What you missed while NASA was shutting down manned spaceflight…
- Your FA Cup results: Southampton 1-4 Portsmouth, Reading 2-2 West Brom, Chelsea 4-1 Cardiff City, Derby County 1-2 Birmingham City, Manchester City 1-1 Stoke City, Fulham 4-0 Notts County, Bolton 1-1 Tottenham, Crystal Palace 2-2 Aston Villa.
- Atletico Madrid 2-1 Barcelona; this is not only Barca’s first loss of the season, it’s also the first time they’ve trailed.
- Villareal 2-1 Athletic Bilbao; the final ten minutes of this match featured four sendings off.
- Peter Storrie says that Portsmouth’s fifth takeover of the season could be completed within 48 hours; whether or not that will stave off the British government’s planned takeover of the club this Wednesday has yet to be seen.
- The Premier League is exploring the idea of a playoff system for the fourth Champions League spot.
- Spanish national team manager Vicente del Bosque has urged Fernando Torres to delay his return to Liverpool’s starting lineup so that he can be fit for the World Cup. In other news, Vicente del Bosque is an asshat.
- Manchester City will be without Carlos Tevez, Craig Bellamy, Vincent Kompany, Shaun Wright-Phillips, and Stephen Ireland when they play Stoke City tomorrow.
- Inter Milan legend Sandro Mazzola claims that Inter have shown that they have no weaknesses; clearly, Mazzola doesn’t count an inability to win in Europe as a weakness.
- Klaas Jan Huntelaar bagged a brace in AC Milan’s 2-1 win over Udinese; he always seems to score when he plays for them, which makes me wonder why they don’t play him more.
- Neil Warnock hopes that the referee’s assistant that erroneously gave Aston Villa a corner that allowed them to draw level with Crystal Palace is suspended for a long time.
- Bordeaux president Jean-Louis Triaud isn’t really sure where Marouane Chamakh is going next season (it’s probably Arsenal, though).
- Ryan Giggs thinks that David Beckham could play on for three or four more years, although it remains to be seen whether or not he’ll actually play against Manchester United later this week.
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