LAST NIGHTS GAMES – 30 JAN

BOLTON 3 TOTTENHAM 2
In what was a dire game of kick and follow, Bolton edged it with a last minute header from the bruiser Kevin Davies after Tottenham scored a quick fire brace to bring the scores to 2-2 after they had been thoroughly outplayed by Bolton. I can only imagine what was going through Gary Megson when the game was all square. Harry Redknapp must have thought he had pulled out another Houdini act and got a draw from a game he deserved nothing from.

Kevin Davies (2) and Sebastien Puygrenier scored for Bolton and Darren Bent (2) scored for Tottenham.


STOKE CITY 1 MANCHESTER CITY 0
So you try to buy one player for £100m, already spent £45m on a strike force and then you lose to Stoke city. When will Mark Hughes be sacked? Is James Beattie now a premiership player after scoring once again for Stoke?


ARSENAL 0 WEST HAM 0
A gooner who saw this game said Arsenal lack creativity. Possession is good but without any player with the ability to make a telling pass or carve open a stubborn defence, Arsenal are not even a good bet to produce entertaining football anymore. They obviously miss Cesc Fabregas who is 8-10 weeks away from a return. And Andrei Arshavin hasn’t signed yet.

ASTON VILLA 0 WIGAN 0
I wonder what happened here; Aston Villa failed to score and didn’t stretch there lead over the Arsenal to 8 points. This is the only good thing that happened to gooners yesterday. Wigan have played well all season and this kind of result is no more a surprise

MANCHESTER UNITED 1 EVERTON 0
Everton don’t ever win against Man Utd, they didn’t do too much to change that stat yesterday. Edwin Van der Sar and his dubious record of clean sheets was never threatened yesterday. Michael Carrick was tripped by Mikel Arteta and Cristiano Ronaldo scored from the spot. The gods are smiling on Fergie. This team can’t win 4 trophies; can they?


FULHAM 3 PORTSMOUTH 1
Fulham have quietly climbed up the league without fuss. They don’t have a billionaire benefactor so they don’t make outrageous bids like Man City or irresponsible ones like Tottenham. Roy Hodgson just continues to do his job as he knows how. Pity that Tony Adams doesn’t even have the luxury of that knowledge; he is a woeful manager who shouldn’t still have a job. Portsmouth might win a game one day but it will be in spite of their manager and not because of him. The only thing this manager has done is get David Nugent to play and score after Harry Redknapp banished him from the first team even though he bought him.
Andrew Johnson and Erik Nevland (2) scored for Fulham and David Nugent scored for Portsmouth.


HULL 2 WEST BROMWICH ALBION 2
Hull dominated this game and still didn’t win. They are still 11 in the league but are sliding down fast. Hull and their former adventurous manager are now playing cautious and it shows. What was the Manucho and Geovanni starting on the bench for, when they are the best they have. West Brom are battling but they are not ready for an extended stay in this league and will be making way soon.
Bernard Mendy and Craig Fagan scored for Hull, and Jay Simpson and Chris Brunt scored for WBA.


MIDDLESBROUGH 0 BLACKBURN 0
Nothing happened here besides Sam Allardyce remains unbeaten and Gareth Southgate can say his Boro team is improving.



OBSERVATION
The team 6th in the league, Everton (37 points) are closer the bottom (West Brom 22 points) than the top (Man Utd 53 points)