Big blow for AC Milan's title hopes as striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been suspended for three matches for his red card against Napoli, meaning he will miss the top-of-the-table clash with Serie A leaders Juventus.

Ibra was sent off midway through the second half of Sunday's 0-0 draw with Napoli at the San Siro after he slapped opponent Salvatore Aronica in an off-the-ball incident.

It's interesting how certain Premier League fixtures come and go as being a ‘must see' or a top of the table clash, but one that has always whet the appetite is whenever Arsenal come up against Manchester United. However this Sunday will mark the first time I've missed the visit of United in nearly 12 years.

Manchester United face Wigan, Manchester City face West Brom, Liverpool face Blackburn, Chelsea face Fulham. Four of the strongest teams in the land, all apart from Manchester City are at home, against three of the weakest travelling teams in the country and the other, West Brom, with a dismal home record.

On this week's predictions we feature some of the festive football taking place in England, as well as the big top-of-the-table clash in Scotland: Celtic and Rangers.

Mario Gomez (left) is the top scorer in the Bundesliga this season

FC Bayern München secured the tag of Herbstmeister (autumn champions) in Germany last night. Despite going down to ten men following Franck Ribéry's red card on the half hour mark, FC Bayern were seldom troubled by visiting 1.

On this week's predictions we feature the final of the Club World Cup, some big games from Italy, Spain and a top of the table clash from London.

By Alan Duffy

It is only a matter of weeks since former Arsenal man Emmanuel Eboue was the subject of a rather heated debate on Pies over his reaction to being pelted with bottles during a Galatasaray game against Besiktas.

However, the rather unpredictable wing-back seems to have found his feet in the Turkish league, netting his second superb goal in two games for Gala.

The Bundesliga doesn't get the concept of extra time. On paper the Bundesliga referees get it. It's up to them to decide, how much time was wasted through substitutions, injury delays, time wasting or excessive goal celebrations. It's OK for them to routinely add only one or two minutes or call it quits after exactly 90 minutes.

Manchester City remain five points clear at the top of the Premier League, while the three big London clubs; Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, all got important wins.

Man City have a massive Champions League match against Bayern Munich this coming week, and they warmed up for that encounter with a 5-1 thrashing of Norwich City.

Manchester City remain five points clear at the top of the Premier League, while the three big London clubs; Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, all got important wins.

Man City have a massive Champions League match against Bayern Munich this coming week, and they warmed up for that encounter with a 5-1 thrashing of Norwich City.

Brolly bad luck The La Liga match between Granada and Real Mallorca was called off after an assistant referee was struck by an umbrella. The linesman was left with a deep cut to his cheek after being hit by the stray accessory. After spotting his bleeding colleague, the referee immediately took all the match officials [.

By Geoff Reid

Saturday
Norwich City vs Arsenal from Carrow Road, Norwich
The first kickoff of the weekend after the international break see's an Arsenal side who are in form after their woeful start visit Norwich who have been very well organized, and shown to have some firepower as well.

After the international break, La Liga resumes this weekend with a big match between league leaders Real Madrid and third-place Valencia at the Estadio Mestalla.

Coming off guiding Portugal to Euro 2012, Cristiano Ronaldo will look to pick up where he left off at league level, after smashing a hat-trick in Real's 7-1 belting of Osasuna on November 6.

Dean Windass is to start for Boro tomorrow in the top of the table clash at Retford United.
Dean Windass Dean is starting due to the fact that Ryan Blott is starting the first of his three match suspension, also likely to make his debut for Boro is new signing Luke Fletcher, who could be in the team due to Gary Hepples not being available.

Camaraderie, one of the most important aspect of a team sport

One more day of rest before the Arsenal game tomorrow. Can't be living in our own world only, there's also the big top of the table clash which will be played at the same time as our game. Even Arsene Wenger was coaxed into saying something about that game.

Manchester City defender Micah Richards still has nightmares about Wayne Rooney's stupendous overhead kick winner at Old Trafford last season and has vowed to ensure it never happens again. In a tight and edgy top-of-the-table clash, Wayne Rooney scored the Premier League Goal of The Season 12 minutes from time when he executed a perfect [.

On this week's predictions we look at a top-of-the-table clash between two English rivals, a huge derby in Holland as well as the big games from Spain and France.

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On this week's predictions we look at a top-of-the-table clash between two English rivals, a huge derby in Holland as well as the big games from Spain and France. You can listen to Damon and Damian discussing their predictions on this week's show.

Thursday 20th October 2011. White Hart Lane. Kick off 8.05pm. Channel 5.

Thursday night sees a top of the table clash in Group A of the Europa League. Visitors Rubin Kazan like Spurs have taken four points from their opening two games of the Group stages and are sure to provide the Lilywhites toughest test yet in the competition.

