Premier League Results 21st February

Aston Villa 5-2 Burnley
Aston Villa came back from 1-0 down to give Burnley a thrashing. They might be quite worried that two Burnley goals managed to get through their solid defence. James Collins had stitches in a head injury but he was able to complete the game. James did deflect a Burnley shot that nearly went in but it didn’t go in so I’d say that was good defending. Even if he didn’t really know anything about it.

Blackburn 3-0 Bolton Wanderers
Sam Allardyce faced his old side and came away with the three points. Jason Brown was on Blackburn’s bench as usual. Sam Ricketts didn’t really have his best game at centre back for Bolton but I think it’s a bit mean of Owen Coyle to complain about Sam playing a Blackburn player onside. Maybe he just didn’t want anything to do with the offside trap. I’m sure I’d be completely against it as a tactic if Arsenal weren’t so famous for it.

Fulham 2-1 Birmingham City
Simon Davies managed 82 minutes as Fulham came from behind to beat Birmingham. He could have got himself another goal but unfortunately he was up against Joe Hart. Simon thinks Bobby Zamora has a chance of being called into the England squad and if I cared about England I’d definitely want him to be there. I would be very happy if he had a Welsh grandparent.

Manchester City 0-0 Liverpool
Craig Bellamy’s knee injury kept him on the bench to begin with although maybe he’d have started if he hadn’t had that argument with Roberto Mancini. But City fans were very happy to see him come onto the pitch after 68 minutes. If anyone was going to liven this game up, it was going to be Craig. But not even Craig could do anything with this game. Even if he had done something interesting, no-one would have seen it because the spectators would have fallen asleep by then.

Wigan Athletic 0-3 Tottenham Hotspur
Jason Koumas was left out of the squad as expected as Wigan lost to Tottenham. It wasn’t another 9-1 but for the most part there looked like only one possible winner.
Well done to Gareth Bale who turned in another Man of the Match performance (not sure if he got the champagne although he would have been a contender) as well as getting his second Premier League win. Gareth has deserved to win every week since he took over from Benoit Assou-Ekotto so it’s good to see him getting three points. It’s just a shame he plays for my team’s biggest rivals.