We have something a little different for you today on Twohundredpercent, as Paul Grech meets Ben Perry Acton, a player that forsook the English game to pursue a career in Malta. In addition to this, Ben had a grandfather whose name will be more than familiar to the supporters of Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers Bill Perry, who scored the winning goal in The Matthews FA Cup Final match between the two clubs in 1953.

David de Gea put in another good shift against one of the top teams in Manchester United's 3-3 draw with Chelsea.

The Spanish keeper's every move is heavily scrutinised by the press but he has been rightly praised for his brilliant save from a Juan Mata freekick which saved a point for United in the dying moments.

The artist formerly known as England's Brave John Terry. Again.

Innocent or guilty, right or wrong the time has come for the Chelsea captain to leave the Three Lions, and the circus surrounding them, behind. Permanently.

An era passed

It's difficult to argue however much I disagree with the Football Association's decision to relieve Terry of the England captaincy in wake of the racist abuse trial he faces in July.

It seems that a lot of people are not talking about football these days. Whether it be racism, gayism (ok not sure if that's an actual word) or other outrageous incidents not even related to the beautiful game. Here are a few things which I think should be brought back/or removed to help bring the English game back to the glory days of the 90s.

By JOHN BOSCHINI

It's FA Cup weekend again in England, and the field is down to 32 teams.

Liverpool are well out of the Premier League title race, and their Champions League hopes are diminishing quickly, but fans will find some solace in the domestic cups, especially after the club reached the Carling Cup final earlier this week.

After the news that Kevin de Bruyne is set to sign for Chelsea before the transfer window closes and then immediately loaned back to Genk for the remainder of the season, today is about some Brazilian targets.
First up and as reported the other day, there is Willian the 23 year old Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder.

Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has launched a scathing attack on the foreign players in English football, arguing that they brought the 'curse' of diving into the English game.In his column weekly column for The People, Collymore attacked Man City Manager Roberto Mancini's 'pathetic card-waving antics', and insisted that 'the Italian needs to be stopped before this nasty disease begins

Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam insists the club remain in the hunt for a UEFA Champions League spot despite dropping down to seventh in the Premier League.
The Reds were held to yet another home draw against Stoke last weekend, their seventh at Anfield so far this season.
Those dropped points mean the club have fallen out of the European places and are five points adrift of Chelsea in the final Champions League position.

Fox Soccer is reporting that Union striker/top scorer/face-of-the-franchise/fan-favorite Sebastien Le Toux began training with the English Premier League's Bolton Wanderers ahead of a transfer that will be completed by the end of the week.

As of 12:40 PM, no sources have confirmed this news.

Love him or hate him, Balotelli is not about to change anytime soon. However coming to think about it, why should he. The Italian striker has no doubt made the English game more entertaining and exciting since joining in the summer of 2010

In fact, his once irritating attitude is actually starting to get people looking forward to his antics every week.

Manchester City slumped to their second home defeat in four days as Steven Gerrard's early penalty moved Liverpool to within 90 minutes of their first Wembley appearance since 1996.
Lacking key men, including skipper Vincent Kompany who sat forlornly in the stands as he began a four-match ban, and drained by the energy exerted at having to play for 78 minutes with 10 men against Manchester United at the weekend, City were a shadow of their usual selves.

By Ulysse Pasquier

Anyone who follows football knows the amount of emotion that the sport can bring in a split second. From total despair to intense euphoria, every fan is ought to have experienced his fair share of hair-raising moments. What happened at the Emirates yesterday however transcended all these feelings.

Liverpool's bad-boy Luis Suarez is Europe's £30million wanted man.
Top clubs on the continent are queuing up to offer the Uruguayan ace, currently serving an eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra, an escape route from his Premier League hell.
La Liga leaders Real Madrid, loaded French outfit Paris St-Germain and Serie A giants Inter Milan and Juventus would all be interested in taking Suarez, 25 later this month, away from Anfield in the summer.

Liverpool's bad-boy Luis Suarez is Europe's £30million wanted man.
Top clubs on the continent are queuing up to offer the Uruguayan ace, currently serving an eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra, an escape route from his Premier League hell.
La Liga leaders Real Madrid, loaded French outfit Paris St-Germain and Serie A giants Inter Milan and Juventus would all be interested in taking Suarez, 25 later this month, away from Anfield in the summer.

We wanted to talk about stuff that isn't Luis Suarez. We really, really did. But that didn't take into account one inescapable fact: Pretty much nobody is talking about Liverpool without also talking about Luis Suarez. So while the FA Cup draw against Oldham Athletic holds the potential for distraction on Friday, for now at least there's little to do but tie up a few more of the Suarez-related loose ends.

Kenny Dalglish's touch deserts him in case of misplaced solidarity | Richard Williams

The Luis Suárez affair has tested the judgment of a manager who is the embodiment of Liverpool FC No wonder Liverpool people sometimes feel isolated and victimised. Only last week the release of government papers under the 30-year rule revealed that in 1981, in the wake of the Toxteth riots, the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, suggested to Margaret Thatcher and their cabinet colleagues that the troubled city was a hopeless case and should be allowed to fall into a state of "managed decline".

When even the Revolution are teasing swatches and releasing well-received jersey designs, it's obvious that MLS kits are seeing good days. Sales are up, sponsors are taking real estate away from awkward team names, badges are common, third kits are garish and beautiful, and little embellishments are actually adding soul to a league identity once formed from scratch by an apparel company's marketing division.

Football Against Racism in Europe has warned Liverpool against appealing Luis Suarez's eight-match ban.
Piara Powar, executive director of the group, says Liverpool risk further damage to their global reputation if they appeal the suspension.
Powar, also a former director of the Kick It Out anti-racism group, believes the Anfield club have already sullied their image because of their stance in support of a player found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra
He said: "Luis Suarez and Liverpool FC have the right to appeal, however we would call on the club to think again about their public campaign to dispute the charges and contest the principles involved in the case.

The Uruguayan outrage at Luis Suarez's eight-game ban proves just how far they are behind England in eradicating racism.
Suarez is alleged to have called Patrice Evra a Negro during Liverpool's game against Manchester United on 15th October. He and his fellow countrymen claim that the term is not offensive when used in Uruguay.

Luis Suarez has found an unlikely friend in the guise of QPR manager Neil Warnock, who insists the FA is setting a double standard by punishing the player and not the perpetrators following Suarez's alleged middle-finger salute.
Suarez was charged with improper conduct by the FA after pictures in British newspapers appeared to show the Uruguayan aiming a gesture at Fulham fans.

The football world is still trying, and failing, to come to terms with the loss of a legend.

The shocking news on the sudden death of Wales manager Gary Speed brought the country to a stand-still. Since the announcement there has been an endless amount of tributes for the 42 year old husband and father, showing just how much he meant to not only football, but the UK itself.

Liverpool stopper Pepe Reina knows that the coming months are set to be pivotal to the club's push for a top four place this season.
The Reds are desperate for a return to the Champions League after missing out on Europe altogether last term, and have showed signs that they are one of the teams to beat after beating Chelsea and drawing with Manchester City in back-to-back league matches.

Two days on and the football world is still trying, and failing, to come to terms with the loss of a legend.

Sunday's shocking news on the sudden death of Wales manager Gary Speed brought the country to a stand-still. Since the announcement there has been an endless amount of tributes for the 42 year old husband and father, showing just how much he meant to not only football, but the UK itself.

Andre Villas-Boas admits his job's on the line and Martin Johnson comes out fighting

Martin Johnson has fired back at criticism of England's rugby set-up even as he conceded the English game has reached 'rock bottom' and Andre Villas-Boas has admitted for the first time that he is fighting to save Chelsea his job.

Liverpool legend Ian Rush believes that despite coming up against the Premier League's richest club on Sunday, the Reds remain by fair the wealthiest when it comes to history and tradition.
Manchester City lead the way in the Premier League having gone 12 games unbeaten, and proved their title credentials with a shock 6-1 win over reigning champions Manchester United in August.

