Found this list online, here, and thought it was interesting. Good for Spurs and Villa fans at least.

The list is correct as of 17/11/09.

Top 20 Teams For Producing England Internationals (all time):

1. Aston Villa 68
2. Tottenham 62
3. Everton 59
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So its Friday morning and I should be working on important things in the church office, but instead I find myself scanning the internet for news ahead of tomorrow's North London Derby. Whilist doing so I can across an article of famous fans from both teams and thought it only appropiate to have a face off.

Ok, so it has not been the best start to the season by a long way, but I am sick and tired of reading on a daily basis people continually ripping into Liverpool and Rafa Benitez. Yeh we had a good season last year (from a premier league perspective) and yeh we have not had the best of starts to this years campaign, but to continually keep saying they are out of it and then the next week they are back in it is starting to do my head in.

This Saturday will once again see another North London derby. A fixture which is one of my favourite throughout the year and yet at the same time one that I dread the most. For the last 10 years, Arsenal have been the favourite to win the derby which means that anything less than this feels like a victory for Spurs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef97VYRR9OU

I've been quietly impressed with Carlo Ancelotti since he began managing Chelsea. He has a quiet, unassuming way about him which suggests he takes his football seriously, while avoiding the pretentious nonsense of many other top managers ('mind-games' etc.).

This presentiment was confirmed a little today, after Chelsea's first loss of the season away at Wigan, 3-1.

I think my favourite part was at the end, when he says, "I'll be truthful, I don't understand it. If I go to watch football I watch football, I watch the game, why you've got be shouting abuse and giving people abuse for I don't know, there's got to be something wrong with you".

Two weeks ago I went to watch Arsenal take on Manchester United at the pub. After two hours of viewing I emerged in one of the most annoyed states I've ever been in after a football game. Somehow, after out playing throughout the majority of the game, Arsenal lost 2-1 to Manchester United.

Richard Dunne went on record today having a bit of a go at Manchester City for how they handled his transfer to Aston Villa. He says they lied to him. What was it they lied about?

Well, apparently they told him that they needed to sell him to 'balance the books': "They told me they have a certain amount of money they have to recoup each season to make things look better on the books".

Just found a very interesting article on The Guardian website discussing this very issue. The author opts for the strict definition of a 'volley', which is not simply when a player "strikes the ball in the air", but when they "strike the ball in the air before it has bounced" put strictly: "a volley occurs when the ball is struck having not bounced since being touched by the previous player".

As an Arsenal fan, I was very pleased with the teams 3-1 victory over Celtic and the Emirates on Wednesday night. I was not however pleased with Eduardo's blatant dive which resulted in a penalty and the first goal of the game.

FIFA have now repsonded to this by declaring that they will punish Mr da Silva with either a fine or a match ban.

As I haven't blogged in a while on here, I thought it was time to do so and the most fitting topic seemed to be discussing Arsenal's start and my thoughts for the rest of their season.

It seems that before the season had begun, everyone had written off Arsenal. They were slated for losing two of their most experienced players to Man City (Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor) and for not replacing them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U73VYXir0Ls

Further to Dave's post: