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I can almost guarantee that nobody still alive was watching Manchester City's game ninety-five years ago today, a 2-2 home draw against Arsenal. The result left them in a handy eighth place on 26 points (at a time when a win was worth just two points), 10 clear of relegation-haunted Bradford City.
The remainder of the season was not so good for the club, although Sheffield Wednesday, Manchester United and Liverpool all garnered fewer points. Unfortunately for City, they had all been higher placed in early February and to make matters-worse, Bradford compiled one the best record in the division over their final fourteen games.
Relegation all came down to the final mid-week games. On Wednesday the 28th April, City lost 1-0 to Bristol City but were still ahead of Liverpool on goal difference and Bradford by two points.
Manchester United then did their neighbours no favours by losing at Bradford, and then Liverpool pulled off the surprise of the season by winning at champions-elect Newcastle United.
So City were relegated in spite of scoring 50 goals in nineteen home games and having a negative goal difference of only two (their fellow relegatees Leicester were -48 after allowing more than 100 goals). They were also only five points from a top six finish and would have finished three points clear of danger under the 'three points for a win' method The good news is that they rebounded the following season as Division two champions
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Arsenal 2–0 Southampton Pires moves to the top of this years's Assists
Standings and is now one of only four Premiership players who has averaged more than one assist every other game (min. 5 assists)
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Birmingham City 3–0 Everton Birmingham's best/worst home and away results
are currently identical this year and last
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Blackburn Rovers 1–1 Newcastle United None of the last eight goals by Newcastle have been scored by Shearer
The previous longest such run this season had been just three
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Charlton Athletic 2–4 Tottenham Hotspur Defoe joins Blackburn's Stead on a two game goal-scoring run
to start their club careers as Spurs score four or more goals for the fourth time this season, a level they have not reached in more than a decade
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Fulham 1–2 Aston Villa At 5' 7", it is little surprise that Vassel's thirtieth
Premiership goal was only his second header. However, players who have more total goals and have never scored with their head include
6' 1", Patrik Berger
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Leeds United 4–1 Wolverhampton Wanderers Leeds end their losing streak at six, equalling their
worst in the Premiership
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Leicester City 1–1 Bolton Wanderers Walker's own-goal is the sixth by a goalkeeper since
the beginning of the 2000/1 season but the first this campaign
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Liverpool 2–1 Manchester City City's travails recall some history
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Manchester United 2–3 Middlesbrough Boro join Chelsea as the only teams to have recorded
three Premiership victories at Old Trafford Ever-presents Leeds, Villa, Tottenham
and Villa have yet to notch a victory in a combined 46 visits there
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Portsmouth 0–2 Chelsea No surprise that Chelsea achieve a shut-out. They lead the league
with fourteen, whilst Porstmouth's twelth blank sheet has only been exceeded by local rivals, Southampton
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