By Richard Nash

After starting the season with their customary 4-3-3 formation, Wigan have now lined up in a 3-4-3 system ever since their 3-3 draw with Blackburn on November 19th. Roberto Martinez trialled the system in a 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa on October 1st, but then reverted back to his familiar 4-3-3 for their following game against Bolton.

This article is based on a talk I had with my girlfriend the other day about the routine of her job. Being a pharmacist, she always feels the need to inform me on the lastest medical products that appear on the pharmaceutical market, although my lack of interest regarding this subject is more than obvious.

RoM gave away two tickets to the Champions League semi-final to Mike Parkinson from Ashton under Lyne.

The experience of going to watch United is the same every time. You get yourself to Stretford, walk down the Warwick Road and enter Old Trafford to see the reds.

The good weather made it a warm balmy night so good for football.

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Antes, las hostias en el fútbol se daban con los tacos. Después, cosas de los tiempos mediáticos, se daban cuchilladas radiofónicas. Luego pasamos a las portadas asesinas. Y ahora los duelos se libran a jeringazos. Sobre todo si se trata de dopaje.

Patrick Vieira was interviewed by SportingIntelligence.com and asked which players would make his best XI from all the years he's played in England.

Remarkably, Vieira's team, which he couldn't restrict to just eleven players, was filled with Manchester United players, some Arsenal players, and nobody from his current club, Manchester City.

WIGAN, England — Ivan Klasnic fired Bolton Wanderers to a 1-0 win over Wigan Athletic in their FA Cup fourth-round replay at the DW Stadium on Wednesday. Owen Coyle's side can look forward to a fifth-round trip to Fulham this weekend thanks to Croatian striker Klasnic's second-half winner. While Wanderers' Wembley bid remains alive, Wigan [.

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Last four head-to-head:
1-1 (a) 11.10.10
0-1 Wigan (a) 03.08.10

2-1 Liverpool (h) 12.16.09
1-1 (a) 01.28.09
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 1-0 Chelsea (a); 2-0 Stoke (h); 1-0 Fulham (h)
Wigan: 4-3 Blackburn (h); 2-2 WBA (a); 0-0 Bolton (a)
Goalscorers (league):
Liverpool: Gerrard, Kuyt, Meireles 4; Maxi 3; Kyrgiakos, Ngog 2; Cole, Johnson, Skrtel, Suarez 1
Wigan: Rodallega 7; N'Zogbia 4; Cleverly, McCarthy, Watson 3; Alcaraz, Gomez, Moses, Stam 1
Referee: Kevin Friend
Guesses at a line-up:
if 3-5-2
Reina
Kelly Carragher Agger
Johnson Gerrard Lucas Meireles Aurelio
Suarez
Kuyt
if 4-3-3/4-2-3-1
Reina
Kelly Carragher Agger Johnson
Lucas Gerrard
Maxi Meireles Suarez
Kuyt
Will Liverpool stick with three at the back?

Bolton sit in the bottom half of the Premier League table. After such an impressive start to this season and spirits riding high, 11th place just feels so... wrong. Such a difference from this point last year where we would have killed for this position.
The last match against Wigan was a dreary, frankly pathetic affair on January 5th.

MILAN, Italy Ajax midfielder Urby Emanuelson is going to AC Milan. The Dutch player signed a 3,5 year contract. The 24-year-old can play at left-wing, left-back, wing-back or in midfield. "He was one of our objectives in the transfer market and I am happy for him to come," said coach Massimiliano Allegri.

Lineups are in:

Arsenal: Starters: Wojo, Sagna, Koscielny, Djourou, Clichy, Song, Wilshere, Cesc, Nasri, Theo, Van PersieBench: Shea, Denilson, Arshavin, Eboue, Gibbs, Chamakh, Bendtner.

Wigan: Starters: Al Habsi, Gohouri, Gary Caldwell, Steven Caldwell Figueroa, Thomas, Diame, Stam, Watson, N'Zogbia, Rodallega Bench: Pollitt, McCarthy, Di Santo, Gomez, McArthur, Boyce, McManaman

No surprises for us there, it's exactly the team I, and everyone else, predicted.