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City kids are alright!

Manchester City’s youth team won the FA youth cup last night beating Chelsea 3-1 in front of 20,000 at the City Of Manchester Stadium. The team, mostly consisting of scallies drew in the first leg 1-1 at Stamford Bridge and it didn’t look good for them going 1-0 down within a couple of minutes.

The City kids came back with goals from skipper Ben Mee and winger Vladimir Weiss. Top scorer David Ball grabbed a third from the spot to seal the victory and the trophy for the first time since 1986 after losing two years ago to Liverpool.

The youth team in the last few years havs provide City with numerous players including Micah Richards, Nedum Onuoha, Michael Johnson, Stephen Ireland and the latest Daniel Sturridge who could have played a part in the final but missed out due to injury.

So the kids at City are alright and Sven should be looking forward to more young guns in the coming years!

The Shots Are Back

Aldershot Town secured promotion last night and a return to the football league after 16 years since Aldershot FC folded. Promotion was secured last night with just a draw with Exeter.

Scott Donnelly grabed the equaliser for the Shots ending the game 1-1. It was all they needed to take the title and promote them out of the Blue Square Premier into League Two.

Aldershot Town Football Club came out of the ashes when Aldershot FC folded in the middle of the 1992 season. Later in the year the club as it as known now was set up and started playing in the Isthmian League Division Three.

They managed to win the Isthmian League Division Three in the first year of trying and after numerous promotions they now find themselves back in the league under the stewardship of manager Gary Waddock a former QPR midfielder.

Kevin Davies Dislocated Finger Picture - Ouch!

At the weekend Kevin Davies grabbed the only goal between Bolton and West Ham, a win which really helps Bolton in thier fight against relegation. He also managed to pick up a nasty dislocated finger which was fixed during the game in the dressing room, no comming off and going to the local hospital for Kev, hand on a table and push.

As my old man would say “Thats not meant to go that way”.

Chelsea insist that the title race is not over

Avram Grant has refused to accept that the title race is over despite only claiming a point against Wigan Athletic last night.

The Chelsea boss does admit that his side have lost ground to Manchester United, but still believes that the Blues have what it takes to take the spoils come May.

Following Emile Heskey’s injury time strike at Stamford Bridge last night, Chelsea are now five points behind the leaders, having played the same amount of games. With a difficult fixture at Goodison Park on Thursday, the omens don’t look good for the former Israel coach.
Many pundits are actually predicting that United will have already sown up the Premier League title before their trip to Stamford Bridge on April 26th.

Chelsea’s lacklustre first half performance last night indicated to many that even they have become resigned to the fact that the Premier League trophy is staying in Manchester. Yet, keeper Petr Cech has echoed his manager’s defiance by stating to the BBC that –

“We are not happy with the fact we dropped two points but the message from the dressing room is that it is not over yet,”

The extent to which this is heartfelt, or merely covering up the growing questions surrounding Avram Grant’s future, remains to be seen.

Cech set to play against Latics

Avram Grant is said to be preparing to launch Petr Cech back into the Chelsea squad to face Wigan Athletic this evening.

Cech, 25, suffered extensive facial injuries as a result if a training ground accident recently and if selected to play, it is thought that he will be forced to wear a chin guard in addition to his now characteristic head guard.

Should Cech not make it, then Grant will be forced to include Hilario in his starting eleven as Carlo Cuddicini is also ruled out through injury. It is also thought that if Hilario gets the nod, then eighteen year old reverse side stopper Rhys Taylor will take his place on the bench.

Chelsea are currently six points behind leaders Manchester United, and they know that nothing less than a win will do this evening. The Blues also travel to Everton on Thursday evening, knowing that they could be level with the defending champions before they play their next competitive fixture.

That would make United’s visit to Stamford Bride later in the month a real championship decider and in many ways prove many people wrong regarding Avram Grant’s ability to fill the seat of “the special one”.

As far as the Latics are concerned, Jason Koumas and Michael Brown are both eligible after serving their suspensions whilst Erik Edman is the only long term injury victim ruled out.

Manchester United 2 - 1 Arsenal - Title won?

