alib said:
my fear us if they win it they will spend a couple of weeks after the tournament finishes celebrating with open top parades , receptions etc back in the Ivory Coast
In which case they won't be back til the end of Feb?
This ACN is a complete joke. Empty stadiums, Mickey Mouse teams and crap football to boot!
Added to that is the fact that we lost 3 players to the Ivory Coast on January 1st yet they never kicked a bloody ball in South Africa until 22 January!
Adebayor, who played for Togo in the same tournament, was still playing for Spurs on 12th January!
Just how the f*ck can Ivory Coast call up the players nearly 2 weeks in advance of other nations and we have to accept it. People on here seem to think then that it is also acceptable to have a post tournament tour lasting 2 weeks if they bloody win it!
This tournament last year robbed us of Yaya for the United cup tie and in effect cost us the game. Couple that with this year's potential 8 week absence at the hardest part of the season and you can see why I am so bloody annoyed about this footballing farce.
7 weeks last year, potentially 8 weeks this year, last years FA Cup and potentially this year's title challenge as it was Yaya who scored the winner at QPR last year! Just how can you put a price on that! And incidentally, I bet for that 15 weeks both Kolo and Yaya have been receiving salaries which amount to around £4m whilst never pulling on a City shirt