Liverpool top the league, topple the Blues

Oh my. Every fan knows you should never tempt fate so there goes Scolari with:

“When I look at them I see a team that doesn’t accept they might lose – and that is why I feel it’s possible to go through the league season undefeated.”

Not this season though.

The really odd thing is that they looked more like equalising at the end of the first half than the second. Where was the bombardment? The record just seemed to slip quietly away. Scolari is definitely doing well on the sub-plot of making the Blues more popular than under Mourinho - British people always warm to a loser.

Wanderers marketing gurus plan to inebriate the masses

This season, only Blackburn and Wigan have drawn fewer punters than Bolton to Premier League home games, and the Trotters have pulled out all the stops to ensure a full house when the aforementioned Blackburn visit tomorrow.

According to The Daily Mail, the first thousand fans to turn up at the Reebok tomorrow will receive a free beer. In addition, they will be offered cheap food and even more subsidised booze starting at a student union-esque price of £1.75. Take that global economic slowdown!

Attendances at the Reebok fell eleven per cent last season and an average of just 21,933 have watched them in this campaign. The 21,000-odd loyal supporters who miss out on the free lager needn’t fret, as they can take advantage of bargain basement ticket prices:

Ticket prices behind both goals have been slashed to £15 and £5, youngsters can buy a season ticket for £49, and fans are being encouraged to bring banners and flags to the ground’s newly designated ‘singing end’.

The campaign may carry a feint whiff of desperation, but at least they haven’t resorted to Middlesbrough-style begging.

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Last season, Aston Villa visited White Hart Lane on a Monday night and it wound up being a thriller, with Spurs coming back from 4-1 down to earn a point.

Here’s eight reasons we can expect another deadlock tonight, courtesy of our friends at chickendinner:

1. Aston Villa haven’t left White Hart Lane with three points since 2000 and have failed to do so eight times since.

2. Two of the last three contests between the two in North London have finished level.

3. In addition, four of the last six ties between the two at either ground have finished up as a draw.

4. Tottenham’s loss