Houston's own Stuart Holden, a former midfielder with the Houston Dynamo, scored today's winning goal for Bolton in its match with Blackburn Rovers. Holden, who was coming off an injury, scored the goal while Bolton was down to 10 men.

Houston's own Stuart Holden, a former midfielder with the Houston Dynamo, scored today's winning goal for Bolton in its match with Blackburn Rovers. Holden, who was coming off an injury, scored the goal while Bolton was down to 10 men.

Supporters of Stu Holden, the USMNT player and former Houston Dynamo star, have been singing the midfielder's praise all season for his breakout role with Bolton. Now Holden, in his first English Premier League season, is also getting recognized by the fans there as well.
Readers of "The Guardian," using their average player ratings for each EPL match, have chosen the American international as their "best player so far this term".

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So in the past two weeks Robbie Findley and Edson Buddle have been linked to every English side that is not part of "the Big Four" or owned by an American. According to various U.K. media outlets (which by nature are very* trustworthy) these two have Everton, Birmingham City, Wolverhampton, Stoke City, Nottingham Forest, and Bolton all up on their collective jock right now.

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'Twas fairly inevitable that, after losing defensive mainstay Jamie Carragher for three months yesterday, Liverpool would find themselves linked with replacement centre-backs hither and thither until January and the Daily Star, perpetual front-runners in their field, have been first off the mark.

Here's some statistics showing the minutes per goal scored by some of the top strikers in our league in all competitions for their club.

Dimitar Berbatov (United)
Minutes: 1348
Goals: 12
Minutes per goal: 112.3

Javier Hernandez (United)
Minutes: 934
Goals: 7
Minutes per goal: 133.

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood A while ago the excellent Swiss Ramble covered Bolton. Bolton, (generally known as Notlob in these august columns), a team symbolic of all that was previously wrong with football: rotational fouling, rotational time wasting, and the snarling antediluvian himself: the Fat Slug.

Craig Gordon's miraculous save yesterday for Sunderland vs Bolton must be the save of the season already not many saves will be as good as this one below.

Greatest save ever? It has been an incredibly frustrating weekend with the sodding weather, but Craig Gordon has taken it upon himself to brighten up everyone's time off, and also confirm a victory in save of the season competition with a wonder save from Zat Knight of Bolton. Best save you have seen in the [.

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Birmingham 1 v Tottenham 2
Blackburn 1 v Wolves 1
Chelsea 2 v Everton 0
Manchester City 3 v Bolton 1
Wigan Athletic 0 v Stoke City 2
Blackpool 1 v Man Utd 3
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WBA 1 v Newcastle 2
Sunderland 2 v West Ham Utd 1
Mon 6 December 2010
Liverpool 2 Aston Villa 0
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Bolton boss Owen Coyle has admitted he would not stand in Johan Elamander's way, should he wish to leave the club in January.
Elmander is Bolton's record-signing after joining the club from Toulouse for around £10 million in 2008, and the 29-year-old has been in magnificent goalscoring form of late – which has seen him linked heavily with a move to Liverpool.

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Manchester City may be level with Arsenal on points at the top of the Premier league table, but the club is far from over the moon after a recent request from their star striker. The Guardian is reporting that Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has handed in a transfer request to leave Manchester City.

Stu Holden's 88th minute game-winner for Bolton over Blackburn. Go on son.

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The powers that be will no doubt remove this video soon. So enjoy it while you can. Craig Gordon's save today as Sunderland beat Bolton 1-0 to move to sixth in the English Premier League.
Not bad, son. Not bad at all.
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The powers that be will no doubt remove this video soon. So enjoy it while you can. Craig Gordon's save today as Sunderland beat Bolton 1-0 to move to sixth in the English Premier League.
Not bad, son. Not bad at all.
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Less than year after leaving the Houston Dynamo and MLS for Europe, Stuart Holden has made a splash not only at his club, middle of the table Bolton, but in the English Premier League itself.
On its website, the British paper The Guardian allows its readers to submit player ratings for each game played in the EPL.

After the surprisingly impressive first half of the season Sunderland have enjoyed, the club may be revaluating their goals for this term. Steve Bruce's side have stormed to sixth place in the league and now face the very real possibility of European football coming to the Stadium of Light next season.

Carlo Ancelotti has spoken ahead of tomorrow. He said:

"Arsenal knows very well our skills and ability, and we also know their ability, their skills. Obviously we want to try the same game we played against them and reach the same result.
Arsenal has fantastic ability to play fantastic football, maybe they concede something defensively and we have to use our ability to find the right space to create difficulties in their defensive line.

Fox Soccer Channel has Chelsea vs Stuart Holden's Bolton at 2:30pm. Same time for Wigan - Arsenal on Fox Soccer Plus. Liverpool host Marcus Hahnemann's Wolverhampton at 5pm on FSC. ESPN Deportes has Club America - Chivas in a friendly at 10pm. All Times Eastern

Despite what some of the readers may think, I'm not a supporter of the Big Four clubs in the Premier League. I enjoy watching them. But I enjoy watching them the same as I do the other 16 that form the Premier League. But what I do especially enjoy is a couple of days like Monday and Tuesday where the headlines didn't revolve around the massive clubs such as Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool winning matches.

