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By Jonathan Stevenson
1319: Should cars entertain you, you might want to know thatthere’s some sort of F1 race going on right nowat the brilliantly-named Spa Francorchamps in Belgium. It’s been crash-crazy, too. The first lady of text commentary, Caroline Cheese, is all over it. Come back though, yeah1315: Stevo’s Predos:
Portsmouth 1-4 Manchester City
Everton 2-0 Wigan
Aston Villa 1-1 Fulham
Lawro’s predictions**1312: Portsmouth **make wholesale changes from their last league game, with Asmir Begovic, Anthony Vanden Borre, Richard Hughes and new signings Tommy Smith and Michael Brown coming in for David James, Sylvain Distin, John Utaka, Marc Wilson and Kanu. **Manchester City **hand a league debut to Joleon Lescott, while Craig Bellamy is preferred to Robinho.1309: Feel free to wade into the debate today. Today’s football, yesterday’s football, transfer deadline day - happy to discuss anything you like, so I am. Texts to 81111, andsome dudes are already getting stuck in on 606.They don’t (often) bite.1306: Portsmouth v Manchester City line-ups:
Portsmouth: Begovic, Vanden Borre, Kaboul, Mokoena, Belhadj, Brown, Mullins, Hughes, Smith, Piquionne, Kranjcar.
Subs: Ashdown, Kanu, Basinas, Nugent, Utaka, Ward, Hreidarsson
Manchester City: Given, Richards, Toure, Lescott, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, Ireland, Barry, Bellamy, Adebayor, Tevez.
Subs: Taylor, Onuoha, Zabaleta, Robinho, Petrov, De Jong, Weiss.
Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire).1304: City are, of course, at Portsmouth today, a club seemingly heading in the opposite direction. Having sold Sulley Muntari, Lassana Diarra, Jermain Defoe, Glen Johnson, Peter Crouch and Sylvain Distin in the last year or so, they have signed Tommy Smith,Michael Brown, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Jamie O’Hara and Aruna Dindane in the last few days.Oh, and some of today’s newspapers are suggestingkeeper David James is on his way too.Problems.1300: If they win handsomely today, Manchester City could climb up to third in the Premier League. And they’d still have a game in hand on the leaders, Chelsea and Spurs. Here’s a Stevo Predo to kick-off your Sunday football: I reckon City will finish in the top four this season. Discuss…