Fulham Massacre Man Utd in English Premier League - 12-21-09

December 21 - Undoubtedly the biggest two shock results from last week's English Premier League matches played in the UK were Manchester United's 3-0 drubbing by leading London football club, Fulham, and secondly Liverpool's lack-luster 2-0 defeat at the hands of Portsmouth FC.

Manchester United's defeat takes the cake considering that the top team is currently lying second in the English Premier League standings (behind Chelsea FC in first place), while Fulham is lying ninth. The short and tall of it is that Man U were simply crushed by Fulham on the day. End of story.

Arguably one of the best players of the game was Fulham striker, Bobby Zamora who seemed on a mission to prove he deserves a valuable spot in the England squad heading off to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. But cynics will accuse Man U of playing badly versus Fulham playing well.

The truth, however, is that Manchester played below par and at the same time Zamora stepped up his game big time. Some sportswriters even said that he played like a he was 'reborn'. And it was not hard to see why as he ran rings around most Manchester players, including top-rated Paul Scholes.

While many Man U fans were expecting Scholes to score his 100th goal for his team, he had a day that he'll long to forget. Early on a reckless tackle on Fulham winger Damien Duff earned him a yellow card, and later he sloppily gave the ball away to Fulham's Danny Murphy, who scored with it.

Needless to say things only got worse for the visitors who had to slope off back to Manchester with a 0-3 mark against their names. Man Utd's unceremonious defeat has been blamed on the fact that the English Premier League team was forced to play without many of its most key players.

Liverpool meanwhile only further demonstrated the fact that they are a team in crises when they were beaten by Portsmouth FC, who are literally at the bottom of the English Premier League. After the game, all Liverpool coach Rafael Benítez managed to say was that the referee 'was perfect'.

Sarcastic or otherwise, it showed a manager clearly in a distress considering his team has only managed to win 4 out of 17 games this season. In fact, during the game at Fratton Park in Portsmouth, many Liverpool fans chanted 'you're getting sacked in the morning' at the beleaguered manager.

Here are the full English Premier League Football results from the weekend of Saturday, December 19 and Sunday, December 20:

Wolves 2-0 Burnley
Everton 1-1 Birmingham
West Ham Utd 1-1 Chelsea
Portsmouth 2-0 Liverpool
Aston Villa 1-0 Stoke City
Blackburn 0-2 Tottenham
Fulham 3-0 Man Utd
Manchester City 4-3 Sunderland
Arsenal 3-0 Hull City

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