JackFrost

LOL at the Mozambique coach falling on his arse attempting to celebrate Mozambique's equalizer

LOL at Mozambique's 2nd goal the goalkeeping is comedy

2-1, Benin keeper doesn't look much better

agree with most of the above, I rated Thomas until Jaidi came along, he does the dominant defender job so much better. Jaidi is quality. Thomas was a desperate buy after Burley attempted to fix our defensive crisis by buying loads of midfielders and fitting square pegs into round holes. Thomas did a good job initially and has been pretty solid for most of the time. The issue is, Jaidi is a far superior player and Thomas is definitely not part of AP's plans.

Elvis Kafoteka scored the 2nd goal for Malawi. Plays for Zesco United in Zambia if anyone wants to sign him on FM10;)

this debate might be irrelevant soon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/darts/8451655.stm It appears after Croft and Fitzmaurice chucked the PDC's offer straight into the bin, the BDO county leagues have rebelled to a degree and shouted the BDO hierachy down

If it had been Mali throwing the lead away I'd totally agree with u

A cup of tea, a digestive and one of your long posts. No better way to put one's feet up for 5 mins :wink:

Lloyd James at RB very much reminds me of the Jermaine Wright situation. He's trying to do the best he can in a position he just isn't supposed to be in. Graeme Murty is 35 and injury prone, and Pardew doesn't appear to rate Thomas and he could well be on his way soon. Harding should be our first choice at RB I hope James at RB is a short term solution, I'm thinking AP's thoughts were, we'll try him out at RB, if it doesn't happen for him I'll buy someone else to for cover in January.

Saga doesn't wanna be here. Don't forget, he was playing in the Champions League last season :wink:

Yeah the chairman of Southampton City Council, when he bailed Lowe out after the Stoneham screw up. LOL

rubbish, they had all the games on BBCi last time

hm doubt it somehow. The area has had continued problems with insurgency since the ceasefire and the Angolan authorities knew it. They apparently advised all teams to avoid travelling by bus in that area, and the Togolese authorities had failed to inform the Angolans they were making the journey, so they couldn't provide adequate security. Apparently the Togo team want to play now

To a lesser extent, hosting the AFCON in Angola is almost like holding the Asian Cp in Iraq

A very accurate post IMO. As for our current regime they have done a very good job so far. The decision to ban the Echo has raised a slight question mark, but it does appear strong leadership is happening at the top and after what this club has been through that's exactly the type of leadership we need

Angola was only in civil war 8 years ago. Insurgency has still been a problem since then.

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/football/news/article/-/6659362/togo-footy-team-bus-attacked-angola Interesting, seems like the Togolese authorities are far from blameless in this. Apparently none of the teams should have been travelling by bus in the first place due to safety concerns.

Barring the wholly tragic Togo team bus incident, the tournament is so farcical it's often comedic.

Eccentric goalkeeping, the 2004 ACN gave coverage to the world's worst international goalkeeper, Benin's Rachad Chitou. After making a howler in the first game, in Benin's 2nd game a 4-0 loss to Morroco, he was responsible for 3 howlers and was dropped for the last game. I remember the first two to this day. 1-0 He ran 20 yards out of his goal in a reckless attempt to punch away a free kick that was played into the area, Morrocan player just looped a simple header over him and into the net. 2-0 He palmed a Morrocan corner into his own net Main reason though to watch it though The whole tournament being mercilessly rigged in the host nation's favour every year, and increasingly inventive methods to do this. we've had medical staff running over star players on the Nigeria team with the stretcher buggy thing, local ball boys deliberately taking 2 mins to give the opposition keepers the ball, refs starting the 2nd half when half the players on one team are still in the tunnel, entire coaching staff and substitutes of one side running on to the pitch to protest at farcical refereeing decisions (they had 12 minutes injury at the end of that game in 02, Senegal was one of the teams) It's almost worth watching for pure comedy value on some occasions

I've watched quite a few African Cup of Nations tournaments they've always been badly organised, and some of the things that have gone on have been farcical. Only 2 years ago did a medical bloke drive one of those buggy things on to stretcher a injured player off, and ran over a Nigerian player. Andre Bikey had a fight with another medical bloke in a separate game. I remember the host nation (Ghana I think it was) being frustrated by Libya (I think). 0-0 at half time, the Ghana players come out and the ref starts the second half with half the Libya team still in the tunnel. Holding it in Angola just brings the level of farce to a whole new level , the whole county was in a civil war only 8 years ago. I wonder if this tragedy will have serious repercussions for the World Cup. . . .

they reckon the driver was killed and several players injured some seriously

Hankey fined 250 quid for swearing at the crowd during the Grand Slam of Darts http://www.pdc.tv/page/NewsdeskDetail/0,,10180~1925375,00.html Regarding the rest of the link, this means the skate Andy Jenkins gets chucked out of the Players Championship (end of the month on ITV4) and I believe gets replaced by Peter Manley

hope Mark Walsh does well. A very good floor player who's got a good case for being the 2nd best PDC player this year after Taylor. He always gets a tough draw in a televised tournament

Has anyone seen any of the BDO interactive coverage after some of the games? On one occasion Martin Fitzmaurice (the fat bloke who says "Let's Play Darts!!!) was in the middle of a borderline racist anti-Welsh joke, when he was hurriedly turned down by a BBC sound engineer. Tonight after the Waites-Henderson match he said "It's time for the raffle, the winners can collect their prizes at reception". My wife burst out laughing and said they'll be doing bingo next!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_in_darts BDO is on the BBC, PDC is on Sky and ITV