The introduction of Wayne Rooney led to the winning goal which gave Manchester United the 2010 Carling Cup in this afternoon’s final which took place at a packed Wembley against Premier League Aston Villa. United won 2-1 having trailed 1-0 to a James Milner 6th minute penalty.
The pace of Agbonlahor led to Aston Villa’s early [...]
The League Cup final takes place this afternoon, at 3pm in Wembley, as Manchester United, current Premier League Champions take on Aston Villa, of Birmingham.
The two clubs are both looking to make up ground on their near rivals in the Premier League – United sit one point behind league leaders Chelsea, while Villa, assuming they [...]

This evening’s Quarter Final draw for the 2010 FA Cup has thrown up a massive fixture, and opened up the draw for a mid-table Premier League team in the process as the two remaining favourites, Manchester City and Chelsea, have been put together.
Man City, assuming they can overcome Stoke in their replay, will play Chelsea [...]
February 14, 2010 | Posted in
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Today saw the final three FA Cup 2010 Fifth Round matches of the weekend take place. Some exciting football has ended with only one positive result from those matches: there was little or no romance from today’s Valentine’s Day fixtures.
Most exciting, perhaps, was Aston Villa, who needed an equaliser in the final minutes from Petrov [...]
February 14, 2010 | Posted in
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The first batch of FA Cup 2010 fifth round matches took place this afternoon.
Reading and West Brom will need a replay after the sides drew 2-2, while Portsmouth overcame their nearest neighbours, Southampton 4-1 away from home to provide some respite for their players and fans from their financial woes.
Chelsea put some nervy opening moments [...]
February 13, 2010 | Posted in
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Manchester United today defeated neighbours Manchester City 3-1 at Old Trafford to take the two legged Carling Cup semi-final 4-3 on aggregate and book themselves a Wembley final in the process.
City had taken a 2-1 lead from the first leg, and a tense first half ended nil-nil before Paul Scholes put United back into the [...]
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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After the FA Cup weekend, there are a number of midweek Barclays Premier League fixtures to play.
Tonight sees some big games, including Owen Coyle, now manager of Bolton Wanderers, entertaining his recent club Burnley at the Reebok Stadium.
Tottenham Hotspur will look to bounce back from their draw with League One Leeds United in their home [...]

The draw for the Fifth Round Proper of the English FA Cup 2010 took place this evening.
Chelsea are now as low as 2-1 to win this year’s trophy following the early exit of Liverpool and Manchester United, in Round Three and Arsenal, who exited in today’s Fourth Round match away at Stoke. They will face [...]
January 25, 2010 | Posted in
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The FA Cup Fourth Round matches this afternoon have seen few upsets, as Fulham came through their tie away at Accrington Stanley, Aston Villa saw off Brighton and Chelsea defeated Championship Preston.
Southampton and Reading, however, both managed to overcome opposition from a league above.
Leeds earned a draw at Spurs with a last gasp contentious penalty [...]
January 23, 2010 | Posted in
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Championship Reading have defeated their second Premier League opponent in this season’s FA Cup by knocking out Burnley. Reading won 1-0 at home with a Gylfi Sigurdsson goal in the final minutes of the match.
The tie looked to be heading for a replay before the Icelandic player rolled his shot into the bottom corner on [...]
January 23, 2010 | Posted in
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