Manchester United Striker, Dimitar Barbatov, will not be joining his team mates as they travel to Aston Villa to face the club in the upcoming Barclays Premier League match, due to an ankle injury.

The announcement came from manager, Sir Alex Ferguson who admitted that “at the moment, we’re going through a spell where we’re getting a few a week but we have to get on with it,” referring to the string of injuries suffered by the team recently.

Barbatov joins Brazilian twins Rafael and Fabio who will also miss Saturday’s game after limping off in Wednesday’s 2-1 defeat by Crystal Palace in their League Cup quarterfinal.

Manchester United are second in the Premier League, trailing leaders Manchester City by five points.

Manchester United will play Aston Villa on the Saturday 3rd December at 17:30 UK Time.

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Harry Redknapp, Tottenham Hotspur manager, has said that he expects to be on the touchline for the club’s Premier League match again Aston Villa at White Hart Lane tonight at 8pm, UK time.

Redknapp, 64, who is tipped as becoming the next England coach missed Tottenham’s matches against Rubin Kazan at the Uefa Europa League and Fulham after undergoing heart surgery. Redknapp has since told Sky Sports that  ”I feel fine, I’ve got more energy than I had before.”

The former Bournemouth, Portsmouth and West Ham manager said he felt even worse watching Tottenham’s 3-1 victory over Fulham at Craven Cottage from his home than if he had been at the ground.

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Arsenal player Theo Walcott believes that the team, who had been written off due to their recent string of losses, have proved that they are back at their best with their 5-3 victory against Chelsea.

The departure of star players Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri triggered the team’s worst start to a season in 58 years. Since their humiliating 8-2 loss against Manchester United back in August it seems Arsenal have made a surprising comeback and are now just three points off the top four after their Chelsea victory.

After the departure of Nasri and Fabregas Arsene Wenger was accused of panic buys when he brought in Mikel Arteta, Andre Santos, Per Mertesacker and Park Chu-Young before the transfer window had closed. However, Walcott believes that the new arrivals have begun to settle in, helping the team to climb up the table.

Walcott recently stated that ”We are not looking too far ahead. We don’t want to say where we’re going to finish at the end of the season, but the way we’re playing at this moment in time we believe we can beat anyone.”

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He may be arrogant and cocky, but surely everyone would agree that Mario Balotelli is a class act after he scored a double in Manchester City‘s humiliating 1 – 6 defeat over Manchester United on Sunday.

‘It was a bad one, I can’t believe it’, said Sir Alex Ferguson after the match. It was the heaviest defeat for Sir Alex in his 25 years at Old Tafford.

‘The red card killed us,’ said Ferguson. Jonny Evans received a red card at the start of the second half which obviously had a huge impact on the game.

Goals for City: Balotelli 22, 60, Aguero 68, Dzeko 90, 90+3, Silva 90+1

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The owner of Premier League football team Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan is currently at the top of the football Rich List. The Sheikh, who is a member of Abu Dhabi’s prestigious Al-Nahyan ruling family, is reported to be worth £20 billion. Since taking over the club in 2008, The Shiekh’s £300 million investment into the club has brought about a number of new player signings resulting in the team’s qualification for this season’s Champions League as well as the win of the FA Cup final last season.

Coming second on the list is Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usamov worth approximately £12.4 billion followed by steel tycoon and QPR stakeholder Lakshmi Mittal in third place with £11.8 billion. Chelsea‘s owner Roman Abromovich now sits at number four on the list with a fortune of £10.3 billion.

Fernando Torres’s shocking miss at goals against Manchester United has been recreated on FIFA 11. The video uploaded onto YouTube was created by a user called R9Rai who managed to recreate all the moves leading up to the now infamous miss at Old Trafford.

Along with the video R9Rai made the following comment: “This had to be done, Sorry to any Chelsea fans! I actually do like Torres, feel so sorry for him after that miss, HE WILL REMAIN IN MY DREAM TEAM/FANTASY LEAGUE!!!’

The Spanish striker who was devastated after the incident has been mocked over the last couple of days but he’s certainly not in bad company. Top soccer stars Ryan Giggs and Christiano Ronaldo have both missed easy opportunities in the past.

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Despite losing three of their first five matches of the Barclays Premier League resulting in the worst start to a season in the club’s history since 1953, Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger will not be fired. The statement came from Arsenal’s Chief Executive Ivan Gazidis since Wenger has come under fire by both disappointed fans and critics. Gazidis stated at the Sport Industry Breakfast Club in London in support of Wenger that he “is not a broken man. He did not suddenly become a bad manager or somebody who became out of touch with the game. It is complete nonsense. Firing him is not a road we are going to go down.”

Wenger, who has managed Arsenal since 1996 has not won a Trophy for the club since the 2005 FA Cup.

In the previous three of five opening matches of the Barclays Premier League, Arsenal lost 2-8 to Manchester United in an embarrassing performance, 0-2 to Liverpool and 3-4 to Blackburn Rovers.

Arsenal will face Bolton Wanderers at the Emirates Stadium on the 24th September in the next match of the Premier League.