By Chris Wright

In which Shefki Kuqi yes, that Shefki Kuqi; once of Stockport/Sheffield Wednesday/Ipswich/Blackburn/Crystal Palace/Fulham/Ipswich again/Swansea/Derby and Newcastle, now of Oldham Athletic booms home an absolutely outrageous 40-yard volley to equalise against Rochdale in League One on Saturday afternoon.

Fulham vs Newcastle 5-2 Goals Highlights 2012 Video Dempsey hat trick Ben Arfa Guthrie Murphy Zamora is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Fulham vs Newcastle 5-2 Goals Highlights 2012 Video Dempsey hat trick Ben Arfa Guthrie Murphy Zamora is a post from Soccer Blogger.

By Alan Duffy

Arsenal 7 (Seven)-1 Blackburn Rovers Premier League 4th February 2012

After a sustained period of dismal performances and almost no points, Arsenal needed to rediscover their mojo on Saturday if they were to stay in the hunt for a top-four finish.

The January 2011 transfer window was a blockbuster one as Premier League teams spent over £210 MILLION on transfers. Amongst the big spenders were Chelsea (David Luiz £21.4m, Fernando Torres £50m), Liverpool (Andy Carroll £35m, Luis Suarez £22.8m) and Aston Villa (Darren Bent £18m, Jean Makoun £6m).

By FRANCO PANIZO

If Brad Guzan retains his spot in Aston Villa's starting lineup this weekend, we are in for a treat.

Guzan and the Villans host Landon Donovan, Tim Howard and Everton on Saturday in arguably the biggest match-up involving Americans this weekend.

George John could be on the move (again). (Getty Images)

A fun bit of news broke late yesterday evening. Two US National team defenders George John and Omar Gonzalez were said to be leaving the national team camp for "club-related matters". Naturally their two teams instantly sent out messages about those matters.

Newcastle vs Blackburn FA Cup Highlights 2012 Goals 2-1 Video Ben Arfa Gutierrez Goodwillie is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Newcastle vs Blackburn FA Cup Highlights 2012 Goals 2-1 Video Ben Arfa Gutierrez Goodwillie is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Newcastle vs Blackburn 2012 ( Newcastle Blackburn FA Cup video below) Final score and result:- Newcastle vs Blackburn 2-1 ( Ben Arfa, Gutierrez/ David Goodwillie) Sports Direct Arena, Newcastle- FA [.

We've already seen Mario Balotelli celebrating a goal by revealing a t-shirt asking 'Why Always Me?'. Now he's changed tack and language to declare his love for girlfriend Raffaella Fico. After scoring against Blackburn in today's late kick-off, Balotelli lifted his shirt to show the message: "Raffaella Ti Amo.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that the same twenty-five in clubs from last week's rankings are all in this week's edition. That's been pretty standard recently. Nevertheless, there was more movement than usual this week because of movement at or near the top of the tables in several of Europe's top leagues.

Ashley Young has reiterated the point about the importance of experience, claiming that the likes of Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes command respect in the dressing room.

"The younger players have taken over this season, with their music and general loudness," he said. "But if someone like Ryan Giggs or Paul Scholes starts talking we all sit down and listen.

Some thoughts then:

Manchester City look a good team to me, but not as good a team as they should be. Carlos Tevez could have had this league sewn up some time ago, and the fact that they needed the 95th minute of the last game of the season suggests some under-achievement. They'll win the next few though I imagine.

Manchester City v Liverpool! | Paul Doyle

• Hit F5 for the latest or select our auto-refresh button below • Follow Spurs v WBA and Wigan v Sunderland match centres • And email your thoughts to paul.doyle@guardian.co.uk Paul will be here from around 7.15pm. In the meantime, here's Jonathan Wilson on why Liverpool have struggled to score goals this season: Liverpool sit a reasonably contented sixth in the table.

Video- Hatem Ben Arfa goal vs Blackburn FA Cup 2012 Newcastle January 7 Amazing Goal Pardew is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Video- Hatem Ben Arfa goal vs Blackburn FA Cup 2012 Newcastle January 7 Amazing Goal Pardew is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter This great Hatem Ben Arfa goal vs Blackburn Rovers ( see video below) gave Newcastle United the equaliser in their FA Cup tie against Rovers on 7th January, [.

