Premier League: Everton 3, QPR 1

“Not once has Petr Cech knocked on my door to inform me of his desire to accept some proposal. This is my truth. Nothing more I can say.”

European round-up

THEN we meet up, Jason McAteer might be wearing the red tie of his former club but he’s singing the blues when it comes to picking the likely winners of the 2012/13 Premier League.

Jose Mourinho expressed satisfaction with his Chelsea squad after completing the three-match tour of Asia with an 8-1 win over BNI Indonesia All-Stars in Jakarta yesterday.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes striker Luis Suarez owes a debt of loyalty to the fans after they – and the club – stood by him during difficult times.

Scotland Yard has hit back after questions were raised about how long it took officers to reach the scene of the terrorist murder in Woolwich.

A lot of nasty things have been written about Wigan’s supporters this week, but I spoke to both of them at Wembley on Saturday and they were lovely.

STAND up BJ Botha, Isa Nacewa and Johann Muller, you and your foreign cohorts all have a point to prove this weekend as you bid to put your Irish provinces a step closer to the Heineken Cup quarter-finals.

The Premier League’s congested Christmas fixture list can make or break a team’s title credentials, and Sunday will find two top sides with very contrasting dilemmas come head-to-head.

FULHAM crashed out of the Europa League last night after a late collapse saw Odense secure a late 2-2 draw at Craven Cottage.

Fulham 2 Odense 2

Andre Villas-Boas has challenged his Chelsea team to follow up yesterday’s victory over Wolves by going on a run that he hopes will kickstart the club’s Barclays Premier League title challenge.

FT: Arsenal 2 Sunderland 1

STUNNED Londoners counted the cost of the pillaging and tried to clear up the mess yesterday as fears grew of what lay ahead for them last night.

Munster 12 Harlequins 20

Arsene Wenger emerged from the latest setback in Arsenal’s faltering title assault to declare his support for Cesc Fabregas, despite the Gunners captain appearing to undermine his boss in an interview with a Spanish magazine.

RAFAEL VAN DER VAART has warned his Tottenham team-mates that they risk losing ground in their push for a top-four finish unless they start to improve their record against the league’s weaker teams.

TABLE-TOPPERS Harlequins lived up to their favourites’ tag with an impressive victory over Connacht in last night’s Amlin Challenge Cup clash at the Twickenham Stoop.

Man City 0 Arsenal 3

DID a strange sense of foreboding strike anyone as the final whistle blew on Saturday to deliver a well-earned Heineken Cup victory on the road for Leinster?

ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger acknowledged Barcelona’s four-goal hero Lionel Messi was the difference on the night as his side crashed out of the Champions League following a 4-1 defeat at the Nou Camp last night.

ARSENE WENGER insists his Arsenal players will not be daunted by the prospect of facing a partisan 60,000 crowd at Parkhead tonight.

A YEAR after the Reds took Moscow, they’re about to march on Rome. And no-one can deny Manchester United’s right to be there. Least of all, Arsene Wenger.

Barcelona’s players rounded on what they deemed a negative and cynical Chelsea side following the teams’ 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final last night.

Middlesbrough today denied they had rejected a third bid from Tottenham for winger Stewart Downing.

Middlesbrough chief executive Keith Lamb has hit out at Tottenham and labelled their bid for Stewart Downing “derisory”.

Manchester United defender Patrice Evra has been banned for four matches and fined £15,000 after the FA ruled he attacked Chelsea groundsman Sam Bethell at Stamford Bridge last season.

Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear was today completing his preparations for the derby trip to Middlesbrough with a Football Association charge hanging over his head.

THERE is a song the Liverpool faithful like to sing, to the tune of ‘Lord Of The Dance’, which is reserved especially for those occasions when they come up against Chelsea.

TODAY Eoin Reddan will make his first Six Nations start.

A LARGE blaze destroyed an empty warehouse near the site of the London 2012 Olympics yesterday before more than 70 firefighters brought it under control, the London fire brigade said.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair was under mounting pressure today as the Tories urged Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to fire him.

DANNY SIMPSON is hoping a few training ground tussles with Cristiano Ronaldo will help him cope with Coventry in the Carling Cup tonight.

Golden Boot winner Didier Drogba has claimed he is "attracted" to the prospect of playing in a different country and has warned he is not certain to remain at Chelsea in the long term.

Middlesbrough 4 Charlton 2

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has poured cold water on Alex Ferguson’s claim that Manchester United can still catch the Blues in the Barclays Premiership title race.

Chelsea 2 Portsmouth 0

ALEX FERGUSON has hailed Manchester United’s behaviour in their powderkeg clashes with Arsenal as ‘almost perfect’.

Spain’s intelligence chief today said that July’s terrorist attacks in London differed from last year’s Madrid train bombings in their apparent co-ordination.

Sheffield Wednesday 1 Brentford 0

Chelsea 1 West Brom 0

Barcelona manager Frank Rijkaard began another psychological battle with Jose Mourinho by hinting Arjen Robben would play for Chelsea in tomorrow’s Champions League clash.