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We love music, we love football, and we love arguing about music and football. This was inevitable. Before the Coronavirus pandemic literally brought the world to a halt, weekends and many mid-week nights were the designated period for Football Twitter to reign supreme, with hot takes and semi-hostile banter flying around lawlessly, constantly creating the silly and earnest atmosphere of a food fight. No matter how invincible the team you support might seem, or the individual greatness of your favourite player—past or present—being on the receiving end of an #agenda is inevitable, but there’s always the friendly ideal that everyone’s a part of the football fandom community. In a similar vein, music always serves as a point of unity, even though preferences wildly differ. Nigerian music represents an export that’s integral to spiking the country’s cool points all over the world, but even in championing that, it still leaves enough room for argumentative tensions between many people...