By Chris Wright

Time to squeeze in another belated and bloomin' astonishing wonder goal from the FA Cup third round on Saturday, namely Newcastle winger Hatem Ben Arfa's meandering solo effort against Blackburn a goal Toon boss Alan Pardew has since branded 'the greatest ever scored'.

Newcastle vs QPR 2012 Highlights 1-0 Leon Best goal video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Newcastle vs QPR 2012 Highlights 1-0 Leon Best goal video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Newcastle vs QPR 2012 ( Newcastle Queens Park Rangers video below) Final score and result:- Newcastle vs QPR 1-0 ( Leon Best) Sports Direct Arena, Newcastle upon Tyne, 15th January, 2012- Sunday Leon Best's [.

Despite spending over over £100m on attacking players over the last year, Liverpool have one of the worst goalscoring records in the league. Kenny Dalglish's team has even been outscored by the likes of Blackburn and Bolton, and only six teams in the league have a worse home goalscoring record.

Blackburn vs Newcastle 2012 Highlights 0-2 Video Dann own goal Obertan Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Blackburn vs Newcastle 2012 Highlights 0-2 Video Dann own goal Obertan Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Blackburn vs Newcastle 2012 ( Blackburn Newcastle video below) Final score and result: Blackburn vs Newcastle 0-2 ( Dann own goal, Gabriel Obertan) 1 February, 2012- Ewood Park, Blackburn- Wednesday Blackburn's league [.

By Chris Wright

How about that? The very same batch of players who managed to earn Steve Bruce a paltry 11 points from 13 games have since raked in 19 points from nine games under Martin O'Neill (including last night's 3-0 victory over Norwich), a run that would see them topping the Premier League had they begun counting after O'Neill's first game in charge of the Black Cats; a 2-1 win over Blackburn on December 11th.

By Chris Wright

This may or may not be the guy

After months of vitriol and increasingly pathetic attempts to oust him from his position from the more ridiculous sections of the club's support, Blackburn manager Steve Kean has admitted to having hired a bodyguard to protect him at all times.

On Wednesday night the planets were clearly aligned in a perfect pattern to benefit Arsenal.

We got a hard-fought win at Goodison Park, a ground where Chelsea, Manchester City and the N17 Reprobates have all crashed and burned recently.

And while we were doing that the Spuds, with their enduring sense of comedy timing, were dropping two points at home to Stoke and the Chavs were losing at the Oil Refinery.

Manchester City vs Sunderland 3-3 Goals Highlights 2012 Video Larsson Bendtner Kolarov Balotelli is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Manchester City vs Sunderland 3-3 Goals Highlights 2012 Video Larsson Bendtner Kolarov Balotelli is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Manchester City vs Sunderland 2012 ( Man City Sunderland VIDEO BELOW) Final score and result:- Manchester City vs Sunderland 3-3 ( Balotelli*2, Kolarov/ Bendtner, Larsson*2) Etihad Stadium, Manchester- 31 March, 2012- [.

Blackburn vs Manchester United 0-2 Highlights 2012 Valencia Young Goals Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Blackburn vs Manchester United 0-2 Highlights 2012 Valencia Young Goals Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Blackburn vs Manchester United 2012 ( Blackburn Man Utd VIDEO BELOW) Final score and result:- Blackburn vs Manchester United 0-2 ( Valencia, Young) Ewood Park, Blackburn- 2 April, 2012- 20.

Another season, another second-half charge by Manchester United. United's prowess when it really matters has been proven time and again, and it looks to be another case of the same old, same old this season. United left it late against Blackburn, but the end result was a seventh straight league win and a five-point lead [.

Man City thrashed Norwich, Swansea blanked Blackburn, and much more in the English Premier League on April 14, 2012.

Norwich City 1-6 Manchester City

A dominating win for Manchester City who keep their title hopes alive. Carlos Tevez scored a hat trick in a rare start while Sergio Aguero had a brace.

Bolton Wanderers 2-1 victory over Aston Villa at Villa Park this week has handed Owen Coyle's side a Premier League lifeline whilst also ensuring that the Villa boss, Alex McLeish,will have a few sleepless nights over the next couple of weeks as his team become inexorably dragged into the relegation fight.

Very interesting decision the Premier League has taken ahead of Sunday's Premier League fixture between Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers. The Premier League has decided that there will be no pre-match hand shake due to the legal situation involving John Terry and Anton Ferdinand.

