Happy 2011, Kickettes! We sincerely hope you had a wonderful break filled with pudding and presents.

We also hope you spent your New Year celebrations with someone you love/lust/like, and that the alcohol poisoning only required an overnight hospital stay.

We can't think of a better way to welcome a new start than with this fascinating short tent scenario from the Liverpool/Bolton game.

Gameweek 24 with it double matches went very well, my tips for fantasy premier league performed admirably, and that's always nice. I even hit the 100 points mark I was after with 113 points.
But it's again time for another gameweek, and let's see if I can succeed as well this week as the previous.

This Fernando Torres goal vs Blackpool in January 2011 gave Liverpool the lead against the Tangerines, but the Reds eventually slumped to a 2-1 defeat. This goal was also the first Liverpool goal under Kenny Dalglish in the Premiership. Blackpool vs Liverpool- Bloomfield Road- January 2011. There was a hint of the Torres of the [.

What a strike! As impressive as intricate goals are, it's always nice to see players just rip a shot. Chelsea's Didier Drogba did just that in the match versus Bolton, taking a shot from some 33.5 yards out, launching the ball at an impressive 63.4 mph. Props to Sky Sports for the accurate stats. Check [.

Liverpool 2 v 1 Bolton Wanderers
Saturday January 1st 2011 Premier League (H)

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Blackburn vs Liverpool Ewood Park, Blackburn Final score:- Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Liverpool ( Martin Olsson, Benjamin Mwaruwari*2/ Steven Gerrard) Any positives Liverpool might have got with their last gasp win over Bolton at the weekend vanished with this 3-1 loss at the hands of Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.

The Premier League overhaul of youth development is a needed response to the UEFA Financial Fair Play imposition and new EPL rule that all clubs must have a minimum of eight home grown squad members and has the full backing of me and all of my power over English football.
These new rules, which come into effect in the next couple of years, force clubs to invest heavily in developing youth talent.

Crawley Town!

West Ham vs Burnley
Notts County/City vs Villa
Stoke vs Brighton & Hove Albion
Birmingham vs Sheffield Wednesday
Leyton Orient vs Arsenal
Everton/Chelsea vs Reading
Fulham/Spurs vs Bolton/Wigan

"In The FA Cup 5th Round United Will Face.

The kiss of death.

Nightmares of 2007.

Grossly disappointing. I'm actually kind of pissed off, not just with the way we conceded another late leveler against Aston Villa, either. That's the same Aston Villa who have done fuck all over the past month or so (kind of like us).

We apologise for missing the last three or four rounds of predictions while celebrating the Christmas/ New Year's break, but now were back to guess wrong yet again!

Ronaldinho to Blackburn?... surly not!

TUESDAY

Blackpool v Birmingham Blackpool continue to defy expectations, free-scoring beyond their quota - with ideas above their station.

After joining the likes of Serie A and La Liga, putting our feet up in front of the telly and enjoying the mid-winter break, Footy Factor is back and looking forward to another scintillating year of footy. Up next, who will be the first Premiership manager in the New Year to get the chop?

Joe Cole came off the bench to snatch a last-gasp winner as Liverpool got 2011...

Bolton manager Owen Coyle can feel aggrievedafter seen his side robbed of a share of the points at Anfield yesterday with Joe Cole scoring in stoppage time to give Liverpool a 2-1 win, while Kop boss Roy Hodgson believes Liverpool can charge up the table after this lucky, lucky win.

Paul Konchesky is determined to win Liverpool fans over after admitting how difficult it is to shrug off the criticism in the city.
Roy Hodgson signed the left-back over the summer for a substantial fee from former club Fulham, but the player has failed to live up to the hefty price-tag, and has come under fire from sections of the Anfield faithful for sub-standard displays, which resulted in the home fans cheering his departure from the pitch in the defeat to Wolves.

Kickoff from Ewood Park at 20:00 GMT and 3:00 EST.

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Team sheet when it's released.

A short while back I bumped into an interview given by Cesc Fabregas just before the Man City game. I'm not sure if others have shared this or not or if people have already seen it on TV or some other site. Since the youtube views count was only 1455, which seems quite low for such an interview, I thought it's worth sharing.

Diouf's is up to his usual antics again. If he's not strutting the streets of Manchester pretending to be 50 cent, then he's on the football pitch pretending to be a good footballer...

"For many years I have thought he was the gutter type I was going to call him a sewer rat but that might be insulting to sewer rats.

Liverpool's out of favour midfielder Joe Cole will remain at Anfield despite links with a loan move to former club West Ham, Goal.com UK can reveal.
Cole has struggled to find form following his free transfer from Chelsea in the summer and is yet to feature under new Reds boss Kenny Dalglish.
The Hammers board have backed manager Avram Grant after Martin O'Neill rejected the chance to take the manager's job at Upton Park.

De-ja-vu? One name just won't go away and that is the name of Bolton's wanted centre-back Gary Cahill. There are claims today that Bolton have told Arsenal to make a bid for the defender this month to ease their well documented financial problems. I don't actually believe these reports but they are worth writing about just to [.

With the Bolton/Chelsea match to be played starting in a couple hours and some random mid-week matches as well, the week isn't exactly over but Monday is traditionally the day we look back at the weekend's action and who am I to get in the way of these sorts of traditions? Especially when I had a 144 point weekend from my fantasy team with a bunch of guys (Walker hopefully, Nani, Adam, Meireles,

Now before you read the rest of this post I would like you to turn your attention to my match preview I wrote yesterday. Please read the whole post first, you can find it here. I said that Chelsea needed to play well at a high tempo and needed the big players to step up and make an impact. Chelsea did everything I asked of them and every single one of our front three got on the score sheet.

