Park Chu-Young is a proven goal scorer. However, he needs a hell of a long leg to score from the bench, which is where he's been wasting away all season long for Arsenal. Chu-Young is getting fed up of watching games instead of participating in them and according to his agent he's ready to leave Emirates Stadium in the summer.

Buenas! The realists and statisticians among you won't be surprised that Barcelona defeated the very loveable Valencia 2-0 last night. But as it seems, Madrid are frontrunners to win the La Liga, so el Blaugranas will be hoping to take home their 26th Spanish Cup title title.

Yesterday we looked at the possibility of new arrivals at White Hart Lane and the general consensus was that we were due for a quiet day. Later in the evening, reports suggested that Vedran Corluka was a target for Bayer Leverkusen and they seem to be gaining momentum this morning.

At the start of the month, Harry said that the Croatian would definitely not be leaving but after omitting him from the cup games where much of the fringe side appear, it may well be that Charlie is on his way.

Spurs took the concept of winning ugly to new depths on Friday night in a poor performance that saw them edge past Watford and into the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Match winner Rafael van der Vaart conceded that this wasn't the best performance by this current Spurs side but he was relieved to get through the tie.

Three goals in seven second half minutes that's all it took for Arsenal to win a game in which they were otherwise unimpressive. While the comeback was miraculous and the result crucial, many problems still remain.

As has been the case for the last month or so, Arsenal started at a pedestrian pace.

Assistant Kevin Bond was giving little away in terms of team news yesterday while he did confirm that there were injury doubts over Scott Parker, Younes Kaboul and Gareth Bale,

"Younes missed training on Wednesday, while both Gareth and Scotty had to come out of training early with slight muscle problems," he said.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard wants to maintain focus ahead of Wednesday's Carling Cup semi-final second leg - by banning talk of Wembley.
The Reds hold a 1-0 lead over Manchester City from the first leg and are favourites to progress ahead of the return game at Anfield, but Gerrard insists the team must prepare correctly.

Sporting KC released the names today of their currently trialists that are in camp as the team prepares for preseason training out at the Chiefs indoor training facility. There looks to be some decent talent out there trialing right now, it'll be interesting to see who, if any, travel to Arizona, and which ones potentially make the team.

Despite the unbalanced nature of the 2012 Cascadia Cup, the three biggest supporters groups of the Seattle Sounders, Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps elected to have each game count equally toward the trophy.

Various options had been discussed, such as counting just one home game for each team or weighting road results differently, but there was apparently near universal support to make the competition's rules as straight forward as possible.

Will Gerrard get on the score sheet again Wednesday night?...Manchester City travel to Anfield on Wednesday night for the second leg of the Carling Cup tie between the two sides. With Liverpool holding the slight advantage, the game is perfectly poised for an exciting clash and the winner is off to Wembley.

Sorry about the title, but I can't resist a good pun if possible. Misleading as it might be, I must stress that I am not saying Johan Djourou deserves any credit for his performance against Manchester United.

However, for all the criticism surrounding Arsene Wenger for his choice to remove Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain just as he'd made our equaliser and was at the centre of everything good we were doing, a rather more bold move by the boss has gone largely ignored: replacing the more experienced Djourou, terrible as he was, for Premier League debutant Nico Yennaris, a move that proved more successful than bringing on Andrey Arshavin later.

Henry Winter believes Kenny Dalglish's outburst following the Bolton defeat is "unprecedented" in the history of Liverpool Football Club.
The Reds boss publically criticized members of his squad following the 3-1 loss at the Reebok Stadium, accusing them of showing a lack of respect to their opponents and being distracted by Wednesday's Carling Cup semi-final second leg with Manchester City and next weekend's FA Cup clash with Manchester United.

A blogger friend of mine reports unrest among the Wolves fans and some of my friends are past the boiling point aswell. I suppose that it's not totally fair though if they measure the strength of Wolves from a couple of cup-games with our second tier, but those games didn't leave much to rejoice about [.

