Saturdays Round Up

The day started with Liverpool's trip to Wolves with King Kenny looking for his first win since taking the reigns at Anfield and he finally got it with a 3-0 win with goals coming from Torres(2) and Raul Meireles, who scored with a volley that rooted Hennesey to the spot.

Arsenal entertained Wigan for the afternoon and Van Persie certainly did that by bagging himself a hat-trick and was unlucky not to make it four but then he decided to put the ball in row z after Walcott had been brought down in the box.

League leaders Manchester United continued sitting pretty at the top of the tree after sweeping aside what Alex Mcleish called a amatuer side, his very own Birmingham City. Berbatov getting the second hat-trick of the afternoon, with Giggs and Nani adding their names to the scoresheet.

Mark Hughes doing the double over Stoke with a 2-0 win at craven cottage with both strikes coming from Clint Dempsey, Spurs could only just manage a point at Newcastle with Lennon's injury-time goal cancelling out Coloccini's opener, Poor old David Moyes having to settle for yet another point for the second week in-a-row with Fellaini coming to his rescue to secure a 2-2 draw against West Ham, leaving the Hammers still in the bottom three. Sunderland have managed to shake off the Darren Bent hangover by winning 2-1 at Blackpool, with the black cats leading 2-0 through Kieran Richardson(2), 40m man Charlie Adam(Holloways valuation) pulling one back from the spot. Darren Bents couldn't have got life off to a better start in the midlands with a debut goal to give Villa a 1-0 win against Mancini's City, Villa must of had cling film over the goal because it was one of those days when the Itailian could only keep jumping up holding his head.....unlucky Roberto.

Nobody seems so Keane

Well the Robbie Keane fiasco continues again this morning with Sunderland head honcho Niall Quinn ruling out a move for his former international national team-mate. "What we're looking for to help Gyan and Danny Welbeck along is probably a physical presence" Quinn told Kildare TV.

Sunderland know that they won't get much return on the money they would spend on the Irishman, Keane has the physical presence but isn't exactly someone who you could count on, it has to tell you something about the guy when he's had more clubs then a fat bloke at snap time.

Crouchy, Carew thats the kind of physical presence which is required and if at the moment it had to be someone then the first call i would be making would be to White Hart Lane and asking Harry about Crouchy, his work rate is second to none and the amount of balls he wins in the air, well just speaks for itself.

The board at Sunderland have their work cut trying to please the fans because you couldn't exactly attract a big name to the North East because half of the world class players would be asking "Where's Sunderland?".

Todays Transfer News

Darren Bent's transfer to Aston Villa seems to have caused abit of sour grapes at Sunderland with their chairman Niall Quinn claiming that the striker had been unsettled, but if that was the case then why didn't they refuse his transfer request? it seems to me that the offer was too good to refuse and thats the only excuse Mr Quinn could come up with to explain to their fans on why they had sold their star striker to a another top 6 team.

Liverpool owner John Henry met with Ajax striker Luis Suarez's agent in London on Tuesday with the deal looking just about done for the Uruguay international, it was about time Liverpool gave Torres a partner as the Spainard has spent much of his Anfield life on his own and it is starting to show in recent games with him becoming more and more frustrated with the service.

Fulham and Newcastle are fighting it out for Shaun Wright-Phillips his agent has confirmed, its a move the England international will have to make if he wants to keep in Mr Capello's thoughts, SWP forget about the money, move clubs and get back to were you belong....entertaining the fans.