Chelsea/Everton, Premier League, 8pm, Sky Sports 1

Chelsea are determined not to give up on the title and a win tonight will leave them just a point behind Liverpool. The Blues have drawn their last two home league games against Everton but we think this team could take three points:

The Spoiler would rest Michael Ballack for the upcoming away games with West Ham, who he destroyed at the Boleyn last season, and Barcelona. We would replace him with birthday boy Mikel and give Michael Essien more freedom going forward. Let us know who you would start with a comment.

Chelsea/Liverpool, Champions League QF 2nd leg, 7.45pm, ITV1

It looks like Guus Hiddink may stick with the team that started the first-leg besides bringing in Ricardo Carvalho for suspended captain John Terry. That strategy makes sense but with Liverpool likely to go on the offensive, The Spoiler would make a slightly defensive tweak by bringing in John Obi Mikel for Michael Ballack and playing a Rafa-esque 4-2-3-1:

Have you got a better idea? Let us know who you would pick below…

Kaka isn’t the only one to stick his nose up…

Manchester City are currently nursing their injured pride after Kaka told them where to shove their money, but Mark Hughes aren’t the only ones to have faced rejection. In fact, according to our compilation of of top ten transfer snubs, Sir Alex Ferguson has seen seen more rejections than Danielle Lloyd’s Mensa application…

1. Younes Kaboul (Sunderland, 2008)
Kaboul was part of a £14m bid from Sunderland in the summer that also comprised of Spurs teammates Teemi Tainio, Steed Malbranque and Pascal Chimbonda. While the other three left, Kaboul’s agent explained his client wouldn’t be joining them “even if there was an earthquake.” Kaboul joined Portsmouth instead.

2. Paul Gascoigne (Manchester Utd, 1988)
Back in 1988, Gazza promised Manchester United he would be joining them for a British transfer record fee before their manager Alex Ferguson took a holiday to Malta. While sunning himself, Fergie discovered the England legend had in fact signed a deal with Spurs. Ferguson - without a shred of bitterness - suggested the player was lured to London after Spurs bribed him with a house for his family, and that he would not have experienced so many personal problems under his watchful eye.

3. David Beckham (AC and Internazionale, 2007)
Mr B rejected offers from Italian giants AC and Inter in 2007 when he chose to sign for football powerhouse LA Galaxy instead. Beckham - who advised Kaka to stay in Milan recently - insisted the move would provide him with a greater challenge. And not more money. Honestly.

4. Ronaldinho (Manchester Utd, Chelsea, Manchester City, loads of others)
Ronaldinho famously rejected Manchester Untied in 2003 in favour of a move to Barcelona. A few years later, Chelsea were the second English club to be turned down by the gap-toothed Brazilian. “Not Chelsea or Milan. I want to stay with Barcelona - that is my wish, that is the wish of Ronaldinho,” said Ronnie, who enjoys talking about himself in third person almost as much as Cristiano Ronaldo. Now, of course, he plays for AC Milan, whose chairman Silvio Berlusconi

Oooh look a fancy 4-4-2 diamond formation

Obliging the interweb’s unrelenting appetite for “Best of 2008″ lists at this time of year, The Spoiler has considered the eleven players who have impressed us the most so far this season. There’s no room for well-played Brazilians or anyone who plays at Anfield or Old Trafford, and a surprise choice between the sticks…

GK Robert Green (West Ham)
Pepe Reina and Petr Cech may keep more clean sheets but they are rarely tested as much as Green, who (aside from one bad game against Bolton) has had a fantastic season. Of all the players West Ham could lose next month, it is Green’s departure that would prove the most fatal.

DL Luke Young (Aston Villa)
The Spoiler wasn’t the only one to raise eyebrows when Aston Villa paid a fee rising to £6 million to sign Young in the summer but he has delivered not just at right-back, but out of position on the left too, where he has recently been preferred to the underperforming Nicky Shorey.

DC Michael Turner (Hull)
If someone told you at the start of the season that one of Hull’s