It feels like months since United's last outing. I'm not sure whether that's because of the boredom the International break breaks or the need we've felt to bury our last game to the back of our memories. Losing against your title rivals is always going to be painful but to lose how we did, at the hands of poor officiating, is even harder to take.

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This evening Everton travel to Old Trafford to take on Premier League Champion's Man United. The Toffee's won their last game against West Ham 2-1 whilst Man United had a very disappointing 1-0 loss to Chelsea.
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United welcome Everton to Old Trafford in the late kick off on Saturday in what, on paper, should be a fairly easy three points for Sir Alex Ferguson's side.

I mean no disrespect to Everton by this and on their day they're capable of beating anyone in the league but the fact of the matter is their injury list is huge and so many key players are missing.

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Happy Halloween
Lots of injuries coming out of Premier League training grounds this week that fantasy managers should be aware of going into what looks like a pretty tasty weekend for the Big-4 sides that could produce loads of goals...

• Thomas Sorensen will be back for Stoke.

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Everton v Aston Villa
English Premier League
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Kick-off: 1500 GMT

Everton's injury crisis shows no sign of abating and they are now without 10 senior players for the match against Aston Villa but defender. Leighton Baines and Louis Saha their highest goalscorer this season could return to the fold.

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Everton will be looking to reverse their downward spiral on Saturday when they host Aston Villa at Goodison Park. For me, this is that match of the week as we will watch two normally exciting clubs battle to move up the table. Aston Villa will be looking to keep up with the title chase, while Everton will be looking to move back to the part of the table they are a lot more accustomed to.

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A thrilling encounter was witnessed at The Reebok Stadium as Bolton scored a late goal to defeat Everton 3-2. The Premier League match had both sides matching the other in skill and speed. It was Chung-Yong Lee's 16th minute goal that got the proceedings going for Bolton. A free kick from Matt Taylor was scored [. Click to continue reading...

It's gonna be a couple of really heavy content days from me in both usual places, so let's kick that izzle off early...We begin with Dutch leaders FC Twente who tear Groningen apart with three fine goals - so let's just see them all.Everton's Louis Saha gets his side back in with a properly blistering drive (WARNING: Mind your volume, the audio is a bit crackly at the start). Click to continue reading...

First Prem Home Win of the Season

• Sunday, October 25, 2009
• Venue: The Reebok Stadium
• Attendance: 21,547
• Referee: Phil Dowd

• Chung-Yong Lee [16]
• Gary Cahill [27]
• Kevin Davies [30]
• Louis Saha [32]
• Marouane Fellaini [55]
• Gary Cahill [57]
• Jlloyd Samuel [61]
• Marouane Fellaini [63]
• Ivan Klasnic [86]

The Wanderers' great start was evened out by the visitors but persistence earned Bolton a late goal and their first three points to be won at The Reebok since April.

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Ah, yes...It's hard to come back from international break. But re-focus we must. So to get us all up to speed - and yes, there are games today so no due dilligence can start in earnest until tomorrow - let's look at my O'Hara issue. ;-)I have O'Hara at 4.23 and he's averaging 5 points per match. However, he's ineligible to play against Spurs this weekend and he's being played in a more Click to continue reading...

Still sitting with a donut in the points column, Pompey are in desperate need of some points. It seems as though everybody myself included has written them off already. I just published an article earlier this week about how they are definitely being relegated this season. Do I think they are going to get zero points over the course of the whole season, though?

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With yet another exciting Premier League weekend in the books it's time to review this weekend's winners and losers.

Winners Robbie Keane

Robbie Keane emerges from this weekend as the biggest winner. The Tottenham striker has had a relatively quiet start to the season, oftentimes playing second fiddle to the red hot Jermain Defoe.

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First Star: Tim Howard needed three saves and a 42nd minute goal from Louis Saha to see off Portsmouth 1-0 on Saturday, but it wasn't an easy win. "I think that was the hardest I've had to work for a clean sheet this season," Howard told the club's official site. "It was a tough game, not just for myself but all of us because we were under a lot of pressure. Click to continue reading...

A Louis Saha goal was enough to consign Pompey to a seventh straight Premier League defeat.

1st Half Highlights

0-1 Louis Saha

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Now that the stadiums have all cleared out lets take a look at last week's results.

Burnley continued their magical season of 2009 with another impressive win over Sunderland. David Nugent (no relation to Ted) scored two of the club's goals leading the club to the 3-1 win. Arsenal impressed once again with a ridiculous offensive output beating Wigan 4-0 including two Vermaelen goals.

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Colorado Rapids - Colorado's draw with San Jose kept them in a tie with Chivas for 4th in the West and 6th overall. Colorado still has a game in hand over most of the teams in front of them, but Chivas and New England are lurking right behind them with a game in hand over the Rapids. Colorado is tied with DC for the 2nd best offense (2 behind Dallas) and tied with FSL and Chicago for the 6th best defense with 5 games to play. Click to continue reading...

