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ARSENAL-MANCHESTER UNITED Saturday, 12:45 EMIRATES STADIUM Referee: HOWARD WEBB (SOUTH YORKSHIRE) Injured: ARSENAL - Philippe Senderos, Robin Van Persie. MANCHESTER UTD - Ji-Sung Park, Ben Foster, Mikael Silvestre, Wes Brown, Michael Carrick, Patrice Evra, Louis Saha, Paul Scholes. *Arsenal have won all six games at home this term, but United have won their last eight League games. *Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson, the managers, are famous rivals who lock horns this time with Arsenal top and United second, separated only because the Gunners have scored three more goals. *Fergie's United have met Wenger's Arsenal on 33 previous occasions. Atsenal have won 13, United 11 and here have been nine draws, including a goalless FA Cup final which was decided by a penalty shoot-out in Arsenal's favour. *Arsenal did the double over United last season, as they had done in 2001-02 and 1997-98. *United doubled Arsenal in 2004-05 and 1996-97. *Tommy Docherty played for Arsenal and managed United; Dave Sexton coached Arsenal and managed United. *David Herd, Ian Ure, George Graham, Jimmy Rimmer, Brian Kidd, Frank Stapleton, Viv Anderson and Andy Cole played for both clubs. *Cristiano Ronaldo is he Premier Leaue player with he most shots on target (29), Cesc Fabregas he one with the most assists (6). *United are the team with he most shots on target (102) and off target (87). The share with Spurs the most corners (88), and Arsenal share with Tottenham the most woodwork strikes (6).

ASTON VILLA-DERBY COUNTY Saturday, 15.00 VILLA PARK Referee: MARK HALSEY (LANCASHIRE) Injured: ASTON VILLA - John Carew. DERBY - Dean Leacock. *Bottom club Derby are still looking for their first away win since returning to the top-flight. *Tommy Docherty and Jogn Gregory managed both clubs; Bruce Rioch and Tommy Johnson played for both. *Villa have won four of their six games at home this season - losing only to Manchester United and Liverpool. *Villa have not lost to the Rams at Villa Park since November 1988. *Derby could move off the bottom and even out of the relegation zone with a win. But in order to record a victory they will need to score a goal - something they have not yet managed away from Pride Park this season. And the Rams remain the only team in England not to have a single goal to their name on the road. They have lost five of their six away games and earned just one point on the road.

EVERTON v BIRMINGHAM CITY Saturday, 15.00 GOODISON PARK Referee: MIKE RILEY (WEST YORKSHIRE) Injured: EVERTON - Leighton Baines, Mikel Arteta, Iain Turner, Andrew Johnson. BIRMINGHAM - Damien Johnson, Borja Oubina, Mikael Forssell, Johann Djourou. *Birmingham have only collected one point from their last 4 away games – but that was secured across Stanley Park from this ground, at Anfield. *Howard Kendall played for both clubs, and managed Everton - three times. *Bob Latchford moved from Birmingham to Everton for a club record fee in the 1970s. *Colin Todd and Archie Styles also played for both clubs. *Birmingham are seeking their first win at Goodison Park in 50 years - their last victory there being achieved in the 1956/57 season. *Birmingham have lost three of their last four away games. FULHAM-READING Saturday, 15.00 CRAVEN COTTAGE Referee: MARK CLATTENBURG (TYNE & WEAR) Injured: FULHAM - Jimmy Bullard, Lee Cook, Philippe Christanval, Brian McBride, Simon Elliott, Ian Pearce, Moritz Voltz, Kasey Keller. READING - Glen Little, Kalifa Cisse, John Oster. Suspended: Paul Konchesky, Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham) *Seol Ki-Hyeon joined Fulham from Reading earlier in the season. *Marcus Hahnemann joined the Royals from Fulham in 2002. *Fulham manager Lawrie Sanchez played more than 250 game for Reading befire joining Wimbledon.

MIDDLESBROUGH-TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR Saturday, 15.00 RIVERSIDE STADIUM Referee: MIKE DEAN (WIRRAL) Injured: MIDDLESBROUGH - Matthew Bates, Robert Huth, Emanuel Pogatetz, Julio Arca, Brad Jones, Mido. TOTTENHAM - Ricardo Rocha, Ledley King, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Gareth Bale, Anthony Gardner. *Juande Ramos's first League game since taking charge of Spurs. *A win will allow the visitors to leap-frog Boro and climb out of the bottom three. *Mido joined Boro from Spurs. Cytil Knowles joined Spurs from Boro back in the 1960s. *Terry Venables played for and managed Tottenham, and was assistant manager at Middlesbrough. *Middlesbrough have lost their last four league games and are currently just outside the relegation zone with eight points.

NEWCASTLE UNITED-PORTSMOUTH Saturday, 15.00 ST JAMES' PARK Referee: CHRIS FOY (MERSEYSIDE) Injured: NEWCASTLE - Damien Duff, Steve Carr, Mark Viduka, Peter Ramage. PORTSMOUTH - Linvoy Primus, Sulley Muntari, Hermann Hreidarsson. Suspended: Richard Hughes (Portsmouth) *Portsmouth's Sylvain Distin played for Newcastle in 2001-02. *Lomana Lua-Lua joined Pompey from Newcastle. Andy Cole also played for both clubs. *Jim Smith managed both clubs. *The Magpies have won four of their five home games this season, and drawn the other one (against Aston Villa). WIGAN ATHLETIC-CHELSEA Saturday, 15.00 JJB STADIUM Referee: STEVE BENNETT (KENT) Injured: WIGAN - Emile Heskey, Rachid Bouaouzan, Heidar Helgusson. CHELSEA - John Terry, Michael Ballack, Ashley Cole, Paulo Ferreira. *Wigan boss Chris Hutchings is a former Chelsea player. His right-back Mario Melchiot also wore the royal blue of Chelsea. *The Latics have lost their last 5 League games. *Ken Bates left Wigan to take over as owner-chairman of Chelsea.

BLACKBURN ROVERS-LIVERPOOL Saturday, 17:15 EWOOD PARK Referee: MARTIN ATKINSON (WEST YORKSHIRE) Injured: BLACKBURN - Steven Reid, Andy Todd, Robbie Savage, Jason Roberts, David Bentley, Aaron Mokoena. LIVERPOOL - Mohamed Sissoko, Daniel Agger, Jermaine Pennant, Fernando Torres, Xabi Alonso. *5th placed Blackburn play the club immediately below them. *Rovers keeper Brad Friedel used to play for Liverpool. *Kenny Dalglish played for Liverpool a nd managed both Liverpool and Blackburn to League titles - Liverpool the old Football League Championship (1986, 1988, 1990), Rovers the Premier League crown in 1995. *Graeme Souness also played for Liverpool and managed both Liverpool and Rovers. *Stephen Warnock, Stephane Henchoz, Jason McAteer, David Thompson, Markus Babbel

WEST HAM UNITED-BOLTON WANDERERS Sunday, 16.00 BOLEYN GROUND, UPTON PARK Referee: PETER WALTON (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE) Injured: WEST HAM - Julien Faubert, Calum Davenport, Kieron Dyer, Bobby Zamora, Freddie Ljungberg, Scott Parker, Dean Ashton, James Collins, Hayden Mullins, Anton Ferdinand, Mark Noble, Craig Bellamy. BOLTON - Joey O'Brien, Andy O'Brien, Christian Wilhelmsson, Blerim Dzemaili, Ricardo Vaz Te, Heidar Helgusson. *Gary Megson is still looking for his first win as Bolton's boss. *If the Trotters do collect their first away win of the season it could be enough to lift them out of the bottom three. *These two teams contested the first ever Wembley FA Cup final, in 1923 - the famous 'White Horse Final.'

MANCHESTER CITY-SUNDERLAND Monday, 20.00 CITY OF MANCHESTER STADIUM Referee: ALAN WILEY (STAFFORDSHIRE) MANCHESTER CITY - Micah Ricards, Valeri Bojinov, Daniel Sturridge, Emile Mpenza, Martin Petrov. SUNDERLAND - Carlos Edwards, Dean Whitehead, Kieran Richardson, Stanislav Varga, Russell Anderson, Andrew Cole, Dwight Yorke. Suspended: Paul McShane, Greg Halford (Sunderland). *City have won all their home games this season. The Black Cats have yet to win away. *Dennis Tueart, Dave Watson and Mick Horswill from Sunderland's famous 1973 FA Cup winning side all went on to play for Manchester City. *Peter Reid managed both clubs. *Sunderland chairman and co-owner Niall Quinn played for both clubs.Suspended: Paul Konchesky, Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham)