An obvious case of how Fabio Capello was seduced by Kevin Davies into handing the veteran an English debut last month, is one the lips of hurting Tottenham Spurs fans. On the other hand, the same old story of Spurs tumbling like a deck of cards after riding a high crest wave of the Champions League is now boring with its predictability.
Daives hit the net twice while Gretar Steinsson and Martina Petrov punished a Spurs defence that actually played for Bolton Wanderers. Allan Hutton and Roman Pavlyuchenko scored for Spurs. Spurs were in trouble from the first whistle, failing to capitalise on the nervous Bolton. They suffered the absence of Aaron Lennon, Rafael van der Vaart and Ledley King.
Park Ji-Sung reminded us of who Manchester United really are, with a 93rd-minute strike that gave Manchester United a 2-1 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford. Sung scored his second goal of the game deep in injury time squeezing a shot past the diving Marcus Hahnemann. Wolves paid for loss of concentration and thinking the match was over before the referee blew the final whistle. They could have earned a vital point. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake had equalised after 66 minutes after park had scored earlier in the first half. It was a perfect gift for Sir Alex Ferguson's 24 year anniversary.
Owen Hargreaves's short and unfortunate career is all but over as he played only 5 1/2 minutes since 2008 and hobbled off the field. In what was a promising career that blossomed in Germany and then the protracted moves to have him play for England and eventually his costly move to United, it seems he will never be the player to realise his potential, much to the disappointment of both United and England fans.
His career is always compared to a much better one of one great Ole Gunner Solskjaer. Ole contributed far more than Owen but everybody will tell you how much the great things he did where going to be much better done over and over. At least this time, Owen managed to deliver a wayward cross and was on the turf for almost 6 minutes compared to the 30 seconds of last season. For his age, if he was a car, he would be having demo mileage on his speedo. I can just feel for the poor guy. What a wasted talent.
Blackpool had a Neal Eardley free-kick lead 10 minutes minutes into play and Everton evergreen Tim Cahill replied with a towering header to level the scores. Everton played well with purpose, with captain Arteka, Cahill and Steven Pienaar dictating the pace of the match. David Vaughan scored from close range and Everton hit back with the same urgency of the first half equaliser.
Sunderland beat Stoke City 2-0. Stoke are having a very bad run and my guess is that they will be unleashing their anger on teams that will visit them and Arsene Wenger will be crying foul in no time. Asamoah Gyan scored in the 6th and 86th minutes in the absence of injured Darren Bent.
Birmingham City and West Ham United drew 2 all while Fulham and Aston Villa drew 1-1. Gamst Pederson and Jason Roberts scored for Bluckburn in their 2-1 over Wigan Athletic. Charles N'zogbia scored Wigan's face saver at Ewood Park.
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