OADBY TOWN 1-2 HEANOR TOWN
Saturday 15th October 2011
East Midlands Counties League
Greene King Park
Again yours truly is down at Oadby for the second consecutive Saturday for this top of the table clash against the free scoring league leaders from Derbyshire.

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On this week's predictions we look at some of the big games from England, a top-of-the-table clash in Spain and a huge rivalry in Italy, as well as two big games from the Champions League.

On this week's predictions we look at some of the big games from England, a top-of-the-table clash in Spain and a huge rivalry in Italy, as well as two big games from the Champions League.

OADBY TOWN 5-0 GRAHAM STREET PRIMS
Saturday 8th October 2011
East Midlands Counties League
Greene King Park
Following on from a disappointing 1-1 draw last Saturday against Ibstock United, Oadby are at home again for the third successive Saturday. For good measure Oadby will be at home again next Saturday as well in a rearranged game against high flying Heanor Town.

Thanks to nPower, the sponsors of the Championship and football leagues, we've got 2 pairs of football tickets to give away for some top quality Championship matches.

Firstly we have the mid-table clash of 2 huge Championship clubs, both of whom will be desperate to get their season back on track, when Cardiff City head down to Elland Road.

Two Canberrans Josip Simunic (Dinamo Zagreb) and Steven Lustica (Hadjuk Split) took to the European football stage on the weekend. First v Second - massive crowd, massive atmosphere.
Interesting Lustica was rejected by Gold Coast United at the end of last season. He's now played against Barcelona, started 3 league games for Hadjuk, including this top of the table clash.

With the drama of the past few days behind us, focus begrudgingly shifts towards the meaty part of the international break and a full slate of matches for Liverpool's internationals. It'd be nice if the end of the window was closely followed by a match for the club it's not a completely new-look squad, but it has the feel of some sort of fresh start, and a chance for renewed optimism after a relatively disappointing end to the summer's activities.

Week 2 of the Premiership has arrived, although it is no less exciting. This weekend Manchester City travel to the Reebok, in our first (of many) Northwest derbies of the season. This has been billed as a top of the table clash, which is technically true as City were the only other club to win by more than a 1 goal margin, and they also smashed 4 unanswered goals past new promoted opponents.

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It's the business end of the season and the languagecaster team attempt to predict the winners and losers from the Premier League season. Can Chelsea pip Manchester United to the title?

A huge top of the table clash today as Sacha Kljestan and RSC Anderlecht host Racing Genk. The teams are tied on 60 points, with Genk narrowly holding a one-goal edge in goal differential. At the other end of the spectrum, Herculez Gomez and Jose Torres join Pachuca when they travel to take on Tecos in a meeting of two teams at the bottom of their respective groups.

West Bromwich Albion have this morning confirmed the appointment of Roy Hodgson as their new Manager/Head Coach. Acquiring Hodgson is a bit of a coup for Albion as he is by far the most high profile manager they have had in some years. Albion have always been termed a yo-yo club as they go up and down every season, and because of that they have never attracted a really big name as manager.

The first game of this weekend's EPL sees table topping Manchester United play local rivals, and pretenders to the throne Manchester City. The blue half of Manchester showed better form last time out with a convincing win, albeit against a beleagured West Bromwich Albion side. With Carlos Teves 'rested' by Argentina in midweek, he will be raring to go against his old side and will look to get one over on his old team mates at Old Trafford.

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In this week's predictions battle we feature two matches from the Asia Cup, a Bundesliga top-of-the-table clash, an interesting La Liga clash, and more big games from the premier League.

The war of words between the official Indonesian football leagues, in this case the Divisi Utama, and the breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia now has a new front. In Semarang.
PSIS, in Divisi Utama, were scheduled to play Persikota yesterday afternoon but earlier in the week the game was rescheduled til Saturday.

By Ulysse Pasquier, writing from Montreal

The top-of-the-table clash between Arsenal and Manchester City may not have been the goalscoring display we had hoped for, it certainly has given us a lot to talk about based on the teams' performances. The game ended in a 0-0 draw but there was nothing boring about it as City survived countless Arsenal attacks in what was truly an impressive defensive performance.

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In what was deemed to be a top-of-the-table clash between two of English football's current front-runners, it turned out to be a faux pas of sorts. Pundits, punters & general public like you and me, all had huge expectations from the game.

Yet another top of the table clash is coming up this Wednesday, and Arsenal can leapfrog their opponents if they can do the double over the lottery-winners of Manchester! But can you predict the score to win a Limited Edition Just Arsenal News T-Shirt? First of all I would like to thank this weeks sponsors, www.

Tomorrow will hopefully see Scarborough Athletic back in league action when we are due to play at Tadcaster Albion, but we have had another layer of snow fall this evening and it is snowing now at 9.30 pm on the eve of the game so I am guessing there will be a late pitch inspection sometime tomorrow.