January 13, 2003

Thierry Henry scored his 100th goal for Arsenal yesterday to secure a five-point lead at the top of the Premiership. Pity Birmingham for being in the way. Man Utd (3-1 over last-placed West Brom) and Chelsea (4-1 over Charlton) keep up the chase. At the other end of the table, West Ham -- bottom of the table at the New Year -- welcomed lovable Lee Bowyer with a 2-2 home draw against Newcastle, which allowed them to climb one spot above last place. West Ham has yet to win at home this season. My beloved Liverpool continued their reign of boredom with their fourth draw in a row, a 1-1 beauty against Villa. Linkola!

• Table
• Results, match stats and reports
• Team of the week
• Goal of the week: Niclas Jensen's stinger for Man City beats Leeds
• Magnificent seven goals (from Saturday)
• Stats: Top scorers, team attendance, player discipline, fair play
• More stats: Card counts and form table
• Injury table: Sunderland has 15 hurt!
• Transfers since Jan 1
• Ormondroyd's transfer funnies

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:24 PM on January 13, 2003

Who knows how long Rooney is suspended?

posted by StarFucker at 02:05 PM on January 13, 2003

Looks like Liverpool are gonna do something about that goalscoring problem: GET RUSHIE! Ian Rush is the striker I grew up watching, the guy who made a lot of Liverpool memories in my youth: 346 goals in two stints (16 years) at Liverpool (he played one year for Juventus in between), five league championships (pre-EPL), three FA Cups, one Euro Cup (pre-Champions League). Unfortunately, he'll only be coming on as part-time striker's coach. He can show Owen and the rest a thing or two. Now, if we could get Dalglish back as manager ...

posted by worldcup2002 at 06:25 PM on January 13, 2003

You can't blame the keeper (or his coach) for bad defending by the 10 men in front of him. More goals! More goals!

posted by worldcup2002 at 10:48 PM on January 13, 2003