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ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE

HARRY KEWELL (Liverpool)
Surprise, surprise, Kewell's injured and there's no indication yet of when he'll be fit enough to play again. He's out with a 'slight groin injury' and there is of course, no place on the bench for him. They were away to Sunderland this weekend and Rafa The Gaffer was talking up rival Roy Keane's chances. But his side came home with a 2-0 win under their belt.


LUCAS NEILL (West Ham)
Neill missed last week's 1-0 win despite declaring himself fit following a remarkable speedy recovery from injury. He played the full game against Wigan and they grabbed a 1-1 draw.


MARK VIDUKA - JAMES TROISI (Newcastle United)
Newcastle haven't scored a league goal at home for six months now but Viduka had pledged to make his old team suffer when they met this weekend. He was true to his word as well, putting his side ahead before Boro levelled the scores again moments later.


MARK SCHWARZER - BRAD JONES (Middlesbrough)
He was facing motivated Socceroo team-mate Mark Viduka... and even his own boss admits Boro are lacking striking power. But Boro came away with a draw, despite Schwarzer twice being beaten, including one strike from Viduka.


BRETT EMERTON (Blackburn Rovers)
Everton's boss defended Emerton and co from Wenger's charges of being roughhouse footy hoons. Everton snatched a late equaliser to tie the game with Emerton playing for the full 90.




JOSIP SKOKO (Wigan Athletic)
Wigan faced Roy Keane's form club, Sunderland, and won 3-0 but there was no place for Skoko. His team faced Neill's West Ham this weekend but Skoko didn't get on the bench.




TIM CAHILL (Everton)
Everton were without Tim again when they lost 1-0 to Reading and they drew the match against Rovers without him. He's now tipped to return to action at the end of September.




ADRIAN LEIJER - AHMED ELRICH (Fulham)
Neither Aussies were in the squad that went down 2-1 to Villa this weekend.


ADAM FEDERICI (Reading)
Federici faces a long season on the bench playing second fiddle to Marcus Hahnemann, but he'll be unhappy to have let three past him against Bolton. Adam stayed on the bench.



BUNDESLIGA

MICHAEL BEAUCHAMP - JOSHUA KENNEDY - MATTHEW SPIRANOVIC - DARIO VIDOSIC (Nurnberg)
They faced Werder Bremen this weekend and Beauchamp was back in the starting line-up, alongside Kennedy. Kennedy came off after 60 minutes, but Beauchamp played the whole game while Spiranovic stayed on the bench. Vidosic didn't get a look in as their side went down 1-0.

ITALIAN SERIE A
MARK BRESCIANO (Palermo)
West Ham are still heavily tipped to weigh in with an offer for the Aussie before the end of the transfer window, and Palermo are already said to have lined up his replacement. Palermo lost 2-0 to Roma at home on Sunday, with Bresh coming on at half-time and picking up a booking after the 64 minute mark.




VINCE GRELLA (Torino)
Left Parma to join Torino on a three year contract over the close season. The Serie A season started with Torino travelling to play Lazio - and Vinnie was talking about winning. He almost scored early on but he came off after 21 minutes with an injury - his side went on to draw 2-2. He was later taken to hospital for tests after banging heads with Lazio's Simone Del Nero.



ZELJKO KALAC (AC Milan)
Spider will again be bench-warming for most of the coming season unless Dida knacks himself. Milan were away to Genoa and won 3-0, with Kalac on the bench.




ITALIAN SERIE B

CARL VALERI (Grosseto)
With Vince Grella's disappointing performance for the Socceroos in the Asian Cup, there's never been a better time for Valeri to impress and stake his claim for Grella's spot. His club kicked off their season away against Modena but went down 3-0.



ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP

JAMES WESOLOWSKI - PATRICK KISNORBO - PAUL HENDERSON (Leicester City)
Leicester played Watford at home this weekend and thrashed them 4-1, with Kisnorbo hailed as man of the match. He and Wes played the full game and escaped any yellows despite 11 dished out by the ref. Henderson stayed on the bench.


DAVID CARNEY (Sheffield United)
Sheffield are at home to West Brom this weekend and won 1-0 - but Carney was again missing from the first team.





RICHARD GARCIA (Hull City)
Garcia was the star when Hull edged out Norwich City 2-1 at home this weekend. He got the winner just minutes after Norwich thought they'd salvaged a draw.




NICK WARD (QPR)
Flamboyant Italian Flavio Briatore is in talks to buy his club and QPR were due to face Burnley away this weekend, but young QPR striker Ray Jones was killed in a car crash hours before the match, and the tie was postponed.



ENGLISH LEAGUE ONE

CHRIS COYNE (Luton Town)
Luton whooped Gillingham 3-1 this weekend with Coyne playing the whole game.





NEIL KILKENNY (Oldham)
Kilkenny started for Oldham last weekend away to Carlisle and despite several attempts from set pieces, his side lost 1-0. They took on Bristol Rovers at home this weekend but lost 1-0. Kilkenny played the whole game but faces three weeks out after picking up a thigh injury.




JOEL PORTER (Hartlepool United)
They won 2-0 away to Port Vale this weekend and Porter came on for the last minute of action.




ENGLISH LEAGUE TWO
SHANE HUKE (Dagenham and Redbridge)
Hopefully his uncle Ian in Melbourne will read this and email us a pic of Shane to: 442 at newsandfeatures.net...ta! The Daggers were thrashed 4-0 by Basildon United at home this weekend, but Huke played the whole game and had a late shot on goal go over the bar.


SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE

SCOTT McDONALD (Celtic)
Celtic boss Gordon Strachan wanted to see some early goals against Hearts - and he got his wish. They destroyed Hearts 5-0 this weekend and although McDonald wasn't one of the scorers he played a key role in the game.



DANNY INVINCIBILE (Kilmarnock)
Killie faced Rangers at home this weekend and Danny started...and scored an equaliser. It wasn't enough though - Rangers got a winner to take the three points.



ERIK PAARTALU (Gretna)
He's in the squad for this weekend's match against Motherwell. Technically it's at home, but they're both using the same stadium this season while Gretna's is rebuilt. Paartalu had to watch from the bench though as his 10-man team went down 2-1.


SCOTTISH FIRST DIVISION

SIMON STOREY (Partick Thistle)
The Jags played Dundee away this weekend who ended Thistle's winning streak with a convincing 3-0 win over the Glasgow visitors who were down to 10 men by the final whistle.




DUTCH EREDIVISIE

JASON CULINA (PSV Eindhoven)
Culina face another Aussie when they played NEC this weekend. PSV won the match in strident fashion, coming home 5-0 winners. Culina came on as a sub after 66 minutes but still managed to pick up PSV's only booking.




LUKE WILKSHIRE (FC Twente)
FC Twente's season started with a 2-0 win away against Excelsior and Wilkshire set up one of the goals. They faced Utrecht on Sunday and held to a 2-2 draw at home, with Wilkshire playing the whole game.




EDDY BOSNAR (Heracles)
Heracles played host to PSV on Sunday but despite Eddy's best efforts, his side went down 2-0. They lost again on Friday night, going down 2-1 to Roda, but Bosnar was subbed at the start of the second, sparking injury fears.




BRETT HOLMAN (NEC)
Holman's started well with a goal in their recent friendly. NEC drew 1-1 with Roda at home and Holman played the whole game but wasn't the scorer. He took on Jason Culina's PSV this weekend and played the whole game, but his side were thrashed 5-0


ROMANIAN LIGA 1

WAYNE SRHOJ - JONATHAN McKAIN (FCU Politehnica Timisoara)
Timisoara lost 4-1 against Unirea Urziceni on Friday and it was a bad night for the Aussies - McKain came off after just 18 minutes, to be replaced by Shroj who picked up two bookings in the second half, leading to a red after 62 minutes. Urziceni also saw red - but it appears to have been their trainer and club president who were sent off by the ref. They play Rapid at home on Sunday.


JOSH MITCHELL - JOSHUA ROSE - MICHAEL BAIRD - SPASE DILEVSKI (FC Universitatea Craiova)
They notched up another loss on Friday, going down 1-0 to Urziceni, but Dilevski made his club debut and played the full game, as did Mitchell and Rose, with Baird not making the bench.

NORWEGIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

SHANE STEFANUTTO (Lillestrom)
Stefanutto was on the scoresheet as Lillestrom smashed Aalesund 7-0 on Sunday.





KASEY WEHRMAN (Fredrikstad)
His side drew 2-2 with Viking Stavanger a fortnight ago, with Wehrman playing the whole match and picking up a booking along the way. He sent in the cross that led to his side's late and vital equaliser. They beat Tromso 2-1 on Sunday.




SWISS SUPER LEAGUE

SCOTT CHIPPERFIELD (FC Basel)
Chippers got a winning double as his team won 4-2 against Lucerne. The scores were squared at 2-2 until Chippers got his brace in the second half to give Basel an important away win.



TURKISH SUPERLIG

MICHAEL PETKOVIC (Sivasspor)
Sivasspor played Fenerbahçe but Petko couldn't keep out a strike from Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos whose goal was enough to give the home side a 1-0 win.





NICKY CARLE (Genclerbirligi)
His side beat Caykur Rizespor 2-0 and Carle played up until the second last minute. This weekend they face Bursaspor at home.




JAPANESE J-LEAGUE DIVISION TWO

ALVIN CECCOLI (Avispa Fukuoka)
Avispa beat Montedio Yamagata 3-0 last Sunday and Ceccoli started again at leftback. It's an away game against Kyoto Purple this weekend.




CHINESE SUPERLEAGUE

RYAN GRIFFITHS (Liaoning)
Liaoning drew 0-0 with Qingdao Zhongneng on Sunday and lost 1-0 to Shenyang Ginde during the week. They face Changchun Yatai on Sunday.




DANISH SAS-LIGAEN
DAVE WILLIAMS (Brondby)
Brondby drew 1-1 with Viborg on Monday and lost 1-0 to AGF Aarhus on Saturday. They play AC Horsens away on Sunday.



HOMELESS

JESS VANSTRATTAN (Juventus)
Jess was left in the lurch after the Italian FA blocked his move to Juventus after a complaint from his old club, Verona. They had released him from his contract to return hom to Australia for personal reasons... only to sign up at Juventus soon after.



MILE STERJOVSKI
Sterj is looking for a club after Basel let him go at the end of his contract.





JOHN ALOISI
Still on the hunt for a new club after his bid to move to the A-League fell through and subsequent deals have come to nothing. Will want to find one soon or his Socceroo place could be in doubt.


JOHN FILAN
The former Wigan 'keeper has washed up as stand-in reserve goalie for Sydney on a short-term contract.