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By Chris Bevan
1519: Then there’s Liverpool, of course. The good news for Reds fans is that Fulham boss Roy Hodgsonthinks they can still win the leaguedespite their 3-1 defeat to his side on Saturday. And Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has defended hisdecision to take off star striker Fernando Torres while the score was 1-1.He needed to nurse the injured Spaniard ahead of Wednesday’s crucial Champions League game with Lyon.
1517: TEAMS Birmingham v Manchester City
Birmingham: Maik Taylor, Carr, Roger Johnson, Dann, Ridgewell, Larsson, Ferguson, Bowyer, McFadden, Jerome, Benitez. Subs: Doyle, Phillips, Fahey, McSheffrey, Parnaby, Carsley, Vignal.
Man City: Given, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, De Jong, Barry, Bellamy, Santa Cruz, Tevez. Subs: Taylor, Richards, Johnson, Ireland, Sylvinho, Petrov, Weiss.
Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)**1516: **As you’d expect, there’s been lot’s of fall-out from yesterday’s events. Firstly,under-fire Hull boss Phil Brownwill remain in charge of the Tigers for next weekend’s home game for Stoke, according to BBC Radio 5 live. There had been a lot of talk in today’s papers that Brown would be sacked on Monday.
1514: For the record, the men seeing red yesterday were: JLloyd Samuel (Bolton), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Everton), Carlos Cuellar (Aston Villa), Geovanni (Hull), Kenwyne Jones (Sunderland), Radoslav Kovac (West Ham), Philipp Degan (Liverpool) and Jamie Carragher (Liverpool). They are all sitting in a big sin-bin, somewhere. Or at least they should be.
1512: Saturday actually set a record for the most sendings off in the Premier League in a single day, beating the six that got their marching orders on 7 May 2005. The record for a weekend is nine, from the 1999/00 season. Will we beat that Well, the referee at St Andrew’s today - Mike Dean - has yet to dismiss a player in any of his four PL games this season… so he’s certainly due a red card or two. We’ll see.
1510 GMT: How was yesterday for you then Yes, I know. Crazy wasn’t it Nine Premier League games containing 29 goals and eight red cards. We’ll be hard-pressed to match that tally today, mainly because there is only one top-flight game - Birmingham v Manchester City. Still, you never know…