This flash game regarding the Thierry Henry handball is great. Play it and let me know what your high score is in the comments section. I got up to 57.

In other good stuff on the internet, a supporter of League 2 Grimsby Town FC, currently second from bottom and thus in very real danger of being relegated out of League football all together, wrote a rant against his club's players which is truly epic and very entertaining.

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9-1.
9 f*cking 1.
We actually went and spanked Wigan by nine chuffing goals to one.
And all that after I foretold a nervy 2-1 win? This result could put me out of business (if I actually made any money from this site).
I'm too delirious to post anything of real value right now so expect more either later on in the evening or tomorrow, when I'll have hopefully recovered to a suitable state. Click to continue reading...

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See what all the fuss was about here.

Read about it here.

It's fair to say that what we've all just witnessed was the kind of performance we've been looking from spurs this season especially the second half performance anyway. The game took shape after Lennon's first touch on the ball, at which point he displayed that time off the pitch doesn't necessarily mean that he wouldn't improve his game.

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5 goals in the second half for Jermain Defoe today in a 9-1 Tottenham win.
9-1.
Roberto Martinez, Wigan manager, welcome to the hot seat.
Jermain Defoe, even if you don't score another goal all season, it looks like you just punched your ticket to South Africa with the England National Team. Click to continue reading...

Jermain Defoe went goal crazy helping himself to five goals as Tottenham annihilated Wigan at White Hart Lane.

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Defoe's five goals

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aight

All the results went our way yesterday; so one can assume using Jenas' law that the odds are the we'll be running into a little trouble today against Lancashire's finest custodians of the game. (On the assumption that Blackburn have turned into something resembling a pile of detritus.

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The handshake between Rafa Benitez and Mark Hughes at the end of today's 2-2 draw spoke volumes.
Although a pulsating second half had rescued what looked to be a turgid scoreless draw provided plenty of the attacking threat both sides possess, their frustrated expressions bore the knowledge of all too familiar frailties and failings that continue to cost their respctive sides. Click to continue reading...

A difficult one to call, this. Wigan are an unpredictable bunch. Since arriving at the DW in June- with the gait of a man still owning two good hips- Roberto Martinez has laboured somewhat in coaxing momentum into a side who, twelve months ago, were brimming with the stuff.

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With the international breaks at an end for a fair few months now, Tottenham have an opportunity to lock their collective mind on continuing their impressive progress in the Premier League. Wigan visit the Lane tomorrow afternoon and as enigmatic as the visitors appear to be at times, Spurs' slick passing should be more than a match for them and provided the strikers can locate their specially made shooting boots, there could be goals in the offing. Click to continue reading...

Birmingham City-Fulham

Birmingham has picked up the pace over the last three weeks and have not lost a match over the stretch. Â Fulham, on the other hand, have not lost in their last five matches so both squads go into this one playing about the best soccer they have played all season.

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21/11/2009Liverpool - Manchester City ore 13.45Birmingham - Fulham ore 16.00Burnley - Aston Villa ore 16.00Chelsea - Wolverhampton ore 16.00Hull City - West Ham ore 16.00Sunderland - Arsenal ore 16.00Manchester United - Everton ore 18.3022/11/2009Bolton - Blackburn ore 14.30Tottenham - Wigan ore 16.00Stoke City - Portsmouth ore 17. Click to continue reading...

Sunderland

Position: 8th, 5-2-5 (17 points, +1 goal differential)

Recent Form: DWLDL

Home Form: 4-1-1

Last Meeting: Arsenal 0-Sunderland 0 (2/21/09)

Back in action at the Stadium of Light tomorrow, for what I expect to be a very tricky match.

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a good player to be linked to. maybe.

We're doing well. We're fourth in the league with a few weeks before the winter transfer window and Christmas. But it's hard not to feel that there's a anxiousness about all of it, and that with our current lack of creativity and consequential goals mean that as fans we always feel that we're surfing the crest of a wave comprised of excrement.

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Seasoned Spurs fans will pick out with ease the errors in the following preview. 'Tottenham have a routine game against Wigan in the Premiership on Saturday which should give them an easy win and three points to boost their Top Four chances. At home to an average Wigan side with a poor away record who have yet to fully adapt to their new Click to continue reading...

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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In what seems to be a classic case of that old expression (translated here for the benefit of all our readers) known as 'Keeping the Mouth', Wenger's masterstroke forward has been done in by those devious Italians.

And so it happens.

There's a reason why the knowledgeable football fan thinks 59 times on an average before calling Arsenal title contenders.

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Liverpool 2 - 2 Birmingham City
Richard Jolly: No glory for Reds in Anfield draw
Andy Hunter: Ngog's embarrassing case of cheating gets draw
Kevin McCarra: Gerrard returns to curb humiliation
November 10, 2009 P Pts Chelsea1230Arsenal1125Manchester United1225Tottenham Hotspur1222Aston Villa1221Manchester City1120Liverpool1219Sunderland1217Stoke City1216Burnley1216Fulham1115Everton1115Wigan Athletic1214Blackburn Rovers1113Birmingham1212Bolton Wanderers1111Hull City1211West Ham United1210Wolverhampton Wanderers1210Portsmouth127 Click to continue reading...

This Sunday was fairly familiar for me. I was sporting a cracking hangover and woke up wondering what happened the previous night. The ‘Big Clash' of the day, as usual, didn't match the hype that it was given. Patrice Evra failed to remember he's a great left-back against Chelsea and an angry Scotsmen made more comments about a referee.

