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Watford dans la Cup, then.

[T]his hasn't been a plum week in the history of MK Dons. Their dumping out of the cup at the hands of Premier League QPR on Tuesday night followed a weekend of sincere apology from all involved at the club after the farcical cancellation of their League One match with Carlisle. The game was the only weather casualty in the entirety of the professional game across England and Scotland – a mind blowing situation that owed much to bad planning and which was unbecoming for a stadium which was one the England 2018 bid's chosen host venues.

Sunderland have sacked manager Steve Bruce after a string of poor results the club have confirmed Wednesday evening. The news has come somewhat as a shock to many Sunderland fans as well as fans from across the country as the first Premier League managerial casualty this season is claimed. After a bad run of results [.

There are good signs that Frenchman Hatem Ben Arfa is returning to his best form. Dan Gosling scores on Saturday for his first Newcastle goal And we also think that another long term casualty at Newcastle, 21 year-old Dan Gosling, seems to be coming along just fine, and hopefully he will soon get back to his top form too.

Chris Cooley could never get out of the gates this season for the Washington Redskins. The star tight end seemed injured from Day 1. Now it's official: Chris Cooley is out for the rest of the 2011 NFL season.

Chris Cooley had knee surgery in the offseason but due to the NFL lockout, he didn't have medical help when recovering.

Injured Charlie Adam ruled out of Scotland game

Liverpool midfielder the latest casualty in Craig Levein's depleted squad

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Goals:
Ramsey (og) 78'
Suarez 90+1'
The circumstances truly don't matter when it's the first away league win over Arsenal since the turn of the century.
Nonetheless – and while it's only two games into the campaign – it's hard to escape the parallels between today's home side and 2009-10 Liverpool.

In the past five seasons, Liverpool have had only three fullbacks reach the thirty match mark Steve Finnan and John Arne Riise played in 33 league matches apiece in the 2006-2007 season, and Emiliano Insua made 31 appearances after being forced into regular duty in the 2009-2010 season. Álvaro Arbeloa came close a few times, as has Glen Johnson since arriving, but it's been a tough marker to reach for a Liverpool fullback.

In a somewhat surprising move, the Dallas Cowboys will soon release wide receiver Roy Williams. Why did Roy Williams get released? It's all about the new $120 million salary cap. The Cowboys were $17 million over the cap and that meant the team had to shed salary. In doing so, Roy Williams was a casualty.

It seems that Newcastle have another injury casualty in America, as Jose Enrique has picked up another hamstring injury. Jose Enrique in training at Kansas earlier this week That explains why Argentine Jonas Gutierrez played the first half at left back last night against Sporting Kansas, until young James Tavernier came on in the [.

GOALS FINALLY FLOWING FOR UNION
One of six times Union celebrated on Saturday.
Every time someone has dared praise Philadelphia Union this year, it's been met with the same opposition - "it won't last" and "they can't score goals". Well guess what? It is lasting, and the goals are beginning to flow.

Tomorrow is the day of the FIFA ethics committee meeting, and its rulings will have significant implications on the governance of world soccer and especially that of the CONCACAF region. Already we're seen one casualty of the corruption investigations, as today Mohammed bin Hammam withdrew his campaign for the FIFA presidency.

With the likely disappearance of West Ham from the Premier League, one of the options for dispensing with our fringe players has also gone. Step forward QPR, who have already been linked with Robbie Keane this month and are now strongly rumoured to be looking at a move for Jermaine Jenas.

JJ has been in and out of the side due to both injury and selection, but Harry does seem to favour him at times when other options are available.

Well, well, well. Going into this weekend's fixtures, I'd have been the last one to have predicted yet another managerial casualty. Hibs, about whom there's been plenty of paper talk pulled of a win and so kept Colin Calderwood's place in the Easter Road car park safe for another week. Clyde, well, they're fucked anyway but they've just appointed someone and besides, they pulled of a tremendous 3-3 against Elgin City.

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Last four head-to-head:
0-0 (h) 04.11.10
1-3 Fulham (a) 10.31.09
1-0 Liverpool (a) 04.04.09
0-0 (h) 11.22.08
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 3-0 Wolves (a); 2-2 Everton (h); 1-2 Blackpool (a)
Fulham: 2-0 Stoke (h); 1-1 Wigan (a); 6-2 Peterborough (h)
Goalscorers (league):
Liverpool: Torres 9; Gerrard, Kuyt 4; Maxi 3; Kyrgiakos, Meireles, Ngog 2; Babel, Cole, Johnson, Skrtel 1
Fulham: Dempsey 6; Hangeland 3; Baird, Davies, Dembele, Kamara 2; Etuhu, Gera, Hughes, Johnson, Zamora 1
Referee: Lee Probert
Guess at a line-up:
Reina
Kelly Skrtel Agger Johnson
Meireles Lucas
Kuyt Gerrard Maxi
Torres
This is Liverpool's other game in hand thanks to the winter postponements.