What a diabolical day for refereeing.. We had the incident I pointed out earlier between Fulham and Arsenal in which Fulham clearly had a penalty denied to them by a stupid decision, but Arsenal were robbed also. I saw the incident on MOTD and it clearly looks like Henry was stubbed in the foot before the Fulham defender touched the ball. Henry's rolling around on the floor after getting up from the tackle did look a bit strange though. Fulham should have had a goal, but that was disallowed.. All in all, maybe the final score should have been - Fulham 2-4 Arsenal - maybe Fulham would have won if the decisions had gone their way.
Chelsea were also denied a clear penalty late on at Villa Park. Drogba was fouled by De La Cruz and then booked for 'diving'. Newcastle were also denied two clear penalties, but they did win 3-0 anyway, so in their case it's not as bad.
Aaaanyway.. away from the bad decisions, Everton are 5th!
I wasn't expecting that at the start of the season. Another clean sheet and 3 points away from home. They're riding high in 5th place, equal on points with Bolton (3rd) and Middlesbrough (4th) - I think I don't need to mention who's 1st and 2nd.
Portsmouth earned themselves another home win in another exciting match. They won 3-1 against Palace. The visitors could have leveled the match in the second-half after going 2-1 down to Berger's 47th minute strike. They were awarded a dodgy penalty (the foul was clear, but the Palace player handled the ball before being brough down) but Hislop saved the day for Portsmouth! They're up to 9th, one place above Manchester United.
Speaking of United, more points dropped.
It's not good enough for us to only have 6 points out of 5 matches, even with the extensive injury list we're capable of - Chelsea (draw), Norwich (win), Blackburn (win), Everton (win), Bolton (draw). Now, I say the draw today wasn't good enough, even though it's the result I expected simply because we dropped points in earlier games that we shouldn't have! and the win today would have made up for those errors. With Liverpool coming up next Monday we'll be lucky to have 7 points out of 6 matches..
Liverpool crusied to victory 3-0 against West Brom. They're up to 7th now on 7 points, but with a game in hand (Portsmouth). West Brom (like all the other promoted teams) are still searching for their first win. Middlesbrough beat Birmingham 2-1, which actually leaves Birmingham with only 4 points so far (same as Fulham). Improvements will be needed soon.
Nothing was mentioned about that on the radio. 
