Keep yourself updated with the latest team news and squads for Saturday’s matches in the Barclays Premier League.

Fulham vs Manchester United

Veteran defender Gary Neville is back in the squad for Manchester United’s visit to Fulham after recovering from a groin strain.

Darren Fletcher, who missed the 4-1 defeat by Liverpool due to a virus, is also in the squad.

Jonny Evans is likely to replace the suspended Nemanja Vidic alongside Rio Ferdinand in central defence.

Clint Dempsey is a doubt for Fulham.

The on-form American winger has had a bout of food poisoning but will be given until the last minute to declare his availability.

Other than that Fulham are relatively untroubled by injury, with only centre-half Aaron Hughes ruled out with a rib problem.

Teams

Fulham (from): Schwarzer, Pantsil, Stoor, Hangeland, Konchesky, Baird, Davies, Etuhu, Dacourt, Murphy, Gera, Dempsey, Johnson, Zamora, Zuberbuhler, Kallio, Nevland, Kamara, Gray, Barnes.

Manchester United (from): Van der Sar, Foster, Kuszczak, O’Shea, Ferdinand, Evans, Neville, Evra, Eckersley, Fabio, Ronaldo, Nani, Fletcher, Gibson, Carrick, Anderson, Giggs, Scholes, Park, Berbatov, Rooney, Tevez, Welbeck.

Tottenham vs Chelsea

Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is out of the Barclays Premier League clash against Chelsea as he is still recovering from his foot injury.

Alan Hutton also has been rehabilitating from a foot injury and the clash at White Hart Lane has come too soon for the Scotland full-back.

Ledley King’s knee should have recovered from Sunday’s win at Aston Villa, while Giovani dos Santos and Adel Taarabt have been loaned out.

Chelsea are without midfielder Deco.

The Portugal midfielder is out with a hamstring injury but should be fit before the end of the season.

Midfielder Joe Cole and defender Paulo Ferreira remain sidelined with knee ligament damage but strikers Nicolas Anelka (toe) and Didier Drogba (knee) are both fit.

Teams

Tottenham (from): Gomes, Cudicini, Corluka, Chimbonda, Bale, Dawson, Woodgate, King, Assou-Ekotto, Zokora, Bentley, Huddlestone, Jenas, Lennon, Palacios, Modric, O’Hara, Pavlyuchenko, Bent, Keane, Campbell.

Chelsea (from): Cech, Hilario, Taylor, Bosingwa, Mancienne, Alex, Terry, Ivanovic, A Cole, Belletti, Ballack, Obi, Lampard, Essien, Kalou, Malouda, Di Santo, Anelka, Drogba, Quaresma

Newcastle vs Arsenal

Arsenal will be without England winger Theo Walcott for Saturday’s Barclays Premier League trip to Newcastle after he suffered a knee injury in training.

Goalkeeper Manuel Almunia (ankle) is fit again, while defender Mikael Silvestre could also come into contention after some 10 weeks out with a calf injury.

Captain Cesc Fabregas (knee) and striker Eduardo (groin) are both back in training, but not expected to feature until after the international break. Emmanuel Adebayor (hamstring) and Tomas Rosicky (hamstring tendon) continue their rehabilitation.

Newcastle will welcome back Kevin Nolan from suspension.

The midfielder has missed the last three games after being sent off for a horror challenge on Everton striker Victor Anichebe.

Full-back Habib Beye is also available for the first time since damaging ankle ligaments at Wigan on Boxing Day, although midfielder Danny Guthrie (hamstring) is not yet ready to return.

Joey Barton (fractured metatarsal) is targeting the end of next month for his comeback, but Mark Viduka and Ignacio Gonzalez (both Achilles) and Xisco (fractured toe) remain on the sidelines.

Teams

Newcastle (from): Harper, Forster, Krul, S. Taylor, Beye, Bassong, Coloccini, Enrique, Edgar, Cacapa, Butt, Duff, R. Taylor, Gutierrez, Nolan, Lovenkrands, Geremi, Ameobi, Smith, Martins, Owen, Carroll.