Having won just one of their last eight league and cup games, Leicester proceeded to put four past Forest last night. James Bolton reports. There were four changes for Forest's trip to the King Power Stadium for the FA Cup 3rd Round Replay against Leicester. George Boateng, Paul Anderson, Robbie Findley and Andy Reid came [.

Ahead of their important match up against third place seat, Tottenham Hotspurs this weekend, Manchester City's defender, Joleon Lescott insisted that getting a win over Spurs wouldn't be an attempt to stop Harry Redknapp's team surged in the table but more of staying away from Manchester United's chase.

Fare ye weel, Davie Weir.
The Scottish Football Blog has often been facetious about the Methuselah of Scottish football.
Unfair that. Davie Weir was playing at the highest level in Scotland in his 40s and I'm often too lazy to play dominoes in my 30s.
Perhaps unsurprisingly Weir and Rangers will part company this week.

The 2012 Chicago Fire season is almost here. The 2012 Chicago Fire preseason starts on Wednesday if you count the players reporting for physicals as preseason. The team will start actually training in Ave Maria, Florida on January 20. Preseason scrimmages on the calendar include January 29 vs. D.

After two successive cup games, Liverpool return to league action this Saturday with a home fixture against Stoke City. The Reds have already met Tony Pulis` men on two occasions this season, suffering a contentious 1-0 defeat at the Britannia...
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Already into the second half of the season and Forest remain in the relegation zone... Looking at the stats for the season so far, can we predict what will happen? Ignoring cup games, Steve McClaren averaged just 0.8 points per game in his short tenure and [...] Read the original post on Seat Pitch

After Vito Mannone moved to Hull on loan there was some suggestion that he had made available a space for non homegrown players to arrive.

Unfortunately this isn't the case. For the 2011/12 season we named five homegrown players over the age of 21, and 17 (the maximum allowed) non homegrown players.

After Vito Mannone moved to Hull on loan there was some suggestion that he had made available a space for non homegrown players to arrive.

Unfortunately this isn't the case. For the 2011/12 season we named five homegrown players over the age of 21, and 17 (the maximum allowed) non homegrown players.

Andy Carroll's goal against Oldham has hopefully given him some confidence...Liverpool are off to the Etihad once again as they prepare to face Manchester City in the first leg of the Carling Cup Semi Final on Wednesday night. The most recent clash between the sides saw City put three past Liverpool, the Reds made a good performance, they just couldn't find the net.

Liver Bird: League Cup Semi Final Take One

Andy Carroll's goal against Oldham has hopefully given him some confidence... Liverpool are off to the Etihad once again as they prepare to face Manchester City in the first leg of the Carling Cup Semi Final on Wednesday night.

Arsenal face Leeds in a repeat of last season's FA Cup 3rd round tie, with the Gunner's winning 3-1 at Elland Road in a replay. Thierry Henry will be named in the Gunners squad having officially become an Arsenal player again for two months on-loan. The tale of the tape for these two sleeping giants of English football are as follows.

Liverpool host League One strugglers Oldham to-night with the home side looking to put right the wrongs of their 3-0 drubbing at Manchester City. The tale of the tape of these two side's are as follows:

MATCH FACTS
Liverpool have won the FA Cup on 7 occasions 1965,1974,1986,1989,1992,2001 and 2006.

By Alan Duffy

Ahead of this weekend's FA Cup games, we thought it only right to bring you just a teeny weeny taste of the 'Magic of the Cup™' courtesy of one Wayne Hatswell, a name that will live long in the memory (possibly) a man who, in one moment of pure unadulterated technical incompetence, smashed home arguably the worst own-goal ever.

After Vito Mannone moved to Hull on loan there was some suggestion that he had made available a space for non homegrown players to arrive.

Unfortunately this isn't the case. For the 2011/12 season we named five homegrown players over the age of 21, and 17 (the maximum allowed) non homegrown players.

Bolton Wanderers and West Brom have stepped up their interest in the highly-rated New York Red Bulls defender Tim Ream.
The 24-year-old USA international has spent time recently training with both Premier League sides and was impressed with what he saw.
He said: "I really enjoyed both clubs and I was treated very well.

