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The lights aren’t off…yet.
Pompey has been put on administration following their inability to find new ownership and new capital. It’s a sad day for Portsmouth, but the day is not lost. However, there are a couple things to consider:
1. Their administrator Andrew Andronikou is charged with severely cutting costs and attempting to make the club solvent. This is very good because at least the EPL has a vision for how this should get fixed. Find a dude who works for a financial firm to fix this! Most sports teams (including Pompey) aren’t that smart. Read more... (348 words, 4 images, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)
FA Cup holders Chelsea will play Aston Villa in the semi-finals and Portsmouth will face either Tottenham or Fulham.
Chelsea easily overcame Stoke in their quarter-final tie, while Villa had to come from behind to beat Championship side Reading and reach the last four.
Crisis club Portsmouth will find out their opponents after the replay between Fulham and Spurs on 24 March.
The semi-finals will be played at Wembley on Saturday, 10 April and Sunday, 11 April.
The FA Cup Semi Finals
Saturday 10 April 2010: Aston Villa v Chelsea – Buy Chelsea v Aston Villa FA Cup Tickets
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On the field is where it’s at.
John Terry has asked that he be judged by happens on the field of play instead of by what happens in his personal life. On the one hand I want to say, “Amen, brother! Tell it all!”, and on the other hand I want to say, “Can you really expect that?” Read more... (339 words, 4 images, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)
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Maybe we can get the focus back on the field…
Portsmouth’s financial troubles have continued under-the-radar because other things have been going on in the Premier League, but now the team (apparently) has a couple interested buyers and now they are saying that the price is dropping to basically “nothing”.
Ok, this one I agree with. You know, a few years ago when the NHL came out of their lockout that cancelled the Stanley Cup and ruined the league they took a TV deal with NBC that NBC didn’t have to pay for. You know what? It kind of helped. Read more... (329 words, 4 images, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)
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Liverpool fans need to be careful with their expectations…
Rarely do we see a team’s fortunes rise so quickly under the management of an unfit manager and with a superstar who is so disrespectful to his other teammates that he’d suggest the team pick up some of his Spanish countrymen because “he need help”.
I’ve already spoken my peace about this so I won’t go back there, but somehow the Reds have moved to within 10 points of Chelsea who sits in first and 1 point from Tottenham in 4th place. Read more... (321 words, 4 images, estimated 1:17 mins reading time)
Liverpool disastrous season reached new lows on Wednesday as they were knocked out the FA Cup Wednesday by Reading.
It is no longer a big surprise when Liverpool loses, considering they have lost 10 of their last 20 games.
But for a side already out of the Champions League and the title race, the FA Cup promised the best chance for silverware this season for Liverpool fans.
To add injury to insult for Rafa Benitez, he saw lost both Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres to injuries during the first half. Read more... (290 words, 2 images, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)
Sir Alex Ferguson suffered his first FA Cup third-round defeat since taking the reins at Manchester United in 1986 as Jermaine Beckford’s first-half winner gave third-tier Leeds United a 1-0 victory at Old Trafford.
Saturday’s action had failed to produce any upsets but the major surprise came at the most unlikely venue on Sunday as Simon Grayson’s side belied their position to inflict a maiden FA Cup reverse against lower league opposition on the Man Utd. Leeds had displayed no reservations in the early stages of the contest and were rewarded when Johnny Howson’s long pass released Beckford and he steered his shot across Tomasz Kuszczak. Read more... (249 words, 2 images, estimated 60 secs reading time)
The king of the Coppa Italia, Roberto Mancini took his first step towards success in the English equivalent when his Manchester City side won 1-0 at Middlesbrough in the FA Cup third round.
Mancini won the Italian Cup six times as a player and four as a coach and, having overseen two league victories since replacing Mark Hughes at City, watched his new team advance comfortably with a late first-half goal by striker Benjani Mwaruwari against the second division hosts. The final might seem a long way away but Mancini can take heart from the fact that in the last five years the team who have knocked Middlesbrough out have reached the final – albeit without going on to win it. Read more... (193 words, 2 images, estimated 46 secs reading time)
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Roy Keane totally put his old teammate on blast today when he started running his mouth about Mark Hughes being fired from Manchester City. Like the title says…I just love it when people say how much they hate someone else. For example…I HATE Shaq…HATE him (and I’m a Lakers fan) but I hate his guts. I really do.
So, when Roy Keane says of Hughes and City:
“I think when you’re involved with a club like United, as Sparky was over his career, you shouldn’t go to a club like City. I think you should try and get employment somewhere else. I think Sparky is probably better off.” Read more... (431 words, 4 images, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)
I wake up this morning and read the scathing headlines about how some Red players are unhappy with the atmosphere in the locker room in Liverpool and I have to sigh and chuckle at the same time because I JUST wrote about this and here it is again staring us in the face. There’s two ways to look at this and both are not good for Liverpool. Read more... (404 words, 2 images, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)
