It appears likely that Didier Drogba is set to move to Shanghai Shenua. It is not quite clear
whether the move is scheduled to take place during the January transfer window or in the summer of
2012 but it has become quite clear that Didier Drogba is set to move away from Stamford Bridge and
Chelsea.
The African Cup of Nations is just a couple of weeks away and Tottenham striker Emmanuel
Adebayor is already predicting a tough title challenge for Manchester City.
The Citizens are set to lose their most influential player of the season so far-Yaya Toure. Yaya
who was also named as the African player of the Year 2011 has been in scintillating form for City
helping them to a first place finish in the league for the first time in 82 years since Christmas
1929.
-
-
-
-
Throughout the day, the QPR Report Messageboard has news updates,
comments and perspectives - even links to other board comments of interest re QPR matters (on and
off the field) along with football (and ONLY football) topics in general....Also Follow:
QPR REPORT ON TWITTER__________________________________________________________________________________
- Next Swansea: Past Games/Teams/Photos/Shared Players
- The 2011 Bernie Ecclestone Christmas Card (and Previous Years' Cards)
- 40 Years Ago: Rodney Marsh's England Debut
- QPR Official Supporters Club (OSC) AGM & EGM Scheduled
- Past QPR Boxing Day Games and Team Lineups
- Some Past Christmas Greetings to QPR Fans From Loftus Road
- 2010-2011 - Club-by-Club Football Arrests/Stats including QPR
With respect to QPR (See Table 10) there were 26 fan arrested in 2010-11 season.
STARTERS
Jamie Trecker of Fox Soccer traveled to London and sat down for a video interview with Clint
Dempsey.
-There really isn't anything new here for us diehards, but its great to see the words come out of
Clint's mouth. What a talent!
-More great stuff with Clint and members of his family.
-
- Just Missed the Anniversary! Forty Years ago, QPR's Rodney Marsh his England Debut!
-
-
Throughout the day, the QPR Report Messageboard has news updates,
comments and perspectives - even links to other board comments of interest re QPR matters (on and
off the field) along with football (and ONLY football) topics in general.
Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure was yesterday named African Player of the
Year 2011 in a lavish gala ceremony in Accra Ghana. The 28 year old who has had a fantastic start
to the EPL this season, beat Mali's Seydou Keita and Ghana's Andre Ayew who finished second and
third respectively to win the award and become only the second Ivorian since Didier Drogba to win
the award.
Morocco will become the first African country to host the FIFA World Club Cup finals in 2013 and
2014 after a successful tournament in Japan this year. The tournament will however remain in
Japan in 2012 before moving to the North African nation in 2013.
The world governing football body revealed that Morocco won the rights to host the tournament
after the withdrawal of bidders South Africa, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
City are proving to be a strong contender for the Premier League title this season and one
player who has been instrumental in the Club's unbeaten run and fantastic form is Yaya Toure.
Toure who joined City last summer after a misunderstanding with his former club FC
Barcelona,has proved to be one of the club's most important signings with the 28 year old defensive
midfielder going on to become a key player in Mancini's line up.
All eyes will be on Asamoah Gyan at the upcoming African Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial
Guinea in January as he attempts to help Ghana go one better than their second place finish two
years ago.
The Ghanaian striker was voted African player of the year in 2010 and was one of the players to
make the biggest impact on the World Cup in South Africa as he helped his side become only the
third African country to make the quarter-finals of the tournament.
The Confederation of African Football has released its short list for 2011 CAF African Player of
the year. The list includes usual suspects Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast, Samuel Eto'o of Cameroon
and Seydou Keita of Mali.
Other players short listed for the prestigious award include: Asamoah Gyan, Yaya Toure, Kevin
Prince-Boateng, Moussa Sow, Gervinho, Adel Taarabt and Andre Ayew.
Some big stars keep playing till their impact on the game fades away slowly overtime. Maradona,
Romario, Bebeto, Peter Shilton are some examples. I remember Lothar Matthaus in an interview
stating that one of the mistakes he did in his career was to play too late for the national side,
especially the Euro 2000 when Germany had paled appearance and linked to his name.
By JOHN BOSCHINI
Two employees of a Swiss television station have been released after being detained in Qatar
while filming a story on the 2022 World Cup.
Reporter Christophe Cerf and cameraman Yvan Thorimbert were handcuffed and interrogated at
police stations before being fined and released with their camera confiscated 10 hours later.
The main hazard attached to stridency of opinion is that you are often wrong. Sometimes, my
success rate is in line with a stopped clock. And it appears my suggestion that Celtic were more
sinned against than sinner in their recent Scottish Cup victory over Rangers was wide of the mark.
The Scottish Football Association's disciplinary process has found Celtic manager Neil Lennon to be
primarily responsible for the disgraceful scenes during and after the match, scenes that were so
shameful they needed a Scottish government summit to sort out.
Diouf's is up to his usual antics again. If he's not strutting the streets of Manchester
pretending to be 50 cent, then he's on the football pitch pretending to be a good
footballer...
"For many years I have thought he was the gutter type I was going to call him a sewer rat but that
might be insulting to sewer rats.
