Back to it in the league after an eventful international break, which included Micah Richards first international goal, Elano scoring and been sent off and Stephen Ireland deciding that honesty is never the best policy, for full details of that bizarre story click here.

Sven and Micah have also been named Manager and Player of the month for August.

Man City V Villa

Richard Dunne serves his 1 match suspension, which may even out if John Carew misses out after suffering a groin injury on international duty in mid-week. Geovanni is fit again and Villa add loan signing Curtis Davies to their squad. Im interested in seeing him play as from what I have seen he is a decent if error prone centre half and the 8-10 million valuation seems a tad high to me.

Should be an interesting game, Villa come in off the back of a great result against Chelsea, and despite our defeats the performances away at Arsenal and Blackburn were encouraging.

Prediction

City 2 - Villa 1

Unless we play Darius .................