'You can't always get what you want.But if you try sometimes.. you get what you need.' Harry has sought advice from Mick Jagger to soothe the ruffled feathers of Spurs fans pining for 'Marquee' signings. The words above proved prophetic when Gallas came in and more recently with the arrival of Friedel and Parker which made even this Spurs diehard eat his words.

So another transfer window comes to a close. This unlike many others was surprisingly quiet, mainly due to clubs now having to take into account UEFA's Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. Another reason for the quiet was our gaffer's appearances in court seriously restricting his ability to go on Sky Sports News every five minutes and tell the world which 'top top players' he was looking at.

THFC1882 presents guest writer Kenny Palmer's report of Tottenham Hotspur versus Wigan:

A man of the match performance by Gareth Bale against obliging opponents Wigan helped reignite Spurs title challenge, as they now sit just five points behind the Manchester clubs following the leaders City's defeat to Everton.

May have seen this on a FOF post a few weeks back, but worth re-sharing in light of Saturday's draw:

Fulham have conceded a joint-league high 33% of their goals in the final 15 minutes of games this season.

Not sure who we were tied with, but we're probably #1 after Saturday as so far this season we've conceded 6 goals in the final 15 minutes of games.

de Gea; Jones, Evans, Vidic, Evra; Park, Fletcher, Cleverley; Welbeck, Rooney, Hernandez

Subs: Lindegaard, Ferdinand, Fabio, Nani, Valencia, Owen and Berbatov.

Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Baines, Heitinga, Jagielka, Coleman, Bilyaletdinov, Osman, Fellaini, Rodwell and Saha.

"CONFIRMED LINE-UP: Everton vs United" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia.

Manchester City midfielder Owen Hargreaves has been tipped to reclaim a spot in the England side after a superb debut showing during the Carling Cup. Hargreaves netted his first goal for his new club as Manchester City ran out 2-0 winners over holders Birmingham City in their Third Round Carling Cup tie at Eastlands.

Manchester City midfielder Owen Hargreaves has been tipped to reclaim a spot in the England side after a superb debut showing during the Carling Cup. Hargreaves netted his first goal for his new club as Manchester City ran out 2-0 winners over holders Birmingham City in their Third Round Carling Cup tie at Eastlands.

Former Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves has joined Manchester City in a shock transfer deal whilst Wayne Rooney has warned City fans not to get too excited! Hargreaves played just 11 minutes in years at Old Trafford having joined the club from Bayern Munich in 2007. The battling midfielder has been hampered by a string [.

There's still one game to go until the first gameweek of fantasy premier league has been completed, but it is still safe to say that this is going to be an interesting season. Matches have been very even, and 5 out 9 games ended in a draw. Out of those 5, 4 matches ended 0-0.
Game week 2 in fantasy premier league sees many interesting matches too, and here are some tips for you for when making your first tranfers.

SAM BARKER
(Philadelphia Union)

Okay, a lot to discuss this week. Firstly, I didn't know Nowak was having the Union team take karate lessons, because the first two goals in the game against New England were some form of ancient martial arts! Great to see players getting their first (of hopefully many more) goals against what was a really weak, poor, rubbish, crap New England defence.

Finally Whitecaps fans's prayers have been answered! Fans continuously asked for a designated player and a forward, and now they've got both in the form of Eric Hassli. But... are they really that happy? I'll admit it, when I saw that the Whitecaps signed Eric Hassli as their designated player, I was slightly disappointed.

Here we go. A weekend of Premier League football is upon us and the title race is as open as ever as Manchester United travel to Liverpool and Arsenal take on Sunderland at home (without RVP or Cesc). Let's take ... Continue reading →

Preview: Everton v Reading (19.30) Saha, who has been troubled with a hamstring injury of late, crashed his Ferrari into a fence on Sunday but David Moyes has included him in his squad to face the Championship side. Marouane Fellaini is a major doubt, however, after aggravating an ankle injury in Saturday's Premier League victory over Sunderland and a decision on his fitness will not be made

Jack Wilshere played really well last night. He did this because he is an excellent player – my friend says better than Fabregas maybe not yet, but there is no reason for him not to be one day. His composure in unerring, but last night's defensive role cannot be a regular task given to him.

Written by Gooner in Exile

Yet again after the weekend result it is the defence that has been called into question, the cries of weakness are again heard and the calls for a return to the glory days of the famous four of Adams, Bould, Winterburn and Dixon. Add to those four Keown and yes we had an impressive back line available.

