Birmingham City v Arsenal - Live

Birmingham are in serious relegation bother, so they'll want something here: Maik Taylor, Kelly, Martin Taylor, Ridgewell, Murphy, Larsson, Johnson, Muamba, Kapo, McFadden, Forssell.
Subs: Doyle, Jerome, Nafti, Zarate, Parnaby.

Meanwhile this lot can go eight clear at the top, for a few hours at least: Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Senderos, Clichy, Walcott, Fabregas, Flamini, Hleb, Eduardo, Adebayor.
Subs: Lehmann, Denilson, Silva, Bendtner, Justin Hoyte.

Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)

ARSENE'S AESTHETE-O-METER:A is for Aesthete's choiceB is for Beautiful gameO is for O lord help me, blood is seeping from my eyes

According to the Bumper Book of Football Hackery the NUJ issues us with, Arsenal's football is more attractive than that of Brazil '70, Liverpool '88 and Hungary '53 put together, squared, on the end of an elaborately whittled stick. Well, we'll see about that: Birmingham took a point off them at Ashburton Grove just before Christmas, so this isn't a shoo-in. Still, when on song, they do ping it about quite nicely I suppose, so in order to rate their artistic merit this afternoon, a crack Website Formerly Known As Guardian Unlimited team of technical wizards have created ARSENE'S AESTHETE-O-METER.