Arsenal (from): Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy, Nasri, Denilson, Song, Vela, Arshavin, van Persie, Fabianski, Djourou, Gibbs, Bendtner, Eboue, Diaby, Silvestre.

Portsmouth vs Everton

Portsmouth must do without in-form winger Jermaine Pennant for their Barclays Premier League clash with Everton.

The on-loan Liverpool man has torn a calf muscle and is expected to miss out, with Nadir Belhadj or John Utaka likely to step into the breach.

Caretaker-boss Paul Hart is unlikely to make many other changes from the side which drew with Middlesbrough, while Theofanis Gekas can expect to miss out again after criticising Hart this week.

Everton will be without defender Joseph Yobo at Portsmouth after he picked up a hamstring injury in training.

The Toffees have yet to fully assess the injury, but already there are concerns he could miss the FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley on April 19.

Tim Cahill should return at Fratton Park, having been substituted at half-time last weekend in the victory over Stoke with a calf injury.

Teams

Portsmouth (from): James, Johnson, Campbell, Distin, Hreidarsson, Davis, Mullins, Kranjcar, Nugent, Crouch, Basinas, Belhadj, Utaka, Kaboul, Kanu, Traore, Hughes, Wilson, Begovic.

Everton (from): Howard, Neville, Jagielka, Lescott, Baines, Pienaar, Osman, Cahill, Fellaini, Saha, Jo, Rodwell, Baxter, Nash, Castillo, Jacobsen, Gosling, Wallace, Van der Meyde.

Blackburn vs West Ham

West Ham will make a late check on Matthew Upson’s calf injury ahead of the Barclays Premier League trip to Blackburn.

Midfielder Savio Nsereko also requires assessment before the Ewood Park clash after picking up a knock.

Kieron Dyer and Diego Tristan are fit and in contention for a place, while Jack Collison (knee) and Carlton Cole (suspended) are still out.

Blackburn captain Ryan Nelsen and fellow defender Gael Givet will both undergo fitness tests.

Nelsen missed last week’s 4-0 loss at Arsenal with a thigh injury, whilst Givet limped off early in the game with a knee problem.

Striker Roque Santa Cruz will miss a third successive match with a knee tendon issue and midfielder Vince Grella remains out with a groin injury.

Stephen Warnock has been cleared to play after shaking off a toe injury that forced him off after 55 minutes of the game at the Emirates Stadium.

Teams

Blackburn (from): Robinson, Bunn, Ooijer, Khizanishvili, Nelsen, Samba, Simpson, Warnock, Givet, Olsson, Villanueva, Tugay, Andrews, Diouf, Treacy, Mokoena, Dunn, McCarthy, Roberts, Pedersen.

West Ham (from): Green, Neill, Ilunga, Parker, Savio, Kovac, Upson, Noble, Tomkins, Di Michele, Sears, Lastuvka, Lopez, Boa Morte, Spector, Tristan, Payne, Stanislas, Dyer.

West Brom vs Bolton

Former Bolton defender Abdoulaye Meite has been ruled out of West Brom’s Barclays Premier League match against Gary Megson’s side at The Hawthorns with a hamstring injury.

Fellow centre-back Leon Barnett is facing several weeks on the sidelines with a knee problem, and Baggies boss Tony Mowbray is set to persevere with the new defensive pairing of Jonas Olsson and Shelton Martis.

Megson will be returning to his former club, whom he twice led to promotion from the Coca-Cola Championship, for the first time since his departure four years ago.

Bolton will be without midfielder Mark Davies for between five and six weeks.

Davies suffered the injury during last Saturday’s 3-1 defeat to Fulham and Megson does not expect the England Under-21 international to be ready again until the Premier League season is virtually over.

Megson’s only other injury problem ahead of Saturday’s visit to West Brom is defender Joey O’Brien, who continues to struggle with his own long-term knee complaint.

