Aston Villa v Chelsea Lineups

<div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="none" data-size="tall"></div><img src="http://www.chelseafc.com/content/cfc/en/homepage/news/boilerplate-config/blogs/boilerplate---guest-fan-blog/guest-fan-blog/excitement-building/_jcr_content.autoteaser.jpeg" /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="summary-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Juan Cuadrado is named among the substitutes for the first time with <a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/gary-cahill.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Gary Cahill</a> and <a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/didier-drogba.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Didier Drogba</a> returning to the starting line-up.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/content/cfc/en/archived/players/kurt-zouma2.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Kurt Zouma</a> and Loic Remy make way in an otherwise unchanged side.<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/willian.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Willian</a> has recovered from the injury that forced him off against Man City and takes his place in a familiar attacking midfield trio.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Ramires CONTINUES in central midfield in the absence of <a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/cesc-fabregas.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Cesc Fabregas</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">For Villa, there is one change in each of the defence, midfield and attack, with Aly Cissokho, Ashley Westwood and Gabby Agbonlahor coming in. Former Chelsea pair Joe Cole and Scott Sinclair are on the bench.  </div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Chelsea are expected to line up in the following 4-2-3-1 formation:</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Courtois;<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/branislav-ivanovic.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Ivanovic</a>,<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/gary-cahill.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Cahill</a>, Terry (c),<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/cesar-azpilicueta.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Azpilicueta</a>;<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/ramires.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Ramires</a>,<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/nemanja-matic.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Matic</a>;<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/willian.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Willian</a>, Oscar, <a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/eden-hazard.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Hazard</a>;<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/didier-drogba.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Drogba</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Subs:<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/petr-cech.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Cech</a>,<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/content/cfc/en/archived/players/kurt-zouma2.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Zouma</a>, Ake,<a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/first-team/john-mikel-obi.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"> Mikel</a>, Loftus-Cheek, Cuadrado, Remy.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Villa are expected to line up in the following 4-3-3 formation:</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Guzan: Hutton, Okore, Clark, Cissokho; Westwood, Delph, Cleverley; Gil, Agbonlahor (c). Weimann.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Subs: Given, Vlaar, Bacuna, Sinclair, Cole, Sanchez, Benteke.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Syntax, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">The referee is Neil Swarbrick. </div><br />Chelseafc.com<br /><a class="twitter-share-button" data-count="none" href="https://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script><a class="wa_btn wa_btn_s" data-href="" data-text="Take a look at this awesome website:" href="whatsapp://send" style="display: none;">Share</a><br /><div id="fb-root"></div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=173511999379139&xfbml=1"></script><fb:like expr:share_url="data:post.url" font="" send="false" show_faces="true" width="450"></fb:like>

Aston Villa v Chelsea Lineups

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Canadian university offers chance to study Cristiano Ronaldo

<div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="none" data-size="tall"></div><a class="twitter-share-button" data-count="none" href="https://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script><a class="wa_btn wa_btn_s" data-href="" data-text="Take a look at this awesome website:" href="whatsapp://send" style="display: none;">Share</a><br /><br /><img src="http://static.goal.com/700800/700822_heroa.jpg" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;"></span><br /><a name="more"></a>A Canadian university is offering fans of Cristiano Ronaldo<span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;"> the opportunity to take a course in the </span>Real Madrid <span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">star.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">The University of British Columbia Okanagan is enrolling for a fourth-year sociology module on Ronaldo due to his popularity and influence on Portuguese and global society.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Luis LM Aguiar, associate professor of sociology in UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, said: "Sociology is nothing if not the delving into the processes of structuring identities and experiences and exposing the social forces that push these processes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">"In this case, I'm interested in how Ronaldo has been used to construct several discourses about who he is, what makes him distinct as a footballer, what is his relationship to Portugal, Madeira (his hometown) and indeed Portuguese identity."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">During the semester-long course, students will examine the stereotypical image of Ronaldo and the Portuguese diaspora.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">"Ronaldo is said to embody features and characteristics of speed, strength, competetiveness, dogged work ethic, discipline, and adaptability," added Aguiar on </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">news.ok.ubc.ca</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">"These features are also in a sense 'very Portuguese' since the Portuguese outside the homeland are nothing if not constructed as hard workers, disciplined and determined. Even as a global athlete transcending geographical boundaries, Ronaldo cannot  escape the stereotypical constructions of 'the Portuguese'.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">"My two greatest passions are football and critical sociology. A course on Cristiano Ronaldo gives me the opportunity to combine the two.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">"While I’m an admirer of Ronaldo, I’m also a sociologist interested in understanding the social and economic forces driving the various constructions of this athlete and what this says about our contemporary values and culture."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" />

