Evening all.

Tottenham vs Wigan
Tottenham: Friedel, Walker, Kaboul, King, Assou-Ekotto, Kranjcar, Modric, Parker, Bale, Adebayor, Van der Vaart

Subs: Cudicini, Dawson, Rose, Livermore, Sandro, Pienaar, Lancaster

Wigan: Al Habsi, Boyce, McCarthy, Caldwell, Figueroa, Moses, Watson, Stam, Beausejour, Gomez, Di Santo

Subs: Pollitt, Gohouri, Crusat, McArthur, Sammon, Jones, Rodallega

No Rooney or Jones for Man U, Kompany back for City - gotta go, transfers to make!

Looks like we started a thread at the same time DerbyNige!

BREAKING TEAM NEWS: Striker Fernando Torres starts up front for Chelsea while Gary Cahill continues to wait for his first start as Branislav Ivanovic and David Luiz start in defence.
BREAKING TEAM NEWS: Wolves' on-loan midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong makes a quicker-than-expected return to the starting line-up, while striker Kevin Doyle is on the bench.
BREAKING TEAM NEWS: Wigan striker Hugo Rodallega, out of contract in the summer and linked with a move away from the DW Stadium, is left out of Roberto Martinez's match-day squad for the match against Tottenham.
BREAKING TEAM NEWS: Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard is rested for the trip to Wolves, Craig Bellamy and Andy Carroll start up front.

And Phils69 - great minds all thinking alike!

#MCFC XI v Everton: Hart; Richards Kompany Lescott Clichy; Barry Milner; Silva Aguero Nasri; Dzeko

Stoke XI v Man Utd: Sorensen, Wilkinson, Shawcross, Huth, Wilson, Pennant, Whitehead, Palacios, Walters, Jones, Crouch

Everton XI vs Man City: Howard, Neville, Baines, Hibbert, Heitinga, Fellaini, Gibson, Cahill, Donovan, Drenthe, Stracqulaursi

Man United XI vs Stoke: Amos, Smalling, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra, Valencia, Carrick, Scholes, Park, Hernandez, Berbatov

deleted mine

Wolverhampton vs LiverpoolWolverhampton: Hennessey, Foley, Berra, Johnson, Ward, Kightly, Frimpong, Jonsson, Jarvis, Edwards, Fletcher

Subs: De Vries, Elokobi, Stearman, Ebanks-Blake, Hunt, Milijas, Doyle

Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Agger, Skrtel, Jose Enrique, Henderson, Spearing, Adam, Bellamy, Kuyt, Carroll

Subs: Doni, Aurelio, Coates, Downing, Carragher, Shelvey, Kelly



Everton vs Man CityEverton: Howard, Neville, Hibbert, Heitinga, Baines, Donovan, Gibson, Fellaini, Drenthe, Cahill, Stracqualursi

Subs: Mucha, Gueye, Barkley, Vellios, Forshaw, Duffy, Baxter

Man City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Barry, Milner, Silva, Aguero, Nasri, Dzeko

Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Johnson, Kolarov, Savic, De Jong, Razak

MU Subs: Kuszczak, Fabio, Rafael, Giggs, Pogba, W Keane, Welbeck

Mystery Maxi disappears for Liverpool again (playing chess with stevie G?)

Defoe may have done his hammy (ref BBC)

Swansea vs Chelsea
Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Britton, Allen, Sigurdsson, Dyer, Graham, Sinclair

Subs: Tremmel, Routledge, Monk, Lita, Moore, Agustien, Richards

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Luiz, Cole, Meireles, Romeu, Malouda, Sturridge, Torres, Mata

Subs: Turnbull, Essien, Lukaku, Ferreira, Cahill, Bertrand, Piazon

No Terry but Cahill still doesn't start?

Swansea vs Chelsea

Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Britton, Allen, Sigurdsson, Dyer, Graham, Sinclair
Subs: Tremmel, Routledge, Monk, Lita, Moore, Agustien, Richards

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Luiz, Cole, Meireles, Romeu, Malouda, Sturridge, Torres, Mata
Subs: Turnbull, Essien, Lukaku, Ferreira, Cahill, Bertrand, Piazon

Man Utd vs Stoke

Man Utd: Amos, Smalling, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra, Valencia, Carrick, Scholes, Park, Berbatov, Hernandez

Subs: Kuszczak, Giggs, Welbeck, Fabio Da Silva, Rafael Da Silva, Pogba, Will Keane

Stoke: Sorensen, Wilkinson, Huth, Shawcross, Wilson, Pennant, Palacios, Whitehead, Walters, Jones, Crouch

Subs: Begovic, Whelan, Fuller, Delap, Etherington, Jerome, Woodgate

Referee: Mike Jones (Cheshire)

And in other news.... Thought with a youth policy you try and get some benefit before you cash in....someone turn the lights out

BBC Radio Nottingham understands that Chelsea are set to sign 18-year-old striker Patrick Bamford from Nottingham Forest for about £1.5m. Bamford has only played two first-team games but has been in prolific form in the FA Youth Cup this season, and Chelsea were one of a number of clubs to take note.

One to watch - richards may have turned his ankle in the warm up

Although he's in the tunnel behind joe hart so looks like a false alarm!

Apologies

Nice text to the BBC (I won't claim the credit)-

"How can De Gea be sick? He can't catch anything!"

Bale (Modric) first goal of the night

VDV off (injured I presume)

All of a sudden I'm hoping Ba might be back for tomorrow's game!

Confirmed. Not sure what yet though? Anyone? Hamstring as usual?

I pondered 'Bale or VDV' in a couple of teams..... I chose well

BBC said that is definitely NOT happening

Am I allowed to say hurray at that news?

Will cause a few problems for my sleague leader that's for sure.

from NUFC

Alan Pardew has confirmed that United are expecting their Senegal strike pair Demba Ba and Papiss Demba Cisse to return on Thursday of this week, extinguishing any hopes that either or both could feature at Ewood Park.

The duo will now come into consideration for Sunday's Premier League home game with Aston Villa, Ba having missed two league fixtures and two FA Cup ties.

2-0 Modric - text sounds like that is bracket free due to some ping pong and a clearance

Chelsea losing 1-0 Sinclair (Sigurdsson?)

EDIT - sounds like NO KC - Scott Sinclair reacts quite brilliantly when Jose Bosingwa's duffed header from Gylfi Sigurdsson's corner falls his way.

That puts paid to that then! He's the only player playing tomorrow who I was considering as a replacement for VDV. Maybe best to wait for him to settle back into the Premier League anyway?

Sinclair (Sig Icelandic bloke)

Don't know why but I love it when Chelsea conceed a goal, its just the thought of the price of that Chelsea block.

Good to see one of their young players come back to haunt them

Have you seen it? - see my post 2 up - no KC??

Not seen it, I might be wrong only going on text (press association)

which can be unreliable to be fair.

38:59
Assist by Gylfi Sigurdsson. 38:59 GOAL - Scott Sinclair:Swansea 1 - 0 Chelsea

Here comes the strangest post of the season possibly!

Someone has handcuffed themselves to the post at the City game and the game has had to be stopped!

This is possibly the strangest thing I've ever seen in a football game! He won't be going anywhere very fast by the looks of it!

Chaos at Goodison as a man seemingly handcuffs or ties himself to a goal post.

You can't make it up