On a day when just about everything had gone wrong for Amazing Blues FC and they had managed to score just one question correctly out of seven, the team of five Chelsea fans were lucky to be only 2-0 down on this week’s episode of Star Football SuperFans. It could be have been three or four and game over already if the Shining Stars team of Barcelona fans had been more clinical. This episode of Nigeria’s biggest football gameshow powered by premium beer Star Lager, seemed to be almost done and dusted and the N1 million prize money heading to the Blaugrana.
Show host Mozez Praiz presented Chigbogu Paulinus, Agbowa Ugochukwu, Okwudili Okafor, Akinmosu Ibrahim and Owhofactor Esere with the chance to claw their way back into the game with the Show Your Passionsegment and the responsibility fell on Owhofactor Esere who had just seen Joshua Iheanacho of Shining Stars raise the roof off the building with the humorous anti-Chelsea chant. “Chelsea fans! Dem dey park bus! Chelsea fans! Dem dey block bridge!”
He took the stage in front of an expectant audience and steadied himself: “This is going to be good”, the audience was probably thinking. Then he started – “Chelsea kwenu! Kwenu! Chelsea is the best team in England! Everybody who jam them go collect! They are the best team! Don’t play with Chelsea o!”
The audience sat in silence, watching as he continued, wriggling his body energetically, “No try Chelsea o! Mourinho don win Wenger, win Wenger, win Wenger, win Wenger, win Wenger…” A woman cupped her mouth and whispered something to the person seated next to her. He broke out in laughter. The somewhat embarrassed and distinctly unimpressed audience gives some polite, half-hearted applause and Mozez Praiz returned to centre stage to ask the crowd to vote.
Unsurprisingly, the crowd voted for Shining Stars and the score changed to 3-0. The next round of competition was just a formality as the game had been won and lost at this stage, and in any case, that round too ended up going to Shining Stars. 4-0 the final score and the Amazing Blues looked more like the Amazing Blues of Wigan Athletic than of Chelsea FC.
