Good news for football fans everywhere – the more ‘pirates’ there are on illegal streams, the more legitimate customers will have to pay…

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-08/14/the-surprising-failure-of-the-football-pirates.aspx

Can be seen here…

You can watch highlights of the Premier League action legally here, via Virgin Media’s syndication; or illegally (I assume) here, on 101greatgoals, who have action from all football everywhere. Less ads on that…

Everton won – thanks to our good friends at http://sportsas.blogspot.com for that one.

The rest of the weekend results are below; the highlights a superb victory for Spurs despite constant battery from Liverpool, an entertaining but concerning 4-3 win for Man Utd at home to Hull, Arsenal crumbling under an aerial battery from Stoke (both goals coming from Rory Delap long throws), and Bolton giving Gary Megson much needed relief with a 2-0 home win against the soft touch Man City. Results and scorers in full (with Newcastle/Villa to come tonight):

Bolton	2-0 (HT 0-0)	Man City
Gardner 77 Dunne o.g. 88
Bookings: Jaaskelainen 57		Bookings: Zabaleta 32

Chelsea	5-0 (HT 3-0)	Sunderland
Alex 27 Anelka 30 Anelka 45+1 Lampard 51 Anelka 53
		Bookings: Tainio 39

Everton	1-0 (HT 0-0)	Fulham
Saha 87

Man Utd	4-3 (HT 3-1)	Hull
Ronaldo 3 Carrick 29 Ronaldo 44 Vidic 57		Cousin 23 Mendy 69 Geovanni (pen) 82
Bookings: Rooney 84 Tevez 86		Bookings: Turner 20 Mendy 85

Middlesbrough	1-1 (HT 0-1)	West Ham
Mido 83		Mullins 21
Bookings: Wheater 17 Riggott 33 Arca 65		Bookings: Neill 40 Collison 61 Boa Morte 80 Bellamy 89

Portsmouth	1-2 (HT 0-1)	Wigan
Kranjcar 82		Zaki (pen) 45+1 Heskey 90+2
		Bookings: Cattermole 18 Bramble 35 Figueroa 49

Stoke	2-1 (HT 1-0)	Arsenal
Fuller 11 Olofinjana 73		Clichy 90+4
Bookings: Higginbotham 64 Sidibe 68 Delap 90+1 Cresswell 90+8		Bookings: Adebayor 40 Fabregas 90+8
		Sent off: Van Persie 76

Tottenham	2-1 (HT 0-1)	Liverpool
Carragher o.g. 70 Pavlyuchenko 90+1		Kuyt 3
Bookings: King 75		Bookings: Gerrard 45+1 Carragher 67

West Brom	2-2 (HT 0-1)	Blackburn
Bednar 55 Miller 62		McCarthy (pen) 13 Andrews 89
Bookings: Donk 40 Zuiverloon 68 Borja Valero 79		Bookings: McCarthy 19 Khizanishvili 90+2
		Sent off: McCarthy 36

And click here to see all the goals; check out the full highlights of Chelsea’s awesome destruction of Sunderland.

You can watch all the weekend highlights on the Times Sport page. See below:

PREMIER LEAGUE HIGHLIGHTS
All the best bits from the weekend, including Luis Antonio Valencia’s stunning goal from 25 yards for Wigan, the two strikes that ruined Arsene Wenger’s weekend – one’s a beauty – and another show-stealing performance from Fernando Torres.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article2236741.ece