The weekends action

Another fabulous week of action in the Premier League so lets get right down to it.

The Mersyside derby was the pick of the games this week, or should I say the one sided derby. Everton were on top for all of this game and deserved their 2-0 victory. The new owners of Liverpool were at the game and they might be regretting buying the club for £300m after the performance they put in. I was watching the game and they didn't seem to have any shape. I'm not taking anything away from Everton but Liverpool were appalling. Torres didn't look bothered. Which strengthens my prediction that he will leave Liverpool in January.

Man City have moved up to 2nd with a 3-2 win at Blackpool. It was a controversial win though. First, Blackpool had a goal ruled out for offside which should of stood. And Tevez's goals should not of stood. I'll start with Blackpool's and what happened was that a ball got played over the top. When Grandin made a move to collect it and miss it he was judged to of been offside. Taylor-Fletcher was following up behind him (who was not offside when the ball was played) and he put it in. What made me angry was that Grandin missed it and was not blocking the goalkeepers view of the ball and therefore is not active. And that Grandin was actually onside when the ball was played and the flag should never of gone up anyway. Now to City's and Tevez was offside for his first. Then, he fouled the defender to get the ball back for his second. I feel for Ian Hollaway as he servered a touch-line ban for this game. After the game in his interview he said that he was unhappy and that how could he be expected to sit back and respect the referee's decision when he is getting wrong like that.

Arsenal came from behind to beat Birmingham 2-1 at the Emirates. This game had 2 talking points first was the penalty Arsenal were awarded after Dann brought down Chamakh. When you look at the replays you can see why the referee gives it. Dann made a lunge in in the box, missed the ball and Chamakh went down. Yes Chamakh made the most of it but a foul is a foul and it was a penalty. The second was Arsenal's rather aggressive approach to the game. Wenger had said that the scissor challenge should be a straight red after Cahill did it on Chamakh. But Eboue did it and so did Wilshere. Wilshere was sent off for the challenge and after the game apologised to Zigic. But you can't say stop doing that challenge and then have your players do it that just isn't on. I'm an Arsenal fan but I right this blog as a football pundit.

Man Utd dropped more points at home to West Brom after letting a 2 goal lead slip to draw 2-2. A horror mistake from Van Der Sar let West Brom draw level and from then on they looked the more likely to score. There has been big shouts that Wayne Rooney will not sign a new contract at United and I wil do a separate post about that story.

Chelsea injury problems proved crucial as they slugged out a goalless draw with Villa. The game had chances for both sides and the wood-work was struck on many occasions. The best chance game to Villa right at the end. Reo-Coker went through on goal and put his effort over Cech but wide of the mark. In the end it was a good result for Villa who join a very select group of teams that have stopped Chelsea from scoring this season.

Van Der Vaart just keeps on impressing at Spurs. He showed another piece of skill to set up the equaliser against Fulham which eventually led to a 2-1 win. The talking point was Spurs's second goal. When Huddlestone hit his shot into the bottom corner the flag went up because Gallas was offside when the ball was struck and made an attempt to convert it in. After consulting with his linesman the referee overruled the decision and gave the goal. It was a bit like Blackpool's disallowed goal. Gallas was offside when the ball was hit but was not in the keepers line of sight so because he didn't touch it he was not active. As much as it pains me to say it. Good call referee.

Bolton beat Stoke 2-1. Klasnic went from hero to villain in a matter of minutes though. First, he scored the winner for Bolton after coming on as a sub. Then seconds after that he pushed Whitehead in the face, an offence worthy of a straight red card, but got away with just a yellow. And right before the end he jumped into Delap earning him a second yellow followed by a ref. Maybe if Graham Pole was in charge he might of got a 3rd yellow.

Newcastle are still looking for that home win that has avoided them for a quite a few weeks and just managed to recue a point from a game that at one stage they were 2-0 down in. Andy
Carroll tried a Maradona and was booked which was very funny. I suggest you watch the highlights on Yahoo.

Wolves drew 1-1 with West Ham. Biggest surprise was Wolves weren't shown a card for the whole 90 minutes. West Ham should have won it though when Piquionne scored late on. The ref ruled it out though because he thought he had hand balled it, which he hadn't, and even booked him for deliberate handball. Poor Piquionne.

I end with Mondays game and it was a goalless draw between Blackburn and Sunderland. Samba was sent off for Blackburn but Sunderland couldn't capitalise. Steve Bruce said after the game that his side needs to stop relying on Bent to come up with the goals and start scoring more as a team.