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Liverpool and Manchester City are locked together in close quarters. A single point keeps them apart after 29 matches. Liverpool was cruising in January towards an unprecedented 19th league title after a gap of 28 years. But four draws - against Leicester City, West Ham United, Manchester United and Everton has pegged them back. Manchester City was able to capitalize on this with their astonishing recent form and take a one-point lead over the Mersey side team....

Team News Fulham Claudio Ranieri will be relived by the return of star winger Andre Schurrle and full-back Cyrus Christie after the former missed the last match through injury while the latter was taken off with a suspected knock in the second half against Crystal Palace in the weekend. Dutch international Timothy Fosu Mensah is ineligible to play against his parent club while goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli and centre back Alfie Mawson are still a long way from recovering from their long-term injuries....

Clubs get profited in many other ways too. For instance, when Paul Pogba re-joined Manchester United, the Red Devils garnered over 190 million pounds from his jersey sales alone. Usually, club owners invest the money they make, back into the club, spending eye-watering amounts of money on a single player for the sake of the simple logic that signing quality players will increase the chances of the team having a successful season....

Clearly, something happened in the dressing room at halftime during that match and either through sheer force of nature or will, United came out in the second half roaring like a lion whose pride has been hurt preying on the hapless Newcastle defence culminating in Sanchez scoring that 90th-minute winner. They have resembled the United of the old ever since, with late winners and rip-roaring attacking play being the norm, winning three of the subsequent five matches....

There was thrilling action, controversy and tension by the bucketload as some of the biggest clubs in the division clashed. Nottingham Forest claimed their first top-flight win since 1999 as they downed West Ham 1-0, while there were victories for Aston Villa and Liverpool. Elsewhere, Southampton fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Leeds, though Brighton failed to break down visiting Newcastle as the pair drew 0-0 at the Amex Stadium....

Football on TV: The full UK fixtures Four league clashes were still scheduled, however, with important points up for grabs in particular at the bottom of the table as Hull City took on Swansea City at the KCOM Stadium in what was nothing less than a must-win match for the Tigers. Here’s how the action unfolded… PREMIER LEAGUE SCORES Goals were not in short supply on Saturday, with a five-goal thriller at Bournemouth offering the best entertainment across three enjoyable matches....

#5 Christensen won’t leave Andreas Christensen has once again spoken about his dissatisfaction over not being able to play regularly for the Blues. The Danish defender stated that he played a lot of games last season, which is in stark contrast to what has gone down so far this season. He then added that it was “difficult” when something like this happens and opined that no player in the world would like it if he doesn’t play regularly while stating that the only thing he can do now is to train well and make the best of an opportunity should it arise....

#5 Callum Hudson-Odoi advised to go Chelsea midfielder Callum Hudson-Odoi has been advised to leave the Blues and join the Bavarians by former West Ham star Leroy Roseoier. The youngster has been linked with a move to the German outfit as they are very interested in signing him. And now, Rosenior has stated Chelsea signing Christian Pulisic, who is also young, should mean that Hudson-Odoi’s place in the starting XI could have more hurdles....

This column is in the spirit of good fun and as usual, your comments and opinions are welcomed. Winners and Losers for Game Week 13 Winners: Manchester City Home Form Only one half of ‘Aquerdo’ scored this weekend, but that did not prove to be a problem as Samir Nasri helped himself to some goals. City never looked like conceding throughout the match and whiles their away form could hamper their chances of winning the league, this imperious home form could very well push them into the top 4 for that vital Champions League position....

Though each iteration feels different, there are also fan favorites that emerge with every game, whether it’s the base game or DLC. Occult instances in The Sims have been around since the beginning, and many players enjoy playing with occult Sims more than “normal” ones. Though other supernatural beings wouldn’t be introduced to The Sims 3 until later, the expansion pack Ambitions brought in active careers for players, including the Ghost Hunter career....

The most common preservative used in eye drops is called benzalkonium chloride, or BAK. Using BAK too frequently can irritate your eyes and may make dry eyes worse. Eye drops for dry eye that are free of preservatives do not contain BAK. If you have dry eye and you are an ongoing eye drop user, you may prefer a preservative-free option. This article will address dry eyes, preservative-free eye drops, and when it’s best to use preservative-free eye drops....

The Preset Manager in Photoshop can be used to load, organize, and save all your custom content and presets for brushes, swatches, gradients, styles, patterns, contours, custom shapes, and tool settings. In Photoshop Elements, the Preset Manager works for brushes, swatches, gradients, and patterns. (Layer styles and custom shapes must be loaded a different way in Photoshop Elements.) In both programs, the Preset Manager is located under the Edit > Presets > Preset Manager....

Still, Nixon took time at 12:21 p.m. on Dec. 19 to call the junior Democratic senator-elect who was just 29 when he won the Delaware seat a month earlier. Joe Biden. Nixon called to console Biden over the deaths of his wife and daughter in a car crash a day earlier, and to congratulate him for a stunning upset over incumbent Republican J. Caleb Boggs, a close Nixon ally....

The tweets, with Devine’s email address removed, quoted something she wrote about Trump’s reemergence on Monday from his weekend hospitalization due to COVID-19. “You see it in enthusiasm for the President outside Walter Reed Hospital. You see it in Registrations, from Florida to Pennsylvania & West Virginia, where Republicans are outstripping Democrats by 2 to 1,” the tweet began. “If the President bounces back onto the campaign trail, he will be an invisible hero, who not only survived every dirty trick the Democrats threw at him, but the Chinese virus as well....

Instead, Trump told reporters, he would seek to ascertain citizenship data by issuing an executive order to require all federal agencies to supply the Commerce Department with “all legally accessible records” in their possession that could be used to determine residents’ citizenship status. “We are pursuing a new option to ensure a complete and timely count of the non-citizen population,” Trump said. But despite overwhelming legal and political barriers that ultimately scuttled counting citizens via the census, including a Supreme Court decision, the president had consolidated majority support for the census question....

Cops are also in the fight for the long haul. Unlike troops in distant places, they never get a chance to declare victory and walk away. And while the American public and Congress gird for bio-terror and suitcase nukes, U.S. police and security forces haven’t forgotten that the hijackings of Sept. 11 were carried out with box cutters. They know that the difference between life and death in the real world of counter-terrorism may depend more on a lowly flashlight or a folding stepladder than the latest high technology....

You see, I know all about slobs and the grunge movement, because I was a part of it. I walked the walk of the typical ’90s kid. I dressed just like everyone else did. Granted, everyone had their own idea of what ““fashionable’’ was, but for the most part, it was the same all over. That struck me as kind of phony, but I went along with it. By dressing the way I did, at least I learned some tricks of the trade that you might never have found out had you not read this essay....

Decoding the genome may be affordable, but the cost of understanding what it means to cancer treatment has exploded. Piecing together the elements of the genome that really matter in medicine and matching that learning with carefully designed new biopharmaceuticals and new opportunities for older drugs requires a hefty investment in research. As technologies have evolved, our view of the economics of life-changing genetic tests have become more nuanced. It is important to show not only how these tests can guide the decisions we make with our patients but also how additional testing can bring value to the health care system....