zak Hawa
Jan. 8, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: EPL managerial upheaval
While CR7 gets his new career off the ground at Al Nasr, it’s back to business in the EPL.
By Zak Hawa
Jan. 15, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: THE MIGHT OF THE EPL
His team were this season eliminated in the group stages of the Champions League further depleting their coffers and his comments came after a 5-1 mauling at the hands of Napoli.
By Zak Hawa
Jan. 22, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: Is the FA Cup still relevant?
Many will feel like perhaps this is the weekend to go fishing, play golf or even to go shopping with the Mrs!
By Zak Hawa
Jan. 29, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: The EPL mad spending spree
A whopping GBP 815 million equated to four times more spent in the EPL than all the other big European Leagues combined!
By Zak Hawa
Feb. 5, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: The Guardiola conundrum
Judged by their on-field performance, Pep Guardiola stands alone in the dock as he is going to be solely responsible for City’s failure to win silverware this year.
By Zak Hawa
Feb. 12, 2023
It’s true and it’s safe
For Manchester City it was a week where the grey clouds that were hovering menacingly suddenly seemed to disappear .
By Zak Hawa
Feb. 19, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: Moses rescues Man United
Barcelona had come to Manchester United’s den and been exposed by Ten’s mighty men even after controlling the first half and taking a one goal lead into their pen at the halftime break.
By Zak Hawa
Feb. 26, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: Liverpool’s long and winding road
The prelude to this macabre massacre had seen a sequence of results which gave not even the slightest hint of the possibility of such a one sided outcome.
By Zak Hawa
Mar. 19, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: OUR EPL OBSESSION
Were the Football Associations unable to stand together and block these friendlies and qualifiers, knowing the negative consequences they might cause?
By Zak Hawa
Mar. 26, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: A tale of the unexpected
We have Cristiano Ronaldo breaking every scoring record conceivable at the ripe age of 38.
By Zak Hawa
Apr. 2, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: THE CHELSEA CIRCUS
We are in the final stretch of a season where Chelsea are effective bystanders as they currently sit in eleventh place in the EPL table and barring a total seizure, cannot do worse than eleventh!
By Zak Hawa
Apr. 9, 2023
The Soccer Whiz: EMERY’S VILLA RESURGENCE
Under Unai Emery, La Liga’s Sevilla registered an unprecedented hat trick of Europa League trophies between 2014 and 2016.
By Zak Hawa
Apr. 16, 2023
Business mounts fresh push for scrapping of ‘destructive’ tax
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Nov. 15, 2024
ZNCC nudges govt for diaspora bond to bolster forex inflows
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Nov. 15, 2024
Corrupt govt moles oiling ‘notorious’ gold cartels, Mutare Bridge faces collapse as siltation hits alarming levels
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Nov. 15, 2024