Teams

West Brom (from): Carson, Zuiverloon, Olsson, Martis, Robinson, Morrison, Dorrans, Koren, Brunt, Greening, Fortune, Teixeira, Simpson, Moore, Kiely, Hoefkens, Cech, Bednar.

Bolton (from): Jaaskelainen, Steinsson, Cahill, Andrew O’Brien, Samuel, Riga, Taylor, McCann, Muamba, Gardner, Kevin Davies, Elmander, Al Habsi, Hunt, Puygrenier, Makukula, Shittu.

Stoke vs Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough will be without suspended midfielder Matthew Bates for the Barclays Premier League trip to Stoke.

Bates will serve a one-match ban after being sent off for two bookable offences during the 1-1 draw with Portsmouth last weekend.

Skipper Emanuel Pogatetz will undergo a late fitness test on a knee injury which forced him out of the Pompey game, while Jeremie Aliadiere is also a doubt with an unspecified knock.

Gary O’Neil and Justin Hoyte (both groin) are back in training, but Didier Digard (knee and thigh) and Chris Riggott (knee) remain on the sidelines.

Stoke expect winger Matthew Etherington to have recovered from an ankle injury in time.

The £4million man has only just returned from suspension, but was withdrawn from a midweek reserve game with the injury and has been having treatment ever since.

Stoke have concerns over striker Ricardo Fuller, who is still troubled by a shoulder injury, but he will also be in the squad.

Teams

Stoke (from): Sorensen, Wilkinson, Abdoulaye Faye, Shawcross, Higginbotham, Lawrence, Whelan, Diao, Delap, Etherington, Beattie, Sidibe, Fuller, Simonsen, Pugh, Amdy Faye, Sonko.

Middlesbrough (from): Jones, Turnbull, Hoyte, McMahon, Taylor, Pogatetz, Wheater, Huth, Arca, O’Neil, Downing, Aliadiere, Walker, A. Johnson, Tuncay, Emnes, King, Alves, Franks.

Bolton Wanderers have confirmed that manager Gary Megson has agreed a new rolling contract with the club.

The former Norwich and West Brom boss agreed the new deal during the last fortnight and it has already taken effect.

Megson joined Bolton in October 2007 with the team odds-on for relegation but he led them to safety and preserved their Barclays Premier League status.

Megson, who still had just over a year of his contract left, has guided the Trotters to 12th in the top flight at the start of Sunday’s clash with Newcastle.

The 48-year-old enjoyed a lengthy playing career with spells at Norwich, Nottingham Forest, Everton and Sheffield Wednesday before moving into management when he took over as caretaker boss at Carrow Road in 1995.

However, the midfielder was unable to prevent the club’s relegation from the top flight and revived his playing career with short spells at Shrewsbury and Lincoln before becoming full-time boss at Norwich.

It was though a short-lived sojourn though as he left for Blackpool as former manager Mike Walker returned to East Anglia.

A year later Megson took over at Stockport and steered them to eighth place in the First Division in his first season before moving on to Stoke although he was there only four months before revising after disagreements with the club’s board.

West Brom was Megson’s next port of call, being appointed manager towards the end of the 1999/2000 season and he managed to keep the club in the championship before guiding the team into the play-offs the following season before being beaten by Bolton.

However, 2002 saw the Baggies claim automatic promotion - although Megson admitted he had differences with chairman Paul Thompson who later stood down.

Just a year later and Albion were relegated before making an automatic return the following season.

However, in October Megson was relieved of his duties hours after revealing he intended to leave the club at the end of his contract in summer 2005.

He was named as Nottingham Forest boss in January 2005 but resigned 13 months later after relegation to League One was followed by a poor start to the next campaign.

A coaching role at Stoke followed before he replaced Martin Allen as Leicester boss in September 2007.

However, just a month later he had moved to the north-west.

Cristiano Ronaldo was a happy man on Saturday after his stunning free-kick helped Manchester United beat Blackburn 2-1.

The Portuguese dynamo’s superb second-half set-piece at Old Trafford handed Sir Alex Ferguson’s men their tenth straight league win, a victory that takes them eight points clear at the top of the Barclays Premier League.

