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Wolves boss Mick McCarthy is already planning a new and improved Premier League team for next season while insisting survival remains the priority this term.

Villa are facing up to a striker crisis ahead of Saturday’s trip to Bolton after John Carew revealed his troublesome back problem has resurfaced.

Birmingham striker Kevin Phillips has laughed off Arsene Wenger’s latest whinge as “par for the course” as Blues plot more St Andrew’s heartbreak for the big guns.

Walsall defender Rhys Weston has launched a defence of the Saddlers’ flagging season and believes the critics need to get off their backs.

Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov has admitted the weary players are crying out for a rest after Saturday’s “embarrassing” collapse at Chelsea.

Albion comeback man James Morrison admits it will be next season before he nears the form which made him such a big hit in the last Premier League campaign.

Wolves’ spy-in-the-camp Ronald Zubar has kicked off the countdown to the club’s first trip to the Emirates by revealing Arsenal are wary of Kevin Doyle.

Levi Bellfield is to be charged with the murder of 13-year old Milly Dowler.

The UK moved faster out of recession than was first thought in the final three months of 2009, official figures showed today.

Wolves goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann has not even looked at the Premier League table because of his belief that the team’s destiny is in their own hands.