After being hit with an Football Association charge for swearing into the camera after scoring in United's win at West Ham United on Saturday, Rooney was all smiles as he delivered the away goal his manager Sir Alex Ferguson had demanded ahead of the all-Premier League confrontation.
It doesn't matter how well a player does, how hard they work or how much the fans like them, if they do not get 20 goals - and I mean in the Premier League not in all competitions - then Liverpool will struggle to make up the gap on the top two.
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West Ham were only allowed to keep playing Tevez last season after assuring the Premier League all third-party clauses in the player's contract had been severed.
It is not yet winner-takes-all in the race for the Scottish Premier League title, but the psychology of victory could prove immensely important.
Professional match analysts Prozone and AMISCO monitored the combined mileage of all Barclays Premier League players in matches played between 15-17 March and calculated that players ran a total of 1454.3 miles (2340.5 km) over the 10 games.
All four teams remaining in the tournament - Portsmouth, the sole Premier League survivors, play West Bromwich Albion in the other semi on Saturday - have a realistic chance of winning the Cup.
The deal covers all 380 Barclays Premier League matches each season, from seasons 2013-14 to 2015-16.
After enjoying a relatively injury-free 2008-09 season, he has started all of Arsenal's Premier League games this season, and, along with his eight goals, has eight assists.
It is all a far cry from the final day of the 2007-08 Premier League season, when Murphy's 76th-minute winner against Portsmouth saved the Cottagers from relegation on goal difference alone.
Di Canio, Ferdinand and Cantona all went on to enjoy successful Premier League careers, despite their off-field problems.
Last season they had Craig Bellamy, Dirk Kuyt, Peter Crouch and Robbie Fowler - all good players but never likely to get you 20 goals in the Premier League.
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Warne was a great motivator as a player but, as one of the all-time icons of the game and after leading the Rajasthan Royals to the Indian Premier League (IPL) title last year, he doesn't really believe in coaching.
Israeli police have promised to use all means at their disposal - including the use of undercover officers - to tackle racism at the Premier League club.
It was his 14th goal of a season in which he has made just 17 starts in the Premier League, establishing himself as a clear favorite with the United fans for his all-action style.
Sky has paid ever higher prices for the League's content because its own business is closely linked to the fortunes of the sport in the U.K. Higher broadcast deals helps translate to successful performances by clubs on European-level championships, and allow clubs to pay exorbitant amounts for world-class players (the Premier League distributes the money it makes from domestic broadcast rights to all 20 clubs).
That said, over the last 20 years in the Premier League, only once have all three promoted teams gone straight back down to the Championship (1997-98), England's second-tier league.
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