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Drogba threatens Cote D'Ivoire

Didier Drogba has threatened to stop playing for the Ivory Coast following the reaction of fans to their World Cup qualifying defeat to Cameroon.

The Ivory Coast players were insulted and threatened by some fans after losing 3-2 to Cameroon in Abidjan.

Drogba told French television channel TF1: "If such events should occur (again), I'd no longer take the risk to come and play for the national team."

The Chelsea stirker scored both his team's goals against Cameroon.

Cameroon will now qualify if they win their last match, a home fixture with Egypt, who have no chance of qualification.

The Ivory Coast must win their final fixture away to Sudan in Omdurman the day before and then wait to hear Cameroon's result.

Drogba has looked impressive in Chelsea's perfect start to the season, scoring three goals in their opening five league games.

Drogba, 27, was born in the Ivory Coast but spent most of his childhood in France and has dual nationality.

What a cunt. Doesn't he know that football fans everywhere over-react in the heat of the moment? One of the occupational hazards of playing the game.

Groupe «4» des éliminatoires africaines combinées CAN-Mondial 2006 : le surprenant Angola tient la dragée haute aux super favoris, les «Super Eagles nigérians en partageant la 1ère place avec leurs illustres adversaires pour le seul ticket qualificatif pour l’Allemagne, étant entendu que pour la course à l’événement continental de la même année devant se dérouler au Caire, les trois sésames sont déjà acquis et devraient revenir à ce tandem en compagnie du Zimbabwe bien collé pour décrocher la timbale. L’Angola, qui a disposé dimanche dernier sur son terrain à Luanda et devant ses supporters du Gabon sur le score sans appel de 3-0, maintient intact et à son bénéfice le suspense et fait douter plus que jamais son concurrent le plus sérieux, le Nigeria pas encore fixé sur son sort et qui doit patienter jusqu’au bout (la dernière journée prévue à la fin de la première semaine du mois prochain) pour enfin souffler et éviter la désillusion, même si une victoire ne suffirait pas au cas où les Angolais, qu’un succès au Rwanda placera sur la voie royale pour signer (une première historique pour le football local) leur entrée officielle dans le gotha universel. Le Nigeria, qui compte à son palmarès plusieurs participations au rendez-vous quadriennal universel du ballon rond et qui doit accueillir à l’occasion le Zimbabwe (on ne voit pas comment ce dernier pourrait contrecarrer ses plans, c’est-à-dire un succès inscrit à l’ordre de la logique), pourrait ainsi tirer à blanc et voir ses espoirs s’envoler définitivement. Sur le plan sportif, la situation est donc loin de s’être décantée après l’avant-dernière journée qui a vu justement le Nigeria, avec ses stars, venir donner la leçon aux «Verts» à Oran et préserver, au moment où les Angolais disposaient aisément à domicile des Gabonais, ses chances de ne pas rater le voyage allemand mais devrait, au même titre que son adversaire du jour, l’Algérie, s’expliquer sur les accusations graves portées à leur encontre par l’entraîneur national angolais, Oliveira de Gonçalves, qui dénonçait dans la presse de son pays que «le match entre l’Algérie et le Nigeria [2-5] disputé à Oran, a été arrangé». Oliveira, qui accusait au passage le Nigeria d’avoir «suborné des joueurs gabonais en payant les billets d’avion des 12 joueurs et des primes de match pour qu’ils garantissent la victoire du Gabon face à l’Angola, croit déceler un complot (dans lequel il inclut l’Algérie) pour empêcher son équipe (il dira que malgré ce stratagème elle occupe la première place ex aequo mais avec un meilleur goal-average) et reste optimiste quant à sa qualification pour le Mondial, car elle n’a besoin que d’une victoire face au Rwanda pour transformer son rêve en réalité en ramenant l’unique place de qualification du groupe au Mondial 2006 de l’extérieur. La FAF, par l’entremise de son président, restera sans réaction qui engage, au-delà du football, l’image de tout le pays ? Une affaire qui risque de faire des vagues. A suivre.

My French is broken at best, but the gist here is that the Angolans are accussing us of bribing the Algerians to throw their match!


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Makinwa actually scored. You will be able to see the goal on Goal's Galore once the Serie A schedule is complete.

Goofs for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

* Continuity: Anakin's scar on his right eye changes, the part below his eye moves slightly down and lengthens.

