...Nope, never said that at all, read the whole thread, since I went over the logistics of my country rooting methodology already. And as for 'the world cup tends to bring different people together'....well I suppose physically, but it's probably the most polarizing sporting event in the world...unless you meant that…

Ah, I see. And fingers crossed for the Bosnia game- given the caliber of Nigeria's individual players and our kickass goalkeeper, it should be a done game with Nigeria as the winner. But then again, we're terrible at team play and everyone thought Iran was a done game, but look how that turned out. Trying desperately…

I thought you all had a good team though? With Rooney as your magic player? And I feel your pain, Nigeria has been giving uninspiring performances at the World Cup, falling ever since our 90s golden era... /sigh

Ah, I see, my bad, my notifications kept lighting up so it looked like a lot of responses. And no worries, I'm sure the teams will survive my once every 4 years opprobrium (my original response was somewhat tongue in cheek, though I'm still genuinely peeved at Uruguay's team for that Ghana incident). On another note,…

Hmm, You have quite a few replies there so let me take a stab at one last response:

As a Nigerian, I only follow/have interest in the African teams. See earlier in my post, Uruguay and South Korea are currently in my football hall of shame.

Oh, it makes perfect sense and the difference between explicit and implicit racism and racial prejudice is an area of active research in Sociology. I can send you some academic articles on the topic if you'd like to delve in further, but a brief google search reveals this individual's blog post which explains the…

I'm not familiar with Cote d'Ivoire's internal football dynamics, but in the context of the World Cup, there is no 'barking up the wrong tree' by saying no to racism/supporting explicitly racist teams when the whole world's your stage/audience. You simply do not bring such shittery to the World Cup. And if you do,…

I know, which is why I said '/' to specify 'or'. Haven't heard any racism from my 5 African teams above as of yet (maybe Algeria?...) And Didier Drogba is magic so I applaud your applause for that team, pity about Colombia, but they tried and I'm expecting them to trounce Greece so all is not lost.

Oh boooooo. While I have no interest in hockey, now I know never to root for Canada in hockey so thank you for this piece of information.

I really only care about the African teams: Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon (...) and Algeria, and far as I know, they're clean so, I do believe I'm good. For everyone else, I support according to how racist you/your country (as evidenced by racist fans) is/how much of a shithead colonialist your country was…

So it's more racism than homophobia? Apparently, a South Korean fan dressed up as an ape to mock Nigerian players in the 2010 game...so Korea, while I might love your kdramas, I am never, ever rooting for your soccer/football team. Your team can sit in the hall of football shame with Uruguay.

After the shitty move Uruguay pulled against Ghana in 2010, these guys do nothing for me, like I find none of them attractive at all. ugh, still makes me mad just thinking about it #neverforget

This list needs more Asamoah Gyan:

Lupita Nyong'o as Belle and casting a la Brandy's 'Cinderella'. I'd watch the crap out of that movie

...There's significant endogeneity bias issues with these studies as any econometrician will tell you. There's also unaccounted for severe heteroskedasticity in the data you presented above, again as any econometrician will tell you. All this to say that your attempt at providing these dubious correlations (and it's…

My pleasure! I'm glad it was understandable

Agreed with adaada's reply. Also, as I've been repeatedly, half-jokingly, reminded by Nigerian friends and family (particularly the male ones), a PhD often means delaying marriage, so you're also 'too old' to be marrying when 'your mates are already having children' -_-

Thank you! This exactly! It's satire people! Condensed my two paragraph thesis response into a single sentence

... I'm completely bemused by your comment. What exactly does Syria, rape and refugee camps have to do with an app made by a Nigerian company, made for Nigerians with obvious-to-Nigerians, balls out ridiculous/comic references to 'Mama Ronke', 'Orobo' and 'the elders are consulting'? As my Naija folk would say, I no…