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| Angola 2010: Africa Cup of Nations Groups and Schedule Posted: 20 Nov 2009 03:06 PM PST
The tournament takes place in Angola from January 10th to January 31st, 2010. We’ve got blogs and bloggers for 12 of the 16 teams involved in the tournament. If you’d like to blog for one of the bloggerless teams then see the bottom of this post for details. The Angola 2010 groups and match schedule are after the jump. Click the links to visit the team blogs: Group A: Group B: Group C: Group D: Africa Cup of Nations 2010 Schedule: #01 – Jan 10th, Angola vs Mali (Group A) 17:00 kickoff #02 – Jan 11th, Malawi vs Algeria (Group A) 14:45 #05 – Jan 12th, Egypt vs Nigeria (Group C) 17:00 #07 – Jan 13th, Cameroon vs Gabon (Group D) 17:00 #09 – Jan 14th, Mali vs Algeria (Group A) 17:00 #11 – Jan 15th, Burkina Faso vs Togo (Group B) 17:00 #13 – Jan 16th, Nigeria vs Benin (Group C) 17:00 #15 – Jan 17th, Gabon vs Tunisa (Group D) 17:00 #17 – Jan 18th, Angola vs Algeria (Group A) 17:00 #19 – Jan 19th, Burkina Faso vs Ghana (Group B) 17:00 #21 – Jan 20th, Egypt vs Benin (Group C) 17:00 #23 – Jan 21st, Cameroon vs Tunisia (Group D) 17:00 Quarter-Finals‘ #25 – Jan 24th, 1st A vs 2nd B, 17:00 #27 – Jan 25th, 1st C vs 2nd D, 17:00 Semi-Finals Third place playoff Final Source: Official CAN 2010 website. Time difference: Angola is GMT+1. So it’s one hour ahead of the UK and six hours ahead of US eastern. So… a 17:00 (5pm) kickoff in Angola is 4pm in the UK and 11am on the east coast of the US. Details on how and where to watch the tournament as and when we get them. If you’re interested in blogging for one of the bloggerless Angola 2010 teams, then have a read of our application guidelines here and then get in touch.        |
| How Long Until We Forgive Thierry Henry? Posted: 20 Nov 2009 11:10 AM PST Latest development in the already long running Thierry Henry handball incident (or “la main de dieu” as it’s being called by some) is that Henry himself thinks a replay is a good idea:
Very nice of Titi, although very convenient that he’s saying this after FIFA ruled out any possibility of a replay:
But a good public relations move from Henry anyway. Yes, calling for a replay he knows to be impossible is a little transparent, but at least he’s owned up to handballing (if not premeditatedly cheating) and shown some remorse. Henry has also (sort of) apologized via a (poorly punctuated) Twitter message: Not everyone will agree, but it’s probably time we started thinking about forgiving Titi. Maybe not straight away, but definitely before World Cup 2010. He handballed, he got away with it. That’s really all that happened. If William Gallas had headed wide or – as Roy Keane asserts in his own super intense bordeline-psychotic way – an Irish defender had cleared the ball, then this whole thing would barely be worth mentioning. It’s also worth remembering that Henry is one of the good guys. He’s not Joey Barton, and doesn’t really deserve to be treated as such. Except maybe when he visits Ireland (which I don’t advise). More importantly, there are more serious problems in football right now. So how about it? Is anyone else ready to forgive and forget?   |
The groups for the Africa Cup of Nations 2010 were drawn today, which should go at least some way to cheering up teams like Egypt and Tunisia who very narrowly missed the World Cup 2010 boat.
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