Premier League Results 31st October 2010

Aston Villa 0-0 Birmingham City
This Midlands derby ended in a stalemate which Aston Villa probably should have won. Not that either of them particularly deserved it. It could be me but it seemed like he most exciting thing that happened was Nigel Reo-Coker getting into a fight with his former Villa team-mate Craig Gardner. With both players earning yellow cards (for separate arguments), I can only assume that ended in a draw too.
The good thing about goalless draws over any other kind of draw is that it means James Collins keeps a clean sheet for Aston Villa.

Bolton Wanderers 0-1 Liverpool
Liverpool moved out of the bottom three but luckily this doesn’t deprive me the satisfaction of using the words ‘Liverpool’ and ‘the bottom three’ in the same sentence. They were actually pretty lucky to get out of the bottom three at all and must be counting themselves very lucky that Arsenal’s alleged bid for Pepe Reina was rejected. Bolton were the better side and deserved the win with some exciting attacking football but no-one actually found the back of the net. It was Liverpool’s first away win since April and Roy Hodgson’s first away win since August 2009.
Sam Ricketts was on the bench for Bolton.