AG's Football Reports

Follow all of the action from around the grounds this afternoon, Premier League, Championship and F.A Cup 2nd round. 

Is this weekend the very last chance for Alan Pardew at Crystal Palace? Pardew has been in charge at Palace since 3 January 2015 Pardew’s men are on a run of six consecutive defeats in the Premier League. Palace have won just five Premier League games throughout the whole of 2016 and sit 17 th in the table. The only good part of 2016 for Palace was their run to the FA Cup Final in May which they went on to lose 2-1 to Manchester United at Wembley. The facts are not good for Palace just 22 points from 31 games throughout 2016 is extremely poor, after such a good 2015 where Palace were occupying a place in the Premier League’s top six, the wheels have well and truly come off for Pardew’s men. A run like this is not uncommon in an Alan Pardew team, remember that awful run with Newcastle just before he took over at Palace. However, before he left for Selhurst Park he had found a way out of the run and led the side up the table, Palace fans are hoping that he can ...

Kenny Jackett has left his post as Rotherham manager. Jackett was in charge for just 5 games Jackett offered his resignation on Saturday after the defeat against Leeds United which left the club bottom of the table and with one win in eighteen matches this season that came against Brentford. Jackett replaced former Hibs manager Alan Stubbs who was sacked earlier in the campaign.   A statement on the clubs website read: ‘Following the game against Leeds United at the weekend, Kenny Jackett tendered his resignation and accordingly, his employment with the Club has been terminated with immediate effect. Kenny’s resignation came as a shock and is disappointing. The club will now focus on making appropriate arrangements for the first team. ‘ It is believed the main reason for his departure was that he would not be given the backing needed needed to re-build the squad in the January transfer window. The club are now looking for ...

The Premier League and Championship are back after the International break, and I am here with my predictions for this weekends games in the Premier League. Manchester United vs Arsenal - Saturday 12.30PM (Sky Sports 1) Facts United have lost only one of the last ten Premier League matches vs Arsenal (W6 D3)  Jose has never lost against Arsenal in the Premier League winning five and drawing six Wayne Rooney has scored 14 goals against arsenal only Aston Vila have conceded more to the United captain (15) There have been SIX missed penalties out of ten in this fixture at Old Trafford that is more than any other game at any venue. Head to Head Matches Played: 48 Manchester United wins: 22 (15 Home, 7 Away) Arsenal Wins: 12 (9 Home, 3 Away) Draws: 14 W This is a tough one to call , United and Mourinho have a good record against Arsenal especially at Old Trafford in recent years, (remember 8-2?), Wenger's men have struggled at Old Trafford an...

STEVEN Gerrard is closing in on his first job in football management, according to sources he  has held talks with MK Dons. Gerrard who announced that he was leaving L.A Galaxy after two seasons in America. He has been linked with a return to Liverpool in a coaching role as well as linking up with former manager Brendan Rodgers at Celtic. This now looks like it won't be happening and that Stevie G is about to land his first role in management. Should he take over at Stadium:mk he would be taking over at a side who currently sit in the League One relegation places and still winless at home. 

Follow all of the action from the Premier League and Football league this afternoon. Sunderland 1-4 Arsenal Man Utd 0-0 Burnley M'Boro 0-0 Bournemouth  Spurs 0-0 Leicester West Brom 0-2 Man City  Palace v Liverpool (17.30)

FOLLOW all the action from Slovenia where England are looking to make it 3 wins from 3 in World Cup qualifying. Slovenia 0-0 England Rooney on bench  Dier starts Henderson Captain Slovakia 1-0 Scotland  Germany 2-0 N. Ireland    HT Slovenia 0-0 England  And that is it at Half-Time one of few chances, the main one is for the hosts, they hit the post after Joe Hart made a reaction save, that is the only real main talking point of this game so far. Plenty for Gareth Southgate to mention at Half - Time Slovenia 0-0 England Another England free-kick and another chance, the ball comes in and is just kept out by the keeper as it looked certain to be heading into the bottom corner from Cahill's header. Slovenia 0-0 England  Free kick comes's Englands way... Comes to nothing and England are struggling to create anything as are the hosts. Slovenia 0-0 England  Good work by Rose down the left hand side sends the ball to Lingard who gets it ba...

