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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!

Tevez says what everybody had always thought

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Carlos_TevezManchester City’s Carlos Tevez has branded Manchester United’s Gary Neville a “boot-licker” and a “moron” in explaining his goal celebration in Tuesday’s Carling Cup semi-final Former Manchester United striker Tevez gestured and cupped his ears towards the United bench after scoring twice in Manchester City’s 2-1 derby win.

“My celebration was directed at Gary Neville,” Tevez told ESPN Argentina.”He acted like a complete boot-licker when he said I wasn’t worth £25m, just to suck up to the manager,” he added.

Before the first-leg tie at Eastlands, Neville said that manager Alex Ferguson had been right to let Tevez leave in the summer, rather than signing him on a permanent deal after his two-year loan spell ended.And during United’s defeat cameras appeared to catch Neville making an obscene gesture when Tevez scored.

“I don’t know what the hell that moron is talking about me for,” said Tevez.

Dont hear too many people arguing that one…

You can buy your souvenirs for both City and United ready for next week’s second leg at Footballbits Football Souvenirs

FA Cup 4th round draw

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FA-CupLeeds United pulled off the only real shock of the FA Cup 3rd round with a 1-0 win at Old Trafford over Premier league title contenders Manchester United and have been rewarded with another tough tie in round 4, this time away to Tottenham Hotspur

If Reading can get past Liverpool at the 2nd attempted they have a home draw against Burnley. The only confirmed all Premier league tie is Stoke against Arsenal but with a few matches falling victim to the weather as well, there are still a few maybe’s in the next round draw

The 4th round draw in full:

Southampton v Ipswich
Reading/Liverpool v Burnley
Millwall/Derby v Brentford/Doncaster
Bristol City/Cardiff v Leicester
Stoke v Arsenal
Notts County/Forest Green v Wigan
Scunthorpe v Man City
West Brom v Plymouth/Newcastle
Everton v Nottm Forest/Birmingham
Accrington/Gillingham v Fulham
Bolton v Sheff Utd/QPR
Portsmouth/Coventry v Sunderland
Preston v Chelsea
Aston Villa v Brighton
Wolves v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Leeds


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