It Has Begun!

It was a rough start for CAN 2010 in Angola following the tragic shooting of the Togo player's bus were 2 people were killed and many others injured. An event that lead to the eventual withdrawal of Togo from the competition although rumors circling today suggest that they would like to rejoin the cup following three days of mourning at home. It's in the hand of the CAF now and frankly I would love it if they were able to reschedule matches so that Togo could play a part. They are a good team and deserve to play after the ordeal they have went through. Our thoughts are with them. What really rubbed me the wrong way was how coaches of European clubs mainly English flocked to comment about how it is unsafe for their players to be involved and how they would want them back and that the tournament should be cancelled and so on. To them I say shut it! Can you be more obvious? Is it possible that your main concern is the money spent on these players? Because you can't be really concerned for the players safety more than the players themselves can you? Clubs should learn to be more subtle!

The tournament went off to a flying start with a cracking 8 goal thriller! Angola lead by Flavio (x-Ahly) and Gilberto (Ahly) and under the tutelage of the fox Manuel Jose (x-Ahly) incredibly threw away a 4 goal lead against Mali who scored twice in injury time to level the score. No mystery who I was cheering for here,

ANGOLA 4 MALI 4

Flavio (36,42) Kieta (79, 94)

Gilberto (67 pen) Kanoute (88)

Manucho (74 pen) Yatabre (92)

Coming up

13:45 GMT Group A Malawi : Algeria

16:00 GMT Group B Cote D'Ivoire : Burkina Faso