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The season is officially half way over heading into this weekend's matches and treble winners
Barcelona are still perfect on the year. The champs have had four draws this season, but are
still awaiting their first loss in league play. That nineteen week unbeaten streak is obviously
the best in any major league.
In the same week that we saw for the first time an all-English top flight match kick off with no
English players or coaches involved (Portsmouth v Arsenal), the jewel in the crown of the mother of
football's competitions performed its most traditionally exciting day with a whimper.
The Fratton Park clash surely dispels for good any arguments that England has a problem with youth
development, while the decline of the FA Cup, alive and kicking since 1872, is equally depressing.
We're over the halfway stage now in Angola and it has proved to be everything I hoped for;
excitement, bags of goals, ridiculous refereeing, gravity defying longshots and abysmal defending.
What I didn't hope for was the terrible Togo shooting incident that overshadowed the earlier part
of the tournament.
Is there any credibility left in winning the FA Cup anymore, I mean the FA told Man U it
didn't matter and go and play in the World Club Championship instead, they started it not us.
There is no glory in the competition anymore, When we won it last time we couldn't even be
bothered to get the open top Routemaster out of the garage.
Nigeria took the lead in this battle of the big boys but reigning African Nations Cup holders
Egypt stormed back to win 3-1 in their opening group game.
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Rasputin Says:
January 14, 2010 at 1:19 pm edit
The problem over recent years has been that once an emerging player comes good, we then struggle
to keep hold of them. Obviously we have stated that Cesc is not for sale and we can do that with
confidence because he has been unequivocal in his wish to stay.
You had the feeling that something within the USL/TOA mess was going to takedown an innocent
bystander. An ownership group that was ready to get involved with professional football and join in
on the growth of the game in the county. Yet unfortunatly for FC New York they were peaking around
the corner and saw the two sides yelling at each other, which meant it was time to go for plan
b.
Peter Odemwingie (centre) - Nigeria's shining light (AFP)
Here is how the table looked after the completion of Group C:
As you can see the big boys made light work of this group, on paper at least, as holders Egypt and
Nigeria careered past Benin and Mozambique on their way to the knockout stages.
Morning all, not long now till kick off in the FA Cup 4th round against Stoke. We've been over
pretty much everything with regards to this game. The team, the resting, the injuries, the choices
the manager has had to make and everything else, so there's not much left to say.
Stoke will be right up for it knowing they won't have to face too many of the big boys.
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