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Football Weekly Extra: Fernando Torres strikes to leave Royals raging

It's a special Young Guns edition of Football Weekly Extra, with Michael Cox, Jacob Steinberg and Ian McCourt marshalled by the wizened tones of AC Jimbo. Woof.

We begin with the Premier League, looking back on Chelsea's victory over those plucky Reading Royals and Manchester United's defeat to Everton, before looking ahead to all the weekend action, not least Liverpool v Manchester City.

Next, we take our first trip to the Championship, where Blackburn manager Steve Kean remains as popular as ever and Gianfranco Zola and his hair transplant have major work to do at Watford.

Finally, ahead of the big kick-off in Serie A, we dial up our friend James Horncastle for the skinny on the Cassano-Pazzini swap deal between Milan and Internazionale and hear why the Lazio manager Vladimir Petkovic has been taking pictures of his players in the the Prince Harry-like buff.

We're back on Monday with Barry Glendenning and Raf Honigstein, and both of them would no doubt encourage you to take up the offer of a free bet from those nice people at Blue Square - just text 'Guardian' to 64555 for 25 spondoolies to spend as you wish.

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