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1) John Terry- Chelsea
He has his Chelsea club fighting for the title and it never hurts to have a figure like Terry in the middle of the defense. With an explosive offense, Terry makes the Blues chances of winning the Premiership that much better. The same goes for the Champions League too. After all Terry won UEFA Defender of the Year for his efforts in last year’s tournament and this year it looks like the squad might be even stronger. Terry deserves the top honor on any list of defenders despite the problems he has had with his personal life recently. Read more... (351 words, 4 images, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)
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1) Petr Cech- Chelsea
Many critics believe that the star keeper has taken a step backwards over the last year, but Petr Cech still has the most clean sheets of any Premier League keeper and should be on the top of the list by season’s end. Cech has had nine different matches in which he did not allow a single goal and the helmet-clad goalie should finish the year strong with Terry managing the defensive unit.
2) Brad Friedel- Aston Villa Read more... (282 words, 4 images, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)
Two goals from Didier Drogba in the first 25 minutes gave Chelsea a comfortable 2-0 win against Arsenal, in a result that ended the Gunners faint title hopes.
Chelsea responded quickly to Manchester United taking over top place in the league after they beat Portsmouth 5-0 yesterday. Only right minutes had gone by when Drogba, scorer of Chelsea’s goal in their midweek draw with Hull, latched on to John Terry’s flick-on from a corner to score at the back post. Read more... (192 words, 3 images, estimated 46 secs reading time)
Dirk Kuyt’s 55th-minute header settled the Merseyside derby in Liverpool favor, while Manchester United moved to the top of the Premier League with a 5-0 thrashing over Portsmouth.
The Merseyside derby has seen more red cards than any other game in the Premier League and today’s match extended that record. Liverpool defender Sotiris Kyrgiakos was sent off for a challenge on Marouane Fellaini left Rafael Benítez’s side a man down after 34 minutes.
But Dirk Kuyt 50th goal for Liverpool in the second half was enough to give the red side of Liverpool all three points and move Liverpol back into 4th place in the table. Read more... (236 words, 3 images, estimated 57 secs reading time)
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Yes, it’s true that Wayne Rooney scored a thousand goals against Pompey to bring ManU 1-up on the Premier League table over Chelsea, but we’re all forgetting that Chelsea plays on Sunday…against Arsenal.
Now, it could be very easy for us to say that ManU is on fire. Carlo Ancelotti even said that he thinks Wayne Rooney is the best player in the world right now. Ok. However, Chelsea still fields John Terry and Didier Drogba. They haven’t been overtaken in an overwhelming fashion, but United has made the race much tighter. Read more... (328 words, 4 images, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)
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Wayne Rooney is heating up. In fact Wayne Rooney is on fire.
With many of the elite Premier League strikers out over the last month (including Drogba, Torres, Adebayor, & Van Persie) there is not much doubt that Wayne Rooney has pulled away from the rest of the pack as the best player in the league so far this year. After playing second fiddle to Cristiano Ronaldo for several years, the Englishman has finally been granted the center stage from Fergie and the dangerous game of letting their superstar player walk away has worked out just fine this season for Man U. Rooney has taken the opportunity to become the main man and he has shined under the spotlight scoring 20 goals and crushing any past career milestones in the process. And the good news is it is only the beginning of February. Read more... (303 words, 4 images, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)
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Wayne Bridge’s name has been in the news a lot recently and I am sure the Manchester City and English national team defender wishes it was not the case. The former teammate of John Terry and the Chelsea Blues squad has heard plenty in the last few weeks about the rumors and allegations that his former club’s captain was recently caught having an affair with his ex-girlfriend. And having been out with a knee injury since early December probably doesn’t help matters much when your personal life begins to unravel like Bridge’s has in the last week. Read more... (251 words, 4 images, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)
England boss Fabio Capello took our advice and has fired John Terry as England captain. Replacing Terry will be Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand.
“After much thought I have made the decision that it will be best for me to take the captaincy away from John Terry,” said Capello in a statement released to the press. “As a captain with the team, John Terry has displayed extremely positive behaviour. However, I have to take into account other considerations and what is best for all of the England squad. What is best for all of the England team has inspired my choice and John Terry was notified first.” Read more... (163 words, 3 images, estimated 39 secs reading time)
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Maybe we can get the focus back on the field…
Portsmouth’s financial troubles have continued under-the-radar because other things have been going on in the Premier League, but now the team (apparently) has a couple interested buyers and now they are saying that the price is dropping to basically “nothing”.
Ok, this one I agree with. You know, a few years ago when the NHL came out of their lockout that cancelled the Stanley Cup and ruined the league they took a TV deal with NBC that NBC didn’t have to pay for. You know what? It kind of helped. Read more... (329 words, 4 images, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)
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Chelsea-Arsenal
Arsenal has had a ridiculously tough schedule recently playing Aston Villa, Man U, and now Chelsea in a row and next week they play Liverpool as well. It could be a winless streak for the striker depleted squad that didn’t step and make a move before the end of the transfer window. Chelsea is on the top of the league table and just got their best player, Drogba, back from the African Nations Cup. Looks like some more bad timing for Arsenal.
Final Prediction: Chelsea 3-2
Tottenham-Aston Villa Read more... (271 words, 4 images, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)
