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Birmingham City 1-2 Bolton Wanderers

DAVID Sullivan's final home game as Birmingham co-owner ended in disappointment as Chung-Yong Lee's late goal earned victory for Bolton.

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Aston Villa

DAVID Dunn kept his nerve from the penalty spot as ten-man Blackburn came from behind to shatter Aston Villa's 100 per cent away record in a storming clash at Ewood Park.

Portsmouth 0-1 Everton

LOUIS Saha condemned Portsmouth to a seventh successive Barclays Premier League defeat at Fratton Park.

Fulham 0-1 Arsenal

The story of this tense match was encapsulated in the facial expressions of its two goalkeepers. Fulham's Mark Schwarzer, for much of the game under-employed, was a picture of smooth composure. Down the other end, Vito Mannone looked like a young boxer thrown into the ring for the first time...

No stage for football's amateur dramatics

Jack Wilshere reached a momentous junction in his short career this week, but the Arsenal player chose the wrong pathThe modern starlet always comes to a junction where he must choose theatricality and deviousness or a steelier and more honourable response to the bumps that are bound to come his...

A bar in Qatar is an England hope too far

But it may not be too much to hope that Craig Bellamy joins Arsène Wenger in football managementPleasing as it was to discover that Arsène Wenger learned all he knows about football from spending his childhood in a pub, it was not quite as mind-boggling as the revelation that Craig...

Mutu bedevilled by damage control

Chelsea's determination to make the Fiorentina striker pay for his indiscretions has left him a tormented soulIn times of hardship, football fans think nothing of rallying round their own and giving all they can. Caring though it is for the fans of Fiorentina to pledge their very best for Adrian...

Wigan leap into unknown after Cech clears way

What inferiority complex? Wigan may have failed to win any of their 34 previous games against the acknowledged big four teams of English football and lost in recent weeks to Manchester United 5-0, at home, and Arsenal 4-0. At the 35th attempt, however, local history was made in eventful fashion: a...