Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Bolton Wanderers: Sam Allardyce entertains his old club, hoping to escape relegation under Owen Coyle, making the short trip up the A666 for an early kick off Lancashire derby
Rovers have the ball in the net direct from Morten Gamst Pederson's throw in, have it cleared off the line and hit the upright but finally take the lead three minutes before half time through Nikola Kalinic
Despite a series of great saves from Jussi Jaaskelainen and a temporary blizzard, Blackburn grab a second when Wanderers fail to clear a corner and Jason Roberts scores
The home side rubber stamp their win with a third goal from Gael Givet; Rovers have only lost two league games at Ewood Park all season while Bolton are now more than 500 minutes without a goal
Aston Villa 5-2 Burnley: Another bottom-three Lancashire side on the road today are Burnley, still looking for their first away win since Brian Laws took over from Coyle
The visitors, however, take a shock lead when Jack Cork's excellent pass finds David Nugent who lays it on a plate for Steven Fletcher to tap home
Ashley Young, Gabriel Agbonlahor and Stewart Downing are constant threats to the Burnley defence and Young brings the teams level when his drilled ball flashes past everybody in the Claret's box and in to the net
Downing himself makes his mark on the game scoring twice in two minutes; the first set up by Young, racing down the left, and the second a deflected shot from the edge of the box
Villa make it three goals in five minutes as this time Agbonlahor, who should have scored between Downing's brace, makes a mockery of the visitors' defensive positioning and pace, and crosses for Emile Heskey to score
Agbonlahor gets his goal, and Villa their fifth, soon after, a good start to a week in which Martin O'Neill's men host an FA Cup replay and face Manchester United in the Carling Cup Final
The only comfort for Laws may be that his side don't know when they're beaten and they keep going until the last, drawing a goal back through Martin Paterson who slides in on Cork's cross
Fulham 2-1 Birmingham City: The Cottagers have a midweek win against Shaktar Donetsk behind them but City take the early lead as Chris Baird sends an unstoppable header into his own net from Lee Bowyer's cross
Fabio Capello is in attendance at Craven Cottage, possibly looking at Bobby Zamora, scorer of the winner against Shaktar, and Joe Hart, goalkeeper for a City side that already have 11 clean sheets this season
But Hart can't keep a clean sheet in front of the England manager, Damien Duff, playing his best since the Korea-Japan World Cup of 2002, follows a one-two with Zoltan Gera to score in the Thames-side sunshine
Zamora, however, does impress, getting his 15th goal of the season, a hellfire free-kick to win the game for Fulham and send them level on points with their opponents
Manchester City 0-0 Liverpool: The last north-west derby of the day sees two continental managers, weighed by expectation but disappointing in results, battle for fourth place in the table
The game is insipid, full of incomplete passes, scrappy play, bad challenges, perhaps the best result for Spurs and Villa, and is notable only for the return, from the bench, of Fernando Torres for the Reds
Wigan Athletic 0-3 Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs are 1-0 up at half time through Jermain Defoe, fortuitous not to be given offside, but can they get eight in the second-half against the Latics, as at White Hart Lane?
Much of the second half passes by with little incident on a quagmire pitch until Luka Modric feeds fellow Tottenham substitute Roman Pavlyuchenko to squeeze the ball home
Pavlyuchenko, long-considered a misfit at Spurs, gets his second, his side's third in injury time, following up his own saved effort to send the Londoners fourth
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