Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Merry Christmas to all!....

Chelsea white washed Villa...

The fans at the Stamford Bridge on every 16th minute of any Chelsea's game still stand , clap and sing one Di Matteo! a taunt to their unpopular choice of coach Benitez to show him how passionate Chelsea fans can be as an answer for his utterances against Chelsea fans when he was in Liverpool...
Chelsea white washed poor Aston Villa side despite the hype on their new striker Benteke before the match with  an 8-0 thumping reminiscent of a basket ball game. Handing them the worst defeat of their premiership career and to buttress on that their last worst was 7-1 by the same Chelsea.side...no mercy
But this result and the fact that Torres has scored 7 out of 6 since Benitez flatters Chelsea's chances of the season.
If the team can replicate this each game Benitez might have the chance of being shown some love by the Chelsea faithfuls .

Osase lambasts Keshi on twitter for non invitation...

  Peter Odemwingie ‏@OdemwingieP

A wise man advised me after 1st tweet that there r other ways to make someone look stupid. I am not interested in that. Just cleared maself

  Peter Odemwingie ‏@OdemwingieP

That's it on this. Story ended. No more talks about national team again. I ve said all I wanted. If will be tempted will go off twitter.

  Peter Odemwingie ‏@OdemwingieP

Nff member just called me. Ofcos got insulted. I told him I sang national anthem for ten years to be treated like this.

  Peter Odemwingie ‏@OdemwingieP

Whatin I do them self ? Hahahaha

12h Peter Odemwingie ‏@OdemwingieP

I had to holla at him and Amokachi his assistant and next games I played and man of the match in half games of the team that year

Webnews share on football This & That

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Daniel Sturridge expected to have Liverpool medical Sunday ahead of move from Chelsea

Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge is expected to have a medical at Liverpool on Sunday, Sky sources understand.

The 23-year-old England frontman has been heavily linked with a move to Merseyside after slipping down the pecking order at Stamford Bridge...

  
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 'System that we have needs replacing' - Allardyce calls for referee overhaul after Everton loss
The Hammers boss wants action to be taken after three controversial refereeing decisions saw Leon Osman's goal disallowed before Carlton Cole and Darron Gibson were sent off...

no more Special Mourinho...

..City is me Jose...come and get me!

Sack seems inevitable for the self acclaimed 'special one' Jose Mourinho, as Real Madrid lost again tonight...three poor results in a row! This is the 4th loss in LaLiga as they are now 16 points behind the league leaders Barcelona who continued to win their matches and it doesn't look like they would stop....

Is this free fall from Mourinho's team the beginning of his decline? or is there some division of interest, Portuguese vs Spanish stuff in the team?...as we saw their best and number one goal keeper if not the best in the world Casilas dropped to the bench as Malaga piled pressure on Madrid to win 3-2.

Where will be  Mourinho's next destination?  if he gets sacked you can take a pick from Manchester city, United, Chelsea or a team in Portugal.

Teams	Pl	W	T	L	Pts	+/-
FC Barcelona	17	16	1	0	49	38
Atlético Madrid	17	13	1	3	40	20
Real Madrid	17	10	3	4	33	24

AFCON Keshi still permutating on his list..

A trailer load of old, new, forgotten, known and unknown players totally 32 or so are on the list of Super Eagles players called for camping ahead of the African nations cup early January by Stephen Keshi
names like Danny Shittu, Shola Ameobi calls for some questions; the tournament starts January 19th next year but there is no enough time to invite all and sundry for permutation...dead line for final submission of list is 9th January; only 23 players will be in South Africa next year.

THE FULL LIST OF PLAYERS:

Mourinho vs Fegurson in the Champions league..

Some tough draws were made earlier today in the champions league last 16 , recently under performing  Real Madrid will host the English bulwark Manchester United while the under fire coach of Arsenal Wenger will fashion out a winning formula against the German champions Beryan.....to make it more exciting Ac Milan will face Barcelona in a repeat of many memories....what else can be fun?...see the full draw below:

Champions League

Galatasaray v FC Schalke

Celtic v Juventus

Arsenal v Bayern Munich

Shakhtar Donetsk v Borussia Dortmund

AC Milan v Barcelona

Real Madrid v Manchester United

Valencia v Paris Saint-Germain

Porto v Malaga

Europa League

latest FIFA ranking....Nigeria moved up

Spain, Germany and Argentina retain top spots respectively; Côte d'Ivoire ranked African best on 14th position, Mali followed and Ghana on 30th position...mmmh! an upward movement of 5 points saw Nigeria ranked still a distant 52nd joint with Central African Republic....

Last Updated 19 Dec 2012

	Rnk	Team	Pts	+/- Pos
	1	Spain	1606	0
	2	Germany	1437	0
	3	Argentina	1290	0
	4	Italy	1165	1
	5	Colombia	1164	3
	6	England	1151	0
	7	Portugal	1144	-3
	8	Netherlands	1124	-1
	9	Russia	1070	0
	10	Croatia	1064	0

Is gonna be Swansea Chelsea in the semis

Capital One Cup semi-final draw:

Chelsea v Swansea

Bradford v Aston Villa 

matches to be played around 7 & 21 of January in the new year!

ROBERTO DI MATTEO coach of the year!

Just few weeks after his  senseless sack by Chelsea  RDM has been crowned the Coach of the Year last night 

A trophy last won by the likes of ex Barcelona coach Guardiola, Mourinho, Sir Alex.....

Robbie delivered the Champions league trophy to his Boss Abramovich only to be sacked few months later for benching the under performing Torres...most Chelsea fans will be proud of him when he collected his award in Zurich

A huge success and future prospect was harshly sacked and replaced with someone known for failure and dwindling future.

Check out Djibril Cisse's new fashion looks hot or not?

Anelka to join 'retiree' QPR side?

Speculation is high about Nicolas Anelka to add to his toll of English clubs that he has represented in his career, the former Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Bolton, and Chelsea player has been linked to Harry Redknapp's team. Anelka currently plays for the  Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua same as Drogba but may find his way back to England come January to team up with the experienced studded although old QPR side with the likes of Cisse, Bosingwa, park, Julio.....what a retiree meeting club?

QPR'S Saviour...Arry is the right Man

Harry Redknapp has shown again that he is the man to turn the fortunes of a failing team around like he did with Portsmouth and his midas touch in Tottenham... Today he has recorded QPR'S first win of the season after an alarming 16 matches without a win . This win could not have been better than this as they beat one of their London rivals Fulham 2-1 in a derby match this afternoon.

Harry's sack from Tottenham was unexplainable in fact bizarre! after his hype on taking the English managerial Job; since his appointment he has avoided defeat and today been rewarded with his first QPR win....well deserved!

The ever impressive Taarabt's brace gave QPR the lead in the second half while their defence had the usual scare when Petric scored in the 88th minutes for Fulham. Harry's men managed to avoid another draw in rows. Can he keep QPR afloat at the end?

Is Torres back to his old form?

The coming of Benitez to Chelsea FC as an interim coach obviously not popular with Chelsea fans but has been a miraculous cure for the syndrome hindering Fernando Torres to perform as a fifty million pounds striker Torres has scored 4 goals in 3 consecutive matches under Rafa, he has also gained some self confidence as we saw him step up to take a Chelsea penalty for the first time...Rafa has not gain the friendship of Chelsea fans despite some positive results recently but has shown that he has the missing 'manual' on how to get the best out of Torres...Fernando Torres is the fastest player in Liverpool history to score 50 league goals...Is he back to his former form? ...has the jinx left him?...  

Arsene, Arsenal disgraced by Bradford

shamed

Arsenal lost to league two outfit Bradford City in Capital one cup by a thrilling penalty shootout...Bradford City 64th places below Arsenal in the league pecking order almost snatched a victory in normal regulation time when Garry Thompson scored on the 16th minute if not for Vermaelen's equalizer with only three minutes left on the clock; Ironically it was still Vermaelen the hero and the Villain who later missed Arsenal's final decisive penalty that gave Bradford their win to play in the semifinals.

Some schools of thought believe that it is high time Arsene Wenger left the club considering his poor showing this season,he left the Valley Parade looking angrily frustrated and it was obvious that the questions Wenger would face from the board will be unexplainable as majority of his team A squad played failed to sparkle against such a lowly rated side....Bradford cannot stop celebrating tonight!

Lionel Messi is he from another planet?

Lionel Messi who just broke Gerd Muller's goal scoring record with 86 goals in one calendar year (40-year-old record!) is a super human...it is obvious he will rein for a long time for any footballer to reach the feat he has achieved or surpass his achievements in such a short time. When any opposition is billed to play Messi's Barcelona; the opposition coach will have the headache of planning on how to contain the merciless Messi...the question is always on whether to man-mark him, put two defenders on him or another midfielder to follow him around, any one of this permutations most often than not does not stop the goal machine from scoring. He is nimble, he is skillful, he sees free spaces in a clustered defence, he wriggles through and he knows where the goal post lies....Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi born June 24th, 1987
 

• Messi Is the captain of the Argentina national team

• The youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup

•  He is Barcelona's all-time top scorer in all official club competitions

• Messi at the age of 21, received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations

• he has won Ballon d'Or 

• He has won FIFA World Player of the Year & Ballon d'Or twice

• Messi is the fourth football player to win three Ballons d'Or

• won three consecutive Ballons d'Or. 

• Messi has won five La Ligas, 

• two Copas del Rey, 

• five Supercopas de España, 

• three Champions League trophies

• two Super Cups

• two Club World Cups

• He is the first player to score five goals in one match

• 14 goals in a single Champions League season

•  top-scorer in four successive Champions League campaigns

•  He set the world record for most goals scored in a season 2011/12 with 73 goals

• scoring 50 goals in a single La Liga season record

• in 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship he was the top goal scorer with six goals

• he is also a Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football team.

Does Messi belong to this generation?

Manchester Derby...bigger for Mancini

Ref warn him o! he's not my mate...lol

After the exit of Manchester city from European competitions in the midweek this derby on Sunday against Manchester United will be the tonic left for their un 'embarrassed' coach Roberto Mancini to redeem his coaching prowess and inhibit the talks about a possible sack.

Sir Alex on the other hand will not allow any form of psychological edge from his noisy neighbours  even though a win for any side today does not guarantee the league title but might do eventually.

The game could be a dodgy but exciting provided the referee does not decide who wins by error of commission or omission who's the ref for this match?..do I hear you say How!..Howar...lol well...find out.
Expect basketball of goals with goal machines like Van persie and em who for city...Tevez? in the squad, expect heated clashes with the likes of Rooney, Tevez, and Balloteli staring...lol...and also expect Fergie's influences on the stands, referee, assistant ref, injury time lol and squabble with Mancini...expect fun filled cracker!.and for the record the referees will be M Atkinson; Assistants: P Kirkup, S Burt; Fourth official: M Clattenburg.