Man City reach final with 9-0 win
Holding a seemingly impregnable 6-0 first-leg lead, City strikers Alvaro Negredo and Sergio Aguero combined to complete the formalities at Upton Park.
City's way to Wembley
Third round: Wigan (H) 5-0Fourth round: Newcastle (A) 2-0
Quarter-finals: Leicester (A) 3-1
Semi-finals: West Ham (H) 6-0 & (A) 3-0
City will face either Manchester United or Sunderland at Wembley on 2 March.
Cross-city rivals United host Sunderland in their semi-final second leg on Wednesday as they try to overturn a 2-1 home win in the reverse fixture.
Blues boss Manuel Pellegrini has targeted the unprecedented 'quadruple' of winning the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and Champions League in his first season at the Etihad.
And City, as expected, are already just 90 minutes from lifting their first trophy of the campaign after recording the biggest aggregate win in the League Cup semi-finals.
Pellegrini made sweeping changes to the side which smashed through the 100-goal barrier in only their 34th match of the season on Saturday.
But, to the chagrin of West Ham, the Chilean reunited Negredo and Aguero in a fearsome-looking attack, while injury-hit £22m summer signing Stevan Jovetic made his first substitute appearance since October.
Going into the game, the pair had scored 21 goals apiece - with the whole West Ham team netting only 31 - but had not started together since Argentina striker Aguero injured his calf against Arsenal on 14 December.
Negredo needed just 154 seconds to open the scoring when he planted in Portuguese teenager Marcos Lopez's pinpoint cross with the freedom of the Hammers penalty area.
Then, Aguero kept pace with his strike partner by pouncing on more calamitous Hammers defending to clip beyond goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen.
Highest aggregate wins in English football
| 1945-46 |
Aldershot v Newport (FAC) |
12-0 |
|
1981-82 |
Liverpool v Exeter (LC) |
11-0 |
|
1983-84 |
West Ham v Bury (LC) |
12-1 |
|
1986-87 |
Liverpool v Fulham (LC) |
13-2 |
|
1987-88 |
Watford v Darlington (LC) |
11-0 |
|
1990-91 |
Everton v Wrexham (LC) |
11-0 |
* All second-round ties
And, after collecting a neat one-two from Aguero, Negredo surged through a pair of flimsy Hammers challenges to tuck past Jaaskelainen.
With West Ham needing almost a miracle to reach Wembley, Allardyce urged his players to restore pride in front of a sparse 14,390 crowd in east London.
But the home fans had little to cheer with City keeper Costel Pantilimon only stretched on a handful of occasions.
Mohamed Diame, who was later carried off on a stretcher with a knee injury, slashed an angled shot wide and substitute Carlton Cole was denied by the feet of the giant Romanian.
However, the hosts were boosted by an encouraging 45-minute display from Andy Carroll, who was making his first Hammers start since the final game of last season after a foot injury.
The England striker was the Hammers' most potent attacking threat before being replaced by Cole at the break, although showed his rustiness by heading over the City crossbar when well-placed.
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce:
Timing of first goal disappoints Allardyce
"The most disappointing thing was our defensive unit doing what it
did in the first few minutes. Manchester City are a super, super team
but it was not a super, super opening goal."It was bog-standard defending, which was disappointing. You cannot make the amount of mistakes at this level that we did.
"Obviously we were disappointed to lose Joe Cole and Mo Diame to injuries, but we'll have to see how serious they are. Mo's injury might not have been as serious as it first looked."
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini:
"It was a very professional performance. It was easy to think the game was finished from the 6-0 in the first leg, but it was important to reach the final winning all the games.
"For Sergio Aguero, it was useful match as he played 60 minutes.
"Alvaro Negredo has a problem with his shoulder. He has pain at the moment and we will see if it is serious on Wednesday."
Source: BBC
The
burial and funeral of a dearly departed brother and colleague in the
showbiz industry Eric Asante, whose death took the country Ghana by
shock on December 5 2013, took place over the weekend in Kumasi.
It was perhaps the first of the series of “cardiac arrests” that hit the Ghanaian media industry in recent times.
In the early hours of Saturday January 19, 2014, the body of the late brother was laid in state for public viewing and paying of last respect at the Kumasi Cultural Centre till about 10 am when the body was lifted for internment at the Ayigya cemetery.
