William Gallas, Tottenham defender, is now ready and willing to play for the team. Boosting the confidence of Tottenham, the player is ready to take on his former club Chelsea at Wimbley for the semi-final FA Cup on Sunday. The 34 year old was suffering from calf problem due to which he missed the match against Norwich.

Younes Kaboul suffered knee injury and Michael Dawson is not in the season, so Gallas can go straight into the team and join Ryan Nelsen and Ledley King. The central defender thinks that he is all fit to take on Chelsea who will not have Branislav Ivanovic as he is under 3 match ban for violent conduct. Also, Jose Bosingwa is not in his full form. So chances for Tottenham winning the match are pretty bright. The fitness boost of William Gallas will turn a boon for the team, looking at Chelsea’s camp. Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp seems optimistic about it. Wishing both the team more luck and more power as the battle will begin soon.

West Bromwich stunned everybody with their 3-0 win over Blackburn Rovers, thereby surviving Premier League. The seventh minute goal by Martin Olsson shifted West Brom 11 points above relegation zone. The point worth noting is that the goal left Blackburn in bottom three.

Rovers substitute Anthony Modeste clashed with Albion defender Billy Jones and he was sent off, a big jerk for Blackburn. Foster, former England keeper, successfully saved a double in second half to prevent West Brom’s lead. However, Albion’s 69^th minute goal was savior for the team leading to the victory. The cherry on the cake was their last goal when only five minutes were left when defender Ridgewell got a free kick from Graham Dorrans.

While West Bromwich is partying hard, a bad day for Blackburn is all that everybody is saying.

If you don’t remember, then let us remind you that last year, Xavi was awarded the world’s best with world champions Spain and Jose Mourinho. Considered as the oldest of their kind in the soccer world, these awards are in their 30^th year celebration.

This year too, Xavi will feature as the main contenders for the world player of the year award in these soccer awards. It is expected that Spain will grab the award for winning the Champions League at Wembley, the Club World Cup in Dubai.

On the other hand, as the best manager, Alex Ferguson has fair chances of winning the award for celebrating 25 years as the manager of Manchester United in November.Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez and Andre Villas Boas of Europa League are strong contenders too in the same category.

This goalkeeper was busy in getting the first clear chance of the game in the first five minutes of the game itself. Though, the start was bit inauspicious, Dallas soon settled into maintaining the majority of possession in the match. Later in the 66^th minute, the pressure was seen on the Pumas side to defend the goals.

After sometime, it looked as if the Pumas might get back in the game when they earner a corner but the ball was cleared from the danger and the Pumas lost it at home in 11 Champions League matches and the first since falling to Cruz Azul 1-0 in the 2009 quarterfinals.

Now, they played against each other again. Last time City knocked out United out of the competition with a 1-0 win courtesy of a Yaya Toure Goal in the 52^nd minute. Expectations were high from key players like David de Gea who is known for his goalkeeping skills in the Manchester United team.

This was really a head to head battle to watch. Wayne Rooney was also expected to show some marvelous goal hitting performance in this match because of his solid performance in front of 75,322 people at Old Trafford.

PSV is expected to be the likely challengers for these big favorites. You must know that PSV were the ones who finished third last term. It must also be noted that without the natural crown since 2008 so the pressure will be great on coach Fred Rutten. Rutten is known to keep his job despite fierce criticism that he received over and over again to do better.

The local council has helped the Eindhoven club in buying the stadium and training complex. To thank this gesture, PSV will pay the rent for the next 40 years. However, this deal means that this 18 times champion has money available for strengthening its squad.

Another thing to note is that Belgian winger Dries Martens and Holland midfielder Kevin Strootman, have been already signed up for Utrecht but they are not expected to do any harm to the PSV.

Watch the highlights of Sweden vs. Finland UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifying Soccer Match yourself in this video clip. This is a 3 minutes and 9 seconds video clip featuring all the major highlights of this recently held soccer match.

You will get to see when and how the Finland team lost to Sweden with each goal. 

The news of Wayne Rooney’s wish to quit Old Trafford is not going to dampen the spirits of Manchester United in any possible way. The United midfielder Darren Fletcher is focused and also cautions its rivals at the Premier League.

Though the news of Wayne Rooney leaving has shocked everyone and is seen as a blow to the team’s hope of giving tough competition at the league, but the United midfielder Fletcher is confidant that his team can still do better without Rooney. He expects to prove the team’s rise at the Sunday match that it is playing at Stoke.

Fletcher also states that there has been many such earlier cases of high profile players leaving the club, but that doesn’t dampen the club’s spirits to keep going and win trophies.

Again, another person in limelight is the Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson. It seems that he will also be in trouble if the team doesn’t beat Blackburn at Anfield. After several defeats even at the hands of local rivals, the team now desperately need to win this match.

Amongst all the matches, the most exciting one seems to be the one at Eastlands where Manchester City will clash with Arsenal team to keep the pressure on leaders Chelsea to prove their contendership.

It was by no means the most fascinating finals ever and was marred by an exceedingly high number of fouls resulting in a record number of yellow cards. In fact, Dutch Defender John Heitinga had to be given a red card after being booked for a second time. This was perhaps the defining moment, as minutes after his expulsion Spain took the lead and that was enough to sail Spain home. This definitely looked headed towards a penalty shootout as none of the sides looked like scoring a goal even in extra time. Had Heitinga not been shown the red card, we perhaps might have had a different result. 

However, the Spanish side has to be credited for keeping its nerves and holding on till the last moment. This Spanish side has scored the lowest number of goals amongst all champions so far but one must confess that they have produced some breathtaking football throughout the tournament. Though they haven’t scored as many goals as they would have liked to but there is no denying that they have done everything right to be crowned the champions. It definitely looks that the Spanish team has finally lived up to its potential.