The new season is fast approaching like the distant glint of sunlight between clouds on a windy day. It did kind of start already at TNS on 9th July, a start so early for me as to be uncanny, like the sun rising at midnight. So early it's difficult to decide if it was an appendix to last season or a prologue to 2009-10. Click to continue reading...

What it this? Baseball? Golf? Tennis?
Nope. It's the Nigerian women's national soccer team. Three coaches canceled training one day because of the rain.
They got punished promptly by the Nigeria Football Federation president Sani Lulu:

Coaches Uche Eucharia, Ann Chiejina and Monsu Abdullahi were axed when Lulu paid a surprise visit to the team's training camp in Abuja only to discover the women's national team were not training because it was drizzling at the time.

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The president of the Nigeria Football Federation suspended three coaches of the women's national team for not turning up to a training session because it was raining.

Says KickOff.com:

Coaches Uche Eucharia, Ann Chiejina and Monsu Abdullahi were axed when [NFF president Sani] Lulu paid a surprise visit to the team's training camp in Abuja only to discover the women's national team were not training because it was drizzling at the time.

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