Sunday 22 May 2011

Final Day Drama

Relegation Ian-Evatt-able
So after the most intriguing relegation battle the Premier League has ever seen, we finally know the three that will go down to the Championship; West Ham, Blackpool and Birmingham.


In what was a dramatic final half an hour to the season, 4 of the 5 teams which could have gone down found themselves in the bottom 3. Only Blackburn managed to avoid finding themselves in that position after a fantastic first half performance which saw them 0-3 up at half time against a worried Wolves. Elsewhere Wigan survived with a less than comfortable 1-0 away win at Stoke, though at times, that might not have been enough.

Blackpool finally gave in, Ian Evatt doing what Manchester United found hard; beat the Blackpool keeper.

Birmingham deserved to go down after a very poor performance at Tottenham, hardly managing a shot on Goal.

So the last day results were;

Aston Villa                 1-0     Liverpool
Bolton                       0-2    Manchester City
Everton                    1-0     Chelsea
Fulham                      2-2    Arsenal
Manchester United     4-2    Blackpool
Newcastle                 3-3    West Brom
Stoke                        0-1   Wigan
Tottenham                2-1    Birmingham
West Ham                 0-3    Sunderland
Wolves                     2-3    Blackburn

A fantastic day of football which leaves the final premier league table of the season looking like this;

Man Utd3880
Chelsea3871
Man City3871
Arsenal3868
Tottenham3862
Liverpool3858
Everton3854
Fulham3849
Aston Villa3848
10 Sunderland3847
11 WBA3847
12Newcastle3846
13 Stoke City3846
14 Bolton3846
15 Blackburn3843
16 Wigan3842
17 Wolves3840
18 Birmingham3839
19 Blackpool3839
20 West Ham3833

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