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By: Texperts - 66000 » Ghana. Where the Premiership will be lost?

Texperts - 66000 » Ghana. Where the Premiership will be lost? — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:08:50 +0000

[...] to be played at a time in sync with other international football tournaments (ie, during our Summer months), and to play the Cup every four years rather than every two. There should be little surprise that [...]

By: Ayo Akinfe

Ayo Akinfe — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:18:09 +0000

[1] Very biased reporting from Mark Gleeson
[2] Anyone O’Level geography student would have told him that Africa does not have a “summer”
[3] This is a classic case of applying European situations to Africa
[4] Sub-Saharan Africa has a rainy and a dry season
[5] There is no way you can play a major tournament in Africa in the rainy season which runs from April to November
[6] The exception is South Africa and the Arab states of the north
[7] South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup because it has the same climate as Australia and the May to September period is its winter
[8] We should send Gleeson a tape of the recent Nigeria vs Lesotho game in Warri. It looked like a water polo match
[9] Even if the pitches had drainage, you still have the problem of flooding, roads being blocked, buildings being uprooted, rainfall drenching players, fans getting soaked, electric cables collapsing and general disruption caused by the rainy season
[10] The only solution to this problem is to have a European break in January/February when the ANC takes place.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:22:57 +0000

Africa has already made concessions: first they moved the tournament from March to January and second they merged the World Cup qualifying and African Cup matches, thus significantly reducing the number of matches players are called up for.

Europe cannot ask the Africans to make decisions that will cost them revenues, when the Europeans themselves are screaming because they want more money.

The rainy season is a factor because poor infrastructure means a lot of warter-logged pitches in the rainy season. If moved to the rainy season, only a couple of countries will be able to host the tournament.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:20:53 +0000

Africa has already made concessions by merging its World Cup qualifying and African Cup matches, thus significantly reducing the number of matches.

Europe cannot ask the Africans to make decisions that will cost them revenues, when the Europeans themselves are screaming because they want more money.

By: Five Times

Five Times — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:39:50 +0000

Interesting to see the National Football vs Club Football tussle extended to even outside of Europe. I guess when sports clubs become super rich and influential outfits, this problem arises. I think even the NBA has this problem also.

By: Sport Blogger

Sport Blogger — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:45:17 +0000

Issa Hayatou is a tough negotiator and he knows that CAF can maybe bargain for an extra half World Cup place with the dates of the Nations Cup.

What about the Mali-Togo game this weekend though! It would be a major boost for Arsenal if the Sparrowhawks didn’t qualify - and for me as I have bet on him to be the Premiership top scorer!

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Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:56:29 +0000

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