This is the exact pose Sergio Aguero makes on the way to the Manchester Market every Sunday for tea and biscuits! Can't blame the bloke, he's really enjoying life at the club.

We know you Scousers aren't entirely happy about losing 3-0 to Mancini's Men last night, but that's how football is.

A run of three home fixtures is a welcome site as Spurs look to push on in the second half of this season and secure a top four place at the very least. Following West Brom this evening, Tottenham entertain Wolves and Everton in the league and while nine points is perfectly possible, Harry Redknapp is warning against any complacency.

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Now that England are safely through to the Euro2012 Tournament Finals in Poland and Ukraine next summer, and that their Group opponents have already been finalised, I thought it timely to decide who might be in the squad for the June kick off against France in Donetsk.

Premier League Weekend Review: Easy games for Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd & Liverpool - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

The big clubs of England play the minnows this weekend with odds largely in favor of the giants formerly known as the 'top 4′. Here's a look at the betting situation heading into the Matchday 11 of the English Premier League.

Andre Johnson was regarded by many as the best fantasy football wide receiver heading into the 2011 NFL season. However, after a good start, Andre Johnson has been out injured with a hamstring injury. He has missed the last three games for the Houston Texans.

The good news is that Andre Johnson was able to return to the practice field this week.

The Draw for the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament has been held and the USA will be in Group B with Mexico, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
For more info on the tournament format and tickets, click here.
The WNT Blog talked to U.S. midfielder Carli Lloyd and defender Rachel Buehler to get their thoughts on the qualifying tournament and the USA's upcoming schedule:
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With tonight's Champions League tie at Stamford Bridge against Genk, and with Chelsea hitting form under AVB, there are obvious questions being asked of the players. One player in particular was asked about winning the Champions League but stated that winning our domestic Premier League trophy was more difficult.

Another day, a familiar feeling of foreboding.
Or seize the day, the promised land will be delivered.
Mathematically, Scotland still cling to the chance of winning a play off spot for the chance to win a spot in Euro 2014.
Mathematically, I could probably measure the height of the trees outside my window using trigonometry.

One last time in the stands

Second match of the Champions League and its the first home game at the Grove in the competition proper. Olympiakos are the visitors tonight and we are looking for our first win in the group stage after the draw at Dortmund in the opening round of fixtures. They are the reigning champions of Super League Greece.

Arsene says there are no easy games. We have heard that often enough. But I am not sure the manager is very concerned about this game. Despite his statements to the contrary, I think Wenger uses his key players in big games as much as possible, not always but more often than not, even at the risk of aggravating an injury.

The Game An early kick-off, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool to have non-easy games on Sunday, this weekend could be the one in which our Premier League campaign finally kicks off. As I said yesterday ...

Okay all Geoff and I are trying to ramp up our game day coverage so here goes the first edition of Quotes, stats and links. After every game I will be compiling all the quotes, stats and links that pertain to the game just played, and only that game.

Quotes:

Head coach John Spencer

On the overall result:
"I think that we took on opportunities at the right moment.

By Daniel Colasimone, editor of ArgentinaFootballWorld.com writing from Argentina

There were no easy games. It is a cliché that is often wheeled out during international tournaments but for the very first time, it did actually apply to the Copa America. In past editions, teams like Venezuela and Bolivia, when facing any of the continent's big guns, could almost always be relied on squeal, drop to the floor, cover their faces and whimperingly accept a savage beating.

British Eurosport's ubiquitous football commentator Tim Caple was doing his level best not to say there were "no easy games in international football these days." Some clichés are oft-repeated because of the element of truth therein, but there were certainly no "easy games" in the first round of matches at this year's Women's World Cup in Germany.

It's tempting to think that today's match versus Toronto FC is one that the Seattle Sounders should win. By most measures, Toronto is one of if not the worst teams in the league. They have the worst goal differential at -10, have allowed the most goals, have the second worst shot differential per 90, and their 5th-worst point total is inflated by the fact that they're tied for the second-most games played this season (along with the Sounders).

The Arsenal midfielder Alex Song thinks that the answer to to the Gunners' problems this season is simple; they have to stop assuming that there are easy games and hard games, and just play with the same intensity whoever the opponent. The biggest problems started after losing the Carling Cup Final against Birmingham, when every [.

This week, Birmingham City striker Kevin Phillips described his side's upcoming clash with Tottenham Hotspur as being "a £90 million game" when he equated it to the value of the Championship play-off final. A club coming up into the Premier League can expect significant increases in revenue, and by the same token, a club being relegated from the country's top tier of football can expect to lose out on a similar amount.

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BOYDS, Md. - With an efficient attack and a defense that bent a bunch and broke just enough times, the New England Revolution kept its hopes of making the U.S. Open Cup field of 40 alive.

Good morning to you from sunny Edinburgh. Actually, that's a lie. It's not sunny. But I am in Edinburgh.

In football the names of great players live on. Passed down from father to son, grandparent to grandchild, their on pitch exploits capture the imagination and memory. The goals, tackles, moments of skill, the fights, the night they did something extra special for the Arsenal.

There have only been a handful of games this season which I thought were going to be easy. The home game against WBA was one of those. Such experience can make one respect a sentence like – there are no easy games in the Premiership – instead of ignoring it as a cliché. So Arsenal travel to the Hawthorns in what is another potential banana skin against a side battling relegation.

The draw for the quarter finals of the Champions League takes place on March the 18th and all the talk is of Barcelona after the way they dispensed with Arsenal on Tuesday.

Both Harry Redknapp and William Gallas have come out and said that they want to avoid the Spanish giants, but what of the other teams left in the hat?

This season is the tightest season in the Premier League since we can remember. Alan Pardew determination and fighting spirit will be important There are no easy games in the Premier League these days, and although that may be a cliche the top clubs are finding they have to fight like crazy to [.