* Continuity: During Anakin and Obi Wan's final fight, bodies on the floor appear and disappear between shots.

* Continuity: When Anakin arrives at Mustafar he tells R2-D2 to stay with the ship. As Anakin walks away he puts his hood on. His right hand (his mechanical hand covered by a glove) has somehow turned back into flesh again.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the opera on Coruscant, you can hear the sound of people cheering and clapping, but when the audience is shown, they are all sitting still, hands in their lap.

* Continuity: When Mace Windu gets on the air transport and tells Anakin to stay behind, the shadow of the vehicle disappears in the shot when Anakin is seen alone, but reappears in the next shot when we see the vehicle take off.

* Continuity: During the scene where Padme in her apartment and Anakin at the Jedi temple look out across the city toward each other, the position of the setting sun and the direction of its light across their respective locations is not consistent given what we are shown about their relative positions and the directions they are facing.

* Continuity: The pearl shoulder straps of Padme's dress disentangle between shots.

* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The button Padme pushes to start her ship near the end of the film is the same "magic" button that has two functions in "Attack Of The Clones". It's shot in exactly the same way and is a deliberate joke.

* Continuity: In the final sequence on Tatooine, when Obi Wan is handing the infant Luke to Beru, he opens his cloak to bring the baby out as he approaches her. This is first seen in a long shot from above. There is a cut to a two-shot, and he opens his cloak and extracts the baby again.

* Continuity: When Anakin is choking Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan is holding his own lightsaber, then it cuts and he's holding Anakin's lightsaber.

* Continuity: During the scene when Yoda enters a room to confront Darth Sidious and knocks the two guards unconscious using the force, the position of the guard's bodies shift during their fight scene and are positioned (conspicuously conveniently) out of the way.

* Revealing mistakes: When Sidious is knocked back by Yoda in his office, the stunt double's hand is visible. Sidious's hands are old, wrinkly, and his nails are dark. But this hand is perfectly healthy and much larger.

* Continuity: After Anakin has choked Padme she falls to the ground and her right arm falls out in front of her but in the close-up, her arm is resting across her stomach.

Keep it up Niggy. I find your tutorials extremely useful. https://www.juventuz.com/forum/images/smilies/thumbs.gif

Time and time again , you will get players that are club material but not National Team material. Aiyegbeni is one of them. Akpoborie used to be like that too. He could not muster up much on the National team. They should stop inviting him and let him concentrate on his club career.

Fixing a rally after giving people 2-3 weeks to get used to the new fuel prices! NLC give me a break.

I don't know where I am

I hate all this money talk...

We need the reserves and we need to boost them. The problem remains that there are no checks and balances that work in this country, so we are not guaranteed that the reserves will remain in place at the end of the Obasanjo administration.

Greatpeter:
Chxta a point of correction: Middlesbrough 2-1 Arsenal .

But Chelsea is winning the premirship again.

Sorry, typo.

A couple good and bad notes from the EPL:

Man United and City finished up 1-1 and Reyna supposedly had another good match. After the first few weeks Reyna was the best player in the EPL, supposedly.

Borough beat Arsenal 2-0, so another difficult season is ahead of Dial. Midfield is suspect there..

Fulham drew with Newcastle 1-1... Brian McBride scored once again and has three goals thus far in the EPL. Owen did not score on his debut.

Tottenham and Liverpool played out to a scoreless draw...what's going on Benitez

And Chelsea beat Sunderland 2-0, extending their winning and clean sheet streak to five games in the new season. It will be another easy title for the Blues again and I wonder if they could possibly go the season unbeaten..

I can't believe that I forgot that this topic exists...

DE-KING:
Please chxta, I know that name has something to do with the Nigerian flag. So could you help me with that? I mean his relationship with the flag.

He designed the flag.

But make we talk true, to overhaul police na work o!

---------------------Lev Yashin-------------------------

----------Franco Baresi---Franz Beckenbauer---Gaetano Scirea--------------

------------------------------Daniel Passarella---------------------------------------
--------------Garincha---Pele---Zinedine Zidane---Alfredo di Stefano---------

---------------------Diego Maradona-------------------------------------------------
---------------------------Gerd Muller-----------------------------------

It was extremely difficult coming up with this one, and I had to almost tearfully omit such luminaries as Michele Platini, Omar Sivori, Paolo Maldini, Cafu, Roberto Carlos (notice I chose a 3-5-2 formation), Ferenc Puskas, Zico, Careca, Socrates, Roberto Carlos, Nevile Pumpido, Jorge Burruchaga, Claudio Cannigia, Paolo Rossi, Bobby Charlton, the list can go on forever...

