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I tried as I drove my son along the M4 today. Enner Valencia scored twice, as the Hammers bounced back from a goal down to take full three points from the match. At ?1,014 for the cheapest Highbury season ticket, they are well above north London rival Tottenham (?795 cheapest season ticket). They were fast and furious and produced some outstanding football at times, resulting in enough chances being created. But the new Arsenal back line didn’t have time to sniff before a well timed cross by Branislav Ivanovic was volleyed home by Costa at the near post. Boos rained down from the stands at half time, seconds after Charlie Austin headded home the winner on his Southampton debut, and as the players trudged off the pitch. Leicester made them look like a Sunday pub league side. This defeat was their fourth on the spin, they have not won a league game in six, and have only scored once in that timeframe, and that was an own goal. Amazing what can happen when you attack with pace and pass the ball forward. Arsenal reacted by hauling off Olivier Giroud, replacing him with Gabriel Paulista. A Club with a larger number of wins shall be placed higher than a Club with the same number of league points but fewer wins. This is not the United of old. Charging hundreds of pounds per year for a football season ticket has provoked a group of fans to protest outside the Premier League HQ in London. In another instance, United conceded four goals against MK Dons while trying to be more cavalier in their approach. It got worse a few minutes later when Senastien Bassong seemed to rescue a poinf for the Canaries with a stunner from the edge of the box, only for Adam Lallana to score the winner in the last minute of the game. He is the find of the season. Jamie Vardy was back on the score sheet, and Riyad Mahrez was back to his impetuous best, and in N’Golo Kante they have a player who has racked up more tackles and interceptions than any other player in the Premier League. As a United fan I hope that letter touches the hearts of the United board. Showing your competitive side After each game, enter your results and you'll get to see your league tables automatically update to show the current standings. Payet adds a new dimension to the Premier League When he is on song, there are few players in the Premier League that are as good as Dimitri Payet. Valencia making them look like a couple of mugs after a long throw in waltzed past them both leaving the Ecuadorian with a simple tap in. Last season, with 23 games notched up, Leicester City were at the foot of the Premier League table. Aston Villa had to settle for a goalless bore draw with West Brom. Newly appointed Villa manager Remi Garde left his first game in charge of the club with a share of the spoils, even though his side failed to manage a single shot on target, per WhoScored. Event filters give you the flexibility to view team stats in various ways and gather information as you wish. First Jordan Henderson showed we he somehow graces the cover of FIFA16 alongside Lionel Messi by reducing the deficit to 3-2 in the 55th minute, Fiino grabbed his second of the game in the 63rd minute, and James Milner put them 4-3 ahead in the 75th minute after a calamitous backpass by Norwich captain Russell Martin. Spurs are now five points clear of Man Utd after another drib-drab home performance from a side that will surely end of the season with a new manager in charge of the controls. Check out all the results from Round 21 of the Barclays Premier League, with an updated look at the Premier League table. Payed displayed some magical dribbling and sets up the pass for Valencia, who slotted home as West Ham clinched a 2-1 lead. By comparison, the four former winners, who remain in the Premier League, have spent over ?1. Man City move up to second after securing a hard earned point away to West Ham. Norwich is now two points above the drop zone. Read on for a recap of Sunday's Week 12 results so far and a breakdown of the Premier League table as things stand. Roman Abramovic’s Chelsea has won the title four times, Arsenal three, Man City two and Blackburn Rovers picking up a solitary title on 1994-95. Then came the Liverpool fight back. United thought to have sealed the game after Rooney put them in front in the 80th min, but Dummett had the last word, to eclipse that effort with a phenomenal strike of his own. United showed more fervour and passion going forward. Liverpool is up to seventh. Angry fan Michael Brunskill, from the Football Supporters Federation, said that football would "die a slow death" if ticket prices remained high. West Ham hit the crossbar with the last kick of the game. William broke free for Chelsea, slid an inch perfect pass through to Diego Costa, and Per Mertesacker hacked him down giving referee Mark Clattenburg no option but to send the German off. Jan Vertonghen had given Crystal Palace an early lead with an own goal. The only reason Norwich didn’t fall further is because Watford woke from their four game slumber with a 2-1 victory over Newcastle. And for individual match-goers, Man City fans fork out the most at around ?44 for a home game (?41 for Chelsea home fans). Blackburn bought the title. What a singing he has turned out to be for manager Slaven Bilic at West Ham. If this still does not establish the position then the Club who has won the most matches, excluding its first Premiership League match of the season, then its second Premiership League match and so on, until it can be established which the higher placed Club is. However, they are yet to win in January, although Eddie Howe will be looking to turn things around when they face Norwich and Sunderland in their next two matches. Slaven Bilic has gotten his team working so well that after the game he told the press that they were all ‘a little bit disappointed’. Aguero ensured West Ham would not completed the double over them when he rescued a point in the 81st minute. City were level within 10-minutes after Karl Jenkinson brought down Sergio Aguero in the penalty area. Super flexible league tables Create league tables for specific competitions, divisions, or seasons. Leicester’s easy 3-0 victory over Stoke on the weekend was their 20th Premier League victory in the past 32 games. Nacer Chadli scored a pearler of a goal with the last kick of the game. You have to love the enthusiasm of this man. Here are the rest of the weekend’s results. Premier makes it easy