Unlike many, the corpse was seated in a chair in an upright position with his hands on his laps. (I would have loved to share a photograph with you but I hold a different view now of sharing such images as I take a cue from sharing late musician Nana Wusu’s own).
The funeral was well attended by industry personalities, the general public, members of the media and family. The event looked orderly until a torrential downpour after the burial got everybody dispersed at the funeral grounds and just like they do in their movies, there was a part two of the family sitting at the same venue on Sunday. Call it “Eric Asante’s funeral Reloaded.”
Fast forward to the burial grounds where a very despicable act of ignorance or perhaps superstition transpired.
Amidst wailing and crying by loved ones, Ghanaian actress Vivian Jill Lawrence dropped her head gear and spectacles unto the coffin and asked it to be buried with the deceased; an act that got many shocked and attempted to remove the said materials as it had a spiritual significance in the local Akan setting.
She however managed to achieve her purpose as the materials were buried with the corpse.
Significance: If my little knowledge of the Akan tradition is anything to go by, then until you are closely related or have a blood bond with a deceased, you have no right to let a possession of yours be buried along a dead person but that was not the case with Vivian Jill Lawrence.
From my observation of events at the filing past the body prior to the internment, wife of the deceased had his wedding ring until the body was covered when she disposed off the ring. (I don’t know where she kept it though). This act signified the break of any bond that existed between the two when he was alive so why a mere colleague?
It therefore comes as shocking when Vivian Jill defied all attempts and deposited her head gear and spectacles to be buried along the dead. Was it sheer ignorance or superstition as I heard others murmur?
It is believed the dead has a way of communicating with the living and therefore any link established becomes the means through which such communication is made.
Source: Ebenezer Donkoh - See more at: http://viasat1.com.gh/v1/vnews/entertainment.php?postId=1770#sthash.sj4hasQ8.NFDQp4Qz.dpuf
It was perhaps the first of the series of “cardiac arrests” that hit the Ghanaian media industry in recent times.
In the early hours of Saturday January 19, 2014, the body of the late brother was laid in state for public viewing and paying of last respect at the Kumasi Cultural Centre till about 10 am when the body was lifted for internment at the Ayigya cemetery.
Unlike many, the corpse was seated in a chair in an upright position with his hands on his laps. (I would have loved to share a photograph with you but I hold a different view now of sharing such images as I take a cue from sharing late musician Nana Wusu’s own).
The funeral was well attended by industry personalities, the general public, members of the media and family. The event looked orderly until a torrential downpour after the burial got everybody dispersed at the funeral grounds and just like they do in their movies, there was a part two of the family sitting at the same venue on Sunday. Call it “Eric Asante’s funeral Reloaded.”
Fast forward to the burial grounds where a very despicable act of ignorance or perhaps superstition transpired.
Amidst wailing and crying by loved ones, Ghanaian actress Vivian Jill Lawrence dropped her head gear and spectacles unto the coffin and asked it to be buried with the deceased; an act that got many shocked and attempted to remove the said materials as it had a spiritual significance in the local Akan setting.
She however managed to achieve her purpose as the materials were buried with the corpse.
Significance: If my little knowledge of the Akan tradition is anything to go by, then until you are closely related or have a blood bond with a deceased, you have no right to let a possession of yours be buried along a dead person but that was not the case with Vivian Jill Lawrence.
From my observation of events at the filing past the body prior to the internment, wife of the deceased had his wedding ring until the body was covered when she disposed off the ring. (I don’t know where she kept it though). This act signified the break of any bond that existed between the two when he was alive so why a mere colleague?
It therefore comes as shocking when Vivian Jill defied all attempts and deposited her head gear and spectacles to be buried along the dead. Was it sheer ignorance or superstition as I heard others murmur?
It is believed the dead has a way of communicating with the living and therefore any link established becomes the means through which such communication is made.
Source: Ebenezer Donkoh - See more at: http://viasat1.com.gh/v1/vnews/entertainment.php?postId=1770#sthash.sj4hasQ8.NFDQp4Qz.dpuf
The
burial and funeral of a dearly departed brother and colleague in the
showbiz industry Eric Asante, whose death took the country Ghana by
shock on December 5 2013, took place over the weekend in Kumasi.
It was perhaps the first of the series of “cardiac arrests” that hit the Ghanaian media industry in recent times.
In the early hours of Saturday January 19, 2014, the body of the late brother was laid in state for public viewing and paying of last respect at the Kumasi Cultural Centre till about 10 am when the body was lifted for internment at the Ayigya cemetery.