ASTON Villa have sacked Roberto Di Matteo after just 12 games in charge.  Villa have won just 1 of their games in the Championship since their relegation from the Premier League last season. Villa sit 19th in the Championship table and the club have felt it imperative that a change needs to be made. From the graphic below you can see that his time in charge was one of difficulties. From this graphic you can see that he had 12 games in charge of the club since his arrival on the 2nd June, the team won 1 match during his tenure a 3-0 over Rotherham at Villa Park, as you can see there is only 4 defeats however one of them came to Walsall in the EFL Cup. Steve Bruce is the current odds on favourite to replace Di Matteo in the Villa hot seat, David Wagner and Sam Allardyce are also in the frame. Di Matteo sacked by Villa

FOLLOW all the action this afternoon with all the goals as they go in plus updates from games in the EFL. FT: Swansea 1-2 Liverpool Hull 0-2 Chelsea Sunderland 1-1 West Brom Watford 2-2 Bournemouth West Ham 1-1 M'Boro SUPER 6 GAMES Hull 0-2 Chelsea Sunderland 1-1 West Brom West Ham 1-1 M'Boro Ipswich 0-1 Huddersfield Rotherham 0-1 Newcastle Watford 2-2 Bournemouth Thats it for today, I will be back with reports of the games on Sunday, also the England squad is named tomorrow I'll have the squad in full and my opinion on that, as well as live coverage from Wembley next weekend with England. Bye for now! FT: WATFORD 2-2 BOURNEMOUTH  FT: SUNDERLAND 1-1 WEST BROM  FT: WEST HAM 1-1 MIDDLESBOROUGH  FT: HULL 0-2 CHELSEA CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATE Barnsley are really knocking on the door at Elland Road but Leeds holding their 2-1 lead at the moment. League leaders Huddersfield still leading 1-0 at Ipswich and Newcastle still leading 1-0 at Rotherham. B...

Pearson suspended by Derby Latest on Big Sam  EFL Action  Follow all action from the Champions League and the EFL tonight as Leicester and Tottenham look to win in Europe's elite competition. We will have the latest on England Manager Sam Allardyce as well as the other big story of the day, Nigel Pearson being Suspended by Derby.  GOAL!! CARDIFF 0-2 DERBY  NO Nigel Pearson but Derby are doing fine a job Nick Blackman has made it 2-0 from the spot. LEICESTER 1-0 PORTO It's all gone a bit quiet at the KP nothing much really happening there at the moment Leicester still lead. GOAL!! BIRMNGHAM 2-2 PRESTON  NOTTINGHAM FOREST 1-1 FULHAM  GOAL!! BURTON 1-1 QPR GOAL!! BRISTOL CITY 1-0 LEEDS  Marlon Pack has given Bristol City the lead against Leeds LEAGUE ONE LATEST  Bradford are now 2-1 up against Fleetwood and Port Vale have doubled against Millwall GOAL!! BARNSLEY 0-1 ASTO...

FOLLOW all of the action from the Premier League this afternoon here on AG'S Football Reports. 15:00 Bournemouth 1-0 Everton - (Stanislas 22) 15:00 Liverpool 5-1 Hull - (Lallana 16, Milner 30,71Pen, Mane 36, Coutinho 52; Meyler 51) 15:00 Middlesbrough 1-2 Tottenham - Son (6,23; Gibson 65) 15:00 Stoke 1-1 West Brom - (Allan 73; Rondon 90) 15:00 Sunderland 2-3 Palace - (Defore 39, 60; Ledley 61, McArthur 76, Benteke 90) 15:00 Swansea 1-3 Man City - (Aguero 9, 65, Sterling 77; Llorente) 17:30 Arsenal v Chelsea FT: Man Utd 4-1 Leicester Brighton 2-0 Barnsley- (Murray 7,48) Derby 1-2 Blackburn - (Vdrya 68, Emnes 70, Graham 73) Fulham 0-4 Bristol City (Abraham 10, Freeman 60, Reid 68, Flint 83) Leeds 1-0 Ipswich- (Wood 35) Norwich 3-1 Burton - (Olsson 29, Murphy 47,Pinto 89; Akins 46) QPR 1-1 Birmingham (Jutkiewicz 23, Caulker 39) Reading 1-0 Huddersfield - (Beerens 41) Rotherham 1-2 Cardiff - (Brown 60; Lambert 73, 78) Shelf Wed 2-1 Notts Forest- (Lee 68, 90 ;L...

Welcome back to AG'S Football Reports for the 2016/17 season. This season is going to be our biggest and best season yet. We will have match reports as well as news from all of the leagues from he top tier through to the 4th tier. We will have round - ups from around the world including Spain, France and Germany. We will also have live twitter feeds from the EFL Cup action, FA Cup and the Uefa Champions League action as well. So stick with us throughout the season for what is going to be one fantastic season. 

MANCHESTER UNITED have sacked Louis Van Gaal.  This is the confirmation that we have been waiting for since the news first broke on Saturday evening after United and Van Gaal had won a record 12th F.A Cup. Van Gaal was appointed as David Moyes's successor in June 2014 and led United to a 4th placed finish in the Premier League last season. It looks to be the last job that Van Gaal will have in football before he retires, he had planned to retire at the end of next season at the end of his contract. A statement on the Man United website read: Executive vice chairman Ed Woodward said: "I would like to thank Louis and his staff for their excellent work in the past two years culminating in winning a record-equalling 12th FA Cup for the club (and securing him a title in four different countries). He has behaved with great professionalism and dignity throughout his time here. He leaves us with a legacy of having given several young players the confidence to show their ab...