By Andrew Crawford, writing from Shanghai. Andrew has written for The Independent and When Saturday Comes, while also maintaining Wild East Football the only English site covering Chinese football, and he'll be featuring "Letters from Shanghai" on AFR to help track the growth of the league, as well as the stars playing there.

Will Suarez-Evra verdict help fight discrimination?

THE FA announced on Friday evening there was still no decision on the Suarez-Evra case, that it would be tomorrow at the earliest before the outcome would be made public and that Liverpool would have to go into a tenth competitive game with the allegations hanging over them and still no resolution.

I read with some interest the news from Ivan Gazidis that away fans could potentially be moved from their current position in the lower tier at the Emirates to the upper tier of the Clock End that houses away fans in cup ties.

Whilst I think this is a great idea in principal, this suggestion has raised a few questions that I'm sure will need addressing.

I read with some interest the news from Ivan Gazidis that away fans could potentially be moved from their current position in the lower tier at the Emirates to the upper tier of the Clock End that houses away fans in cup ties.

Whilst I think this is a great idea in principal, this suggestion has raised a few questions that I'm sure will need addressing.

I read with some interest the news from Ivan Gazidis that away fans could potentially be moved from their current position in the lower tier at the Emirates to the upper tier of the Clock End that houses away fans in cup ties.

Whilst I think this is a great idea in principal, this suggestion has raised a few questions that I'm sure will need addressing.

I read with some interest the news from Ivan Gazidis that away fans could potentially be moved from their current position in the lower tier at the Emirates to the upper tier of the Clock End that houses away fans in cup ties.

Whilst I think this is a great idea in principal, this suggestion has raised a few questions that I'm sure will need addressing.

I wrote a piece about people leaving our home games early earlier this week, and it looks like I'm not the only one to notice the lack of support shown in the stadium. This week REDaction held a meeting with AFC representatives before the Carling Cup tie versus Manchester City at Emirates.

I wrote a piece about people leaving our home games early earlier this week, and it looks like I'm not the only one to notice the lack of support shown in the stadium. This week REDaction held a meeting with AFC representatives before the Carling Cup tie versus Manchester City at Emirates.

VIDEOS: Reaction to LFC's win at Chelsea plus Fulham preview

THERE'S a distinct flavour of West London in the latest episodes from The Redmen TV. Having beaten Chelsea (again) to knock them out of the Carling Cup, Kenny and his boys have come back home for a bit to prepare for another journey down there, this time to the Michael Jackson stadium round the corner for a league match against Fulham on Monday night.

• Kop That: Chelsea 0-2 Liverpool: Bellamy stars to give Chelsea the Blues again http://t.co/pjNhFssI 23:47:04, 2011-11-29
• Kop That: Kenny Dalglish: The League Cup has been cheapened but it is a trophy Liverpool want to win http://t.co/mXjSjEne 23:46:53, 2011-11-29
• Kop That: Carling Cup round-up: Aguero strike helps City surge into the semi-finals http://t.

Liverpool manager Kenny Daglish slammed the shambolic scheduling of Carling Cup games several times prior to last night's 2-0 victory over Chelsea, and he reiterated his frustration again in his post-match press conference.
Prior to the game, Liverpool held discussions with the Sky, the Premier League and the Football League in an attempt to get one of the games moved, but the club's requests were roundly ignored, something that has clearly irritated Dalglish, who scathed:
"It's totally irresponsible - three teams in the quarter-finals have got problems with fixtures: ourselves, Man City, and Crystal Palace, who play on Wednesday night, and then have to play again on Friday.

Tweet my Goal! The best gags from Tuesday night's Carling Cup games

Manchester City sealed a place in the Carling Cup semi-finals with a 1-0 win at Arsenal, with Sergio Aguero coming off the bench to grab a late winner. Arsenal 0-1 Manchester City: Super-sub Aguero seals City win Liverpool piled the pressure on Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas with a 2-0 win at Stamford bridge.