A weekend of amazing results...

Whether it be Ryan Giggs winning Sports Personality of the year, Joe winning the X Factor or Bolton holding rampant Man City to a 3-3 draw - this weekend was one to remember!

All across the football leagues there were results that would have cocked up a lot of accumilators. Title hopes took a knock down on the south coast where Bournemouth were crushed 5-0 away at Morcombe,  Middlesborough lost at home to Cardiff and Man Utd lost to top 4 wannabe's Aston Villa.

There was a goal fest on Saturday in the premiership in 2 fixtures, both seeing 6 goals. Now that's some value for money! It shows why it's the best league in the world. Chelsea held at home by Everton who REALLY needed a result like that to kick start there season (see Richards earlier blog to see the troubles they've had!). Chelsea seem to be leaking goals at the minute and letting their grip on the trophy loosen, which is fantastic really as I had written off the hopes of their being a title race this year in my post about 2 weeks ago. Chelsea will have wanted a large margin ahead of the rest of the pack before they lose Drogba, Kalou, Mikel (& Essien if he wasn't injured) etc to the African Nations (Why they are holding it in a World Cup year I still don't know!).

Bolton had a fantastic weekend and would have hoped for a bit of a better defensive performance to hold out Man City - considering they were ahead 3 times in the match! It really did show though that anyoe can beat anyone in the Prem (or nearly..) However, it wasn't enough to drag them out of the drop zone and it was another draw for City...

Who is looking most likely for the drop now? Surely Bolton and Portsmouth showed this weekend why they won't be in there come May, but West Ham.. maybe. Wolves had a good weekend in that they toppled Spurs at WHL where the last home game saw the home side net 9 goals. Despite this though, I still think Wolves will go down, along with Bullard-less Hull who had a dull weekend without their talisman.

Elsewhere was a demonstartion of the midtable certainties surrounding Stoke, Wigan, Fulham and Burnley where points were shared.

The main talking point for me (in a 100% non biased way ;-D) was the result on Sunday evening where Arsenal came from behind to maintain Liverpool's run of poor results. Liverpool were by far the best team in the first half where Arsenal looked flakey and inconsistent. Manuel Almunia showed why Wenger will probably look for a keeper in Jan as he flapped at a free kick coming into the box which then ended up in the back of the net off Dirk Kuyt.

Apparently Wenger roasted the players at half time and it showed immediately after the break. Arsenal looked like a completely different side and held possession for most of the half. Liverpool still showed why they are a class act with threats from the likely names of Gerrard and Torres but Arsenal seemed like they had woken up a bit this half. A bad refereeing decision, a fortunate own goal from Glen Johnson and a wonderstrike from the pocket-sized Arshavin took the Gunners to within 3 points of United and 6 of Chelsea with a game in hand! Finally some luck for the injury devastated Gunners..

The title race is back on!

(Pictures from bbc.co.uk/sport)