Published 2/1/2009
by Andrew McNair
at Bleacher Report - EPL
Welcome back to the second Barclay’s Premier League Hot or Not inside a week, with the dust having barely settled from the midweek action, Manchester United had the chance to extend not only their lead at the top of the table this weekend as Chelsea visited Liverpool but also a chance to stretch their new clean sheet record.
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And that is exactly what happened, another 1-0 win (United’s seventh in their last 10 games), this time at home to Everton, extending the Premier League clean sheet record to 12 straight shut outs. Remember boring, boring Arsenal? Why not boring, boring Man United?
Edwin Van Der Saar clocked up quite an achievement himself this weekend after he broke the all time English football record for minutes played, without conceding. Not hard behind Nemanja Vidic however, Van Der Saar has actually been on holiday with Sir Alex Ferguson trusting Edwin’s Madame Tussauds wax work between the sticks.
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