The games keep coming thick and fast at this time of year. In fact it is just 25 hours until your next dose of Premier League action, with Liverpool entertaining Swansea tomorrow evening.

Then it is just another three days until a full 10-match top-flight programme on 1 January.

Ambassador, you are really spoiling us.

See you there to gorge on more of the good stuff.

Hull defender Curtis Davies:, external Disappointing result! The win at Sunderland cancelled out! Had enough chances to win but wasn't to be! Everton even bigger game now! #HCAFC

Now then, this is a curious one.

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew usually likes a chinwag with the press after his side win.

Today? He is nowhere to be seen. Assistant John Carver has come out to face the cameras instead.

If you were conspiratorially minded, you might put that alongside his standing as the favourite for the vacant Crystal Palace job, external and make four.

QPR midfielder Joey Barton:, external Not a game for the purists today. Scrappy encounter. Clean sheet and another point on the board. We go again on the 1st. No easy games in the Premier League. Every point will be valuable in May. Some people have short memories and high expectations.

I think where they are now is about par for QPR...

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Roberto Martinez believes some of his players played "magnificently" during their 3-2 defeat at Newcastle. Here is what Ian Wright has to say...

"Roberto did brilliantly in his first season but now he is struggling. We are going to find out what he is made of now. I watched the game and sometimes I had to leave and it was then that this "magnificent" play happened, because I didn't see anything magnificent."

You can hear more of Wrighty on 606 on BBC Radio 5 live now.

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Arsenal striker Alexis Sanchez:, external 3 points well deserved ! Happy to be part of a TEAM of great players and very nice people!!! Thanks! !!

Owen, Liverpool: Martinez has absolutely no plan B. He seems to have a unwavering commitment to playing 4-2-3-1 but refuses to change shape or try anything different when it doesn't work. So frustrating!

Sam, Wigan: Martinez tries to take credit for players Moyes brought in and developed. He never takes responsibility for any bad results. When the going gets tough he sneaks out the back door and gets another job.

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Paul Lambert reflecting on his Aston Villa side's disciplinary record after Fabian Delph picked up their fourth red card of the season: "We're not a dirty team, we don't have anyone really who is a dirty player.

"Look at the lads who have been sent off - they are not malicious at all.

"It doesn't look great but the lads are committed to the challenge. Gabby Agbonlahor one against Manchester United wasn't but Kieran Richardson's against West Brom I understand because his studs were showing. Christian Benteke's against Tottenham was provoked as I said at the time."

OptaJoe:, external 88 - Chelsea and Manchester City both won 88 points in the Premier League in 2014. Rivals.

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"Alex Ferguson would say something one week and change it the next week. The thing with him, and it is the same with Jose Mourinho, is that his team is in the right frame of mind and that they win. Managers need to use every tactic possible - within reason - that will help them win games."

All's fair in love, war and the dugout apparently. You can hear more of Wrighty's tales and your dispatches from the frontline of today's games on 606 on BBC Radio 5 live now.

Ged, Swindon: Martinez' true quality and nature coming out now. Second rate, flatters to deceive, always some injustice to whine about. Horrible.

Phil, Liverpool: More than struggling to swallow. Positivity is fine, unless he's delusional. Comments after Hull, Southampton and Stoke doesn't indicate to the fans that we're not playing good enough.

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Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "We imposed ourselves early on and scored a good goal from open play - if we got a second goal then the game would have been over. Disappointed to concede a goal in the second phase of a set-play. We need to be strong in those moments. You look at the character we showed and fought until the end. There were incredible performances. We need to get a win and get momentum.

Regarding Papiss Cisse's swipe at Seamus Coleman in the first half: "You don't want to see players sent off but you don't want to see those actions on a football pitch. When you want to hurt someone it's pre-mediation - throwing an elbow should happen in a football game. Cisse was very very fortunate.

The current league run: "It is a concern - it's time to be very, very strong and understand what we need to do. We need to make sure we get through this period as quick as we can. I'm excited what we have round the corner - results aren't coming, but the effort and attitude I can see. At this stage we want to get a good group of consistent results and try to build something into final third of season."

Roberto Martinez is straight out to front up to the television cameras and he heralds some "incredible performances in the face of adversity" from his side.

Some travelling fans might struggle to swallow that one.

He is tougher on Papiss Cisse and referee Craig Pawson, saying that the Newcastle striker should have been shown red for his apparent elbow on Seamus Coleman.

Full quotes to come.

Maria Fiorentino: What a difference a few months make, Martinez was a hero and Pardew a zero just a few months ago....

Geoff Leik: If you combine the ability of Barry, Alcaraz, and Joel, you still don't get a player good enough for the Premier League.

Graeme Dawson: Massive massive 3 Points! Still not a great performance but something to build on #NUFC

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Grab a glass of claret and enjoy. BBC One, 22:25 GMT. Or 23:20 if you're watching in Scotland.

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So which of these two likely lads would you expect to be in their current job the longest?

At the start of the season, with Roberto Martinez heralding a new era with the signing of Romelu Lukaku and Alan Pardew apparently close to getting the elbow from owner Mike Ashley, it would have been a no brainer.

Now? Not so easy.

Vercovicium: Where are all those people who had a laugh at Moyes and lauded Martinez's style of football?

Sanj: Taken a season longer than I thought but Martinez is turning Everton into Wigan Athletic.

Jamie Mills O'Brien: 3 defeats in a row would never have happened under Moyes.

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Newcastle goalscorer Jack Colback: "It is nice to finally get a Newcastle goal, it has been a long time coming and I have had chances in other games and failed to put them away.

"Papiss is lethal in and around the box and it was a crucial goal to get us back in the game, We have had difficult period with losing the last two games and hopefully this puts us back on track."

After their fine comeback against Manchester City, we've been asking whether you think Burnley can avoid relegation.

The result is in, and 56.6% of you think the Clarets have what it takes to stay up.

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After successive defeats to Sunderland and Manchester United, a win to put the bounce back into Alan Pardew's heel.

His Newcastle side are up to ninth. Everton's engines have stalled badly though. They have four points from the last 21 and are sliding south fast.