Africa Cup of Nations final preview Zambia are winners regardless of result is a post from: Just Football

With the final today, here is my latest Africa Cup of Nations 2012 column for FourFourTwo.com on Zambia and their remarkable journey to the final:

Together they walked slowly to the coastline, singing in unison.

A weekend for remembrance The Premier League and Football League are enthralling, wonderful spectacles, but sometimes a greater force overtakes our love for all things football. On Wednesday afternoon, 80 people went to a football match in Egypt to support their team. They could never know that they would never come home.

A weekend for remembrance The Premier League and Football League are enthralling, wonderful spectacles, but sometimes a greater force overtakes our love for all things football. On Wednesday afternoon, 80 people went to a football match in Egypt to support their team. They could never know that they would never come home.

The munitions workers in the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory decided to form a football team in late 1886. They named it Dial Square FC. Fast forward 125 years. Arsenal is now a household name and one of the world's storied franchises.

At the match against Everton tomorrow, the club will commemorate this special occasion with many tributes.

By Alan Duffy

Fabio Capello, with poppies at his feet, is disgusted by James Milner's poppy-less arms.

Just when we thought we'd heard the last of the bizarre poppy furore (at least until next year), The Sun are kind enough to give us one more poppy-based new story.

And so it ends. Ninety-three years of England's ignominious and unpatriotic failure to wear poppies on their shirts comes to a deserved end, and a nation can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that now football has fallen into line, people will actually start wearing poppies for the first time ever.

Why Churchill just about summed the FA up as they stumble into another problem

Never was so much owed by so many to so few. No, I'm not talking about FIFA's custodianship of our game for the greater good but taking a line from a speech made by Winston Churchill in 1940.

Why arguing about England shirts may gloss over the true meaning of the poppy

Never was so much owed by so many to so few. No, I'm not talking about FIFA's custodianship of our game for the greater good but taking a line from a speech made by Winston Churchill in 1940.

After getting the offer of some tickets late Friday, I went to the Emirates expecting a win, confidence in the team is getting stronger, especially with WBA not quite been the attacking enigma that they were last season when we managed to lose 2-3.

Robin "Assists from the lads were Insane"

Pre-match, Robin "One Man Team" Van Persie received his awards for a spectacular October, which was capped off in devastating fashion at the Bridge as Arsenal swept Chelsea aside.

Liverpool will wear jerseys embroidered with poppies when they take on Swansea City on Saturday afternoon - before signing and donating them to the Royal British Legion.
With no Barclays Premier League matches next weekend, the Reds will don the special shirts to commemorate Remembrance weekend.

Maybe Dortmund just weren't angry enough. Following through with this theory, I can't tell you what made them so angry last season. But they certainly felt pretty good about themselves and their chances in the Champions League coming out of the summer break. After losing to Olympiacos midweek (declaring bankruptcy, Euro crisis, any Greece related pun you like), they had to face up to the bitter reality of possibly spending next year out of the Euro zone (sorry).

Your Friday Free Kick comes in a bit differently today. Rather than discuss current events in the league or happenings on national scale, today we'll take a slightly different rout.
This week has seen some sad moments that have us casting our eyes downward in both sadness and remembrance.

Video highlights of yesterdays 5 - 0 victory by FC BARCELONA over Italian Club NAPOLES. The match was for the "Gamper Trophy", Cup that opens officially the Barça season along with their members & in remembrance to the Club founder - Joan Gamper.

By Chris Wright

Man City legend Neil Young, seen here rounding a young Peter Shilton

When the Manchester City fans donned black and red shirts and all turned their backs on the action for the 24th minute of the recent FA Cup tie with Leicester, it was all in memory of Neil Young's FA Cup-winning strike in 1969 against the same club.