That was a dirty, scrappy match that we won yesterday. There wasn't a stretch of the match that wen't on for more than 5 minutes (I think) that didn't have a rough tackle, foul, or whistle. Unfortunately, in the first half, the ref was entirely one-sided.

I am beyond angry at the announcers for that match.

0-1 L. Saha 25' 1-1 Arshavin 70' 2-1 Koscielny 75' Vuoi conoscere le classifiche, i risultati, le statistiche e le quote scommesse da tutto il calcio mondiale? Visita Calciometria.com DISCLAIMER: Calcioplus non hosta alcun video pubblicato su di esso. Tutti i video pubblicati sono caricati da amanti di calcio su siti di video hosting come Youtube e Dailymotion ed ubicati dunque su siti esterni

Lineups are in:

Arsenal: Starters: Szczesny, Sagna, Koscielny, Djourou, Clichy, Song, Wilshere, Rosicky, Fabregas, Walcott, Van Persie Bench: Almunia, Diaby, Arshavin, Eboue, Gibbs, Chamakh, Bendtner

Everton: Starters: Howard, Neville, Heitinga, Distin, Baines, Coleman, Arteta, Rodwell, Fellaini, Bilyaletdinov, Saha Bench: Mucha, Jagielka, Beckford, Gueye, Osman, Anichebe, Baxter

Big game today at the Emirates.

AEK traveled north on Saturday night,looking to get back on track after last weeks miserable game.And it was all positive for Manolo Jimenez and his team as we came away with the 3 points courtesy of goals from Leonardo and the seemingly never aging Liberopoulos.
Jimenez sprung some major selection surprises in this game with the idea of resting players for the upcoming midweek 2nd leg Greek Cup clash against pao.

My Favourite Year Edited by Nick Hornby Published by Gollancz/Witherby October 1993, £5.99, ISBN: 978-0-854-93236-8 (New edition, 2001 published by Phoenix) For his second of hopefully many contributions to The Two Unfortunates, William Abbs of blog Saha from The Madding Crowd turns the spotlight on something of a lost classic of football fandom.

Josh Liptak is a football fan from the USA. You can follow his tweets @lipmak and hopefully he'll be blogging soon. Here's Josh's favourite goal ...

The goal that Frank Lampard scored in the 72nd minute of the 2009 FA Cup final for Chelsea against Everton isn't my favourite goal because it's beautiful, although it is; a left foot screamer from outside of the box that brushed away Tim Howard's hand with contempt as it sought the top corner, it is a goal to be watched again and again.

9am ET, live in the US on FSC
Last four head-to-head:
0-2 Everton (a) 10.17.10
1-0 Liverpool (h) 02.06.10
2-0 Liverpool (a) 11.29.09
0-1 Everton (a; FA Cup) 02.04.09
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 1-2 Blackpool (a); 0-1 United (a); 1-3 Blackburn (a)
Everton: 5-1 Scunthorpe (a); 2-1 Spurs (h); 0-2 Stoke (a)
Goalscorers (league):
Liverpool: Torres 7; Gerrard 4; Kuyt, Maxi 3; Kyrgiakos, Ngog 2; Babel, Cole, Johnson, Skrtel 1
Everton: Cahill 9; Arteta, Coleman 3; Baines, Beckford 2; Pienaar, Saha, Yakubu 1
Referee: Phil Dowd
The last time Phil Dowd took charge of a Merseyside derby was March 2006.

Kimse kızmasın GS yöneticilerine ya da inşaat şirketine bu olaydan sonra. Fanatizm ve hazımsızlık genlerine işlemiş bu kafada adamlar varken bize bu utançlar müstehak. Bunlarla aynı takımı tutmanın verdiği utancın yanında puan tablosu, saha içi falan çok sevimli kalıyor. Bu zihniyete her şey müstehak.

David Moyes needs a new striker. Pfft. Don't we all. The difference, I guess, is when the manager loses so much faith in the ones on his books that he abandons the idea of having a target-man altogether. Just bench the lot of ‘em. What's been left is the rather lonely cut figure of Tim Cahill- excellent though he is- bustling around up top on his own, frantically trying to get on the end of something.

David Moyes needs a new striker. Pfft. Don't we all. The difference, I guess, is when the manager loses so much faith in the ones on his books that he abandons the idea of having a target-man altogether. Just bench the lot of ‘em. What's been left is the rather lonely cut figure of Tim Cahill- excellent though he is- bustling around up top on his own, frantically trying to get on the end of something.