Africa Cup of Nations

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Anyone else watching this? It's fcking brilliant, more goals, more attacking, fewer dives and whinges than the world cup or euros. Currently watching Angola v Senegal, which is a great game. Chuffed to bits cos I had a bet on Angola at 9/2 and they're 3-1 up. I've seen most teams so far, and off the top of my head, at least 8 would give England a hiding.

My fave players so far are Zidan, notably-named attacker for Egypt. Has tramlines in his hair and a Z shaved into the side. Cool. And Manucho, the Angolan striker Man U have, I think, just signed. He scored an awesome diving header from a standing start against SA and two more today. His attacking partner, Flavio, is quality, too.
 
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It all kicked off between the Senegal team (I think) and some Egyptian journos the other day and someone drew a gun, and there's this whole match fixing thing with Benin so I don't know how innocent it is compared to European footie. I suppose it's better by default due to not having Christiano Ronaldo though...

I haven't watched as much as I wanted because everything's BBC3 up until the final, but it's a shame Nigeria have been so disappointing. Ghana haven't played well (apparently Gyan had to be stopped from flying home because he's so upset with how he's played) but they're getting the results. The Cote D'Ivore are brilliant, and they have Drogbacite!
 
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God I love Drogbacite.

Ivory Coast must be favourites - Ghana don't really have the strikers. Though fair play to Junior Agogo - love this quote on how plaing for Ghana is better than playing for Forest

'The difference is you are playing with world-class players. They see things much quicker, don't they? Sulley and Michael [Essien], they give you the ball where you are supposed to be, you know. They've made up your mind for you. Like: "Cheers, mate, you made me look good."

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/01/27/its_good_here_innit.html
 
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Tonight's highlights were the first I've seen, but you're right about the relative lack of gamesmanship. Diving and feigning injury is so much a part of the rhythm of European football I'd forgotten what it's like when it's not there.

Rubbish goalkeeping in tonight's game though - is that why the goal tally is so high?
 
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Ever since I was little the golden rule with keepers was that if they were African and wore tracksuit bottoms they were dodgy.
 
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:mad: i'd like to be watching this but it's being completely ignored by the networks here. the only way to see it is online pay per view (yeah right) or, starting from the quarter finals, in french on a quebec channel.

is toure in or out now? i've heard conflicting things.
 
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nomos said:
:mad: i'd like to be watching this but it's being completely ignored by the networks here. the only way to see it is online pay per view (yeah right) or, starting from the quarter finals, in french on a quebec channel.

is toure in or out now? i've heard conflicting things.
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http://football.guardian.co.uk/africannations2008
Injured Toure to miss Mali match
ACCRA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure has been ruled out of Tuesday's African Nations Cup match against Mali after suffering a groin strain, officials said.
Toure was carried off on a stretcher on Friday just before half-time in his team's 4-1 triumph over Benin, a result that secured for the Ivorians a place in the quarter-finals.
The Arsenal defender had hoped to be fit in time for the Group B match in Accra but doctors said he would need more time to recover from the injury.
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tom pr said:
It all kicked off between the Senegal team (I think) and some Egyptian journos the other day and someone drew a gun, and there's this whole match fixing thing with Benin so I don't know how innocent it is compared to European footie.
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The refs in Ghanain domestic games typically get an armed escort on and off the pitch - make of that what you will.

Arming the referees would be a good way of livening premiership games up actually.
 
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Angola 3 Senegal 1 - if someone drew a gun after the Egypt game, surely it was a fecking rocket launcher after this one. What an upset - fantastic for the tournament!

Anyone live in south London and know a reliable pub/bar where I could catch most of the games (particularly keen not to miss the QFs onwards)?
 
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Surprises in both the semi finals - esp Ivory Coast getting a total shoeing. Another really good game, tho, especially the five or so minutes when it went from 1-0 to 3-1. Pretty much everything ended in a goal. One of them included defending from Kolo Toure that was genuinely baffling, it was so bad. He ended up facing entirely the wrong way. Great stuff...
 
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After watching a few matches of diving, time-wasting, injury-faking, eye-poking, referee-manhandling, elbowing, hacking, stamping, stretcher-bearer-pushing, buggy-punching and coach-baiting, I finally gave up yesterday.

Each goalkeeper seems to get 'injured' five times a game, and players that lose challenges pretend to be hurt to curtail opposition attacks (I've seen this in Serie A too). It's very exciting but incredibly frustrating too.
 
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