Back to some real football this weekend with the return of the Premiership and the arrival of Wigan at White Hart Lane. It's just a shame we have to wait till Sunday! I'll be at the O2 for the tennis unfortunately, but I'm hopeful of arriving home to a positive result and lots of goals.

It's another one of those games that on paper, you'd fully expect Tottenham to win.

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Carlo's ‘cross' with the defence. What do Abdoulaye Faye, Titus Bramble, James Collins, and Richad Dunne have in common? They've all scored against Chelsea from crosses into the box. Totaling half of Chelsea's goals conceded for the season, 8 in 8 matches, Carlo Ancelotti must address his teams crossing deficiency before their title challenge resumes against high-flying, Lancashire derby winners, Blackburn.

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Fernando Torres & Robbie Keane could have been the deadliest double act since Starsky & Hutch, had Rafa Benitez not thought otherwise. As it happens they had to settle last week for separate feats, separate plaudits, and separate points hauls.

Torres could realistically have expected to be the week's king in the Fantasy League with a splendid hat-trick against Phil Brown's tame Tigers, but his eschewed strike-partner grabbed the honour, four goals against Burnley meant plenty of spilt claret for Owen Coyle, as the Fantasy Premier League season took another set of twists and turns.

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Well, that wasn't pleasant. Not at all.

Chelsea's nine-match winning streak in all competitions six consecutive in the Premier League came to an abrupt, and surprising, end on Saturday against Wigan. Yes, that Wigan.

Petr Cech was sent off early in the second half after clipping Hugo Rodallega in the box.

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By TRAVIS CLARK

Many had trumped this weekend as a maelstrom of mediocre matchups throughout England's top flight. And surely with fixtures like Wigan-Chelsea, Manchester United-Stoke, Sunderland-Wolves, there wasn't much to boast about going in.

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By TRAVIS CLARK

Many had trumped this weekend as a maelstrom of mediocre matchups throughout England's top flight. And surely with fixtures like Wigan-Chelsea, Manchester United-Stoke, Sunderland-Wolves, there wasn't much to boast about going in.

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The English Premier League had eight matches on Saturday with most of the top teams winning. The one shocking result of the day was Wigan Athletic upseting Chelsea 3-1 to give them their first loss of the season. The other top teams such as Arsenal, Manchester United, and Liverpool all won. Here's a recap of these tops teams in the English Premier League from Saturday, September 26, 2009 along with video highlights.

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Chelsea have finally succumbed to their first loss in the Premier League as they lost 3-1 to Wigan at the DW Stadium. I had not expected the strong start from Chelsea as I thought his priority would be the Champions League. The legend that got the goals started in this match was none other than Titus Bramble.

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Arsene Wenger feels that 80 points will be enough to win the title as bigger teams drop points to the harder pushing smaller teams and Man City, the new billionaires on the block.

His calculations put Chelsea 65 points short with 33 games yet to be played and there is no reason why the Blues can't maintain their fast start.

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Wigan Athletic

Last Season: 11th, 12-9-17 (45 points, -11 goal differential)

Recent Form: WLLLW

Away Form (last season): 4-4-11

Last Meeting: Wigan Athletic 1-Arsenal 4 (4/11/09)

Back to league action tomorrow with a home matchup against Wigan.

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Ahead of this match at the DW Stadium, Gianfranco Zola has no injury worries except calf trouble from Jack Collision sustained during a Wales U-21 match. More good news is that Valon Behrami and Alessandro Diamanti had a fantastic reserves match against Birmingham City. Behrami and Diamanti are fast becoming great friends and that is sure to be helping Diamanti settle in at West Ham. Click to continue reading...

The summer transfer window is now firmly shut, putting a cap on Real Madrid's spending at about €250m(!!!), but the eternal question begs asking: What if it continued?

Sept. 5 Disappointed that Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't already have between 10 and 15 goals, Florentino Perez offers Manchester United €117m more for 2008 Ronaldo.

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With a 1-0 over Birmingham and a 1-0 defeat to Burnley our fate was clear. We certainly were not going to win the Premiership for the fourth year running. It's not as if we haven't had worse starts to the season than this and gone on to win the title regardless, but this year was different. This year we have sold Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Striker Andy Keogh's header spoiled Wigan manager Roberto Martinez's 'homecoming' as Wolves outfought the hosts 1-0 to win at the DW Stadium.

The Republic of Ireland international glanced a sixth-minute header in off a post, having shot against the same upright moments earlier.

Keogh should also have had a penalty 11 minutes after half-time but was booked for diving after going down under Titus Bramble's challenge.

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The boys are back in town for the 2009-2010 Premier League season. Click on the above image for a full-sized picture showing a footballer from each of the 20 Premier League teams. The players are as follows:

1. Arsenal: Theo Walcott
2. Aston Villa: Brad Friedel
3. Birmingham City: Kevin Phillips
4. Blackburn Rovers: Ryan Nelson
5. Bolton Wanderers: Gavin McCann
6. Burnley: Chris Caldwell
7. Chelsea: Didier Drogba
8. Everton: Joleon Lescott
9. Fulham: Clint Dempsey
10. Hull City: Richard Garcia
11. Liverpool: Ryan Babel
12. Man City: Carlos Tevez
13. Man United: Michael Owen
14. Portsmouth: David James
15. Stoke City: Rory Delap
16. Sunderland: Kenwyne Jones
17. Tottenham Hotspur: Peter Crouch
18. West Ham United: Dean Ashton
19. Wigan Athletic: Titus Bramble
20. Wolves: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake

Looking forward to another spectacular season!