Canadian university offers chance to study Cristiano Ronaldo

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The 20-man squad for the Atlético clash

<div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="none" data-size="tall"></div><img src="http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=image%2Fjpeg&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1203355172643&ssbinary=true" /><br /><div class="m_section_news_header" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 2em; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Real Madrid travel to the Vicente Calderón for matchday 22 of the La Liga campaign.</span></div><div class="m_text_content" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="cap" style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">Carlo Ancelotti has named 20 players in his squad for the Real Madrid's La Liga matchday 22 meeting with Atlético in the Vicente Calderón (Saturday at 4pm CET).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">REAL MADRID SQUAD:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Goalkeepers: </strong>Casillas, Keylor Navas and Pacheco.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Defenders: </strong>Varane, Coentrão, Marcelo, Carvajal, Arbeloa, Nacho and Diego Llorente.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Midfielders:</strong> Khedira, Kroos, Bale, Lucas Silva, Isco and Illarra.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Forwards: </strong>Cristiano Ronaldo,<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong>Benzema, Chicharito and Jesé.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PRE-MATCH MEET-UP:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Friday 6 February at 8:30pm CET at Ciudad Real Madrid.</div></div><br /><a class="twitter-share-button" data-count="none" href="https://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script><a class="wa_btn wa_btn_s" data-href="" data-text="Take a look at this awesome website:" href="whatsapp://send" style="display: none;">Share</a>

The 20-man squad for the Atlético clash

Real Madrid travel to the Vicente Calderón for matchday 22 of the La Liga campaign. Carlo Ancelotti has named 20 players in his squad for th...

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How Many Years will it take you to earn cristiano ronaldos annual rage?

<div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="none" data-size="tall"></div><img src="http://www.mediahoarders.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mediahoarders_com_ng-if-you-earn-n30k-monthly-it-would-take-you-6148-years-to-earn-cristiano-ronaldo-s-annual-wage-how-many-years-would-it-take-you-to-earn-what-christian-ronaldo-makes-in-a-year-01.png" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.2em;">Get in here and compare how much you earn to what the current World footballer of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo earns. Ronaldo’s contract at Real Madrid earns him around €350,000 (£265,000) each week and €18,200,000 per year. How much do you get paid compared with his annual salary?</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-31110113" style="color: #549bff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BBC</a> released a calculator today – which is part of their A Richer World season – to help people find out. I went on there to calculate and below are some of the figures I got…</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">On a salary of N360,000 a year @30k a month, it would take you 6148 years to earn Cristiano Ronaldo’s annual wage. It would take him less than a minute to earn your weekly salary. Continue…</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="color: #549bff;"></a>On a salary of N600,000 a year @ 50k a month, it would take you 3689  years to earn Cristiano Ronaldo’s annual wage. It would take him less than a minute to earn your weekly salary.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On a salary of N6m a year @500k a month, it would take you 369 years to earn Cristiano Ronaldo’s annual wage. It would take him 27 minutes to earn your weekly salary.<div style="color: #333333; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Go <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-31110113" style="color: #549bff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see how long it would take you to earn Ronaldo’s salary</div></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">Tweet</span>

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Bony replaces Jovetic

<div><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/80816000/jpg/_80816384_bony-jovetic-main.jpg" /><a name="more"></a>Manchester City <span style="color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 21.2569389343262px; line-height: 24.4191665649414px;">have cut S</span></span>tevan Jovetic<span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;"> from their  Champions League squad in order to accommodate </span>Wilfried Bony<span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">.</span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Bony joined the Blues from Swansea City in January, and with no member of the club's European squad from the group stage leaving during the transfer window, Manuel Pellegrini faced a decision as to whether to bring the Ivory Coast international in.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Financial Fair Play Punishment have left City with a squad of just 21 compared to the usual 25-man roster named by teams in Europe's elite club competition, and that means Jovetic misses out on a chance to play in the knockout stages.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;"><strong>Full Manchester City Champions League squad</strong></em><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Goalkeepers: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Joe Hart, Willy Caballero</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Defenders: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Pablo Zabaleta, Bacary Sagna, Vincent Kompany, Martin Demichelis, Eliaquim Mangala, Gael Clichy, Aleksandar Kolarov, Dedryck Boyata</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Midfielders: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Fernandinho, Fernando, Yaya Toure, Jesus Navas, David Silva, James Milner, Samir Nasri, Frank Lampard</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Strikers: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;">Sergio Aguero, Wilfried Bony, Edin Dzeko</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #081f2c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.960000038147px; line-height: 20.7360000610352px;" /><div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="none" data-size="tall"></div>

