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Spurs are on their way to Wembley…. again!

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Tottenham substitutes David Bentley and Roman Pavlyuchenko made instant impacts last night as Spurs came from behind to charge into an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley with a 3-1 win over Fulham. Earlier, Bobby Zamora had met Damien Duff’s pass with a placed finish to give Fulham a well deserved half-time lead.

David_BentleyThe introduction of David Bentley at half time completely changed the game, with the winger curling in a free-kick with virtually his first kick of the game and then crossing for Roman Pavlyuchenko to volley home. Eidur Gudjohnsen then rounded off a good flowing move to set up a semi final meeting with Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp’s old side Portsmouth at Wembley.

And with Aston Villa and Manchester City both dropping points in the Premier League, Tottenhams grip on 4th place was helped as well. All in all, a good night for Spurs!

There are loads of Tottenham Hotspur souvenirs and gifts available now at Footballbits Football Souvenirs, perfect for any Spurs fan to celebrate the upcoming semi final.

Footballbits has a huge range of officially licenced football souvenirs, merchandise, memorabilia and gifts.P erfect for fans of all ages and at affordable prices.

Celebrate 100 years of the ‘Theatre of Dreams’

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This month, Old Trafford, home of Manchester United celebrates its one hundredth birthday and has an amazing history. .

In 1902 Manchester United were known as Newton Heath , newly appointed chairman John Henry Davies pushed for a new stadium to built as he believed their current stadium, Bank Street simply wasn’t good enough for a team who had won both the FA cup and First Division.

The stadium was originally planned to have a capacity of 100,000 but due to the high cost of the land, the capacity was reduced to 80,000. The FA Cup Final was hosted at Old Trafford in 1911 and 1920 the first England international was played there when Scotland visited in 1926.

Football continued at the stadium throughout the 3nd World War, until  the 22nd December 1940 when a German air raid severely damaged the stadium. Old Trafford reopened in March of 1941, but just three days later, most of the stadium was destroyed by another German air raid. During the reconstruction of Old Trafford, Manchester United actually played their home games at Maine Road, home to rivals Manchester City.

Old Trafford finally reopened in 1949 after nearly 10 years. In 1951 work began restoring roof over the main stand, followed soon after by the other 3 stands. and floodlights were installed.

In 1992 the Football League, after the Taylor report into the Hillsborogh tragedy, decreed that all First and Second Division football stadiums had to be made all-seater. Once the changes had been made, Old Trafford had dropped to an all time low capacity of 44,000 seats.

Because of United’s popularity,construction began in 1995 of a brand new twenty five thousand capacity north stand. In 2000, with continued success, second tiers were added to both the east and west stands bringing the capacity to over 68,000.

Between 2005 and 2006 second tiers were added to both the North-West and North-East corners of the ground bringing the capacity to well over 76,000 all- seated spectators.

Why not celebrate 100 years of the Theatre of Dreams with these official commemorative souvenirs, part of the huge selection from Footballbits Football Souvenirs

100 years of Old Trafford Cufflinks

Old Trafford Hip FlaskManchester United 100 years of Old Trafford Commemorative Leather WalletManchester United 100 years of Old Trafford Commemorative WashbagManchester United 100 years of Old Trafford Mousemat

Where do you spend your Saturdays?

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The most ardent football supporters spend the majority of their Saturdays (and a lot of time in their dreams) at the home of their team – their spiritual home.
So why not get them a nice reminder of where they love to be with a Framed photograph of the stadium?

Villa Park Stadium PhotographFootballbits Football Souvenirs now have a new range of glass fronted, black framed stadium photographs for vitually every team in the Premier League and Football League.

Premier League and Championship stadiums are on sale now, the lower leagues will be on the site shortly.

Go on, treat the fan in your life to one of these – they will love you for it!

Football’s frozen bits – Orange balls anyone?

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Looks like the weather has got the better of this weekend’s football, just like it managed to stop the blogging this week..

frozen pitchHalf of the weekend’s Premier League programme succumbed to the snow yesterday amid concerns that not enough effort was being made to keep some matches on.

Fulham, Sunderland and Burnley announced that todays games have been postponed, while Liverpool, due to play Spurs tomorrow made an early application to the Premier League to call the game off.

Hull’s game with Chelsea was finally called off last night after being doubt all day.

The Premier League said: “It is unfortunate that these matches have had to be called off, however the advice from the statutory authorities in light of continuing adverse weather conditions was to postpone”
(Translation – its cold,icy and very slippery!)

So far the Premier League games still on are:
Arsenal v Everton
Birmingham City v Manchester United
Manchester City v Bolton (Monday)
Wigan v Aston Villa

Of course  if you are really cold, you should be wearing your teams hats scarves and gloves from www.footballbits.co.uk

As so often, the final word goes to Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger: “Nobody acepts any risk any more and everybody is guided by fear”, “If one person out of 60,000 has an accident, you feel guilty. That is why the games are postponed when there is no real need for it”

Football souvenir website unveils new look

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Football souvenir, merchandise, memorabilia and gift website Footballbits football souvenirs has today unveiled it’s updated website which offers a brand new look and feel to the popular onsite football souvenir store and makes finding the items you want for a large selection of Premier League, Football League, European and International teams easier than ever before.

The functionality within the site has been updated and now delivers a more user-friendly experience, on-site navigation has been improved with a more consistent feel throughout the whole site and the website has been ‘future-proofed’ by making greater use of modules that can be updated as required.

The new site includes all of your old favourites and plenty of new items for your favourite teams as well.  Footballbits football souvenirs is the one place you need to look for a huge selection of officially licenced football souvenirs, merchandise, memorabilia and gifts, perfect for fans of all ages at affordable prices.

Delivery is available to the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

The huge range of officially licenced football souvenirs and gifts at Footballbits football souvenirs is constantly being updated, so there’s always something new for you to find.

For more information visit www.footballbits.co.uk


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