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By Jonathan Stevenson
1233: Staying with Mark Hughes for a second, and it’s probably not too much of a surprise that he’s under so much pressure given the club’s resources, their position in the league and theirshambolic 3-0 capitulation at Tottenham on Wednesday.Names in the frame today include Arsene Wenger (stop laughing), Guus Hiddink, Roberto Mancini and Jurgen Klinsmann. You can laugh now.1230: Stevo’s Predos:
Portsmouth 2-2 Liverpool
Aston Villa 2-1 Stoke
Blackburn 1-2 Tottenham
Fulham 1-2 Man United
Man City 2-1 Sunderland
Arsenal 3-0 Hull
Lawro’s predictions1227: If the future of Manchester City manager Mark Hughes is going to dominate discussion today, we might as well get cracking:almost every single newspaper is running the storythat he is going to get sacked,regardless of their result at home to Sunderland today.Are you a yay or a nayFrom ditasplaything on Twitter:](http://twitter.com/ditasplaything)"How has Aquilani got a thigh strain He hasn’t done anything yet."1221: Jamie Carragher is making his 600th appearance for Liverpool today andJeff Stelling on Sky Sports just came up with one of the great stats of modern times:Carragher helped the Reds keep clean sheets on his 100th, 200th, 300th, 400th and 500th appearances for the club. I had to borrow it - it deserves the widest audience possible.From Il Principino on 606:](http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A60935835)“Before everyone starts moaning, Aquilani has picked up a slight calf strain.”
*Uh-oh, too late…*1215: Portsmouth’s Younes Kaboul returns to the first XI after suspension as he replaces Marc Wilson. He is one of four Pompey changes with Hassan Yebda, Nadir Belhadj and Michael Brown also coming in for midfield trio Aaron Mokoena, Hayden Mullins and Papa Bouba Diop. **Liverpool **striker Fernando Torres starts and right-back Glen Johnson returns to face his former club. Lucas and Andreas Dossena are also in the Reds side with Martin Skrtel, Yossi Benanyoun, Fabio Aurelio and David Ngog making way. The Anfield side’s £20m midfielder Alberto Aquilani is not even in the squad at Fratton Park.From a confused and cold Simon in Skipton, via text on 81111: "No Aquilani again! What’s Rafa’s excuse this time It’s too cold for him! Come on, play him, for the love of God!"1211: Refresh if you can, and you’ll be able to watch Football Focus at the top of this very page.1210: Portsmouth v Liverpool line-ups:
Portsmouth: Begovic, Finnan, Kaboul, Ben-Haim, Hreidarsson, Yebda, Brown, O’Hara, Belhadj, Boateng, Piquionne.
Subs: Ashdown, Mullins, Utaka, Hughes, Dindane, Kanu, Wilson.
Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Agger, Insua, Kuyt, Mascherano, Lucas, Dossena, Gerrard, Torres.
Subs: Cavalieri, Aurelio, Benayoun, Babel, Ngog, Spearing, Skrtel.
Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire)1207: Here’s how you get in touch, you lovely festive folk: get the texts in to 81111 (UK) and +44 7786200666 (worldwide),mix it up with the chatmaster generals on 606](http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A60935835)and last but not least,Tweet me to death](http://twitter.com/Stevo_football)with everyone’s favourite micro-blogging toy.1205: I love days like today, because while other people seem to have more important stuff to do, we don’t - oh no. It might be the last Saturday before Christmas, but it’s still a Saturday for goodness sake.Portsmouth v Liverpool gets us under way at 1245 GMT,four more games start at 3, andArsenal v Hull is a 1730 kick-off.There are also a few games that havesurvived the 'Big Freeze 09’in the Football League, which we’ll keep you updated with as per usual.1200: I’m sat here in our west London office frantically trying to warm my all-but-dead hands up, and when I glance up at my telly all I can see are Brits abroad basking in glorious sunshine whileslamming down some beers and watching Test cricket at Centurion Park in South Africa.Yet with football to warm my heart, I know exactly where I’d rather be. Happy, er Football Christmas SaturdayThis article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.