http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/interactive/2012/dec/20/top-100-footballers-in-the-world-interactive?commentpage=1

if you want a list of top 100 footballers done by people who know almost 0 about football then this will interest you, the fact Rooney is behind the likes of Aguero and Suarez (yet alone some of the other crap ahead of him) is laughable for anyone who has followed top football in recent seasons.

8-0 to Chelsea yesterday against AV. Trololol

big boxing day in the premiership then...United come from behind thrice to win 4-3 and go seven clear after City can't score against Sunderland...Chelsea's revival under Benitez continues as well...they are only 1 point behind City should they win their game in hand...

as it stands for people who are interested:

1. Manchester United - 19 games played - +20 goal difference - 46 points
2. Manchester City - 19 games played - +18 goal difference - 39 points
3. Chelsea - 18 games played - +20 goal difference - 35 points
4. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 games played - +9 goal difference - 33 points

at the wrong end:

17. Southampton - 18 games played - -11 goal difference - 16 points
18. Wigan Athletic - 19 games played - -16 goal difference - 15 points
19. Reading - 19 games played - -16 goal difference - 10 points
20. Queens Park Rangers - 19 games played - -17 goal difference - 10 points

Leading Scorers:

Miguel Michu (Swansea) - 13 goals
Robin van Persie (Manchester United) - 13 goals
Demba Ba (Newcastle United) - 11 goals
Luis Suarez (Liverpool) - 11 goals
Jermain Defoe (Tottenham Hotspur) - 10 goals

Arsenal 7-3 Newcastle, gonna be fun watching the highlights later

Trust me, it'll be worth the wait. I want it to be perfect

yeah, you are like 3 years out of date with that info, Beckham was on loan with them back in early 2010 but not since, he is currently unattatched after leaving LA Galaxy. 

OT: Van Persie is a machine...amazing goals and just won't stop scoring. United look really good atm now they have Vidic back it seems to be solving their defensive issues as well, if they solve that long term they have an immense squad.

Chelsea are just hilarious, losing to Q.P.R, probably they won't even give Demba Ba enough game time to gel with their team either because old Rubles Abramovich wants his £50m signing Torres to play 

City without the Toures for the African Cup of Nations could be a blow for them as well.

Tottenham could well get 3rd this year, Villas Boas showing up Chelsea for letting him go with the job he's doing there so far.

Arsenal are about as consistent as a wafer thin bog roll, if Walcott joins their endless leaving roster of players I will LOL hard.

I don't follow the Premier League -like, let's say, every matchday - but I'm always wondering why Man City sucks balls THAT much.

If you look at the players they should be at least the 3rd best team in Europe (just behind Barça and Real), but they play very weak at the Champions League 2 years in a row, won the last PL in the last minute (against the weakest versions of ManU and Chelsea over the last 5-6 years imo) and this year they fell back behind ManU very soon.

What's the matter? They have such great Players like Silva, Agüero or Yaya Toure, but they don't seem to play well together. Is this Mancini's fault?

yep, no...he transferred to LA Galaxy in 2007 from Madrid, loaned out to Milan for a couple of months in early 2009 and then again in 2010, since April 2010 he has played only for LA Galaxy and now has left them...I don't know where the hell you are looking it up that's telling you he is at Milan..

well, Mancini has always been shit in Europe, he failed hard with Inter in it as well, as soon as Mourinho takes charge at Inter they are good in Europe...

you can't buy a team as such either, you can buy individual players but you have to get them to play together to win things, that they could only win the league on goal difference last season against a United side very much in a transitional state just shows this. 

Silva is vastly over-rated imho as well, like 40% of the time for them he does little to nothing, the other 60% yes he is quality but he is far too inconsistent to be considered a really top player imo. Yaya Toure is easily their best midfielder, they may welll miss him badly as he is now at Afican Cup of Nations...

Rory just covered a lot of their big issues, but I think some less talked about ones are the attitude and quantity of players City attually have. City have 38 active players (this is players who /could/ play, even though only 14 at a maximum will get played per match, now some of these (Tevez and Ballotelli) are just trouble makers in the dressing room, which doesn't make for a happy camp. Similarly because so few players are actually playing right now in the active team, many wont be happy with their bench role (I imagine Lescott, Milner, Barry and Sinclair could all fall into this category), finally add to the fact that some players don't care about city (Nasri defending in the wall for Van Persie's goal in the derby). Stick all that together, it's not that surprising they don't do we'll all the time (even if they've still won 4 out of the last 6 :P).

Liverpool haven't been doing too badly the last few games :) A convincing win over Sunderland is very good, but even better is us signing Daniel Sturridge! :D He was amazing at Bolton and I can't wait for him to recapture that form! :D