As expected Carlo Ancelotti's future has been called into question once more and the rumours have gained much more momentum since Arsenal on Monday night. Of course Guus Hiddink's name is being touted about again as a replacement for Ancelotti but it is believed he doesn't want the day to day management again.

1. Arsene Wenger must be sick of late goals at the DW Stadium. 2. It's a good job Paul Konchesky was subbed off last night or Liverpool fans would have had nothing to cheer at all. 3. Charles N'Zogbia's headbutt was a bit over the top, but we did hear that Jack Wilshere was trying [...]

Once again, it's the English Premier League with most of our weekend options, though La Liga also returns on Sunday. Saturday ESPN2 has WBA - Manchester United at 7:30am. On Fox Soccer Channel, Manchester City - Blackburn is at 10am, Birmingham City - Arsenal starts at 12:30pm, and Spurs hosts the Americans at Fulham at 2:30pm.

Jamie Carragher's shoulder injury sustained against Spurs on Sunday will keep the centre-back out until at least March leaving Roy with some thinking to do.
In a bid to strengthen a rather light defensive outfit, Hodgson will look to splash the cash on Bolton's highly rated Gary Cahill. A bid upwards of roughly £12million should be enough to get Bolton's attention.

Arsenal host Fulham, Blackpool welcome Manchester United, Spurs go to Birmingham City, Bolton go to Manchester City, Chelsea host Everton, Wolves visit Blackburn, Wigan welcome Stoke, West Brom and Newcastle clash and Sunderland host West Ham.
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Stuart Holden and Bolton travel to Manchester City while Tim Howard and Clint Dempsey take on Chelsea and Arsenal respectively in a full weekend of English action.

The Scottish Football Blog, unlike the 2018 World Cup, is going to England. To the land of Manchester's United and City, of Newcastle and Bolton, Chelsea and Blackpool.
Why? Because there's only one Scottish game on this weekend. And because regular English Premier League guest blogger, Mark Briggs is back.

A fourth minute Carlos Tevez goal was enough to see Manchester City claim all three points against Bolton. However City finished the game with ten men after defender Kolorov was sent off for two yellow cards late in the game.

Goals to follow.

A fourth minute Carlos Tevez goal was enough to see Manchester City claim all three points against Bolton. However City finished the game with ten men after defender Kolorov was sent off for two yellow cards late in the game.

Goals to follow.

04.12.2010 - Calígula - El único y tempranero gol de Carlos Tévez (´4) (su décimo gol en la temporada) le dio la victoria al Manchester City (1-0) sobre el Bolton en la 16º fecha de la Premier League, dejándolo a 1 punto del Chelsea y a 3 del nuevo líder Arsenal.
Carlitos se fue caliente de la cancha y se lo hizo saber al DT, Roberto Mancini, que dispuso su salida en el minuto 89 (por James Milner) después de que el Apache viera la quinta amarilla que lo deja afuera del próximo partido frente al West Ham.

With one glance at the Premier League table, there is obviously something quite odd about it. It looks as if the gap between the very best and the once 'average' teams has decreased. And quite rapidly, too. There's almost a feeling of 'decline' amongst the top three; but that only tells half of the story.

Though the caveat see Manchester United with a game in hand, Arsenal is now on top of the Premier League, and there's only one person to thank for it. It was another breakthrough performance for Samir Nasri, who led the Gunners to a 2-1 win over Fulham and the top spot in the English Premier League.

Well, we had to lose at some point I suppose. After an unbeaten November, the first game of December brings us a lackluster loss. As losses go, there have definitely been worse. We didn't deserve a win, but we didn't play hopelessly either, and despite having roughly 86 minutes to put the game away, City never converted one of their myriad chances.

Well, we had to lose at some point I suppose. After an unbeaten November, the first game of December brings us a lackluster loss. As losses go, there have definitely been worse. We didn't deserve a win, but we didn't play hopelessly either, and despite having roughly 86 minutes to put the game away, City never converted one of their myriad chances.

With Manchester United's match in Blackpool postponed and Chelsea being drawn by Everton at the Bridge, Arsenal's win over Fulham sent the Gunners top, with Samir Nasri vaulting himself into the league's elite. On a team level, Manchester City may have done the some, with their 1-0 win over Bolton underscored by their more creative display of football this season.

England experienced a cold front last week but by the time Saturday's fixtures kicked off things were already warming up. Chelsea's draw against Everton sees manager Carlo Ancelotti sweating like never before. But Ancelotti isn't the only manager in London feeling the heat.

England one-cap wonder faces stun gun over alleged assault Police officers held a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun to the chest of former Bolton star Michael Ricketts as they arrested him for allegedly headbutting and punching a woman at his birthday celebrations. The 32-year-old, currently without a club, allegedly assaulted the woman after calling her a [.

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