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Wigan has quietly become a favorite club of mine. I don't know why. Maybe I liked Palacios as a player, or because they brought in blog favorites like Jason Koumas and Charles N'Zogbia. Or maybe because Rodallega inexplicably scored against Manchester United when I had him on my team for a 2-game week. Click to continue reading...

Wigan are closing on a double signing that gives clear indication they may be losing Lee Cattermole.
Manager Roberto Martinez moved to agree a £3.5million deal for highly-rated Rayo Vallecano midfielder Mohamed Diame and his teammate centre half Antonio Amaya.
It follows Wigan also striking an agreement with Chelsea to loan Scott Sinclair for the season but shows concern that prized asset Cattermole could leave before the window closes. Click to continue reading...

According to Wigan's official website, Wigan Athletic defender Titus Bramble and Emmerson Boyce signed new deals with the club keeping them there until 2012.

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1. Real Madrid have reached an agreement to sign striker Karim Benzema from French side Lyon for £30million, subject to the 21-year-old passing a medical.(Various)
2. The likelihood of Manchester United or Chelsea signing Franck Ribery this summer has suffered a knock back with the French international winger expressing a desire to join the Real Madrid revolution. Click to continue reading...

I know it's that time of the year, when strange rumours begin emanating in the media, however I have never seen a stranger rumour than the one which can be found in today's Daily Star.
The paper has today claimed that Aston Villa are set to make a move for Wigan defender Titus Bramble. Click to continue reading...

The terrible rumour that Villa fans awoke to this morning claimed that Martin O'Neill is about to sign Titus Bramble. Reports in today's Daily Star say that O'Neill will offer Wigan Athletic around £3.5m, plus teenage midfielder Barry Bannan...

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Manchester City's acquisition of Gareth Barry and Real Madrid's record bid for Cristiano Ronaldo has kicked off another summer of big spending, lets look at the other Premier League stars who might be changing clubs before next season kicks off. Ashley Young (Aston Villa Chelsea) Probably the most consistent player in Aston Villa's push [. Click to continue reading...

Steve Bruce has been announced as new Sunderland manager after the North East club finally agreed a compensation package with Wigan and personal terms with Bruce himself.

The delay in concluding the deal was attributable to Bruce's demand for a profitable ‘Image Rights' package, it is rumoured.

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Paper Talk: Ancelotti targets KakaKaka and Frank Ribery are at the top of new Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti's shopping list, while Steve Bruce wants Titus Bramble at Sunderland.From Teamtalk.comClick here to read the entire articleIscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Clicca sull'immagine sottostante per iscriverti! Click to continue reading...

The summer transfer window is looming and once again Manchester City are expected to be the Premier League's big spenders. It seems no target has been too audacious since new owners transformed them into the world's richest club, and now with time of their side for the first time, you can expect big, box office names to be targeted.

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Newcastle United will be playing Championship football next year for 3 reasons :

1. Managers have come and left too frequently over the last couple of years,
2. Newcastle have an owner who doesn't have a clue about running a football club as gigantic as Newcastle.

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The top-flight players who were not as crap as we expected 1. Titus Bramble We are not sure whether Dr Steve Bruce prescribed a pre-season course of Ritalin, but Bramble's concentration has improved beyond recognition. And because he is making fewer mistakes, he is now more confident and beginning to fulfil his early promise. Click to continue reading...

According to Richard Bailey at Sky Sports, Wigan Athletic defender Titus Bramble is close to a new deal with the club. Bramble told the Evening Post,

"I think the new contract is almost finalised ... Fingers crossed it will get signed in the next week or so.

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The shortlist for the PFA Player of the Year award was announced today, and somehow Frank Lampard was left off the list. Those in the running for the award are: Steven Gerrard of Liverpool, and Nemanja Vidic, Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand, Cristiano Ronaldo and Edwin van der Sar, all of Manchester United.

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I found a stream if you want to join in. If not, then I recommend jumping out of the fire before you know the final score.

30′ Fabianski claims an easy ball off a Wigan free kick.

32′ Beautiful day at the JJB, I'll give complete lineups at the half.

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Wigan Athletic

Current Position: 8th, 11-8-12 (41 points, -2 goal differential)

Home Form: 7-4-4

Recent Form: LLWWL

Last Meeting: Arsenal 1-Wigan 0 (12/6/08)

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Everton Watch: at Aston Villa

Tomorrow we travel to the JJB to play Wigan Athletic.

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Football's a battlefield and Arsenal are warriors.

Think about it: Arsenal lost their most important defender and their first choice keeper and went on to keep a clean sheet after. Not bad.

I didn't give Djourou any credit yesterday, it was hard to give credit to him because Senna and Adebayor overshadowed everything else.

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A team of players who know what it's like to be in Robinho's Nike Mercurial Vapors 1. Graham Stack The then Arsenal keeper was cleared of rape and sexual assault in 2005 when he was accused by a student who came back to his flat after meeting in a West End nightclub. 2. Frank Sinclair One of Leicester City's [. Click to continue reading...

Bramble, under absolutely no pressure whatsoever, gets a pass and inexplicably chests it down to the on rushing Ishmael Miller who, coming as a complete surprise to no one, buries the error into the back of the net. Luckily Wigan were able to grab two back and thus the three points, and Titus gets to [. Click to continue reading...