Inter Recover From A Touch Of The Wobbles - European Football Round-Up

In answer to last week's question, no he didn't. We are talking Kaka of course and his proposed transfer from AC Milan to Manchester City. He decided to stay in Milan and the story died a death in record time.

As if to underline his commitment to the Milan giants he scored twice this weekend in a 4-1 win at Bologna. Meanwhile City spent some of the money that has been burning a hole in their pockets signing Hamburg's Nigel De Jong for an undisclosed amount.

One thing for sure is that any team contacted by City regarding the possibility of buying one of their players will know that whatever money they were prepared to spend on Kaka is still there...

England
It was FA Cup weekend. The only shock came when holders Portsmouth were unceremoniously dumped out by Swansea City. Swansea will now be at home to another worried Premiership side Fulham who safely got past a potential banana skin winning 4-2 at non league Kidderminster Harriers. In fact the home side came back twice only to leak two very late Fulham goals in the space of a minute by their expensive forward line of Andy Johnson and Bobby Zamora.

Elsewhere, last season's beaten finalists Cardiff City held Arsenal to a 0-0 in Wales. Liverpool and Everton finished 1-1 in a tense game at Anfield. Chelsea huffed and puffed their way past Ipswich Town 3-1, West Ham won 2-0 at Hartlepool, and in the all Premiership clash at Old Trafford Manchester United beat Spurs 2-1, with two goals in two minutes from Scholes and ex Spurs star Berbatov.

Doncaster Rovers held high flying Aston Villa to an impressive 0-0 draw.

The 5th round draw will see United visit the winners of the Derby County, Nottingham Forest replay. Meanwhile Chelsea travel to Watford.

Italy
As Manchester City look for other ways to spend their money Kaka scored twice for AC Milan, including a penalty, in a convincing 4-1 away win at Bologna. The game also saw David Beckham pick up another yellow card, but also score his first for the club. The other Milan goal came from Seedorf.

Article Author: Jeff Perkins

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