"We did not deserve more than a draw against Southampton" – Wenger

After watching his team labour to a 1-1 draw against Southampton, Arsene Wenger admitted that they did not deserve more than a draw, after a tepid performance.

Here is the full transcript of his post-match interview:
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on the result…
Considering our performance I don't think we deserved more today. It is two points dropped if you look at the target we set ourselves over Christmas. It is frustrating and disappointing because we did not create a lot and if you considered we scored five at Reading and seven against Newcastle. When you sum up the goal chances there is not a lot. We lacked purpose, penetration and speed. All qualities we have usually but lacked tonight.

on the reasons for the performance…
It is frustrating. It is nothing to with the physical. Maybe we thought we scored seven against Newcastle and we'd score seven today. It was a game of magnitude today against a highly motivated Southampton side but I thought [our problem] was more mental than physical.

We prepared normally and prepared well. Maybe Southampton deserve some credit as well. They fought for every ball, they were on their toes but they just did not have quite enough quality to take advantage of it

It is difficult to identify any specific thing. We have to sit down and analyse that together. We have big games coming up and we want to get back to our normal performance. FA Cup is out next game so we want to win it. We will lose Gervinho now so the squad is getting shorter.

on signing Thierry Henry…
At the moment we are not on that case. But I will be active [in the January window] yes. We are looking everywhere. We are open-minded. We want to strengthen the squad everywhere.

on Theo Walcott…
It is hard to single out anyone. Nobody was put in good conditions to express anything decent offensively

Robin van Persie and Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez both scored two goals, as Manchester United began 2013 in imperious form. The pair were grabbed a goal each, as the Premiership leaders defeated Wigan Athletic at the DW Stadium, where they had lost last season, as City came from behind to win the League.

City, playing at home, did not need to move into second gear, as they comfortably dispatched Stoke City 3-0, with Zabaleta, Aguero and Dzeko getting the goals.

Tottenham Hotspur came from behind to defeat Reading 3-1, Danny Graham struck late to earn Swansea a 2-2 draw against Aston Villa, while West Ham beat Norwich 2-1 at Upton Park.

Robin van Persie has hailed the quality of his new team mates at Manchester United, after Tuesday's 4-0 hammering of Wigan at the DW Stadium.

The 29-year-old striker bagged a brace, as the Red Devils maintained their seven-point lead over City, at the top of the League.

Van Persie, says he is surrounded by champions in a special team.

"This is a special team," he told MUTV. "Everybody wants to help each other. Everybody's keen for everyone to score. Defenders are working their socks off for the midfielders, the midfielders are working for the strikers… everybody wants to run and everybody has one target in their mind.

"We have to look at it game by game but everybody wants to be champions. I feel that I'm surrounded by champions. They know how to win and that makes it really easy for me."

The free-scoring Dutchman, specially reserved praise for Mexican striker, Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez, who also scored twice in the victory.

"[Javier and I] scored two goals each and he gave a really good pass for my first goal," he added. "It was a good goal because every single touch was the right touch, in my opinion.

"The first one was a little behind me and I had to drag it onto my left foot. That was a good touch. Then I waited for the guy to slide in, had a good touch inside and then a quick finish. Three touches but all good touches.

"It was a very good performance we scored the goals at the right time. We've played Wigan twice this year and won 4-0 both times, so that's good for goal difference.

"Everybody's helping each other and everybody wants to share the goals. Look at the last goal – Danny wanted to give the ball to me so I could score. Everybody's like that. I'm like that, Chicha is like that… everybody wants to share the goals and that, in my opinion, is the way to score heaps of goals.

"Hopefully we can keep it going. We've had a couple of games where we've had high scores but we want to score even more goals because that could be vital come the end of the season.

Organisers of the annual Big Brother Africa reality TV show have announced that auditions for the 2013 edition of the show will begin in January 2013.

Managing Director of M-Africa, Biola Alabi, says the  next edition will feature housemates whose activities will provide the audience with happiness, hope, anxiety, friendship, love, arguments and fights. She also added that the next edition will have a new twist to it which will will be revealed when the show begins airing.

The last edition had the trio of Ola, Chris and singer, Goldie as Nigeria’s representatives but was won  by South Africa’s Keagan Peterson.

American R& B singer,Brandy, is finally engaged toher boyfriend and music mogul, Ryan Press. The two got engaged on Christmas day right in front of Brandy's parents in their family home while they were opening Christmas presents.
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Brandy, 33, a single mom to 10-year old daughter, Sy'rai, found love again with Ryan who she said made her believe in love again.
"I had given up on love a long time ago," Brandy said. "It just didn't seem to work for me, so I was single for a very long time.I stopped looking for love and then I ran into my boyfriend."
"He just love me for who I am. I don't haveto camouflage anything for him or put on amask. I can completely be myself and he loves me so much and I love him just the way he is too," she says.
Meanwhile, an insider revealed that the couple is "thrilled and happy" and that Brandy feels the engagement is "so right."

The Nigerian music duo of two brothers: Tumininu Laolu-Oguniyi and Atewologun Laolu-Ogunniyi, have decided to launch their own brand of condoms named Peeshaun Condom, which is a stage name of one of the brothers; Atewologun. The group recently disclosed this where they talked about their plans to launch their brand of condoms.

They say it's their own way of giving back to the society and preaching about sex education to teenagers. Hear is what they said;

"We are great believers in the fact that the youth are the leaders of tomorrow and have to learn from a young age that if you can't abstain, you have to play safe. But not only that, we are looking at it from the concept of family planning, of teenage pregnancies and putting a stop to it.

Every pregnant teenager in our society is another teenager that has to stop schooling in order to handle the situation they find themselves in. It goes way more than just the condom and sex part."

My question is; ​ĦΩ̴w̶̲̅ is 'Peeshaun Condoms' gonna help???



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The Koko Concert which holds today will be attracting A-list UK Actor, Idris Elba who is already in Lagos for the show.

The actor was spotted arriving the Lagos airport yesterday and later lounged with the Kokomaster himself, D'banj at his One Eleven night club.

The Koko Concert will feature performances from Tinie Tempah, Big Sean, Pusha T, 2face Idibia, Wizkid and more.

It was an absolutely entertaining encounter as ex supereagles trashed a super star studded team, fielding the likes of Segun Arinze, MI, Nonso Diobi, Sound Sultan, Sexy Steel, John Njama, Fred Amata, SAKA!, I'd cabasa and a whole lot more...

The ex super eagles side featuring; Celestine Babayaro, Okocha, Kanu, Daniel Amokachi, Mobi, and a host of other ex internationals netted 8 goals in all, Okocha scoring 4 and nwankwo Kanu scoring 1... It was a funny sight when the referee awarded Kanu a penalty and all the entertainers rushed back to defend.. I mean actually stood with the goal keeper. Lmao!

Sexy Steel let fly a couple of hot shots and converted from the spot.. Fred Amata and John Njama also converted dramatic goals from close range...

I'd Cabasa, MI, Sound sultan and SAKA! Played defense as Sexy steel and Doctor Sid would play attacking roles... Whew! Lots of drama as MI, Cabasa and Sultan tried to play killer balls but SAKA! Picked up the ball and RAN to the eagles post ball in hand lmao! There was even a scene where the ref asks MI to choose what card he would give to okocha lmao!

Take a look at all the candid photos I cld post.. Enjoy!

Kudos to our superstars! Yall did your best, but they pros...