Sam Allardyce commended Pascal Chimbonda on a “miraculous” goalline clearance as Sunderland and Blackburn drew 0-0 in the FA Cup on Saturday.French defender Chimbonda made a last-ditch slide to deny Morten Gamst Pedersen on the stroke of half-time in an otherwise drab fourth-round clash at the Stadium of Light.

Sunderland and Blackburn will meet for the fourth time this season after a drab FA Cup fourth-round tie at the Stadium of Light ended 0-0.Morten Gamst Pedersen went closest to ending a stalemate which did little to justify the fixture’s status as an all top-flight affair, but saw his goalbound effort cleared off the line by Pascal Chimbonda.

… on Villa’s home page; “The ball hit my head and my hand at the same time.”

Well, at least he admits. I bet Flp would’ve saved the pen had the ref whistled a foul on Chimbonda instead

Fulp

Chimbonda—Ferdinand—Nosworthy—Collins

Tainio
Diouf————-Reid—————Richo

Ciss—Jones

I’d consider putting Whitehead on right wing to help Chimbonda out with…

thats if hes playing mind - looks like ash youngs on fire at the minute and def there danger man for satda.
i would have been happy if malbranque was playing he would have done a lot of covering…

Any footage of their “tiff” knocking about??

Tottenham have offered 4m to Sunderland for former full-back Pascal Chimbonda

and

Sunderland are still considering appointing a big-name manager in the summer, despite appointing Ricky…

Head to head after the full time whistle..

Anyone else see ?

BTW, both where excellent today

Black Cats boss Ricky Sbragia has played down talk that both Pascal Chimbonda and El Hadji Diouf will leave the club in January.

The agent of Sunderland defender Pascal Chimbonda has denied that the player is set for a return to former club Tottenham Hotspur.