Nothing pains more than a joy short-lived! That is the story of the Nigerian Twitter space on Thursday during the back and forth of Swansea striker Tammy Abraham’s international future.
The 19-year old (will turn 20 in 10 days) was one of the top 3 trending topics in Nigeria by Thursday evening and if you were wondering why? Here’s a summary of the events.
BOOM! The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) twitter handle @thenff marched their way to social media with the big news from their website.
https://twitter.com/thenff/status/910822784175132672
As expected, what followed was all sorts of reactions from fans, stakeholders and perhaps ‘Keyboard Warriors’ both positive and negative.
The happy one:
https://twitter.com/temiokomi/status/910876435799265281
Here is also a Twitter dream coach knowing what’s next to be done.
https://twitter.com/adesolafagbemi/status/910827644253560832
There apparently were two types of those who did not want this news. 1. Those that believe there’s no need for him and 2. Those that want more look inwards. Here’s an example of 1.
https://twitter.com/MohGrin/status/910898845168623617
And type 2.
https://twitter.com/Mekus_Mekus/status/910916696453603328
Some other angles, what about this for a British accent?
https://twitter.com/TheYomiKazeem/status/910951453107290112
But what concerns this young lady is the “fineness” of our lured Eagle. She’s searching ain’t she?
https://twitter.com/reizqat/status/910918106620530688
But as the celebrations continued, it was SkySportsNews that first mellowed down Nigerians.
https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/910907089312153603
Before more and more British tabloids drew more daggers!
https://twitter.com/talkSPORT/status/910925150136229888
And the almighty BBC
https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/910946009248878593
The first reaction came from an unlikely source Pius Adesanmi, highlighting who would lose in the end.
https://twitter.com/pius_adesanmi/status/910963322668843010
But the biggest ‘L’ expectedly went to the NFF.
https://twitter.com/iamOkon/status/910948833043066880
NFF President Amaju Pinnick was not spared and reminded his past gaffes by this man. Nigerians hardly forget bad things sha.
https://twitter.com/Sport_People_Ta/status/910978147881029633
Meanwhile, Aquila Sports Ltd CEO, Calvin Onwuka always feared this as he enumerated in this thread.
https://twitter.com/CalvinEmeka/status/910923453783580673
Could this truly be what Mr Pinnick is thinking right now?
https://twitter.com/OdikoGodwin/status/910920678752350210
The Ijaya 1 of Lagos asks a question of the NFF Prezido and many answers followed in the thread.
https://twitter.com/olywal/status/910912889720070144
In the end though, this good Nigerian advises Tammy!
https://twitter.com/lawizzygotswag/status/910978192177008640
Hilarious. Love the Twitter style of report