Tuesday, November 17 News

- Egypt and Algeria are into the play-off which is slated to be played on Wednesday.

It’s amazing how important this game is. It took a dramatic 2-0 win by Egypt on the final match day to force this one-game winner-take-all match where the victorious team will enter the 2010 World Cup while the loser will be nothing more than a team that was—THAT close.

- Rafael Benitez has come out with a comment that is as staggering as it is—well— believable.

The Liverpool boss, operating with the kind of promised funds he was promised upon his arrival from Spain was quoted as saying: ”

He said: “It won’t happen. I’d quit.

“I’m confident it will never happen. If it did, I’d resign.”

He was talking about the slim chance that Liverpool would sell Fernando Torres in a chance to help improve their finances. The Liverpool club continues to face a mountain of debt through faulty bank loans that couldn’t be paid off and bad, bad business through their American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

- Chelsea, who sit atop the Premier League as the most recent international break comes to a close, will be without the services of regulars Ashley Cole, Jose Bosingwa and Frank Lampard through injury.

The table-toppers host struggling Wolves on Saturday in EPL action.

- And finally, it seems as if Tottenham goalkeeper, Carlo Gudicini, will be just fine after suffering some injuries in a motorcycle accident. The former Chelsea number two was injured while riding his bike through north London.