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This weekend is crucial to all the top teams in the Premiership and the winners will be counting
their blessings, while the losers will be rueing an opportunity lost. Man City face Tottenham and
the winners will have a great boost to their title hopes, while Arsenal face Man Utd who also can't
afford to [.
High up on the list of things no to do with football fans is to promise the unveiling of a big
new signing and then fail to follow through. Worse is to promise a big signing and then come
through with someone who won't even find the end of the bench on the reserves. Like Bayern did this
afternoon, requesting their fans tune into an official press conference to unveil the signing,
which turned out to be the photo of the fan who'd logged in via facebook.
Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich angered their supporters yesterday with news that they would be
making a spectacular signing before the transfer window closed only for the fans to later find out
that it was a marketing gimmick.
Apparently, Bayern was trying to gain interest for their new app by creating intense speculation
as to who the signing would be.
With the NBA schedule in fult tilt since Christmas, the season has never seemed this action-packed.
The reason is because the games are coming closer together and delivered faster to consumers.
There is more back-to-back scheduling for teams than other years, meaning they play two nights in a
row and some back-to-back-to-back, meaning they play three nights in a row at times throughout the
season, as well.
Eighteen years after eighteen of Zambia's footballers were killed off the coast of Libreville,
Stippola Sunzu scored the eighteenth penalty of a marathon shootout to win his country their first
ever Africa Cup of Nations.
During the shootout the Zambian players could be heard indulging in communal singing in support
of their team-mates as they faced the dreaded walk to the penalty spot.
As part of the unedifying spectacles of Manchester United frequently playing with a 12th man,
Anthony Taylor referees this afternoon's game at Wolverhampton.
Mr Taylor is from Manchester.
So he's either a Red or a Blue.
Half-time: Wolves 0 Man Utd 3 (Wolves 3 fouls - one sending off and one booking plus Jarvis denied
a penalty; Man Utd 5 fouls - no bookings).
Their Words "We are delighted to announce that Tuesdays game is Sold Out. Now as the anticipation
builds we look forward to our orange clad 12th Man helping to push the team to an important
victory." Carolina RailHawks president Curt Johnson. Other Sources The U.S. national team is up
next for Fulham's Clint Dempsey but more could be on the way - from The Washington Post's Steven
Goff: "You can't believe all the speculation.
