Too much news to wait until tomorrow, so here we go, extra early...Bassong has a knee injury on top of the head/face injuries he suffered against Chelsea:Tottenham centre-back Michael Dawson's return from injury has handed Harry Redknapp a timely boost to help ease the defensive crisis at White Hart Lane.

Here are the fixtures:
Burnley v Sunderland
Arsenal v Wigan
Aston Villa v Portsmouth
Bolton v Stoke City
Hull City v Birmingham
West Ham v Liverpool
Man Utd v Man City
Wolves v Fulham
Everton v Blackburn
Chelsea v Tottenham
Again there are two very interesting soccer matches this gameweek as the Manchester teams go against each other and Chelsea welcomes Tottenham.

The Premier League returns after the two week international break - so let's jump back in and check our fantasy sides. Injuries are still trickling in and team news will follow tomorrow, but I think we're ready to preview the weekend nonetheless.
If you're new and need a primer as to how this works - check out the opening paragraph here.

So, five games into the league, which players have begun as if their lives depended on it? Who are the early contenders for player of the year, or golden boot winner? Who has surprised you the most? Here are a few names to consider, based on what we've seen so far.

Thomas Vermaelen
Hands up who knew about this chap before Arsenal signed him?

Liverpool's season is firmly back on track after a Yossi Benayoun hat-trick left promoted Burnley overwhelmed.
The top-flight new boys had started the season so well with wins over Manchester United and Everton but have now suffered successive defeats at Chelsea and now Liverpool - conceding seven in the process.

Charlie Nicholas believes Yossi Benayoun underlined his value to Liverpool as his hat-trick blew Burnley away at Anfield.
The Isreal international was making his third start of the season, but pressed his claims for a permanent starting role as Rafa Benitez's side ran riot against the Premier League newcomers.

Andy Reid, Jason Roberts, David Dunn. What do they all have in common?

No, it isn't that at regular intervals, their respective managers have prefixed the mentioning of their names with a string of expletives, bemoaning their inconsistency/fitness/existence. It isn't even that they have, at some stage of their careers, been signed for a sum that made most people remark "how much?

• Adidas and Puma, founded by two feuding brothers, buried a 61-year-old grudge by playing a soccer match this week [NY Times]

• Some relevant Carling Cup injury news from Tuesday's matches. Stoke's Ricardo Fuller injured his groin, while Burnley's heroic goalkeeper Brian Jensen also went off due to injury [Sky] and [Sky]

• England's one cap wonders.

Owen Coyle takes his newly promoted side to White Hart Lane.

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Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has selection headaches following his side's impressive win over Preston.
He may start Peter Crouch upfront and displace Carlo Cudicini with Heurelho Gomes in goal, while Sebastien Bassong could return in defence.

no flips; but four goals.

So much can be said about yesterday's match; firstly that, it was only Burnley and as such we should really avoid the pragmatics of the task in hand with the frivolities of needless celebrations. They offered us space and time on the ball and we duly took them to task and spanked seven shades out of them to an embarrassing degree.

Having seen Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch grab the headlines with their recent hat trick heroics, Spurs captain Robbie Keane knew he had to re-confirm his importance to the team in the face of growing pressure over his selection.

Here are the fixtures:
Burnley v Sunderland
Arsenal v Wigan
Aston Villa v Portsmouth
Bolton v Stoke City
Hull City v Birmingham
West Ham v Liverpool
Man Utd v Man City
Wolves v Fulham
Everton v Blackburn
Chelsea v Tottenham
Again there are two very interesting soccer matches this gameweek as the Manchester teams go against each other and Chelsea welcomes Tottenham.