It's the final Football Weekly of the year – indeed the decade – so we've rolled out the big guns for our end of the noughties extravaganza.

James Richardson is joined by Barry Glendenning, Raphael Honigstein, and Fernando Duarte to take stock of the Premier League at the halfway point of the season. Can Chelsea keep setting the pace? Have Arsenal got what it takes to go the distance? Will Liverpool finally get their act together? And are Birmingham City or Fulham going to nudge past Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur into the Champions League spots?

Plus, we play our joker and look ahead to the third round of the FA Cup, and speculate wildly as to who will be splashing the cash when the transfer window reopens.

Finally, we look back on the highlights of the last 12 months of podding. It's a short segment.

We are back on Monday 4 January, but until then have your say below, find us on Facebook and Twitter – and follow these links for Wolfsburg's Grafite doing his thing against Bayern Munich, coach Dragan Stojkovic showing his players how it should be done, a cracking goal by Giuseppe Cozzolino, and that Chippendales video too.