Man-U 0:1 Aston Villa
Birmingham 1:0 West Ham
Chelsea 3:3 Everton
Wolves 1:0 Tottenham
Burnley 1:1 Fulham
Hull 0:0 Blackburn
Wigan 2:2 Stoke
Sunderland 1:1 Portsmouth
Bolton 3:3 Man City
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/dec/11/you-are-the-ref-neville#zoomed-picture
Above is this weeks 'You are the ref' puzzle. The answers are:
1: Disallow the goal
2: Use common sense
3: Stop play immediatley and show the winger a yellow card. If you didn't hear the sarcastic comment stop play and restart with a drop ball.
A surprise loss for Man-U. This is becoming more and more like Div. 1 when big teams regularily dropped points to worse sides. The chances were equal but Agbonlahor scored in the 21st minute. All the tosh about English players never diving was discarded when Rooney was booked for it. Chelsea lost points again with a 3-3 draw with Everton. In the past 4 matches, Chelsea haven't won and have conceded 10 goals. Not what you'd expect from the league leaders. Birmingham continued their excellent run of form with a 1-0 win over West Ham. I take it all back about how Alex McLeish is the worst manager in the Prem! Lee Bowyer (a former West Ham player) scored the winner. (Birmingham winning the Prem in the next few seasons? You heard it here first). By the way, I've got a funny feeling that Lucas is going to be Liverpool's best player for the match against Arsenal, don't know why. Tottenham stuttered to another dissapointing result against Wolves, Fulham drew 1-1 with Burnley, Hull need Bullard back as their next few matches will be very hard. Figueroa (a name that has all the vowels in it!) scored a superb goal inside his own half as Wigan drew 2-2 with Stoke. Some facts about it are: It was 60.59 yards, just inside the Wigan half. It travelled at 47.1 mph. It took 2.63 seconds to hit the back of the net. It was the third longest Prem goal ever. (1st was by Paul Robinson at 84.74 yards and 2nd was by Xabi Alonso from 60.64 yards). How's that? Sunderland gave away 3 points against Portsmouth as Kaboul equalised in the 93rd minute and Man-City went back to their favourite pastime: drawing against rubbish teams.
Your reminiscenses about Div 1 are not entirely accurate. What used to happen is that Liverpool usually won the title and everyone else used to play for second spot. This was, of course, the golden era of English and European football, when only the champions of each nation competed for European Cup glory. With The Premiership came the modern era of money and greed which we are so familiar with today. God Bless Bill Shankley.
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