Summary

  • Cardiff v Spurs - listen on BBC Radio 5 live

  • Morrison's attempted clearance bounces off Kane and in, Eriksen rolls home from edge of area, Son finishes slick move

  • Spurs go second above Man City - City face leaders Liverpool on Thursday

  • Arsenal beat Fulham with goals from Xhaka, Lacazette, Ramsey & Aubameyang - Kamara for Fulham

  • Vardy's goal gives Leicester win at Everton

  1. Teams outpublished at 12:26 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

    The teams are in the tunnel and there is a little summer love rekindled as Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford warmly greets Leicester centre-back head Harry Maguire.

    Z Cars is fired up and the two teams stroll out into the watery January sun.

  2. 'Choudhury showing his worth'published at 12:24 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

    Leon Osman
    Former Everton midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

    Hamza ChoudhuryImage source, Getty Images

    Hamza Choudhury has done well in the games he has played. He has really come in and raised his profile. He has showed he fans and the manager that he deserves a place in this team.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 12:19 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

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    Tom: Happy to see Maguire and Evans together at the back. Believe this will be our best pairing for the future. Adore Big Wes but I don't think he's at the level to start regularly in the Premier League anymore.

  4. Puel under pressurepublished at 12:19 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

    Claude PuelImage source, PA

    Leicester manager Claude Puel seems to be a man perpetually under pressure.

    You don't leave yourself much margin for error with his sterile football and the home defeat by Cardiff was followed by jeers by the King Power Stadium on Saturday.

    According to Daily Mirror,, external Leicester's hierarchy are looking covetously at Rafael Benitez.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 12:17 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

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    Anon: I won't be alone in stating the Fiorentina shirt with Batistuta in the back and Nintendo on the front is the best from any era. By miles.

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    Nathan: Debate over..don’t @ me

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  6. 'That is the schedule'published at 12:09 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

    Marco SilvaImage source, PA

    Everton manager Marco Silva:"We don't have time to prepare in the normal way but that is the schedule and we have to put in our players' minds how important the next game is.

    "We have to change our recent form at home and give a different answer. It will be a tough match but we have to give 100% to win it."

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    Get Involvedpublished at 12:01 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

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    Ben: This Pompey beauty (1991/1992) as modelled by Darren Anderton!

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    Yannick: The Dreamcast jersey from Arsenal.

    Thierry Henry and Dennis BerkampImage source, Getty Images
  8. In position at Goodisonpublished at 11:56 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

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    You will be able to listen to live commentary of this one with Alan Green and former Everton midfielder Leon Osman from this very page.

    Lovely day on Merseyside by the way...

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    Get Involvedpublished at 11:53 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

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    Sulaimon: I have never owned a national team jersey. My dream jersey pick will be the iconic Brazilian World Cup winning jersey of 1970 with the number 10 you all know who. I hope to get it.

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  10. Papy got a brand new clubpublished at 11:53 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    You can't keep the man down.

    Four months after his contract was terminated by Sunderland, 18 months since his last first-team appearance for the Black Cats, and two and a bit years since his £8m (eight!) move to the Stadium of Light from Chelsea, Papy Djilobodji has a new club.

    The 30-year-old has signed a six-month deal with French side Guingamp, who are bottom of Ligue 1

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  11. 'Anyone can be a ref'published at 11:45 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

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    We met the Premier League's top referees and assistant referees to find out why football refereeing is now the "cool thing to do".

    Read the full article here.

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    Can an aspiring referee keep up with Premier League's Massey-Ellis?

  12. Mbappe new yearpublished at 11:39 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    As a 14-year-old, Kylian Mbappe was photographed in his bedroom, looking up adoringly at a wall-ful of Cristiano Ronaldo photos.

    Now, 20 the World Cup winner has posted a celebratory image, mocking up that same youthful face with a slightly different backdrop.

    It's his world now.

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    Get Involved - Dream football shirtspublished at 11:37 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

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    Chris: My dad was called Michael Owen, and he passed away last year. In memory of all the jokes the nurses made about his hamstrings, I'd like to find a classic 2001 Owen Liverpool shirt.

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  14. Jonjoe in...published at 11:36 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

    Jonjoe KennyImage source, getty

    A changing of the guard? Is this the chance for Jonjoe Kenny, 21, to nail down that right-back slot ahead of Seamus Coleman, 30?

    And is Yerry Mina unlucky to miss out in at centre-back? I thought he had looked pretty decent in recent weeks...

  15. Team newspublished at 11:30 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

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    Everton boss Marco Silva makes three changes from their 1-0 defeat at Brighton.

    Jonjoe Kenny makes his first start in almost two months in place of Seamus Coleman. Gylfi Sigurdsson and Dominic Calvert-Lewin return to the side as the Toffees revert to a back four.

    Everton XI: Pickford, Zouma, Digne, Keane, Kenny, Sigurdsson, Gomes, Gueye, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison, Walcott

    Leicester XIImage source, BBC Sport

    James Maddison drops to the bench for Leicester City, while defender Jonny Evans returns from Injury.

    Hamza Choudhury and Rachid Ghezzal both start in place of Marc Albrighton and Demarai Gray.

    Leicester XI: Schmeichel, Chilwell, Maguire, Simpson, Evans, Mendy, Ndidi, Pereira, Choudhury, Ghezza, Vardy.

  16. Today's cardpublished at 11:26 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    EvertonImage source, Reuters

    This is your full run-down of today's Premier League fixtures. Click through for all the pre-match chat, stats and the early team news sniffs.

    Everton v Leicester City

    Arsenal v Fulham

    Cardiff City v Tottenham Hotspur

    Full team news from Everton is incoming in approximately five minutes.

  17. Get involved - dream football shirtspublished at 11:16 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

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    The January sales begin sometime before Christmas nowadays don't they?

    But we are not going to let a minor detail like being 10 days late stand in the way of a good Get Involved.

    Today we are asking what would be your dream find as you rummaged through a bottomless bargain bucket of historic football shirts?

    Home, abroad, recent, ancient, with a player name or an unblemished back, let us know via #bbcfootball, external and 81111 on text.

  18. The surprise Man United contender?published at 11:12 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

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    An interesting bit of managerial merry-go-round speculation this morning in the Sun., external

    They claim that Red Bull Salzburg boss Marco Rose is part of Manchester United's back-up plans should they fail to lure first-choice managerial target Mauricio Pochettino from Tottenham in the summer.

    Zinedine Zidane, Laurent Blanc and interim coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer are also in the mix behind Pochettino. Red Bull Salzburg won the Austrian title last season and made the semi-finals of the Europa League.

  19. The battle for the best of the restpublished at 11:09 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

    Premier League table

    If you presume Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United are going to fill the top six Premier League slots, then this match could be crucial in the reckoning of who is best of the rest.

    It is a tightly packed mid-table with just four points separating seventh-placed Wolves and Brighton in 13th.

    Last year Burnley claimed seventh and, according to the bookies, Wolves are the favourites to be first in the slipstream of the big boys.

  20. Good morningpublished at 11:03 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2019

    Everton v Leicester (12:30 GMT)

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    But, if you leave aside Melbourne City Women beating WS Wanderers Women in a 06:20 GMT kick-off earlier today, 2019's year of football begins at Goodison Park.

    The Toffees take on Leicester, one point and two places ahead of them in the Premier League table in the day's opening kick-off.

    You have until 12:30 GMT to clear the fog from your head and the sleep from your eyes to get fully focused.