A great afternoon of football ended 2-1 with Manchester United coming from 1-0 down to secure a win which might secure them the title. It was a cracking game of football with both teams having a hat-full of chances, but Arsenal once again gave away a lead and didn’t capitalise on numerous opportunities.

The first half was goal-less but it was Arsenal who had the first chance of the match when Emmanuel Adebayor’s shot was blocked by Rio Ferdinand. United chance of the half came when Wayne Rooney went one-on-one with Jens Lehmann, the ball from Ronaldo found Rooney on his own, fighting off Toure his shot clipped the ankle of Lehmann and went just went wide of the far post.

Two minutes after the break the away side took the lead, a short free kick found Robin van Persie who crossed from the line to find Adebayor. Ferdinand stepped back thinking Van der Sar was going to claim, instead Adebayor put the ball in the back of the net using his fore-arm.

Due to the position of referee Howard Webb he didn’t see the hand ball and there was no protests from the home side.

Arsenal nearly doubled the league when an attempted clearance by Rio Ferdinand forced Van der Sar into an abrupt save. It was clear to see that Arsenal wouldn’t have the ability to hang on and from taking the lead it was only four minutes till the equaliser.

Owen Hargreaves ball into the box was hand balled by Gallas, Ronaldo had to take the penalty twice as the first was stopped to encroaching, both times he smashed the ball in the bottom left corner.

Tevez and and Anderson were introduced, Evra was tripped up on the edge of the area and Owen Hargreaves took the ball from Ronaldo and delightfully lofted the ball over the wall from 25-yards into the net, 2-1, giving Lehmann no chance.

Arsenal had a few chances to grab a second with two golden opportunities falling to sub Bendtner.

The result puts United six points ahead of Chelsea who face Everton on Thursday.

Portsmouth 0 - 0 Newcastle

After cracking form Newcastle were looking for another win while Pompy looked for a good follow up from reaching the F.A. Cup Final.

It turned out to be a bit of a non event, poor finishing form both sides meant for the draw, Defoe missed for the home side will David James pulled of a string of saves throughout the match the pick being when Owen first from two yards at James who saved with his head / afro.

Tottenham 1 - 1 Middlesbrough

A game that looked like a draw and ended a draw. Spurs took the lead Boro defender Jonathan Grounds diverted in Aaron Lennon’s volley after a neat cross from Berbatov.

Berbatov hit the post in the second half when his shot hit Pogatetz. The equaliser was a cracker, Stewart Downing strike took a slight deflection of the head of Jermain Jenas, it was enough to arrow the ball past Cerny.

Alves had a great chance to win the match, his shot went narrowly wide. Both sides have nothing to play for now and will play of the rest of the season with a view to next years campaign.

Sunderland 1 - 2 Manchester City

A game that only came alight in the last ten minutes with all three goals. Kenwyne Jones had the best chance of the first half, a one on one forced a save out of City’s keeper Joe Hart.

Daniel Sturridge dived in the box, Elano put the ball away from the spot for an undeserved lead. Sunderland did come back into the game, Andy Reid’s cross being volleyed in by Dean Whitehead, a cracking goal.

But it wasn’t enough as with three minutes to goal sub Darius Vassell slotted in for a winner. A very unfair win for the away side considering in the dive from Sturridge.

Derby 0 - 6 Aston Villa

Already relegated Derby were on the end of a tonking once again with Villa putting 6 past them with 6 different scorers.

The first of the afternoon same came from a free kick from Ashley Young, Roy Carroll tried to catch the ball but missed, a poor start to a bad afternoon. John Carew drilled in a second from the edge of the area, Derby failing to clear the ball.

The third of the game was the pick, Roy Carroll poor clearance found Stiliyan Petrov, he lobbed Carroll from all of thirty yards.

3-0 at the break but Villa continued in the second half. Garth Barry slotting in from a rebound, the fifth from Gabriel Agbonlahor slotted in from a flick on. The final goal of the match came from sub Marlon Harewood slotting from a Berger through ball.

Derby - pathetic, their fans will be looking forward to next season, Villa go marching on with 10 goals in two games.

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