THE Premier League has ruled out extending the football season to cope with fixture chaos caused by the big freeze and insisted contingency plans are already in place to deal with a long list of postponed matches.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

CESC FABREGAS has admitted Arsenal were “scared” of losing to Manchester United at Old Trafford last Monday and that they fear defeat in major fixtures.

ROBERTO MANCINI is set to strip Carlos Tevez of the Manchester City captaincy, according to reports.

ARSENE WENGER promised that Arsenal can prove against Barcelona that they are better side than the one destroyed by Lionel Messi in the Nou Camp last season.

WE know all about coals to Newcastle but how about ‘B’s’ to Braga and duds to Donetsk?

CARLO ANCELOTTI has insisted Chelsea’s Premier League title challenge would not be killed off by a defeat to Manchester United tomorrow.

RIO FERDINAND insists there has been “no singing and dancing” at Manchester United, even though they are top of the Premier League.

DEFIANT Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger maintains his team will “still have our say” in the destiny of the Premier League title.

BOBBY CHARLTON is adamant Alex Ferguson would not have been sacked if he had lost that fateful FA Cup tie at Nottingham Forest.

ARSENAL will find out the price that must be paid for their failure to secure top spot in their Champions League group today, with favourites Barcelona among their four potential last-16 opponents.

ROY KEANE believes football is changing — and by no means for the better.

THE meeting of Sevilla and Borussia Dortmund at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium was the big Europa League clash last night to see who would qualify from Group J and a 2-2 draw insured the Spanish side took the spoils.

AON, the world’s largest insurance broker, announced yesterday, that it has acquired Insure.ie, the online personal lines brokerage.

FLORENT MALOUDA admits his Chelsea team-mates are shell-shocked by a run of form that has produced only two wins in their last nine games, and a loss of confidence is preventing the side from getting back to winning ways.

MANCHESTER CITY and Carlos Tevez have become embroiled in tit-for-tat threats to reveal who said what over the possibility of the South American extending his stay at Eastlands.