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This time yesterday Chelsea and Man Utd were heading onto the pitch for the second half at Stamford Bridge. Forty-five minutes later, a slightly anti-climatic encounter was over and a one nil win for Ancelotti's men represented their most significant – if below par - display of the season.
Manchester United fans are choosing to take an awful lot of positives from the fact that their below strength side managed to play so well.

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This time yesterday Chelsea and Man Utd were heading onto the pitch for the second half at Stamford Bridge. Forty-five minutes later, a slightly anti-climatic encounter was over and a one nil win for Ancelotti's men represented their most significant – if below par - display of the season.
Manchester United fans are choosing to take an awful lot of positives from the fact that their below strength side managed to play so well.

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RK TEAM P W D L GS GA W D L GS GA W D L GS GA GD Pts 1 Chelsea 12 10 0 2 29 8 6 0 0 16 1 4 0 2 13 7 21 30 2 Arsenal 11 8 1 2 36 14 5 0 0 20 4 3 1 2 16 10 22 25 3 Man United 12 8 1 3 23 12 5 1 0 13 7 3 0 3 10 5 11 25 4 Tottenham 12 7 1 4 23 17 4 0 2 12 6 3 1 2 11 11 6 22 5 Aston Villa 12 6 3 3 20 12 4 1 1 12 5 2 2 2 8 7 8 21 6 Man City 11 5 5 1 21 14 3 2 0 13 8 2 3 1 8 6 7 20

With 1/3 of the Premier League already past us, Arsenal are now in 2nd place, 5 points behind Chelsea having played 1 game less than the current leaders.

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The number of football podcasts that are available on iTunes is staggering. In terms of quality, it's definitely a case of the good, the bad and the ugly. But if you're a football supporter of a Premier League club, you may find the following list helpful of the official podcasts that are avalable for each club (well, most of them there are still some Premiership clubs who are living in the dark ages).

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Wigan and Fulham shared the spoils in an entertaining 1-1 draw at the DW Stadium. Click to continue reading...

(this looks like it's going to be my annual 'mulligan' game will fill in more details when I've seen more highlights)

When the league fixtures came out a few hearts sank. The early going looked difficult, with Chelsea, Arsenal, Villa, Everton, Liverpool and Man City to be negotiated in the first ten games.

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Wigan and Fulham played out an entertaining draw at the DW Stadium.

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Hull defeated Stoke city 2-1 in their Premier League encounter to ease the pressure in the Hull camp to a great deal. It was the visitors who scored the first goal and took the lead and Hull seemed set to another defeat. But a goal in the second half and the second in the stoppage [...] Click to continue reading...

Clint Dempsey has scored from the spot for Fulham in the first half against Wigan, earning him a league turkey for strikes in three consecutive frames. That game is ongoing, knotted at ones.Yesterday, we had Leeds United's Mike Grella and Wycombe's Jon-Paul Pittman bag their first career FA Cup goals. Click to continue reading...

MLS playoffs on TeleFutura: Seattle - Houston at 3pm. ESPN2 has Chivas USA - Los Angeles at 7:30pm. EPL on Setanta: Hull - Stoke at 8:30am and Wigan - Fulham on Setana Xtra at 10am. On Fox Soccer Channel: Chelsea - Manchester United at 11am and West Ham United - Everton at 5pm. FA Cup on Fox Soccer: Northwich Victoria - Charlton at 7pm. Click to continue reading...

Remember, Remember, blah blah November.

Apart from Bonfire Night and Thanksgiving (for you Americans only) what else makes November stand out? You see, it turns out that Arsene Wenger doesn't like November. Are we going to jump on this revelation and facebook 'like it' ?

The reasons for Wenger's dislike of this month are down to "the volume of games" which make it difficult to maintain the fitness levels.

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Robin Van Persie

Van Persie was the Gunners go-to-guy in the Match of the Week as Arsenal defeated Tottenham 3-0. Van Persie would score twice in the critical match and the result continues to push the Gunners towards the top of the league table. Van Persie has seven goals and six assists on the year putting him in the top five in total points of all Premier League players this season.

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Remember, Remember, blah blah November.

Apart from Bonfire Night and Thanksgiving (for you Americans only) what else makes November stand out? You see, it turns out that Arsene Wenger doesn't like November. Are we going to jump on this revelation and facebook 'like it' ?

The reasons for Wenger's dislike of this month are down to "the volume of games" which make it difficult to maintain the fitness levels.

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Roughly a quarter of the way into the new season and the Big Four have experiences vastly contrasting fortunes. We have a look at them...

Chelsea

Won five from five, on a great run currently, Drogba firing, Lampard re-finding his goalscoring touch, defence shored up.

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Is there hope for Pompey? Maybe if you're an eternal optimist. I just like to think of it as something that Portsmouth fans can reminisce about next season when they are taking the Coca Cola Championship by storm. That is just where the state of Pompey football is at the moment. One 4-0 victory is not going to suddenly turn things around for the better, but for that to happen, Piquionne and Dindane are going to have to put in these types of performances week in and week out.

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Arsenal handed Tottenham Hotspur a critical 3-0 loss in our PLTO Match of the Week. The win keeps Arsenal in third place and they remain right in the mix despite being back four points because they have played one less game. The Spurs, on the other hand, drop back to fifth place with the loss.

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Following Liverpool's crushing 3-1 defeat at the hands of a determined Fulham side, even more questions are being asked of Reds manager Rafa Benitez. The Spaniard finds his team in sixth place in the table, with an astonishing five losses already on the season.

Following Liverpool's poor defeat, former Liverpool star Ronnie Whelan has suggested that time is running out for Benitez.

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