Disher Donovan: The Galaxy's Landon Donovan, seen here tackling Manchester City's Aleksandar Kolarov, led Everton to another victory with yet another assist today against the Mancunians in England (AP Photo). You remember that old "Seinfeld" episode about the proctologist with the license plate that read "Assman"?

Roberto Mancini was left to bemoan a couple of refereeing calls that went against Manchester City after seeing Liverpool go through to the Carling Cup final.
Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, City had a lot of work to do at Anfield and opened the scoring thanks to Nigel de Jong's stunning strike from distance.

Throughout history the number 13 has been associated with misfortune, not only were there thirteen people present at the last supper there were also thirteen contestants in the first series of UK Big Brother. The connection between the number and bad luck has found its way into football in the past.

Arsenal's 1-0 loss to Manchester City in the Carling Cup match yesterday showed, once again, the power of petropounds. But one goal from over 100 million is a pretty weak return, really. However, a win is a win and even if City are on the ropes in Europe, they've booked their spot in the semifinals of the league cup.

Chasing after his former self, not the opponent

Carling Cup returns to the menu as the victors of tonight's game will seal their path into the semi final of this competition. It won't be so easy to win this year's competitions, well, compared to our run last season. Apart from Manchester City, there's still Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool still in this competition.

We're back in action for what is the first really big test for Alex McLeish since he came to Villa, possibly one of the toughest of the season, but also as good a time as any to play Man City at their own place.

Over the last 10 times this league fixture has been played, we've won just two and lost eight times.

Winners in 2010, Inter Milan were shocked at home by Trabzonspor, but there was better news for fellow former champions Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

Bayern Munich and Real Madrid opened their Champions League group stage campaigns with away victories, but 2010 winners Inter MIlan suffered a shock home defeat by Trabzonspor AŞ in the second set of matchday one games.

As the blog's resident Gooner, I figured it was my moral obligation to weigh in on the move of Clichy to Manchester City over the weekend. As is usually the case with Arsenal over the last five or six seasons, my feelings on the topic are complex. Here's some thinking on as many aspects of the move as I can think of: Arsenal's Loss of Clichy - Of the people who were SUPPOSED to be first

I will be brutally honest: I had never heard of Senad Lulic before he was being linked to Lazio. Once a team signs a player that noone has heard of before the clouds of suspicion immediately arise. But, the same occurred when Lazio had signed a certain Aleksandar Kolarov and Stephan Lichsteiner. In those cases [.

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Andy Carroll repaid the first chunk of that massive £35million price tag as he scored two of the goals that helped Liverpool condemn Manchester City to their worst possible preparation for Saturday's FA Cup semi-final.
A disastrous evening for the Blues that put their top-four hopes in the balance was made worse as Carlos Tevez suffered a hamstring injury that seems certain to rule him out of the Wembley showdown with old club Manchester United.

This stunning Quinonez Wilson free kick has created a record for being the world's longest ever free kick. The Quinonez Wilson goal was scored against Club Cerro Porteño PF from an amazing distance of nearly 83m out ( see goal video below) on 9/4/11 ( 9th April, 2011). Quinonez Wilson, for the uninitiated, is a [.

Andriy Shevchenko and Oleh Gusev struck as Dynamo Kiev established a two-goal advantage against Manchester City in the first leg of their Europa League round of 16 tie.

Shevchenko showed he has lost none of his predatory sharpness by turning in Andriy Yarmolenko's inviting cross on 25 minutes.

Andriy Shevchenko and Oleh Gusev struck as Dynamo Kiev established a two-goal advantage against Manchester City in the first leg of their Europa League round of 16 tie.

Shevchenko showed he has lost none of his predatory sharpness by turning in Andriy Yarmolenko's inviting cross on 25 minutes.

This stunning Jefferson Farfan free kick vs Valencia was one of the best goals scored in the Champions League in the 10/11 season. The Farfan free kick vs Valencia brought Schalke on level terms in their second leg against Valencia, and the Royal Blues eventually won 3-1 to progress 4-2 on aggregate.

Birmingham vs Sheffield Wednesday FA Cup 5th Round- 19th February 2011- ( St.Andrews) Final score:- Birmingham vs Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 ( Beausejour, Martins, Murphy) Birmingham City cruise into the next round of the FA Cup as they easily beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-0. Birmingham vs Sheff Wednesday 1-0 ( Jean Beausejour goal) Birmingham v Sheff Wednesday [.

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Aris held Manchester City to a 0-0 draw in the last 32 of the Europa League on Tuesday, allowing the Greek team to maintain a 40-year unbeaten European home record. Man City fielded Carlos Tevez, Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli and David Silva in the first leg, an attacking lineup that cost more [.

This stunning Aleksandar Kolarov free kick vs Birmingham put Man City 2-1 ahead in their game against Alex McLeish's side on February 2, 2011. Unfortunately for the Serbian, City were unable to hold on to their lead. This Kolarov free kick goal against Birmingham was earned by Edin Dzeko, who signed for City in the [.

Roberto Mancini has confirmed that Manchester City winger Adam Johnson will be out for three months with an ankle injury. Johnson suffered ligament damage in a freak incident during training on Thursday and scans have confirmed Mancini's worst fears.

"We have lost Adam Johnson for three months," said Mancini.

Carlos Tevez's 16th goal of the season helped Manchester City beat Leicester City 4-2 in a FA Cup third-round replay on Tuesday.

The Argentina striker opened the scoring for City in the 15th minute with a stunning individual effort. He later missed a second-half penalty, but City had too much quality for a Leicester side that battled hard for the full 90 minutes, Man City will now play Notts County in the fourth round.

Napoli, Sevilla and Manchester City were all big winners in domestic cup ties tonight.

Sevilla are through to the Copa del Rey semi-finals after wrapping up a 6-3 aggregate victory against Villarreal. The Liga rivals drew 3-3 in the first leg of their last-eight tie, but it was Gregorio Manzano's side who took charge of the second leg.

MANCHESTER, England Wayne Bridge has joined bottom of the table West Ham on loan from fellow Premier League side Manchester City until the end of the season, the Hammers announced Wednesday. The 30-year-old former England international has found himself out of first team reckoning at title-chasers City following the pre-season arrival of both Aleksandar [.