After that thrilling 4-4 draw against the Gunners, it is getting clearer that the Kop won't have it this year...Andrei Arshavin has scored fantastic four to keep Liverpool neck-to-neck with Manchester United and desperate Rafa will have his entire work undone...Can Santa help him?

Football Remembers. Commemorating the end of World War I, prior to each of this weekend's fixtures, football fans up and down the country stood unified in a minute's silence to remember the fallen servicemen from wars gone by. It's good to know that football fans can spot the real heroes.

Buoyed by Mark Hughes' overachievement and shrewd signings, Blackburn had been living in a fantasyland of consistent contention for Europe. Paul Ince transported them rudely back to small city reality. Blackburn took an admirable risk, hiring the Premier League's first black manager, but, in this instance, it clearly backfired.

South Africa failed to qualify for the Confederations Cup finals after the narrow defeat to Brazil but Joel Santana's side matched the high-profile opponents for large periods of the game and they thus once again showed they had the potential to create a few surprises at the World Cup 2010, which they will host.