Barclays Premier League: Round 31

Two struggling teams meet at Villa Park on Saturday, in what is sure to be a real humdinger. After another stunning European display, Chelsea need their misfiring strikers to find some form. I wonder who they'll love this week; Drogba or the world class again Torres? Having just reached their ultimate cup final, Everton must find the motivation to turn up against a drab West Brom side who are living in fear of losing their manager to England. After being robbed of a point at Old Trafford Monday night, Fulham entertain Norwich in what looks like an exciting encounter. It seems MON's magic touch is waning a little of late and you just don't get points at the Etihad, so it's down to City not to bottle it. Again. Filling in at QPR before his big move back to Barcelona, Mark Hughes must find a way of motivating his side against an inform Arsenal. More money perhaps? Despite not winning a trophy in about 9 years now, Wenger will sleep comfortably, happy in the knowledge that more CL money is coming their owners way. A real clash of styles at the DW stadium as Pulis' rugby team look to savage another pretty footballing side. Soon to be relegated Boltdown meet their Championship rivals Wolves in what would be a 6 pointer if there were 6 points at stake. Alas, just the 3 and they'll both have to be content with the 1 anyway.

Everyone's favourite bottle job, Spurs welcome Swansalona to WHL for Super Sunday. If Harry can manage to take his mind off the England job for 90 minutes they might just get back in that title race. After a sterling job on Monday night, Utd will undoubtedly miss the presence of Michael Oliver against Blackburn, but not to worry as they welcome back star player Howard Webb for what could have been a tricky away game.

*bleep*ing sick of the sunday/monday kick offs we've had this season

seriously we've had 2 or 3 saturday 3pms all season and theres no more to come i dont think. fair enough when we were in the shitty europa league but we went out before xmas ffs

its a banal subject for most probably but a pain in the arse for me because sundays are usually when i've got a lot of things to do and mondays nights games are just plain shite

reason #541 why i cbf with football much any more

Pratley is injured and that's a really bad thing. That's our level with luck at the moment. No idea what our team will be and in fact there aren't 11 fit players I'd happily put out at the moment.

Hmmm hadn't thought of that. What type of midfielder is he, in terms of attacking, box to box etc.?

Can't see him starting with Vela, otherwise he'd have probably brought him on the other night vs Spurs. More likely Ream into centre mid and ... gulp... Knight and Wheater at the back.

Possibly go 442 with either Klasnic, SKD or Tuncay alongside Ngog but I think he'll probably just bring Knight in.

4-4-2 or knight? Either way its a loss.

quote Dannyido

*bleep*ing sick of the sunday/monday kick offs we've had this season

I know the feeling. We're currently about to play our third Sunday in a row for no footballing reason. And the match before that was a Monday, with another Sunday the week before.

In fact, chop out everything but Saturdays, and we get this:

25^th February Wolves (H)
21^st April Stoke (H)

yeah lol, why are you moaning?