First Star: Tim Howard shutout Blackburn Rovers and his Everton offense hit for three goals in a strong showing on Sunday after playing midweek in Europe. Louis Saha scored in the 22nd and 54th. Joseph Yobo finished off the scoring four minutes later. Everton manager David Moyes was all praise for Saha, saying: "We signed Louis when we were very short of forwards through injury, and he had been having his own injury problems. Click to continue reading...

. Image via Wikipedia A spirited display at home by Wolverhampton Wanderers gave them a 2-1 win against Fulham. This marked a first win at home for the Premier League debutants. Irish striker Kevin Doyle set the ball rolling as he scored in the first half to put the Wolves in front. Michael Mancienne's foul allowed [. Click to continue reading...

Everton steals an easy win 3-0 over Blackburn in Goodison Park. Louis Saha scored for the host on the 22th and 54th minute. Defender Joseph Yobo grabbed the third goal for Everton. Click to continue reading...

A double from Louis Saha and one from Joseph Yobo saw off Blackburn Rovers at Goodison Park.

1-0 Saha

2-0 Saha

3-0 Yobo

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Look at this ref guy, standing there looking dumb while the action's on the other side.
Can't a camera serve that purpose.
Everton boss David Moyes doesn't like these new refs. And he must be really mad to whine about something after a 4-0 win.
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Anish references the six referee rule that Michel Platini has implemented for the Europa Cup and already David Moyes is irate because he believes that the goal line assistants missed a deliberate foul on Louis Saha by AEK's Juanfran which got the Everton striker sent off as he retaliated.

So why is it not going to work:

The Parallax error.

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Everton have started off quite slow in the Premier League, but apparently the Europa League is a whole different ballgame. Steven Pienaar and the rest of the squad kicked off their Europa League campaign with an opening match against AEK. One would think that Everton might get off to a slow start given the immense pressure of being in such a prestigious tournament, but I guess they missed that memo.

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Its going to be hard to fill his gloves.

There have been many keepers linked with a potential move to Old Trafford but as far as I can see there is not a better candidate for the job than this man.

Artur Boruc is a class act. Take away the slight insanity he appears to possess, or leave it as it is, and you have a goalkeeper who is one of the best on the planet today and perhaps more importantly a keeper who would surely jump at the chance to make a move to the upper echelons of the footballing pyramid.

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I'm right behind you, buddy Following his transfer from Portsmouth, Sylvain Distin announced his arrival in Everton with a bang warm hug and boob grope in the soaking rain to congratulate teammate Louis Saha for opening the scoring against Wigan. Nice gesture, no doubt, but the look on Saha's face suggests he'd rather drown [Or that [. Click to continue reading...

In the 57th minute of Everton's match against Wigan on Sunday, I reached a new plateau of frustration. There may not be a more "head on desk" moment in a football match than when the club you support controls the flow of play and manages to find itself down a goal. After Phil Scharner made a great run past the defense and put Wigan ahead, visions of another week in the EPL cellar danced in my head despite knowing Everton would find a goal. Click to continue reading...

First Star: Charlie Davies was brought down in the box, setting up the 20th minute penalty kick that Vaclav Sverkos converted for a 1-0 win over Monaco. Davies went 85 minutes before being subbed out for Edouard Butin. Sochaux are 11th in the Ligue 1 table.Second Star: Tim Howard needed two saves for Everton to beat Wigan 2-1 in a comeback effort. Click to continue reading...

There was some interesting comments that came out of the Joleon Lescott press conference yesterday, as he was finally unveiled as a City player.
Firstly, on wanting to move, and the reaction from David Moyes:

"I was upset when I heard what he (Moyes) had said and I don't think the comments were accurate, particularly the way that I was meant to have conducted myself," Lescott said.

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To call current Real Madrid midfielder Wesley Sneijder want-away would be erroneous; he wants to stay, it's his club that want him to leave.
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By TRAVIS CLARK

Is this the beginning of a beautiful partnership that will bring Chelsea the title? The work of Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka should have defenses on the look out, as the two have been instrumental in Chelsea's three wins in three start to the 2009/10 season.

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By TRAVIS CLARK

Is this the beginning of a beautiful partnership that will bring Chelsea the title? The work of Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka should have defenses on the look out, as the two have been instrumental in Chelsea's three wins in three start to the 2009/10 season.

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Chelsea are sharing top billing in the Premier League with London rivals Tottenham Hotspur after both sides earned good away wins in the capital on Sunday.

Carlo Ancelotti's Blues made it three wins from three as they recorded a 2-0 victory away against west London neighbours Fulham.

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. Image via Wikipedia Burnley have beaten Everton 1-0 at Turf Moor, to make it two victories out of two at home for the Clarets. Burnley could have been in the lead as early as the second minute, as Martin Paterson hit the Everton woodwork and the rebound was saved by Tim Howard. [...] Click to continue reading...

The English Premier League had three matches on Sunday including Fulham v Chelsea, Burnley v Everton, and West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur. Here's a recap of all three matches along with video highlights.

Chelsea beats Fulham 2-0 Video Highlights

Chelsea continued their great early season form with a 2-0 win at Fulham on Sunday.

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Two goals apiece from Louis Saha and Jack Rodwell helped David Moyes' side recover their annihilation at the hands of Arsenal last weekend.

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