A statement on the its website read:

"The Premier League position on the pre-match handshake convention remains consistent.

Premier League Betting Preview: Stoke v Arsenal, Norwich v Liverpool, Chelsea v QPR and Tottenham v Blackburn - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

The last weekend of April could see the Premier League title decided one way or the other.

But before Monday night, there's quite a lot of football still to play with Arsenal fighting to secure third place, Chelsea and Tottenham fighting to make up ground to fourth place and Liverpool fighting to stay ahead of Everton in the league table.

Howard Webb on Newcastle v Man City.
Chris Foy on Man Utd v Swansea.
United have won the league.
We'd like to offer our congratulations to Sir Ferguson and Mike Riley on their stunning triumph.
A team unable to defeat FC Basel, Athletic Bilbao or Benfica in 6 games, beaten by Wigan, Crystal Palace and Blackburn, slaughtered by City and Newcastle is still good enough to win yet another tainted title triumph.

New footage showing Blackburn manager Steve Kean bad-mouthing his predecessor Sam Allardyce and claiming Rovers would finish in the top-half of the table this season has emerged. The video, reportedly filmed during last summer's pre-season trip to Hong Kong, was uploaded to YouTube yesterday. We can only assume that whoever recorded wanted to give Kean [.

Niall Hickman gave an interview on the radio yesterday, and the Daily Express man said he thought Newcastle were trying to do a deal for Blackburn's Chris Samba. Chris Samba - would be great at Newcastle Samba would be great at Newcastle, but we just don't think Newcastle have the pull or will pay out [.

The Question: why are Liverpool struggling to score at home? | Jonathan Wilson

Liverpool's scoring record at Anfield has been poor but those who blame bad luck and Andy Carroll may be missing the point Liverpool sit a reasonably contented sixth in the table . They have conceded fewer goals than anybody else in the Premier League and, although a gap of 11 points to the leaders is probably too much to make up, there is no reason why they shouldn't mount a strong challenge to qualify for the Champions League.

Interesting rumour doing the rounds today, don't think it'll ever happen but I'm pretty sure it'd solve a lot of the problems in the Man United midfield if it was to come true Frank Lampard is apparently wanted by Man United. Lampard is obviously unhappy with his current situation at Chelsea, he's not featuring in all of their games under Villas-Boas and with United's midfield looking very weak, Lampard could be a great signing.

No more than Arfa chance He has struggled to hold down a first team place recently, but Hatem Ben Arfa showed Alan Pardew his true class in their FA Cup third round tie against Blackburn yesterday, scoring one of the best goals the old competition has ever witnessed. With Newcastle trailing 1-0 and seventy minutes [.

Last summer, Liverpool rather famously spent big on players who created chances. To many, they paid far too much for far too little and the results haven't lived up to the expenditure, but regardless of whether one agreed with the approach at least there was a clearly identifiable approach: Find the Premier League players who created the most scoring opportunities and then start throwing money in their general direction.

Old head's experience to lead is crucial to the cause

The papers are going crazy with this fixture and all the focus is on Arsenal and how the mighty have fallen. How this is no longer the plum tie of the Premier League season (somehow, I think the numbers tells a different story), why there's no pizza or pastries being thrown at each other and why there's no more fights between the two sets of players.

szólj hozzá: Everton v Blackburn 1:1 MOTD

Scorers:
Cahill (Ever) 24′
Goodwillie (Bla) 72′

By FRANCO PANIZO

It took Clint Dempsey nine years to score the first hat-trick of his career, a feat he accomplished on January 7 in an FA Cup win over Charlton Athletic.

It did not take much longer for him to do it again.

Dempsey became the first American to net a hat-trick in the Premiership on Saturday.

Football's a simple game. If you score more or concede less than the other side, you win the match. So I thought it would be worth taking a look at which teams have been doing better than their opponents. The simplest way of doing just that is to calculate differentials for the stuff that matters most - goals - and the stuff without which - shots - the stuff that matters most usually doesn't happen.

All January 2012 English Premier League Transfers - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

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From what I've read from Mirrorfootball's 'exclusive' is that an Arsenal fan group are planning to put bin-liners on all empty seats in the ground, in the next home match vs Blackburn, to highlight dwindling attendances... One problem with that chaps Arsenal play to a full house practically every game.