Bolton Wanderers v Arsenal – live!

• Hit F5 because autorefresh is broken. Sorry • Email simon.burnton@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts • Check out fixtures and results , plus the latest tables 4.02pm: The first minute’s commentary throws up this double-whammy: “2011 has been a terrible year for Arsenal” … “they’re the only unbeaten team in the Premier League.” I do hope that one day my team can be as unsuccessful as Arsenal. 1min: Peeeeep! And they’re off! 3.59pm: Inevitable interesting pre-match @optajoe stat: Bolton have hit the woodwork least often this season (five times), Arsenal the most (20). 3.56pm: Bolton’s players are lining up in the tunnel. Lots of people in the crowd are wearing silly outfits. The Arsenal players are there too. It’s action time. 3.49pm: Sky are hosting a debate about whether we need a winter break. Pur-leese, I thought that hoary old chestnut was done with for eight months or so. 3.41pm: Gary Naylor responds to our continuing auto-refresh crisis. “The Guardian have had this obvious problem for ages now and still haven’t done anything about it,” he notes. “Who’s in charge of your IT? Arsène Wenger?” 3.39pm: Thanks to Richard Eloli for this Australian bloopers compilation, which includes possibly my favourite goal celebration of the season (zip straight to it by clicking here ). The lad looks genuinely delighted, for a short while. 3.25pm: Of course, there was a time when Bolton were something of a bogey team for Arsenal. No more, though: Arsenal have won their last eight games against the Trotters, including three here, and the clubs’ Premier League head-to-head reads: Played: 23, Arsenal wins: 14, Draws: 5, Bolton wins: 4. 3.17pm: In no way related to this game question of the day: Fiorentina have a 16-year-old Brazilian striker called Jackson Beckham Diego Socrates da Silva Jesus . Is he the first professional footballer named after England’s own David Beckham? It certainly shows just how old the LA-based midfield veteran is getting… 3.14pm: The teams are in – and we’re told that Johan Elmander will line up in central midfield for Bolton. Bolton: Jaaskelainen, Steinsson, Cahill, Knight, Robinson, Lee, Elmander, Muamba, Taylor, Sturridge, Kevin Davies. Subs: Bogdan, Petrov, Mark Davies, Klasnic, Moreno, Cohen, Wheater. Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Djourou, Koscielny, Clichy, Song, Wilshere, Walcott, Fabregas, Nasri, van Persie. Subs: Lehmann, Ramsey, Squillaci, Arshavin, Eboue, Gibbs, Chamakh. Referee: Mike Jones. 3.10pm: Well, Arsenal probably can’t win the title this season. That situation won’t change even if they win today, but if they don’t, we’ll be able to exchange the word “probably” with “definitely”. Bolton, arses still stinging from last week’s FA Cup semi-final hiding from Stoke, simply must be beaten. 3pm: Good afternoon, world. I hope you’re out somewhere, enjoying the bumper bank holiday sunshine and preparing to follow this afternoon’s game and engage in some email-based banter via a mobile device. I’ll sit inside and watch TV, friends, so you don’t have to. Premier League Bolton Wanderers Arsenal Simon Burnton guardian.co.uk

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