Found this list online, here, and thought it was interesting. Good for Spurs and Villa fans at least.

The list is correct as of 17/11/09.

Top 20 Teams For Producing England Internationals (all time):

1. Aston Villa 68
2. Tottenham 62
3. Everton 59
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I've been quietly impressed with Carlo Ancelotti since he began managing Chelsea. He has a quiet, unassuming way about him which suggests he takes his football seriously, while avoiding the pretentious nonsense of many other top managers ('mind-games' etc.).

This presentiment was confirmed a little today, after Chelsea's first loss of the season away at Wigan, 3-1.

I think my favourite part was at the end, when he says, "I'll be truthful, I don't understand it. If I go to watch football I watch football, I watch the game, why you've got be shouting abuse and giving people abuse for I don't know, there's got to be something wrong with you".

Richard Dunne went on record today having a bit of a go at Manchester City for how they handled his transfer to Aston Villa. He says they lied to him. What was it they lied about?

Well, apparently they told him that they needed to sell him to 'balance the books': "They told me they have a certain amount of money they have to recoup each season to make things look better on the books".

Just found a very interesting article on The Guardian website discussing this very issue. The author opts for the strict definition of a 'volley', which is not simply when a player "strikes the ball in the air", but when they "strike the ball in the air before it has bounced" put strictly: "a volley occurs when the ball is struck having not bounced since being touched by the previous player".

As an Arsenal fan, I was very pleased with the teams 3-1 victory over Celtic and the Emirates on Wednesday night. I was not however pleased with Eduardo's blatant dive which resulted in a penalty and the first goal of the game.

FIFA have now repsonded to this by declaring that they will punish Mr da Silva with either a fine or a match ban.

Further to Dave's post:

What an enjoyable sight we all witnessed last night! Was it the sight of Torres opening his account ?? Erm no! Was it the sight of Defoe banging in a hat-trick at Hull, most definitely not!!! Was it seeing Liverpool shut up all those people who have been jumping on the "its all over for Liverpool this season" bandwagon, maybe!

So the season is here again and after the first weekend of fixtures there is already so much to talk about. Performance of the week has to go to the Arsenal. Although Everton did not turn up on the day I don't think anyone would have predicted that the Gooners would travel up the M6 and dole out a slapping of that variety.

1. Chelsea
2. Man. Utd
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal (just)

- Man. Utd have failed to properly replace Ronaldo, and have a much weaker forward line this year. Liverpool don't seem to have the strength in depth or the strength of manager to win it (though they may prove me wrong).

Craig Bellamy (Striker)

Robinho (Striker)

Roque Santa Cruz (Striker)

Emmanuel Adebayor (Striker)

Carlos Tevez (Striker)

Benjani (Striker)

Martin Petrov (Att. Mid)

Shaun Wright-Phillips (Att. Mid)

Kelvin Etuhu (Att. Mid)

How the fudge are they going to fit all of these into a football side, or even on the bench?

Two days ago, I logged on to the BBC news website to see an article that I have longed for for quite some time. Cristiano Ronaldo has finally left Manchester United and the Premier League for a sum of around 80 million to play his football in Real Madrid. He will now be playing his superb football, mixed with a heavy dose of diving, whining and general prickishness, amongst the La Liga crowd along with the new signing of Kaka.

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Wilson Palacios flew back to Honduras yesterday to be with his family after the remains of his brother, who had been kidnapped back in 2007, were found and identified 150 miles from the nation's capital. This is why he missed Tottenham's game against Everton.

That is obviously awful news for him, but listen to this:

Palacios heard the news about his brother at 1am on Saturday morning in the club's hotel in Liverpool, after getting a phone call from his family.

Howard Webb has admitted his decision to give Man Utd a penalty on Sunday was a mistake. How noble of him...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8022476.stm

I've just returned from watching the Liverpool Arsenal league at Anfield and had one of the weirdest experiences of Arsenal supporting life. I was actually a bit gutted when Arsenal scored.

But first, to the game itself. It was superb. The whole game was back and forth and both teams looked like scoring.

I was sat in the pub around 2:20pm on Saturday, watching the Spurs vs. Blackburn game. It was 1-0 to Spurs, and while our goal had come from a rather dodgy penalty, we had bossed the whole game, and we could have easily been 3 or 4 up. I was imagining how my next blog entry on Seven Sisters Road would be a wonderful narration of Spurs' revival since the Carling Cup final defeat to Man.

Harry Redknapp proves he is one of few managers still in touch with the real world, telling the press:

"It looks worse than it is. I get brilliantly paid for a good job, it's easy to get up each morning. Pressure? People in this game don't know what the word means. Pressure is driving a lorry up and down the motorway 12 hours a day.