Morning to you,

we're back into the swing of things now and there's Champions League action to look forward to this week, a crucial game against Borussia Dortmund that can ensure our qualifcation for the knock-out stages. For now though, the post-Norwich stuff continues with the manager feeling a lot better about the team.

Newcastle United have put on their web-site a short statement about racism. It followed a meeting of all 20 Premier League Clubs, and after the meeting, presumably attended by Derek LLambias representing Newcastle, the league issued the following statement on Thursday: "The English game has been at the forefront of tackling racist behaviour and other forms [.

In the wake of malignant comments vomited out yesterday by herculean halfwit Sepp Blatter, the Premier League has (predictably) responded with a gutless, cowardly statement that disgracefully fails to directly reference or condemn Blatter's damaging, outdated views on racism in football.

Since his arrival from Ajax in 2009, Vermaelen has adapted quite well to the English game and has shown a strong drive to get forward and score goals as well.

The past two weeks have been very, very good for us. First of all the brilliant game against Chelsea will live long in the memory, it made people sit up and take notice of us again and most of all take notice of our captain currently one of the best best players in the world and probably the very best out and out striker.

by Oli Baker

With a return to 4-5-1 inevitable, the consensus among Wolves fans was that Nenad Milijas, with impressive performances as a substitute against Swansea and midweek against Man City, had done enough to earn his second start of the season at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Instead, Milijas was dropped from the match day squad.

Oliver Holt: Why no one can pretend anymore that racism isn't rife in English football

Well, at least no one can claim there is not a problem any more. It's in the open now. It's been flushed out. It's crawled from underneath its rock and is blinking in the light. Irrespective of what did or did not happen between Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra and John Terry and Anton ­Ferdinand, no one can pretend any more that the English game is not riven by racial prejudice.

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Why are football formations important? What is the difference between 4-4-2 and 4-3-3? This week, languagecaster.com takes a look at how teams line up and how formations affect a game.

A list of players who've either failed to live up to their name or price-tag, failed to adapt to the English game, and then the ones that were just plain rubbish is endless. But here are ten of my "favorite" ...
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Football has a habit of re-writing history. If it isn't trotting out statistics with the prefix "since the Premier League began", then it's defining a relatively arbitrary cut-off point of "post-war". Despite these handy devices it has not stopped Manchester United supporters claiming superiority over Liverpool with their 19 titles (first title won in 1908), one ahead of Liverpool's 18 (first one won in 1921).

Back in London for a conference and I could not miss an opportunity to see Arsenal play Bolton tonight at the Emirates. It might just be me, but there is something special going to a match at night. For some reason the atmosphere is also better under the floodlights. And tonight was no different.

Back in London for a conference and I could not miss an opportunity to see Arsenal play Bolton tonight at the Emirates. It might just be me, but there is something special going to a match at night. For some reason the atmosphere is also better under the floodlights. And tonight was no different.

There are footballing sides that deserve respect and there are some that quite simply don't, and Stoke fit snugly into the latter category. I have never understood the English media's love of Stoke City and Tony Pulis, they represent all that is dire and negative in the English game. Today they did not disappoint in this regard, there were endless long balls and hoofing, there was plenty of

- Jason Davis
The world is abuzz this morning with the shocking revelation that "foreign" English Premier League owners would like to see an end to relegation. Among the league's foreign ownership are several Americans, most notably the Glazers at United, Randy Lerner at Aston Villa, and Fenway Sports Group at Liverpool.

Liverpool have good day at the office as owners seek an equitable life | Paul Hayward

Kenny Dalglish's men have begun to turn the corner in their efforts to rebuild Liverpool's standing in the market place Until this week there was the sense of it being one long handshake – one big nod to the Kop tradition – but now Liverpool's new owners are getting down to business, coveting a larger share of overseas TV rights and bemoaning the cost of modern players.