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Dec 22
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All the Weekend Results
Yes you read it correctly. These are the full Premier League results for last week-end. Only two games survived the extreme and unusual freezing and blizzard conditions.
Sunderland 1 – 0 Bolton Wanderers
The result sums up the positions of both teams in the Premier League with Sunderland sitting 6th and Bolton in 7th place. Danny Welbeck made a fine header in the 32nd minute to give Sunderland the points and to leap-frog Bolton from 7th to 6th place before a crowd of 35,101. Sunderland travel to Manchester for their Boxing Day match with Manchester United. Man Utd are clear favourites at 30/100 with Sunderland at 12/1. The draw could be a possibility at 5/1. Bolton Wanderers meet West Bromwich Albion on Boxing Day in what should be a close fought match. Bolton are favourites at 6/5 with West Brom on 3/1. The draw at 5/2 is worth a bet.
Blackburn Rovers 1 – 1 West Ham United
Blackburn should have made a better job of this fixture given their relative positions in the Premier League. Blackburn are 12th while West Ham are at the bottom of the league. In other words this is a pretty good result for West Ham. However sitting at the bottom of the league is not a good place to be. You only get a view of everyone else’s back side. Blackburn scored first though Ryan Nelsen in 51 minutes. West Ham responded in the 78th minute through Junior Stanislas. As you might appreciate, the Blackburn fans were not best pleased. Caretaker manager Steve Kean did not improve his prospects of landing the full-time job at Ewood Park. Blackburn meet Stoke at the week-end with both team sitting 12th and 13th respectively. Blackburn are 5/4 favourites with Stoke on 12/4. The draw at 12/5 is worth consideration given Blackburn’s slip-up this week-end.
Coming Week-End Choices
The week-end fixtures if it happens will look like this for me.
Blackpool v Liverpool
As you know I have been following both of these teams and my loyalty is a bit divided for this match. Liverpool are just ahead of Blackpool at 9th and 10th place respectively. This is a close match on paper with Liverpool favourites at 4/5. Blackpool are 4/1 and the draw is forecast at 3/1. This Premier League is so up-in-the-air and Liverpool are still fragile that this game could go any way. I would go for the draw on this occasion, if it happens.
Fulham v West Ham United
This bottom of the table fixture is a must for West Ham. They need to dig in and get the points if relegation is to pass them by. We are almost at the half-way stage and it is time to think about (avoiding) relegation. Fulham are evens for this match with West Ham on 100/30 for the win. The draw is 5/2 and this would be my bet of the week-end. Go for it.
We finish the week-end round up with a look at the top goal scorers to date
| Rank | Name | Team | Matches | Goals | |
| 1 | Berbatov, Dimitar | Man Utd | 13 | 11 | |
| 2 | Carroll, Andy | Newcastle | 17 | 10 | |
| 2 | Tevez, Carlos | Man City | 16 | 10 | |
| 4 | Cahill, Tim | Everton | 17 | 9 | |
| 5 | Drogba, Didier | Chelsea | 16 | 8 | |
| 5 | Elmander, Johan | Bolton | 18 | 8 | |
| 5 | Nasri, Samir | Arsenal | 14 | 8 | |
| 5 | Nolan, Kevin | Newcastle | 14 | 8 | |
| 9 | Bent, Darren | Sunderland | 15 | 7 | |
| 9 | Chamakh, Marouane | Arsenal | 17 | 7 | |
| 9 | Malouda, Florent | Chelsea | 17 | 7 | |
| 12 | Davies, Kevin | Bolton | 18 | 6 | |
| 12 | Kalou, Salomon | Chelsea | 13 | 6 | |
| 12 | Odemwingie, Peter | W.B.A. | 12 | 6 | |
| 12 | van der Vaart, Rafael | Tottenham | 11 | 6 | |
| 16 | Bale, Gareth | Tottenham | 17 | 5 | |
| 16 | Dempsey, Clint | Fulham | 17 | 5 | |
| 16 | Downing, Stewart | Aston Villa | 17 | 5 | |
| 16 | Gyan, Asamoah | Sunderland | 14 | 5 | |
| 16 | Harewood, Marlon | Blackpool | 11 | 5 | |
| 16 | Nani | Man Utd | 15 | 5 | |
| 16 | Pavlyuchenko, Roman | Tottenham | 15 | 5 | |
| 16 | Torres, Fernando | Liverpool | 16 | 5 | |
| 16 | Varney, Luke | Blackpool | 13 | 5 | |
| 16 | Welbeck, Danny | Sunderland | 17 | 5 |
