Manchester City are currently three points off the top, while Crystal Palace's poor run has seen them drop to eighth in the table.

How does manager Alan Pardew see this match going?

"City are a team that you have to demand 100% concentration," he said. They have that quality. We expect David Silva and Sergio Aguero to play.

"You get [runs like this] during a season in the Premier League. It's about keeping that balance. Players coming back will give us confidence."

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Elliot Leaver: Diego Costa is Motorhead. Raucous, loud, refuses to change his style of play and a handful/earful for lesser mortals.

Tom Reid: Harry Redknapp and Tim Sherwood - Chas and Dave. Both have good records with Spurs.

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So, how can Crystal Palace end their four game wait for a goal?

"We are trying to bring a striker in, whether it's permanent or on loan," said manager Alan Pardew. "Chairman Steve Parish and I are working on it.

"Emmanuel Adebayor is a player that's there for somebody. It's a question of teams like ourselves asking whether we're the right fit."

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Crystal Palace have problems up front and haven't scored for four games. That run will be difficult to end if they don't have any fit strikers to face Manchester City.

Manager Alan Pardew has given an update on the situations for Marouane Chamakh, Bakary Sako and Connor Wickham.

"It's about match fitness really," said Pardew. "We are doing loads of work in training but they need to play."

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Warren Feeney has been appointed as the new manager of League Two side Newport County.

Former Northern Ireland international Feeney, 34, was previously the Exiles' assistant manager and replaces former boss John Sheridan, who left to join Oldham Athletic on Wednesday.

He will be assisted by former Bolton and Blackburn defender Andy Todd, who he previously worked with at Linfield.

Newport lie 20th in the table, three points above the relegation zone.

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The Masters snooker action continues from Alexandra Palace and there's a tasty contest coming up live on BBC Sport.

Left-handers Judd Trump and current UK champion Neil Robertson face off in London (13:00 GMT) for a place in the semi-final.

World champion Stuart Bingham and two-time winner of the title John Higgins play at 19:00 GMT.

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Fan Trivia: Tony Pulis is Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Successful with a functional style, widely despised.

Badge: Sergio Aguero = Mozart  

Murray Lloyd: Wagner/Wenger, some good early stuff but then all a bit difficult to comprehend.  

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No wins or goals in Crystal Palace's last four games, will they manage to find the back of the net against Manchester City on Saturday?

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Phil Gallagher: LVG is the Adele of football, used to be cutting edge and exciting but bangs out the safe tunes over and over, boring us all.

Callum Egan: Edgar Davids is the Stevie Wonder of football.

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Reading are the latest Championship club to be linked with a move for out-of-favour Bournemouth striker Yann Kermorgant, according to the Reading Post., external

Kermorgant, 34, scored 17 goals in 42 games last season as the Cherries won promotion to the Premier League.

Discussions are understood to be progressing on bringing the Frenchman to the Madejski Stadium on a permanent basis.

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BBC Radio Five Live football reporter

All fairly quiet down at Beckenham, where we await Mr Pardew. It's four league games without a win or a goal for Palace - is there a new striker on the horizon ? 

Questions start at 12:30 (ish) GMT.

The Mighty Mojo: Highly talented, highly strung, prone to disrupting award shows... Yaya Toure is Kanye West.

Stephen Kershaw: Big Sam Allardyce would surely make a great Meat Loaf.  

Conor Matchett: Arsene Wenger will surely be David Gilmour, king of team intricacies and staying power, less so for solo success.

We're obliged to point out to the younger members of the audience that David Gilmour was part of Pink Floyd...

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We're expecting Alan Pardew in around 15 minutes. Keep it here...

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Mohammad Amir was booed on his return to international cricket after a five-year ban, but took a wicket as Pakistan beat New Zealand in a Twenty20 match.

Amir, 23, was playing for Pakistan for the first time since his suspension for spot-fixing ended.

Pakistan beat their hosts by 16 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series, with Mohammad Hafeez (61) their top scorer as they reached 171-8.

Amir opened the bowling, taking 1-31 from four overs, but did not bat.

Dan Blake: Jamie Vardy has to be Keith from the Prodigy.  

Stuart Adnett: Sean Dyche's raspy voice makes him Burnley's answer to Louis Armstrong.

Pete Morrison: Van Gaal: no appeal as a lead singer but suggest as composer for any band, because he loves making notes. 

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The South Wales Evening Post are reporting, external that Swansea City are keen to bring midfielder Jonathan de Guzman and winger Scott Sinclair back to the club and are also considering a £12.5m move for Roma striker Seydou Doumbia.

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BBC Radio 5 live

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Jurgen Klopp and Louis van Gaal faced each other during their time in the Bundesliga, when they were in charge of Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich respectively.

"Louis van Gaal and I are different but that is normal, I am different to most of the people in this room," said Klopp. 

"I don't know Louis too well. I don't think it's important. Both want to be successful, both need to do a lot of work to be successful. It's a different idea of football but I wouldn't say we had the better idea."

Stuart McFeat: If Alex Ferguson is the John Lennon of football, presumably that makes Louis van Gaal the Duncan from Blue?

Ged Lynam: If Ferguson is Lennon the only man with greater achievements, Bob "20 trophies in 9 years" Paisley, must be Elvis i.e. 'The King'.

Ian Bett: Jose Mourinho could be George Michael. Once great. Living on past reputation but now going from one car crash to another.

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Reporter, BBC Radio Merseyside Sport

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Roberto Martinez was always going to play straight over Sam Byram. Leeds have had a bid accepted from Everton, although the manager was reluctant to go into detail, other than to say the club have made an "initial approach". 

Radio Merseyside understands the player is keen to come and Leeds want to push the sale through to avoid a tribunal come the end of the season.

Martinez was cagey over the future of Steven Naismith. If the Scot ends up staying at Goodison then he could be key to the second half of the season. It appears Naismith holds the cards to his future and Norwich, as opposed to Swansea, look to be the club in pole position after their enquiry in the summer.