Chelsea football club have confirmed left-back Ashley Cole will be sidelines for ‘approximately three months’ after sustaining a fractured ankle in the recent league defeat against Everton.

He also faces a battle to be fit in time for Chelsea’s final league fixture of the season against Wigan. This essentially puts a major question mark over Ashley Cole’s involvement in the World Cup. England boss Fabio Capello has already said he will only take fit players with him to South Africa, and this gives Cole little time to prove himself to the Italian tactician.
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The footballing world was outraged when France forward Thierry Henry used his hand to set up William Gallas’ goal against the Republic of Ireland in their World Cup play-off. Gallas’ extra time goal in the second leg resulted in Ireland’s elimination, while Henry was well and truly branded with the cheat tag.
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The thing that we all knew happened: Henry is a fraud. However, in the tradition of French smooth frauds he is someone who made it into an art; in his country the books about thieves are popular.

But the ‘hand’ is not the only thing that makes Henry what he is; it is simply incredible how people in England or football fans in general forget all the things this man did.
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Although this is the final stage of the World Cup 2010 qualifiers and there are no weak teams in the competition, Portugal and Russia were expected to have much easier jobs. They have minimal advantage before the return leg on Wednesday, but while Russia have a reason feel aggrieved, Portugal were more than lucky against Bosnia.

France didn’t play great, but they won in Ireland and their job is almost done. At the end, Greece and Ukraine are still at the beginning. First match was very cautious, without goals and it won’t be a surprise to see penalty kicks as a decider in this match up.
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The play-off draw was by no means easy on Republic of Ireland and they have only FIFA officials to thank to for pitting them against underperforming but still very strong France side. This is obviously going to be most interesting duel in the World Cup play-offs and while we have no doubts both sets of players will be extremely motivated, it is the coaches that have the power to win this game for their team. The Irish are clearly hoping this is true since their boss Giovanni Trapattoni simply cannot be  compared to the charlatan that is Raymond Domenech. I’ll try to give you the insight into key battles that would be led at Croke Park.
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Next time you see strikers of your club ending the hard to miss situation with terrible shot wide, just remember that you could end with something like this

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