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| Arsenal suffer shootout Cup defeat at Bradford Posted: 11 Dec 2012 03:09 PM PST  Bradford City's players celebrate after winning the penalty shootout against Arsenal. — Reuters pic The Premier League club needed an 88th minute goal from captain Thomas Vermaelen to force the game into the extra period but failed to make their superiority tell and it was Vermaelen who missed their final spot kick to send the minnows through. Garry Thompson had scored with a tidy far post finish in the 16th minute to give a surprise lead to the hosts who then held off a second-half barrage before Arsenal's Belgium centre back Vermaelen levelled with a far-post header. In the night's other quarter-final, Andreas Weimann scored two late goals as Aston Villa booked a place in the last four by coming from behind to beat Norwich City 4-1 away. Weimann, a first-half substitute for the injured Darren Bent, converted Eric Lichaj's cross to put Villa 2-1 ahead and then latched on to a Christian Benteke pass for his second goal. Benteke scored Villa's fourth in added time. The hosts went ahead when Steve Morison seized on a knockdown from Matt Lawton in the 19th minute and smashed the ball home on the half-volley. But the lead lasted only two minutes before Brett Holman drew Villa level with a first-time shot from outside the area. — Reuters |
| Hayatou only nominee for top African job Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:38 AM PST CAPE TOWN, Dec 11 — Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou has been nominated uncontested for another four-year term in charge of the continental body, officials said today. The news sets up Cameroon's Hayatou to lengthen his tenure at the helm of African football to almost 30 years since his election to the post in 1988 but there is still a chance he may face a rival in the elections next year. CAF have disallowed the candidacy of rival Jacques Anouma because he does not meet new criteria for presidential candidates but the Ivory Coast politician is expected to launch a legal bid to overturn the decision and be allowed to stand at the CAF Congress in Marrakech, Morocco, on March 10. The 66-year-old Hayatou, anticipating Anouma's bid, engineered a change in the organisation's statutes to permit only voting members of its executive committee to run for the presidency. The change was overwhelmingly approved at a special CAF Congress, arranged solely for the purpose of amending the rules, in the Seychelles in September. Anouma is a member of CAF's executive committee only because he serves as one of the continent's representatives on the FIFA executive and he has no voting powers in CAF matters. — Reuters |
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