Articles tagged with "african-cup-of-nations"
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 24th, 2008All 16 Africa Cup of Nations teams have now played once each, so the cycle starts again and we return to Group A. Hosts Ghana ...
How Elrio van Heerden Saved South Africa
By Daryl | January 24th, 2008Every morning we try and bring you the best goal from yesterday's Africa Cup of Nations action. Yesterday it was tough to choose. Both Tunisia's ...
Photo of the Day: It Takes All Kinds
By Martha | January 23rd, 2008Some people cheer wildly, some wave flags, and others put on tighty-whities and paint themselves to support their team. Things didn't go very well for ...
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 23rd, 2008It's day four of the Africa Cup of Nations today, Group D is about to swing into action. There's the battle of the big boys ...
No, The Other Zidan
By Daryl | January 23rd, 2008The big story at the Africa Cup of Nations yesterday was a man of North African descent named Zidan. Not the one you might be ...
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 22nd, 2008After Cote d'Ivoire downed Nigeria in Group B yesterday, the Africa Cup of Nations enters its third day with two more big boys going at ...
Salomon Kalou Shows Us What He Can Do
By Daryl | January 22nd, 2008The Chelsea man blows hot and cold in the Premier League, but at the Africa Cup of Nations yesterday Salomon Kalou embarked on this slalomesque ...
Weekend Recap: The Giant Killers
By Laurie | January 21st, 2008Saturday's Games US 2 - 0 Sweden. US Soccer is still trying to convince FIFA that this is, in fact, the USMNT's 500th ...
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 21st, 2008If you're following the Africa Cup of Nations (and if not, why not?) you may be interested in our game coverage over at World Cup ...
Sulley Muntari's Left Foot is Better Than Yours
By Daryl | January 21st, 2008Ghana came very close to disappointing the 40,000 home crowd at Accra yesterday in their opening 2008 Africa Cup of Nations opening game against Guinea. ...
Daily Dose 1.20.2008
By Martha | January 20th, 2008Things to read as you wonder if you're safe from your laptop. Remembering Garrincha. (Run of Play) Ian Wright is not down with foreign keepers playing for ...
Daily Dose 1.19.2008
By Martha | January 19th, 2008Things to read as you drink your presidential milkshake: "Let's have Harry Redknapp as a cockney Moses and Martin O'Neill as an Ulster Herod." (Guardian Unlimited) High ...
Weekend Watch: Give it some Thought
By Laurie | January 18th, 2008Some games you may want to consider for this weekend: Saturday US vs. Sweden. It's the US Men's National Team's 500th game. And they have ...
Get Ready for African Cup of Nations Kick-Off
By Daryl | January 18th, 2008The African Cup of Nations (or Africa Cup of Nations, if you want to go with the rebranded moniker) kicks off this weekend, with hosts ...
Photo of the Day: the African Cup of Nations
By Laurie | January 18th, 2008We're counting down the minutes till the African Cup of Nations. The tournament itself starts on Sunday, but why wait till then? ...
The Offside Podcast, Episode 6
By Martha | January 16th, 2008The podcast is back, the podcast is back! Returning to us after a long, holiday break are podcast regulars Ian Rose and Anne Ramzy, as ...
Sunderland 2-0 Pompey... A Sign of Things to Come?
By b-man | January 13th, 2008In a very lacklustre display, Pompey slumped to a 2-0 defeat at the hands to Sunderland, or more precisely, Kieran Richardson who got two good ...
The Offside Fantasy League: Ghana... Ghana... Gone!
By Daryl | January 11th, 2008The African Cup of Nations is coming (you may have heard Harry Redknapp mention it once or twice) and Premier League managers are bidding temporary ...
Taye Taïwo and the other Afircans are gone...
By Magnusson | January 10th, 2008So Taye Taïwo and a some of his teammates left for their respective selections and are now preparig the Afrcan Cup of Nations that will ...
If It's Club vs Country, Then What's the Score?
By Daryl | January 9th, 2008We keep hearing about Club vs Country and the African Cup of Nations, but is anyone keeping track of the score? Just me, as it ...
Daily Dose: 1.4.2008
By Martha | January 4th, 2008Things to read after you get your girlfriend's name tattooed on your boobs but forget to tell your husband: John Harkes has left RBNY. Thank ...
FA Cup Preview: Ipswich vs Portsmouth (Predict-a-score!!!)
By b-man | January 4th, 2008The African contingent set to play their final game before heading off to Ghana. Considering Ipswich's home record and Pompey's good away record I think ...
Bobo is the SPL's only loss to ACN
By Ian Rose | January 4th, 2008The African Cup of Nations is finally almost here, and teams in the English Premiership and elsewhere (especially Portsmouth) are bracing for the loss of ...
Is The Honeymoon Over?
By b-man | December 31st, 2007I wrote a piece titled 'Is This the Year?' earlier on in the year. In it I quite confidently stated that Pompey can and perhaps ...
Ghana Burns Entire Town to the Ground for African Cup of Nations 2008
By Daryl | December 23rd, 2007Over on World Cup Blog, I've been slowly but surely getting very very excited for the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana. But excitement ...
Oi, You! Your Tournament is Inconvenient. Change It.
By Martha | December 14th, 2007Giving new meaning to the word "hubris," Pompey assistant manager Joe Jordan would like the Confederation of African Football to know that the timing of ...
Something is Broken with Didier Drogba
By Daryl | December 7th, 2007Well this is eerie. Just yesterday we proposed a hypothetical situation where Didier Drogba picked up a long term injury while playing for the Ivory ...
Benni McCarthy - Just a big baby?
By Dan Clough | December 6th, 2007As Mark Hughes prepares for showdown talks with Benni after yet another paddy from the South African striker I can't help but start thinking he's ...
Namibian Coach Resigns. Or Doesn't. Or...Something
By Laurie | December 4th, 2007Last week, the media were reporting that the Namibian Coach, Ben Bamfuchile, had resigned to go back to his mining business. ...
Well!!!! Didn't I Tell You?!?!?!?!
By Andy | March 29th, 2007About six days ago I previewed the up and coming Internationals and qualifiers that players of Chelsea Football Club would be entering into - ie ...
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