Saturday and Sunday Premiership Round-Up

Without Man Utd, newly crowned World Champions, and Wigan, with never a trophy in their history, and Chelsea playing Everton tomorrow, let’s have a quick round up of the rest of the results.

Saturday afternoon saw four 3 o’clock kick offs – the first looking decided was Bolton-Portsmouth, with the home side going two up inside four minutes. The frustratingly erratic Adams’ Portsmouth fought back well but a Peter Crouch header was not enough to salvage anything from the game.

Slightly later in their dominance but ultimately more convincing were Blackburn – fat Sam got off to a flyer with a 3-0 win against fast-fading Stoke, who have Man Utd next up.

And Bolton’s win, despite looking so secure so early, was ultimately the closest game as there were crushing defeats for Boro, 3-0 at Fulham (although the scoreline there was a little unfair on the visitors) – and a Roy-Keane-free re-invigorated Sunderland side won 4-1 at also fast fading Hull, Djibril Cisse starring.

The later kick off saw Villa nick a fortutitous 1-0 win against an unlucky and newly-meagre West Ham – Footballsup Manager of the Year Martin O’Neill continuing his fantastic work. We all know the cliche about teams that win without playing well…

Onto Sunday, and a tonne more pressure was heaped on Mark Hughes as West Brom won their first game since October against a desperately lacklustre Man City. Sparky next Sunderland manager, anyone?

Joe Kinnear won the battle of the best-new-managers 2-1 against Harry Redknapp – will they have a rival in Sam Allardyce?

Finally, Arsenal and Liverpool fought out a 1-1 draw in the battle of the big four. Read a full report on that here.