Football

Manchester United visit fourth-placed Chelsea looking for a first Premier League win at Stamford Bridge in a decade to move back level on points with leaders Manchester City. TEAM NEWS: Chelsea : Cech; Ivanovic, David Luiz, Cahill, Bosingwa; Meireles, Essien, Malouda; Sturridge, Torres, Mata TEAM NEWS: Manchester United : De Gea, Rafael, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra, Valencia, Carrick, Giggs, Young, Rooney, Welbeck Premier League Sunday February 5, 2012 Kick off: 16:00 Day 24 Stamford Bridge Man Utd have won five of the last six matches in all competitions against Chelsea.

Reports have emerged that Arsenal are interested in signing Benfica star Rodrigo Moreno. According to the Sunday Mirror , Arsenal are monitoring Rodrigo, who had a loan spell at Bolton. Rodrigo is also wanted by former club Real Madrid.

Why Fernando Frequently Fails to Fire – originally posted on Soccerlens.com Useless. Flop. Goddamn waste of money

Manchester City moved back on track in their Premier League title hunt with a 3-0 win at home to Fulham at a snowy Eastlands. The league leaders, stunned 1-0 at Everton last time out, overcame the poor conditions with a Sergio Aguero penalty, Chris Baird own-goal and Edin Dzeko strike to open up a three-point, nine-goal gap on second-placed Manchester United, who visit Chelsea on Sunday.

The Flowers of Manchester – originally posted on Soccerlens.com Daniele (from Red Rants ) has a written a moving piece on the Munich disaster – here’s an extract: Sam couldn’t have been more focused if he had been watching a movie, so I moved on: “Harry Gregg, United’s keeper, had been thrown out the cabin after the impact along with Bobby Charlton.” “He had thought Charlton was dead, and went back to the wreckage to rescue survivors to safety, despite the danger of an explosion.” Sam stared at me, disbelief apparent on his face: “Are you telling me that he went into a burning airplane to carry out the survivors?” He had been struck by the legend of the “Hero of Munich”. Read the rest on Red Rants: The flowers of English football – the flowers of Manchester

Newcastle United, also known as the Magpies, have had a pretty good run this season.

Interesting transfer news are out and it has been revealed that Blackburn Rovers fullback Michel Salgado is in Los Angeles for talks with LA Galaxy. The Independent reported that the 36-year-old former Real Madrid defender has given up on playing for Steve Kean’s team again

Arsenal absolutely destroyed Blackburn Rovers 7-1 at the Emirates Stadium during their week 24 Premier League clash. Gunners captain Robin van Persie scored a hattrick while youngster Alex Oxlade Chamberlain bagged a brace in a match which saw Blackburn defender Gael Givet shown a red card for a two footed tackle on Robin van Persie. Mortem Gamst Pederson scored a sublime freekick for Rovers and Mikel Arteta also got his name on the score sheet which sees Arsene Wenger’s men move above Liverpool in the Premier League standings.

Thiago Alcantara is confident that Barcelona can haul in Real Madrid. The gap could have stretched to 10 points by the time Barca take the field against Real Sociedad on Saturday with Madrid facing local rivals Getafe earlier in the evening. Thiago insists it far too soon to rule the three-time reigning Spanish champions out of the reckoning

Reports have surfaced that PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti remains keen on Real Madrid star Kaka. It is said that the former AC Milan and Chelsea boss wanted to sign Kaka last month