Unlike many, the corpse was seated in a chair in an upright position with his hands on his laps. (I would have loved to share a photograph with you but I hold a different view now of sharing such images as I take a cue from sharing late musician Nana Wusu’s own).
The funeral was well attended by industry personalities, the general public, members of the media and family. The event looked orderly until a torrential downpour after the burial got everybody dispersed at the funeral grounds and just like they do in their movies, there was a part two of the family sitting at the same venue on Sunday. Call it “Eric Asante’s funeral Reloaded.”
Fast forward to the burial grounds where a very despicable act of ignorance or perhaps superstition transpired.
Amidst wailing and crying by loved ones, Ghanaian actress Vivian Jill Lawrence dropped her head gear and spectacles unto the coffin and asked it to be buried with the deceased; an act that got many shocked and attempted to remove the said materials as it had a spiritual significance in the local Akan setting.
She however managed to achieve her purpose as the materials were buried with the corpse.
Significance: If my little knowledge of the Akan tradition is anything to go by, then until you are closely related or have a blood bond with a deceased, you have no right to let a possession of yours be buried along a dead person but that was not the case with Vivian Jill Lawrence.
From my observation of events at the filing past the body prior to the internment, wife of the deceased had his wedding ring until the body was covered when she disposed off the ring. (I don’t know where she kept it though). This act signified the break of any bond that existed between the two when he was alive so why a mere colleague?
It therefore comes as shocking when Vivian Jill defied all attempts and deposited her head gear and spectacles to be buried along the dead. Was it sheer ignorance or superstition as I heard others murmur?
It is believed the dead has a way of communicating with the living and therefore any link established becomes the means through which such communication is made.
Source: Ebenezer Donkoh - See more at: http://viasat1.com.gh/v1/vnews/entertainment.php?postId=1770#sthash.sj4hasQ8.NFDQp4Qz.dpuf
It was perhaps the first of the series of “cardiac arrests” that hit the Ghanaian media industry in recent times.
In the early hours of Saturday January 19, 2014, the body of the late brother was laid in state for public viewing and paying of last respect at the Kumasi Cultural Centre till about 10 am when the body was lifted for internment at the Ayigya cemetery.
Unlike many, the corpse was seated in a chair in an upright position with his hands on his laps. (I would have loved to share a photograph with you but I hold a different view now of sharing such images as I take a cue from sharing late musician Nana Wusu’s own).
The funeral was well attended by industry personalities, the general public, members of the media and family. The event looked orderly until a torrential downpour after the burial got everybody dispersed at the funeral grounds and just like they do in their movies, there was a part two of the family sitting at the same venue on Sunday. Call it “Eric Asante’s funeral Reloaded.”
Fast forward to the burial grounds where a very despicable act of ignorance or perhaps superstition transpired.
Amidst wailing and crying by loved ones, Ghanaian actress Vivian Jill Lawrence dropped her head gear and spectacles unto the coffin and asked it to be buried with the deceased; an act that got many shocked and attempted to remove the said materials as it had a spiritual significance in the local Akan setting.
She however managed to achieve her purpose as the materials were buried with the corpse.
Significance: If my little knowledge of the Akan tradition is anything to go by, then until you are closely related or have a blood bond with a deceased, you have no right to let a possession of yours be buried along a dead person but that was not the case with Vivian Jill Lawrence.
From my observation of events at the filing past the body prior to the internment, wife of the deceased had his wedding ring until the body was covered when she disposed off the ring. (I don’t know where she kept it though). This act signified the break of any bond that existed between the two when he was alive so why a mere colleague?
It therefore comes as shocking when Vivian Jill defied all attempts and deposited her head gear and spectacles to be buried along the dead. Was it sheer ignorance or superstition as I heard others murmur?
It is believed the dead has a way of communicating with the living and therefore any link established becomes the means through which such communication is made.
Source: Ebenezer Donkoh - See more at: http://viasat1.com.gh/v1/vnews/entertainment.php?postId=1770#sthash.sj4hasQ8.NFDQp4Qz.dpuf
The
burial and funeral of a dearly departed brother and colleague in the
showbiz industry Eric Asante, whose death took the country Ghana by
shock on December 5 2013, took place over the weekend in Kumasi.
It was perhaps the first of the series of “cardiac arrests” that hit the Ghanaian media industry in recent times.