Chelsea's big win against Bolton Wanderers last Monday give a much more valid prove that the Blues are finally getting back into their old self, with the striking department start to click their engine once again the other part of the team looked more secured.

However, aside from applauding the improvement that his squad are making, the club's tactician, Carlo Ancelotti, still plan to add the defensive reinforcement he has been planning since the winter and the tactician confirmed that David Luiz is their new target.

Stuart Holden and Bolton shirked their defensive responsibilities and paid the price at home when Champions Chelsea came to town.

Here is the latest Fernando Torres transfer news as the striker prepares for a possible shock switch from Merseyside to Stamford Bridge in the 2011 winter transfer window. There is a lot awaited on the Torres transfer news front as the window closes on January 31, 2011 ( Monday) at 23.00 GMT. January 28, 2011- [.

The news broke yesterday in all the Arsenal Blogs that Carlos Vela was set to follow in the footsteps of Jack Wilshere by spending the second half of the season playing at Bolton under Owen Coyle, but, despite an agreement in place and ready to sign, Vela eventually ended up signing for West Brom. Well today [.

The news broke yesterday in all the Arsenal Blogs that Carlos Vela was set to follow in the footsteps of Jack Wilshere by spending the second half of the season playing at Bolton under Owen Coyle, but, despite an agreement in place and ready to sign, Vela eventually ended up signing for West Brom. Well today [.

Liverpool 2 Bolton 1 - K.Davies 43 Torres 49 Cole 90+2 Liverpool get a win, barely. Whilst deserving the win in terms of chances made, failure to convert those chances and poor defending required Liverpool needing a goal all the way into added time. This was far from a victory to be proud of and [...

Kickoff from Anfield at 15:00 GMT and 9:00 EST.

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George got 2 results right last week and 1 perfect score.
Sat 1 January 2011
WBA 1 v Man Utd 2
Liverpool 1 v Bolton 0
Manchester City 2 v Blackpool 1
Stoke City 0 v Everton 2
Sunderland 2 v Blackburn 0
Tottenham 2 v Fulham 1
West Ham Utd 0 v Wolves 0
Birmingham 1 v Arsenal 1
Sun 2 January 201
Chelsea 3 v Aston Villa 1
Wigan Athletic 2 v Newcastle 1
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The Liverpool FC line up v Bolton Wanderers for the Premier League fixture at Anfield on Saturday January 1st 2011, has been confirmed as follows:

Starting 11:
Reina, Johnson, Aurelio, Agger, Skrtel, Lucas, Meireles, Maxi, Kuyt, Ngog, Torres.

Subs:
Jones, Cole, Babel, Kelly, Poulsen, Gerrard, Kyrgiakos.

Steven Gerrard is on the bench as Liverpool face Bolton today at Anfield.

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As the Liverpool players were booed off the pitch on Wednesday night after a woeful display against Wolves resulting in defeat, it was the name of "Dalglish" that resounded from the stands, a cry for help from the Anfield idol.

Today the players take to the pitch once more against Bolton, the King having spoken, the clubs current ambassador and head of football development asking for unity within the club.

All the goals from Liverpool's 2 v 1 win over Bolton Wanderers at Anfield on Saturday January 1st 2011.

0 – 1 : Bolton (Kevin Davies 43mins)

1 – 1 : Liverpool (Fernando Torres 49mins)

2 – 1 : Liverpool (Joe Cole 90 + 2 mins)

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Reina
Johnson Skrtel Agger Aurelio
Kuyt Meireles Lucas Maxi
Ngog Torres
Goals:
K Davies 43'
Torres 49'
Cole 90+2'
Improved tactics and hard work lead to the right result. It's the first time this season that Liverpool have gone behind in a league match and went on to win.

Joe Cole's bundled-home goal in the 92nd minute wins it for Liverpool.

In a season as frustrating as this, days like today are too seductive.

You enter with low expectations, pissed off at the manager and the club, just waiting for the next thing to go wrong. Then things do go wrong one of the better players through a dismal patch gets hurt, and the fatigued captain comes on to fill a role in which he's had little success.

LIVERPOOL, England Joe Cole may have earned under-pressure Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson some breathing space with a last gasp winner against Bolton at Anfield. With the club's owners reportedly seeking a replacement, the summer signing's first league goal and Fernando Torres' equaliser came at just the right time for the former Fulham boss.

Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez scored to keep Manchester United at the top of the Barclays Premier League on goal difference with a 2-1 win at West Brom. Rooney opened the scoring when he headed in Patrice Evra's cross on three minutes but James Morrison equalised with a long-range shot.

Maybe 2011 will be better.Joe Cole scored the winner against Bolton in the dying seconds of the game.

This afternoon Chelsea take on Aston Villa knowing that United, Arsenal, City and Spurs have all won their games yesterday. The pressure is mounting once again and Chelsea need to come out and show us all they have turned a corner. They do it without Branislav Ivanovic and John Obi Mikel.

Well we closed out 2010 on a high. This has been our best year as a blog and our fantasy premier league is also doing fantastic with new members still signing up each week. All of the matches for December finished in midweek and Manchester United are still on top of the league with their City rivals right behind them.