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Il Tottenham, dopo avere chiuso il primo tempo in vantaggio all’ “Old Trafford”, è stato schiantato dal ciclone Manchester United  ( fans in foto ) che è andato a segno per ben cinque volte nella ripresa, complice anche una prestazione incerta del portiere Gomes. Intanto Gianfranco Zola sta per rinnovare  per altri quattro anni il proprio contratto con gli “Hammers”, oggi sconfitti di misura dal Chelsea; con lui dovrebbe essere confermato anche il vice Clarke. E’ morto per i postumi di una rissa, i cui motivi sono ancora oscuri, il fratello del giocatore del Tottenham Defoe; in relazione all’ episodio un uomo è stato arrestato.

Londra, morto fratello di Defoe

2009-04-25 16:56 Jade Defoe era stato aggredito a calci e pugni lunedi’ scorso
(ANSA) – ROMA, 25 APR – “Jade Defoe, fratello dell’attaccante del Tottenham e della nazionale inglese Jermain Defoe, e’ morto dopo una aggressione subita per strada. Lo rivela il ‘Sun’. In base ai primi accertamenti, la vittima, 26 anni, aggredita a calci e pugni in pieno giorno lunedi’ scorso a Leytonstone, nella zona est di Londra, aveva subito una frattura cranica e danni cerebrali. La polizia ha arrestato un uomo di 28 anni, ma per il momento si ignorano i motivi del pestaggio.”

Zola al West Ham altri quattro anni

2009-04-25 16:26 La firma, dice dirigente societa’, arrivera’ nelle prossime ore
(ANSA) – ROMA, 25 APR – “Gianfranco Zola restera’ al West Ham per i prossimi quattro anni. Lo annuncia l’amministratore delegato degli Hammers, Scott Duxbury. Dal sito della britannica Sky Sports il dirigente afferma che il club londinese ha trovato l’accordo e che Zola ha accettato il rinnovo quadriennale del contratto, confermato anche per l’assistente dell’ex attaccante azzurro, Steve Clarke. La firma, garantisce Duxbury, arrivera’ nelle prossime 48 ore.”

After a poor first-half Ronaldo grabs United’s first with a controversial penalty

A sensational second-half fightback against Tottenham helped Manchester United leap-frog Liverpool at the top of the Premier League on Saturday.

Darren Bent crashed in Vedran Corluka’s cross and Luka Modric converted Aaron Lennon’s floater as Spurs dominated.Ronaldo pulled one back from the spot after Michael Carrick was brought down by Heurelho Gomes, and Wayne Rooney equalised from the edge of the box.A Ronaldo header and strikes by Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov secured the win.After United’s dreams of a quintuple were reduced to a quadruple after last week’s FA Cup shoot-out loss to Everton and with four days before their Champions League commitments, their season seemed to be balancing on a knife-edge.With Liverpool briefly at the top of the table after their win over Hull, the pressure was all on United, who began without Ryan Giggs even in the squad, who will have to wait another day for his 800th appearance.Spurs, hunting their first win at Old Trafford for 20 years, welcomed back defender Ledley King, Jermaine Jenas was favoured to Tom Huddlestone, while Jermain Defoe remained in London following the death of his half-brother.

What a game! To win 5-2 from losing 2-0 is pure class WAYNE_ROOONEY

It was a lively start in the Manchester sun with the first chance of the game falling to Darren Bent who headed tamely from the back post at Edwin van der Sar and Ronaldo skipping a shocking double-footed challenge from Wilson Palacios.

For all of their early possession, United were creating precious little, although Ronaldo went close with a header from a Nani cross, and they were made to pay inside half an hour.With Corluka causing trouble down the right, the Croatian defender curled in towards a sleeping Rio Ferdinand who failed to deal with the ball and Bent was there to pick up the scraps on the six-yard line to crash in his 17th goal of the season.And just two minutes later the Tottenham fans would have been pinching themselves to see if they were dreaming with Modric being mobbed by his team-mates after scoring the second.Patrice Evra was having an awful time dealing with Aaron Lennon with the Englishman bursting past him, not for the first time in the afternoon and Modric chested down before smashing into the net.With half-time looming and the Old Trafford faithful sounding increasingly anxious, a Ronaldo volley came within a Gomes fingertip of pulling a goal back.The defending Premier League champions were rattled and Darren Fletcher’s stray pass just before the interval’s whistle typified a sloppy and incompetent 45 minutes.The United’s players returned for the second period with, no doubt, their manager’s voice ringing in their ears and their comeback fight got going without the lacklustre Nani, replaced by striker Carlos Tevez .The Argentine, who many predict will make an Old Trafford exit at the end of the season, almost gave a worthy reminder to his current employers what they may be missing, hitting straight at Gomes when one-on-one inside the hour.Two minutes later the Manchester arena erupted as Carrick, bursting into the box after a Ronaldo pass, nipped the ball around Gomes and was adjudged to have been brought down.The Spurs were players incensed, but Howard Webb’s decision was not going to change and the Portuguese calmly dispatched from the spot.If there was any doubt about the first goal there was none about the equaliser, when Rooney blasted in from outside the box after Rafael and Berbatov had combined to set up the English striker.And just one minute later there were scenes of delirium with the on-fire Rooney crossing in for Ronaldo who dived at full-stretch to head home their third.It was a phenomenal turn around – although numerically not quite as grand as the recovery in 2001 at White Hart Lane when United won 5-3 after trailing 3-0 at half-time.The misery continued for a stunned Tottenham, as Ronaldo and Rooney were in danger of running the show on their own.Ronaldo burst through on the right and delicately chipped for Rooney, whose volley crept over the line, despite the scrambled efforts of Jonathan Woodgate.It was four goals in 14 minutes and United, perhaps sensing an urgent need to improve their goal difference – currently inferior to Liverpool by two – poured forward in search of a fifth.Remarkably it arrived and it was courtesy of the boot of Tottenham’s former hero Berbatov.The Bulgarian’s header was saved by Gomes, and with the Spurs defence struggling to clear the ball, Berbatov followed up to bundle in.Once again, United have a breathing space of three points over Liverpool with a game in hand, but as Carrick predicted ahead of this epic battle, a few more twists and turns in the season’s finale is guaranteed.”