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Boasting the Premier League's most dangerous attacking units, Manchester City and Liverpool should provide a glut of goals when the title challengers play during Thursday's packed Boxing Day programme.

United States forward Clint Dempsey is rejoining Fulham on loan for two months from Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders.

Juventus won 4-1 at Atalanta in Serie A but Roma eased to a 4-0 victory over bottom club Catania to keep up the pressure on the league leader.

City substitutes Jesus Navas and James Milner recovered a 4-2 victory at Fulham on Saturday after the visitors threw away a two-goal lead in the Premier League.

Referees will use the recently-developed vanishing spray at the World Cup next year to stop defensive walls creeping forward at free kicks.

West Ham United piled more misery on Tottenham with a 2-1 win, while Manchester United beat Stoke City 2-0.

Rodgers says Henderson is showing the kind of form that convinced the club to splash 16 million pounds on the midfielder two years ago.

Steve Clarke has expressed his disappointment at being sacked by West Bromwich Albion.

Spurs sit seventh, eight points behind arch rivals and Premier League leaders Arsenal after Suarez and Liverpool ran riot at White Hart Lane.

Tevez scored his first hat-trick for Juventus to help the Serie A leader crush Sassuolo and reinforce their bid for a third successive league title.

West Brom, who sit two points above the relegation zone, have won only once in their last 10 league matches.

Goal-line technology will make its debut in Africa in the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup.

Pablo Osvaldo's superb individual goal earned Southampton a 1-1 draw with Manchester City on Saturday.

FIFA has switched the scheduled kickoff times of seven World Cup matches, including England vs Italy which was due to start at 3 a.m. Central European Time.

The other countries that were in the contention to host the competition were South Africa, Uzbekistan and Republic of Ireland.

The draw will divide the 32 teams into eight groups of four teams and the show will be broadcasted live in more than 190 countries.