Premiership Round Up

With only five games being played today in the Premiership there was still a lot at stake in all of the games:

• Arsenal 1 - Tottenham 1:
  Spurs hung on to draw with the Gunners when Davids was sent off for a second bookable offense shortly after Henry equlised for the Gunners.
  
  A draw does much more for Spurs than for the Gunners who now trail the North London rivals by five points with only one game in hand. Spurs have just two games left to win and secure fourth spot and a place in the Champions League. There are shades of last season when Liverpool lost out to local city rivals Everton, but ended up qualifying by being crowned European Champions. It's looking like Arsenal will have to do the same this time around.
  
  
• Portsmouth 2 - Sunderland 1:
  All three relugation battlers were playing today, but only one of them won. Pompy beat Championship-bound Sunderland, leaving the Northeners having to win all of their last games just so they don't break their own record of fewest points earned in Premiership history.
  
  Most Importantly it lifts Pompy out of the bottom three (who still have to face LFC in their final game) and two points ahead of Brum, who drew with Everton today. A win against Wigan will put them out of the reach of West Brom and give them the greatest chance to stay up.
  
  
• Everton 0 - Birmingham 0:
  Birmingham's draw has dropped them down into the bottom three again and at the expense of four yellow cards to key players. With two games left against Newcastle (who won 3-0 today) and a European chasing Bolton on the last game of the season, things are looking bleak for Brum.
  
  
• Newcastle 3 - West Brom 0
  Things are pretty much over for West Bromwich Albion who lost 3-0 to an Shearer-and-Owen-less Newcastle team today. They now need to win their last two remaining games against West Ham and Everton and hope Pompy don't get another point and Brum fail to win in their last two games.
  
  West Brom and Robson won't give up though, after escaping relegation on the last day of the season last year.
  
  
• Bolton 4 - Charlton 1
  Bolton scored four goals in the first half as they moved up into 8th place and two points away from a UEFA cup place.
  
  Wanderers have been a little lacklustre over the last few weeks but have put themselves back in the frame for another European campaign, they have a game in hand over Newcastle (who sit just 1 place and two points above them) and Blackburn who have the same two point cushion, but need to face Chav$ki in thier run-in. Games against Champions League chasing Tottenham and relegation battlers Birmingham stand in the way of Sam Allardyce's men, but at least they're back in with a shout.