FA Cup 5th Round Draws Out as Chelsea and Manchester City Eliminated

The FA Cup 5th round draws has been made yesterday as the likes of two top English Premier League giants Chelsea and Manchester City are thrown out of the competition already.

Chelsea lost their 4th round match to a lower division team Bradford City after taking 2-0 lead through Cahill 21 minutes and Ramires in the 38 minutes before the league one side Bradford produce an amazing comeback to win 4-2.

 Manchester City continue their poor run of form after losing to Arsenal in their last Premier league outing before heading to play in the 4th round FA Cup but couldn't bounce back from the lost as they were beating by Aitor Karanka's side Middlesbrough by 2 goals too Nothing.

Liverpool and Manchester United will replay their matches against Bolton and Cambridge respectively.

4th Round Replay Fixtures are:
TUE 3 FEB
Fulham v Sunderland

Man Utd v Cambridge

Sheff Utd v Preston 

WED 4 FEB
Bolton v Liverpool

While Below are the 5th Round Draws

Crystal Palace vs Liverpool or Bolton

Arsenal vs Middlesbrough

Aston Villa vs Leicester City

West Bromwich Albion vs West Ham United

Bradford City vs Sunderland or Fulham

Blackburn Rovers vs Rochdale or Stoke City

Preston or Sheffield United vs Cambridge vs Manchester United

Former Eaglets Coach Musa Abdullahi Dies of illness

Former coach of the Flying Eagles and Golden Eaglets has died after several years of battling with stroke and buried same day on Sunday according to the Muslim rites at about 5pm.

The late Coach led the Golden Eaglets to a second place finish at 2001 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago 

Coach Abdullahi died at the age of 61. He was born in Kogi State and was buried at the family house in Koton Karfe, the Kogi Local Government Area headquarters according to reports.  

Rest in Peace Coach..

Real Madrid is the Richest Club in the World for the 10th Year- Deloitte

Spanish giants Real Madrid have been confirmed by world's reputable financial accountants Deloitte as the richest football club in the world for the 10th year running.

Manchester United second riches club in the world, while other EPL clubs Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal made top 10.

1. Real Madrid - £459.5m

2. Manchester United - £433.2m

3. Bayern Munich - £407.7m

4. Barcelona - £405.2m

5. Paris Saint-Germain - £396.5m

6. Manchester City - £346.5m

7. Chelsea - £324.4m

8. Arsenal - £300.5m

9. Liverpool - £255.8m 

10. Juventus - £233.6m

11. Borussia Dortmund - £218.7m

12. AC Milan - £208.8m

13. Tottenham - £180.5m

14. Schalke 04 - £178.9m

15. Atletico Madrid - £142.1m

16. Napoli £137.8m

 17. Inter Milan - £137.1m

18. Galatasaray - £135.4m

19. Newcastle United - £129.7m

20. Everton £120.5m

21. West Ham United - £105.3m

22. Aston Villa - £101.9m

23. Marseille - £100m

24. Roma - £97.7m

25. Southampton - £97.3

26. Benfica - £96.6

27. Sunderland - £95.7m

28. Hamburg - £92.2m

29. Swansea City - £90.5m

30. Stoke City - £90.1m

 

Equatorial Guinea Send Off Gabon to reach Quarter-finals

The 2015 African Cup of Nations is full of surprise, as the lowest-ranked team in the tournament, Equatorial Guinea beat one of the tournament favorites Gabon to reach quarter-final after they went through as Group A runners-up behind Congo.

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Striker Javier Balboa put the hosts ahead 1-0 with a 55th-minute penalty after he had  been fouled by Lloyd Palun.

And they added another goal when substitute Salvador Iban slotted home a rebound from striker Emilio Nsue's shot.

In the Second Group A match between Congo and Burkina-Faso went in favor of the Red Devils (Congo) as they beat the 2013 runners-up 2-1 to top the group and send a warning to their next opponent in the quarter finals stage.
This is how the points are after playing 3 matches each,: Congo 7pts, Equatorial Guinea 5pts, Gabon 3pts, Burkina Faso 1pts.

Gabon and Burkinabes send packing their bags, till 2017...

African Women Player of the Year Oshoala Signs for Liverpool Ladies

Super Falcons of Nigeria Forward Asisat Oshoala have sign for Liverpool Ladies. According to report, the Liverpool Ladies are delighted to announce the signing of recently crowned African Women's Player of the Year.

Image on twitter @LFCladies

The FA women's Super League champions secured the signature of the highly rate 20-year-old Nigerian International from Nigerian Women's Championship title winners, Rivers Angels.

Asisat is an explosive forward who was voted the most valuable player at the U20 World Cup in Canada 2014, where she was the top goal scorer as the Falconets finished runners up to Germany.

Asisat also inspired Rivers Angels to their first league title victory since 2010 when they beat Pelican  Stars to the title as well as helping her side to clinch the Nigeria Women's Cup.
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Wonder Kid Odegaard Signs for Real Madrid

The Norwegian International super kid  Martin Odegaard has completed his awaited move to Real Madrid.

Twitter: @Transfer Related

Odegaard has been going around clubs in Europe for the past three to four months now trying to see which club will suite him for developing his football career.

The 16 years Old midfielder has went for tires with Clubs like, Liverpool, Bayern Munich of few to mention but he has decide to choose Real Madrid. Moreso, he stated this in a conference after he was been unveil   "I choose Real Madrid because it is the best place for me to improve", Am 16 and they offered me £80 Per-week he said.