In the early hours of Saturday January 19, 2014, the body of the late brother was laid in state for public viewing and paying of last respect at the Kumasi Cultural Centre till about 10 am when the body was lifted for internment at the Ayigya cemetery.
Unlike many, the corpse was seated in a chair in an upright position with his hands on his laps. (I would have loved to share a photograph with you but I hold a different view now of sharing such images as I take a cue from sharing late musician Nana Wusu’s own).
The funeral was well attended by industry personalities, the general public, members of the media and family. The event looked orderly until a torrential downpour after the burial got everybody dispersed at the funeral grounds and just like they do in their movies, there was a part two of the family sitting at the same venue on Sunday. Call it “Eric Asante’s funeral Reloaded.”
Fast forward to the burial grounds where a very despicable act of ignorance or perhaps superstition transpired.
Amidst wailing and crying by loved ones, Ghanaian actress Vivian Jill Lawrence dropped her head gear and spectacles unto the coffin and asked it to be buried with the deceased; an act that got many shocked and attempted to remove the said materials as it had a spiritual significance in the local Akan setting.
She however managed to achieve her purpose as the materials were buried with the corpse.
Significance: If my little knowledge of the Akan tradition is anything to go by, then until you are closely related or have a blood bond with a deceased, you have no right to let a possession of yours be buried along a dead person but that was not the case with Vivian Jill Lawrence.
From my observation of events at the filing past the body prior to the internment, wife of the deceased had his wedding ring until the body was covered when she disposed off the ring. (I don’t know where she kept it though). This act signified the break of any bond that existed between the two when he was alive so why a mere colleague?
It therefore comes as shocking when Vivian Jill defied all attempts and deposited her head gear and spectacles to be buried along the dead. Was it sheer ignorance or superstition as I heard others murmur?
It is believed the dead has a way of communicating with the living and therefore any link established becomes the means through which such communication is made.
Source: Ebenezer Donkoh - See more at: http://viasat1.com.gh/v1/vnews/entertainment.php?postId=1770#sthash.sj4hasQ8.NFDQp4Qz.dpuf
It was perhaps the first of the series of “cardiac arrests” that hit the Ghanaian media industry in recent times.
In the early hours of Saturday January 19, 2014, the body of the late brother was laid in state for public viewing and paying of last respect at the Kumasi Cultural Centre till about 10 am when the body was lifted for internment at the Ayigya cemetery.
Unlike many, the corpse was seated in a chair in an upright position with his hands on his laps. (I would have loved to share a photograph with you but I hold a different view now of sharing such images as I take a cue from sharing late musician Nana Wusu’s own).
The funeral was well attended by industry personalities, the general public, members of the media and family. The event looked orderly until a torrential downpour after the burial got everybody dispersed at the funeral grounds and just like they do in their movies, there was a part two of the family sitting at the same venue on Sunday. Call it “Eric Asante’s funeral Reloaded.”
Fast forward to the burial grounds where a very despicable act of ignorance or perhaps superstition transpired.
Amidst wailing and crying by loved ones, Ghanaian actress Vivian Jill Lawrence dropped her head gear and spectacles unto the coffin and asked it to be buried with the deceased; an act that got many shocked and attempted to remove the said materials as it had a spiritual significance in the local Akan setting.
She however managed to achieve her purpose as the materials were buried with the corpse.
Significance: If my little knowledge of the Akan tradition is anything to go by, then until you are closely related or have a blood bond with a deceased, you have no right to let a possession of yours be buried along a dead person but that was not the case with Vivian Jill Lawrence.
From my observation of events at the filing past the body prior to the internment, wife of the deceased had his wedding ring until the body was covered when she disposed off the ring. (I don’t know where she kept it though). This act signified the break of any bond that existed between the two when he was alive so why a mere colleague?
It therefore comes as shocking when Vivian Jill defied all attempts and deposited her head gear and spectacles to be buried along the dead. Was it sheer ignorance or superstition as I heard others murmur?
It is believed the dead has a way of communicating with the living and therefore any link established becomes the means through which such communication is made.
Source: Ebenezer Donkoh - See more at: http://viasat1.com.gh/v1/vnews/entertainment.php?postId=1770#sthash.sj4hasQ8.NFDQp4Qz.dpuf
The
burial and funeral of a dearly departed brother and colleague in the
showbiz industry Eric Asante, whose death took the country Ghana by
shock on December 5 2013, took place over the weekend in Kumasi.
It was perhaps the first of the series of “cardiac arrests” that hit the Ghanaian media industry in recent times.
In the early hours of Saturday January 19, 2014, the body of the late brother was laid in state for public viewing and paying of last respect at the Kumasi Cultural Centre till about 10 am when the body was lifted for internment at the Ayigya cemetery.
Unlike many, the corpse was seated in a chair in an upright position with his hands on his laps. (I would have loved to share a photograph with you but I hold a different view now of sharing such images as I take a cue from sharing late musician Nana Wusu’s own).
The funeral was well attended by industry personalities, the general public, members of the media and family. The event looked orderly until a torrential downpour after the burial got everybody dispersed at the funeral grounds and just like they do in their movies, there was a part two of the family sitting at the same venue on Sunday. Call it “Eric Asante’s funeral Reloaded.”
Fast forward to the burial grounds where a very despicable act of ignorance or perhaps superstition transpired.
Amidst wailing and crying by loved ones, Ghanaian actress Vivian Jill Lawrence dropped her head gear and spectacles unto the coffin and asked it to be buried with the deceased; an act that got many shocked and attempted to remove the said materials as it had a spiritual significance in the local Akan setting.
She however managed to achieve her purpose as the materials were buried with the corpse.
Significance: If my little knowledge of the Akan tradition is anything to go by, then until you are closely related or have a blood bond with a deceased, you have no right to let a possession of yours be buried along a dead person but that was not the case with Vivian Jill Lawrence.
From my observation of events at the filing past the body prior to the internment, wife of the deceased had his wedding ring until the body was covered when she disposed off the ring. (I don’t know where she kept it though). This act signified the break of any bond that existed between the two when he was alive so why a mere colleague?
It therefore comes as shocking when Vivian Jill defied all attempts and deposited her head gear and spectacles to be buried along the dead. Was it sheer ignorance or superstition as I heard others murmur?
It is believed the dead has a way of communicating with the living and therefore any link established becomes the means through which such communication is made.
Source: Ebenezer Donkoh - See more at: http://viasat1.com.gh/v1/vnews/entertainment.php?postId=1770#sthash.sj4hasQ8.NFDQp4Qz.dpuf
It was perhaps the first of the series of “cardiac arrests” that hit the Ghanaian media industry in recent times.
In the early hours of Saturday January 19, 2014, the body of the late brother was laid in state for public viewing and paying of last respect at the Kumasi Cultural Centre till about 10 am when the body was lifted for internment at the Ayigya cemetery.
Unlike many, the corpse was seated in a chair in an upright position with his hands on his laps. (I would have loved to share a photograph with you but I hold a different view now of sharing such images as I take a cue from sharing late musician Nana Wusu’s own).
The funeral was well attended by industry personalities, the general public, members of the media and family. The event looked orderly until a torrential downpour after the burial got everybody dispersed at the funeral grounds and just like they do in their movies, there was a part two of the family sitting at the same venue on Sunday. Call it “Eric Asante’s funeral Reloaded.”
Fast forward to the burial grounds where a very despicable act of ignorance or perhaps superstition transpired.
Amidst wailing and crying by loved ones, Ghanaian actress Vivian Jill Lawrence dropped her head gear and spectacles unto the coffin and asked it to be buried with the deceased; an act that got many shocked and attempted to remove the said materials as it had a spiritual significance in the local Akan setting.
She however managed to achieve her purpose as the materials were buried with the corpse.
Significance: If my little knowledge of the Akan tradition is anything to go by, then until you are closely related or have a blood bond with a deceased, you have no right to let a possession of yours be buried along a dead person but that was not the case with Vivian Jill Lawrence.
From my observation of events at the filing past the body prior to the internment, wife of the deceased had his wedding ring until the body was covered when she disposed off the ring. (I don’t know where she kept it though). This act signified the break of any bond that existed between the two when he was alive so why a mere colleague?
It therefore comes as shocking when Vivian Jill defied all attempts and deposited her head gear and spectacles to be buried along the dead. Was it sheer ignorance or superstition as I heard others murmur?
It is believed the dead has a way of communicating with the living and therefore any link established becomes the means through which such communication is made.
Source: Ebenezer Donkoh - See more at: http://viasat1.com.gh/v1/vnews/entertainment.php?postId=1770#sthash.sj4hasQ8.NFDQp4Qz.dpuf
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