Wednesday Night Round-Up

5 matches were played last night with the top 4 teams in the country all in action. Chelsea went to Bolton in hope keeping up the pressure on title rivals Manchester United who had a home tie against Everton to contend with. Out of form Arsenal had a match against London rivals Fulham whom haven't beaten them for forty years. The other 2 games saw Liverpool at home against in form Portmouth and Man City away to Aston Villa.

Summary of results

Man Utd saw off Everton in a comfortable 3-0 display.

A late first half goal from Michael Ballack meant that Chelsea won 1-0 and remain 3 points off top spot.

Arsenal fell even further from the top 2 with a shock 2-1 defeat at Craven Cottage.

The clash between Liverpool and Portmouth ended in a no score draw due to resolute defending from the visitors.

Lastly Darius Vassel came back to haunt his former club scoring the first of City's goals as Man City ended a poor run of away games with a 3-1 victory over Villa.

Everton To Be Without AJ For United Clash

Everton boss David Moyes is going to have to plan for the Wednesday night game against Man U without Andy Johnson. Johnson is struggling with a hamstring injury which forced him to miss last weekend's draw at Charlton.

The injury to Johnson is believed to be only minor but he is not expected to be ready in time for their trip to Old Trafford.

Moyes has told the press; "He got the injury the previous week but tried to play with it, Although it's not too bad, it isn't likely he will play"

The Kick off is at 8 pm and is the start of a busy month for both sides.

Click here to see my Man Utd Blog.

Henry Misses Out......Again

Thierry Henry has once again been beaten to the European player of the year award, this time the winner was Fabio Cannavaro the Italian defender who lead his team to World Cup victory over France back in the summer. Henry came third in the award behind the Italian and his countryman Gianluigi Buffon.

Cannavaro is the fifth Italian player to recieve the award with the last one being Roberto Baggio in 1993. The award bares extra significance to the Real Madrid defender because he is the first player of his position to win it for 10 years.

2006 BALLON D'OR RESULTS

1. Fabio Cannavaro (Real)

2. Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)

3. Thierry Henry (Arsenal)

4. Ronaldinho (Barcelona)

5. Zinedine Zidane (retired)

Steve Gerrard

Take a look at this great player! You can read little bit more about his in Wikipedia here.
Great goals!!!!

Readings record breakin season

Celtic shoking Man utd

Totally against the run of play but what a hit!!!!!!!!!!

Reading in the Premiership

Lets take a look at some of Premiership teams.
The first presented is Reading. Take a look at this clubwebsite and also a must see video !