What a festive period!

Wow well what a treat you guys had over Xmas and New Year!! Mainly snow related I might add!

Big blog coming soon!! Xmas/NY fixture round up. Fa cup. Mancini. Liverpool. African Nations. Adebayor. Brian Laws. Happy New Year all!!!

The glory of the FA Cup kicked off again with a huge upsets - Man Utd losing to Leeds! Didn't see that one coming!
 Mancini has got off to a flyer at City with 4 out of 4 wins.
Liverpool have gone in to complete meltdown now having won 10 out of their last 20 - out of the title race, Carling Cup, FA Cup and Champions League. Now with only the Europa League to save their blushes! Rafa has surely got to be on his bike soon! Liverpool legends are calling for his head and the press are constantly on his back. Credit to him though for soldiering on despite the constant barrage of hatred mounting towards him.
With news of Torres, Gerrard and Benayoun out injured for extended periods of time and unrest in the camp elsewhere Liverpool like like they are in real big trouble. They MUST get 4th place or there might be riots on Merseyside!

The African Nations got of to a shaky start with the news that the Togo team were ambushed and attacked by gunmen - 3 members of the backroom staff died which is terrible news. Adebayor however made a bit of a gaff when he appeared on national television to talk about the incident wearing an Arsenal polo shirt - whoops! He recified his mistake by wearing a City version in his second interview, must have been the shock, sent his mind into disarray... He'll be back playing for City soon as Togo's government pulled them out of the tournament.
Elsewhere in the tournament there have been some crazy results! Angola were 4-0 up against Mali only for Freddie Kanoute's crew to hit back and level at 4-4 in the last 12 minutes of the match! Nigeria and Cameroon have experienced losses to far inferior opposition meaning that the second week is going to be very interesting for the big guns hoping to qualify for the later rounds. Drogba hasn't been in the form we saw at Chelsea before he left for the ACN but surely its only temporary. Is Essien back from injury? Pretty sure he was crocked but the London Evening Standard claimed that he would be lining up against Drogba last night for Ghana vs Ivory Coast? hmm! Turns out I've just read that he played 46mins as Ghana lost 3-1 - Eboue got sent off...

Saturday's results threw up some crackers! Chelsea scored 7 WITHOUT Drogba! As much as I would like to say the title race is still on... and it is mathematically.. Chelsea are on fire again and will be tough to beat! I think the more interesting battle this year is for 3rd place onwards - Arsenal look to have 3rd semi secured at least but Liverpool will have one hell of a fight on their hands if they are to topple City, Villa and Spurs to that lucrative 4th spot. Few fixtures still to play today.


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