Premiership Results 28th November

Aston Villa 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur
James Collins failed a late fitness test on his groin injury. Gareth Bale was on the bench but he stayed there. It depends on the quality of the bench I suppose but I can't imagine that sitting on them is very good for groins.

Blackburn Rovers 0-0 Stoke City
Stoke’s Ryan Shawcross was substituted after suffering a groin injury and is a doubt for the next game but Danny Collins seems fine/ And there was obviously nothing wrong with their defending or Blackburn would have scored.
Jason Brown stayed on the bench for Blackburn.
Stoke’s Welsh manager Tony Pulis has asked Stoke fans to lower their expectations following their disappointment when Stoke only beat Portsmouth 1-0… which got them exactly the same number of points as Tottenham got when they beat Wigan by that horrible amount of goals.

Fulham 1-1 Bolton Wanderers
Both teams left their Welsh players on the bench although Simon Davies came onto the field after 68 minutes. Seven minutes later, Fulham got their equaliser. Simon has been out with an injury for some time so maybe Fulham want to be careful with him.
I hope Bolton didn’t leave Sam Ricketts on the bench because of his own goal last week. I think that would be really unfair and the goal wasn’t all his fault. It was just the result of a misunderstanding, something that happens all the time in every profession (or it would if anyone was stupid enough to hire me).

Manchester City 1-1 Hull City
Boaz Myhill stayed on Hull’s bench after some excellent performances from Matt Duke, who replaced him when he was injured. Poor Bo, don't you just hate it when that happens? Craig Bellamy started on the bench for Man City but came on after 75 minutes. It was too late. The richest club in the world (or at least in England) got their seventh consecutive draw against the club that until recently looked most certain to go down. If they can keep that run going, it will in some ways be a greater achievement than getting into the Champions’ League.

Portsmouth 1-4 Manchester United
Ryan Giggs scored his 100th Premier League for Man U with a brilliant free kick. He also provided two of the assists. I don’t like Portsmouth so I’ll forgive Man Utd for winning this time. It was Ryan's birthday the day after the match. I'm sure he loved his present from Portsmouth.

West Ham United 5-3 Burnley
Danny Gabbidon started in defence again for West Ham and although he let in three goals, at least he waited until West Ham were 5-0 up. Danny is looking back to his best now which is really good considering his career was in doubt. Jack Collison scored West Ham’s first goal. He was substituted on 77 minures but it looks as though that was a tactical change rather than a recurrence of his injury. It's good tactics sometimes, taking your Welsh player off. The opposition will subconsciously relax and then you can get another goal. (Well that's what I like to think.)

Wigan Athletic 1-0 Sunderland
It had to happen didn’t it? The team Tottenham thrashed last week beat the team Arsenal lost to.
Jason Koumas stayed on Sunderland’s bench.