Liverpool vs Stoke City
14 January 2012
15.00 GMT
Anfield

History:
Total Appearances: 102
Liverpool Wins: 62
Stoke Wins: 27
Draws: 33

Last Premier League Meeting: 10 September 2011 Stoke 1-0 Liverpool

Form:
Liverpool: Liverpool, 20 games into a rollercoaster season, continue to dominate in their cup ties but struggle in the Premier League.

NME Album of the Year: Debut by Bjork Crufts Best in Show: Danaway Debouair Palme d'Or Joint Winners at Cannes: Farewell My Concubine & The Piano Vice President of the United States: Al Gore The term 'rollercoaster season' is over-used - but Birmingham City's 1993-94 campaign certainly deserved that label.

Liverpool fall to Villa in the final match of a rollercoaster season.

For the time being, I'm going to leave this as an open thread, as I missed almost all of the first half and was interrupted for large spells of the second. From what I hear there wasn't much to recap anyhow, with few chances for either side and a pace dictated by the fact that neither side looked like they could be bothered to do much.

BERLIN, Germany Schalke 04 won the German Cup for the fifth time on Saturday, crushing second division Duisburg 5-0 to book a Europa League spot for next season. Dutchman Klaas-Jan Huntelaar struck twice as Schalke took up their last chance of a European place after a rollercoaster season saw them reach the Champions League [.

Port Vale 1-3 Boro (Griffith og 33, Winn 40, Morsy 56, Bridges 67)
BBC Report | Official Report

After weeks of waiting for an away win, 2 have come in the space of 4 days as Boro continue their push up the League 2 table. The win over Vale puts Boro into the top half of the table on 42 points, level with Crewe in 11th position.