to build awesome league tables. They had won only four games, drawn five, lost 14, conceded 37 goals and had accumulated only 17 points. Aguero himself put away the penalty. At the other end of the table Norwich continue their slide towards the abyss after losing in a nine goal thriller at home to Liverpool. If Clubs have equal league points and equal number of wins then a Club with a larger difference between match points "for" and match points "against" shall be placed higher in the Premiership League than a Club with a smaller difference between match points "for" and match points "against". It is ordered to prioritise the most-recent wins. He hardly glanced up from his mobile phone. Villa held Manchester City to a goalless draw earlier on Sunday, but Arsenal's stutter against Spurs means they're fortunate to retain the Premier League throne for the time being. Week 23 Results Norwich 4 v 5 Liverpool Man Utd 0 v 1 Southampton Leicester 3 v 0 Stoke Watford 2 v 1 Newcastle Crystal Palace 1 v 3 Spurs Sunderland 1 v 1 Bournemouth Arsenal 0 v 1 Chelsea Premier League Standings (After 23 Games) 1st. You may be more boring than a night in with James Milner. Aston Villa registered their first victory after 20th attempt, beating Crystal Palace 1-0, and were given a life-line in their battle to stay in the Premier League. They need a chaneg and they need it now. In the 2014-15 season they finished in 3rd place in the Pinnacle Sports handicap table. Chelsea and Man City have followed a similar pattern. The game was effectively done and dusted in the first 20-minutes. Prior to the Newcastle game, United had conceded only 17 goals in the league, boasting the second best defence in 2015-16 behind Tottenham (16). The Independent has published an article suggesting that Jose Mourinho has written a six page letter to United expressing his strong desire to manage at Old Trafford. It is often said that LvG abandoned his attacking style at Old Trafford, after United lost 5-3 against Leicester City last season. Should two Clubs have the same number of league points and the same match points difference, the Club having scored more match points "for" shall be placed higher in the Premiership League than the Club having the lesser number of match points "for". The United skipper has been involved in most of their attacks, and has now scored 4 goals in his last 3 appearances. Only Bournemouth (?47,550,000) and Watford (?22,650,000) has spent less. Klopp breaking his glasses in a team bear hug at the side of the pitch. Therefore a team that covered their last game will be placed higher than a team that has covered their previous nine games but lost their last one. Stoke have been playing some blinding football. Both Sunderland and Aston Villa remain below Newcastle. Can the unlikeliest of unlikely happen? Sunderland getting lucky to grab a 1-1 draw against a Bournemouth side who seem to play all the football, but can’t find that killer touch. Norwich reacted well to a Firmino opener, and were leading by three goals to one after Wes Hoolahan scored Norwich’s first penalty of the season after a mind blowing moment of idiocy by the Liverpool full back Alberto Moreno. It’s difficult to explain to a teenager how monumental it is to see Leicester City at the top of the Premier League table with 15-games remaining. England manager Roy Hodgson would have been grinning like a Cheshire cat after Harry Kane and an unbelievable goal by Dele Alli helped Spurs on their way to a 3 v 1 win away at Crystal Palace. There is definitely a noticeable chill in the room this evening. Alan Pardew’s men were once Champions League prospects. On split bets (e. In my best Kevin Keegan accent: “I would love it if Leicester wins the Premier League. If Man City are going to win the title this year they have to do something about their comical centre half partnerships. He is a pure joy to watch. It was Mr Angry’s eighth goal in the past eighth game. Quiqe Flores’s team has been one of the surprises of the aeason, but they came into this one on the back of four successive defeats. The Manchester United stopper has hailed the 33-year-old after Cech broke the record for the highest amount of top flight clean sheets since Premier League was formed in 1992. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was seen playing holy hell with the official. Dmitry Payet was once again the man of the match for the Hammers. Norwich fans were given some hope when the fourth official showed five minutes of injury time. Meanwhile, Liverpool were another unfortunate host, as they fell to a 2-1 defeat at home to Crystal Palace in Jurgen Klopp's first defeat since assuming the Anfield helm. Arsenal’s loss means they drop to third. Goals from the superb Odion Ighalo and Craig Cathcart putting Watford two goals up before Jamaal Lascelles pulled one back for Newcastle in the 71st minute. Arsenal and Man Utd have spent their fair share of dosh, but they earned their titles by building teams the old fashioned way. And this is why Leicester’s current berth at the top of the Premier League is astronomical. United fans were habituated with an attacking brand of football under Sir Alex Ferguson, and such a drastic change in the playing style has left the fans frustrated. I think today might be the day I turn the central heating back on. Spurs put some distance between them and Man Utd in the race for the Champions League places. In the past five seasons Leicester has spent ?58,800,000 building their squad. Alex Ferguson’s Man United has dominated with 13 wins. Bournemouth enjoyed a good spell in December, where they lost only once in their five Premier League games, winning three of them. Only five teams have ever won the Premier League. Enner Valencia opened up the scoring for West Ham in the 53rd second. Harry After broke the deadlock with a long range strike, but West Ham equalised through Payet, who scored from a wonderful curling free-kick. It was the second fastest Premier League goal of the season (Matt Ritchie of Bournemouth scoring in 49-seconds against Spurs). In comparison the market overvalued Manchester United for two seasons running as they failed to cover the spread in 55. Can the Foxes become only the sixth team to win the Premier League in its history? If the above does not establish different Premiership League positions then the Club in the higher position shall be the Club that has achieved the higher aggregate match points scored by it in the same season against the other Club.