Bony replaces Jovetic

Manchester City have cut S tevan Jovetic  from their  Champions League squad in order to accommodate  Wilfried Bony . Bony joined the Blues ...

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Ronaldo Named Best EPL Player Of All Time

<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;"><img src="http://level3.soccerladuma.net/cms2/image_manager/uploads/News/200234/7/default.jpg" style="line-height: 1.35;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;"></div><a name="more"></a>The Portuguese, who spent six years at Manchester United, beat Arsenal legend Thierry Henry and his former teammate Ryan Giggs in an online survey conducted by <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Usurv, </em>as reported by English media.<br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">One thousand members of the public were asked to choose between 10 players to vote for the best player in the English top flight’s 23-year history.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">The other seven pre-selected players on the short-list were: Eric Cantona, Gianfranco Zola, Dennis Bergkamp, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer and Patrick Viera.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">The Portuguese received almost a quarter of all votes (24 percent) and finished six percent ahead of Henry (18 percent).</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">Giggs received 13 percent of the votes, while Eric Cantona and Alan Shearer both collected 12 percent.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">Steven Gerrard followed in sixth place with 10 percent, while Bergkamp, Zola, Keane and Viera only received 11 percent of the votes between them.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">Marginally, over a quarter of the surveyed people selected the 11<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> option, specified as “other/don’t know”.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.35; margin-bottom: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ronaldo joined Manchester United as a 18-year-old in 2003 and scored 118 goals in 292 appearances during his time in England.</div><div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="none" data-size="tall"></div>

Ronaldo Named Best EPL Player Of All Time

The Portuguese, who spent six years at Manchester United, beat Arsenal legend Thierry Henry and his former teammate Ryan Giggs in an online ...

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Welbeck, Alexis and Wilshere

<div style="background: url(http://www.arsenal.com/assets/images/structure/lead-line.png) 0px 8px no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #505050; font-family: ff-meta-web-pro-n4, ff-meta-web-pro, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; text-indent: 70px;"><img src="http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/scaled/696x392/nov_14/gun__1416302824_welbeck_arm.jpg" /></div><div style="background: url(http://www.arsenal.com/assets/images/structure/lead-line.png) 0px 8px no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #505050; font-family: ff-meta-web-pro-n4, ff-meta-web-pro, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; text-indent: 70px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></span></div><a name="more"></a>Arsène Wenger has revealed the latest team news ahead of Saturday's north London derby against Tottenham Hotspur:<br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: ff-meta-web-pro-n4, ff-meta-web-pro, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">on the team news...</span><br />Welbeck is back in the group. Apart from that we have the same squad available as last week.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;">on Alexis...</span><br />The latest is that Alexis is not ready. He is not far away, the Leicester game is a possibility. He is of course very difficult to keep quiet! He is training but it's light training.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;">on <a href="http://www.arsenal.com/first-team/players/jack-wilshere" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(30, 76, 146); color: #41465c; text-decoration: none;" title="Jack Wilshere player profile">Jack Wilshere</a>...</span><br />Jack is back in full training next week, hopefully from Sunday.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;">on Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain…</span><br />Alex is still out, but he is starting to practice again, not full training.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;">on Serge Gnabry…</span><br />Serge will play on Monday night at Newcastle, with Bielik. Bielik is coming along very well.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: ff-meta-web-pro-n4, ff-meta-web-pro, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 21px;">Arsenalfc.com</div><div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="none" data-size="tall"></div>

Welbeck, Alexis and Wilshere

Arsène Wenger has revealed the latest team news ahead of Saturday's north London derby against Tottenham Hotspur: on the team news... We...

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