West Ham United 1-2 Newcastle United: Both teams are out of sorts and at the wrong end of the table but the Irons go ahead through Carlton Cole's first goal of the season, laid on by Frederic Piquionne
The Magpies strike back with a spell of pressure and a series of high crosses, one of which Andy Carroll manages to head down for captain Kevin Nolan to prod home
The home side go missing for much of the second half, not threatening, pressing, closing or creating, and are punished when Joey Barton's excellent cross is headed home by the unmarked Carroll
Birmingham City 2-0 Blackpool: The Tangerines are this season's surprise package away from home but the Blues, without a league win since August, take the lead through Liam Ridgewell
Birmingham grab a second as the ball cannons around the visitors' six yard box, Charlie Adam fails to clear it and Nikola Zigic gladly slams the ball in - both the Blues' goals from corners
Chelsea 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers: The Blues welcome back Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa (for the first time in over a year) but the visitors have the better of the opening through Matt Jarvis and David Edwards
Despite showing no threat other than a snap shot from Bosingwa, the home side take the lead through Florent Malouda on the break from another good Wolves chance, the Frenchman's seventh goal of the season
Substitute Salomon Kalou adds a second for Chelsea following a lovely passing move and the Londoners have five wins from five at home, with five clean sheets, moving five points clear at the top of the table
Sunderland 1-0 Aston Villa: The Black Cats pepper their visitors' penalty box with a series of crosses, creating pressure that eventually sees Richard Dunne turn the ball in to his own net
Villa have much of the possession in the second half but there's little further excitement at the Stadium of Light other than a man in a pink body stocking invading the pitch and earning a life-time ban from all football grounds
West Bromwich Albion 2-1 Fulham: Zoltan Gera refuses to celebrate his opening goal against his former club that Scott Carson tips on to the post only for the ball to deflect in off the unlucky keeper
There's no fluke about the Baggies' equaliser as Youssouf Mulumbu fires in Chris Brunt's through ball, Diomansy Kamara earlier skimming the post for Fulham and West Brom's Jonas Olsson's header being cleared off the line
The home side are ahead before the break when Marc-Antoine Fortune ghosts in to slide the ball home from eight yards and West Brom could yet be third by the end of the day
Wigan Athletic 1-1 Bolton Wanderers: The free-flowing start to the game is punctured with a nasty injury to James McCarthy from Fabrice Muamba's challenge and subsequent five-minute delay
The Latics finally break the stalemate in the second half as Jordi Gomez's through ball finds Hugo Rodallega squeezing between Gary Cahill and Paul Robinson to poke the ball home
The Trotters level minutes later as Kevin Davies, as ever, makes a nuisance of himself in the box and nods the ball on for Johan Elmander to score his fifth goal of the season, past the returning Chris Kirkland
Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Everton: Spurs' recovery following their midweek loss to Inter Milan begins in the worst way when Leighton Baines' free-kick opens the scoring for the Toffees on 17 minutes
Everton's lead lasts for only three minutes as Alan Hutton's hanging cross slips past Tim Howard and the ball ricochets off Peter Crouch to give Rafael van der Vaart the easiest of his five goals at White Hart Lane so far
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