Although second-placed Liverpool can reduce the gap on Sunday if they beat Manchester City at Anfield, Ronaldo was delighted with both the win - aided and abetted by Wayne Rooney’s opener - and United’s table-topping position.

“The most important thing is that we are top of the table and now we are eight points ahead of Liverpool,” Ronaldo told United’s official television channel.

“I’m very happy that we got three points. It was a very tough game.

“The manager said before the game that it was going to be one of the toughest games of the season. He has experience and he knows better than anyone.

“We saw in the game that Blackburn created chances and they were a dangerous team playing on the counter attack.

“We controlled most of the game and had more opportunities. At the end of the day I think we deserved to win because we looked to score goals.”

Ronaldo also revealed that he was far from happy that he had been booked for diving, especially when Rovers midfielder Morten Gamst Pedersen fell in the box but did not get booked.

“I thought Pedersen dived. It wasn’t a penalty. Pedersen dived and didn’t get a yellow card, but I dived and he did book me! But I suppose that’s just the situation of the game,” Ronaldo explained.

Despite being frustrated over his booking, Ronaldo was quick to say just how delighted he was with his 60^th minute winner, a trademark free-kick that was hit with terrific power and which gave Rovers goalkeeper Paul Robinson little chance.

“I was pleased with my goal, it was a good free kick and an important goal. I’m looking forward to seeing it on television!”

The deadline of the Barclays Premier League transfer window will be extended to 2nd Feb as 31st Jan falls on a Saturday.

According to the official Barclays website, officials from the Football Association and the Football League have agreed to close the transfer window at 5pm on 2nd February 2009.

31st January falls on a Saturday and they also want to keep in line with the other foreign associations who have already moved from a week-end date to the first available week day.

This is consistent with the decision taken in August when the deadline was extended to 1st September and has the support of the majority of national associations and European Leagues.

Harry Redknapp is out to succeed where many previous Spurs managers have failed and close the gap on rivals Arsenal.

Spurs have not beaten their neighbours in a league match since 1999 and Arsene Wenger’s men have had bragging rights in north London despite going without a trophy for three years, particularly with Redknapp inheriting a team at the bottom of the Barclays Premier League.

Wenger’s cosmopolitan squad is in contrast to Redknapp’s plans of getting the best out of the England players at White Hart Lane.

“We’d like to,” said Redknapp, ahead of the clash at the Emirates Stadium. “If you can produce your own players, it’s fantastic, but finding them is a different matter.

“In the short term, when you are at the bottom of the league, you can’t really be thinking too much about two or three years down the line.

“Long term the goal is to get Tottenham up there challenging for a top-four position but the first goal is to make sure we stay in the Premier League.”

Redknapp no longer has thoughts of being England manager - but he wants his players to give Fabio Capello a selection headache.

Redknapp was among the candidates for the national job before Capello took the reigns and put the country on the road to the 2010 World Cup.

Spurs’ slump to the bottom of the table meant none of their players were in the matchday squads for the recent wins over Kazakhstan and Belarus - and their results led to Redknapp taking over from Juande Ramos.

“I’m just here now,” Redknapp said. “England have a got a fantastic manager anyway in Capello, whose record speaks for itself, and they are looking in good shape, which is great for us all.

“I have a big job on my hands at Tottenham and it is a big job, a great job.”

Jermaine Jenas was in Capello’s last 23-man squad but turning Spurs’ season around would put David Bentley, Jonathan Woodgate and Aaron Lennon back in the frame.

“If you look at David Bentley, four months ago he was David Beckham’s successor,” Redknapp said. “Now he’s had a little dicky spell and found himself out of the England team. We know what a player he is and we’ve got to get him playing like he was at Blackburn.

“We’ve got to do the same with some of the others. Jenas is an international player. We’ve got to get them back to what they should be.”

Redknapp also rates skipper Ledley King as an international player, while Tom Huddlestone has been in England squads and Darren Bent has been capped.