Harry smacks the Frenchman's posterior in North London thriller

Harry: chewing a wasp or just happy to beat the Gooners?

Days after France beat England 2-1 at Wembley this week, England manager-in-waiting Harry Redknapp took swift revenge on the French this afternoon by winning the North London derby and thus provoking a well-known French man to throw his bottle of drink onto the ground in rage, followed by the lid.  

Spurs came back from 2-0 down at the Emirates today to win 2-3, giving them their first win at Arsenal in 17 years.

Redknapp's tactical changes in the second half and the manner of Arsenal's collapse, are already sparking predictions that Spurs are on the verge of taking the Gooners' place in the top four of British football.

But maybe that all depends on when Fabio does the decent thing and Redknapp takes over as England manager?

Book your seats early for the Black Country Christmas punch-up

Aynuk and Ayli scrag it out for Black Country bragging rights

Just in time for Christmas, the first of this season's Black Country derbies will be fought out on December 19th at The Hawthorns.

In the meantime here is some old news footage of a previous meeting between the two teams in the third round of the FA Cup in 1956, Albion won this one, but can they do it on the 19th December?

WEST BROMWICH ALBION v WOLVES 1956

Click on image to watch film footage

Stoke stuff the Baggies against the run of play to head the Braggers' League

Stoke City have consolidated their position at the top of the West Midlands Braggers' League by beating the Albion at the Hawthorns earlier this evening. Albion's loss at home was arguably undeserved as Stoke were not a great threat and the first two of their goals were controversial penalties, netted by Etherington (55 minutes) and Walters (85 minutes).

Stoke's third goal came in the 3rd minute of injury time with a final smash and grab goal, again from Walters.

The win means Stoke are 5 points clear of Villa (in second place) at the top of tthe Braggers' League, although they have played more derby matches than the other 4 West Midlands teams.

Albion drop below Black Country rivals Wolves on goal difference.

Severn derbies have now been played this season. The positions of our 5 teams in the Premiership are as follows:

8th position   Stoke   played 14   points 19
12th position  Villa    played 13    points 17
13th place   Birmingham  played 14   points 16
14th place  West Brom   played 14   points 16
19th place   Wolves  played 14  points 9

These are the scores of the derby games so far this season:

Albion 0 Stoke 3
Stoke 3 Blues 2
Villa 0 Blues 0

Wolves 1 Villa 2

Albion 3 Blues 1

Stoke 2 Villa 1
Wolves 2 Stoke 1

Coming up in December in the Braggers' League:

11th December
Aston Villa v West Brom, 15:00

12th December

Wolverhampton v Birmingham, 13:30

19th December

West Brom v Wolverhampton, 12:00

Also coming up of local interest:

Blues v. Villa

Carling Cup Round 5
1st December 2010

Blues come-back is not enough to stop the Potters

A late 2nd half two goal come back by Birmingham City was not enough to prevent the Potters from taking all 3 points in tonight's latest West Midlands derby.

The boys from North Staffordshire ended their run of four Premiership defeats in a row with goals from Robert Huth, Ricardo Fuller and the late winner from Dean Whitehead 5 minutes before the end of the game.

Blues had looked good for the draw with 2 goals in five minutes from Keith Fahey and Cameron Jerome to bring the game to 2-2 but Whitehead's late goal meant that the Potters have now jumped ahead of Villa at the top of the Braggers' League with Blues fixed to the bottom of the league with only one point out of three derbies.

But with each of our 5 local teams playing 8 derbies in total this season, there's still plenty of scope for things to change and, so far, not that much between the teams in terms of general form.

Potter's supporters - pleased with their win