Lemme see if I can name 3 of the greatest ever per position...

1: Lev Yashin (URS), Nevile Pumpido (ARG), Peter Schmeichel (DAN)
2: Cafu (BRA), Lilian Thuram (FRA), Johan Neeskens (NED)
3: Paolo Maldini (ITA), Roberto Carlos (BRA), Gaetano Scirea (ITA)
4: Daniel Passarella (ARG), Joseph Guardiola (ESP), Marcel Desailly (FRA)
5: Franz Beckenbauer (DEU), Franco Baresi (ITA), Guiseppe Bergomi (ITA)
6: Willy van de Kerkhof (NED), Alessandro Nesta (ITA), Laurent Blanc (FRA)
7: Garincha (BRA), Jorge Burruchaga (ARG), Careca (BRA)
8: Diego Maradona (ARG), Marco van Basten (NED), Rivaldo (BRA)
9: Gerd Muller (DEU), Emilio Butragueno (ESP), Ronaldo (BRA)
10: Pele (BRA), Zinedine Zidane (FRA), Johann Cruyff (NED)
11: Alfredo di Stefano (ARG), Falcao (BRA), Jarzinho (BRA)

Notice that I put Maradona as a support striker, watch Argentina-England, and Argentina-Belgium from Mexico 86 and you will understand why. There are still names I'd like to add to this list, but...

BTW, it ended 3-0 in Luanda. My analysis much later...

Alright, now I am off to watch CIV-Cameroon. Don't like that cunt Drogba, but I hate Cameroon even more. Forza CIV!

What the doubters don't seem to understand, is that should we fail to make this WC, we would have to start rebuilding from scratch, and with the NFA we have, that is asking a lot!

A goal back from Gabon who have headed a ball wide off an empty net will do our cause a lot of good!

obong:
Thanks seun, but that doesnt really answer it. You know the word africa itself isnt an african word. I imagine niger comes from a european word, though i read somewhere that it is arabic

Africa comes from Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus. The Roman general that first brought what is today North Africa under Roman control. He was the man who defeated Hannibal...
Niger comes from the Latin word niger meaning black, incidentally the same root word that nigger comes from...

Goal was disallowed. Still 2-0. Makes no difference though. Greatpeter, check ya email.

Rwanda played OK when they had a chance... Nothing like pride in African football.

By the way, 3-0. I am stopping this stream make I go joint go watch CIV-Cameroon with boys. This is torture!

Doesn't look good for Nigeria.

I wish we had project managers handling our affairs than political clowns.

CCC should have been sacked after the Rwanda draw as that was the match we had to win at all cost and nobody saw the dangers of a mishap in Nigeria. Poor risk evaluation may cost us this ticket.

Only fools waits for damage to be done before reacting.

We have not learnt anything yet and this might be a classic time to re- evaluate how we prepare in the future.

In a competition like this, all matches are important until you cross the winning line. Everyone expected Nigeria to be about 6 points clear of any team in the group by the time these last 2 matches were being played and so we would nave just needed a draw to qualify.

Note that we went to Angola with a depleted team and would have been better going to that match and done better with a top Nigeria club side as the team Nigeria presented was extremely poor and we lost by a lone goal scored in the last 5 mins after a Joseph Yobo blunder.

Angola has worked hard and deserve their position. Nigeria has no organisation, no captain and no team.

Our hope is that our boys win today. If they do not, and lose, it will all be over! Angola will not have to go to Rwanda! We need at least a draw to stop the poping of champaign bottles in Angola!

Hard work is neeeded to achieve and not talents!!!!

Half time.....

Angola 2 - 0 Gabon

And now they may well lie down and die because of Zimbabwe's result. Zimbabwe have won 3-1, so Gabon is out of the Nations Cup as well!

The way this game is going I don't know how Gabon is going to score because it doesn't look like they are controlling the game

Nope. 2-0

Greatpeter:
Is that an equalizer?

Angola 1-0 Gabon

Stream is back. Gabon just scored an own goal.