Man Utd Crush Bolton 4-0 in English Premier League - 03-30-10

March 30 - For yet another straight week, leading English Premier League football side Manchester United showed why they deserve to be at the top of the standings with 72 points, when they dispatched the Bolton Wanderers 4-0, who are currently lying fifteenth in the standings with 32 points.

And although football fans expected Manchester United to beat Bolton, to the extent they actually did may have been somewhat surprising. Particularly as serial gum-chewer and Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson took a chance by resting Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Michael Carrick.

It seems the Scotsman was spot on in his read of Bolton, by deciding that the team could make do without the talented trio on Saturday, so that they could get some much-needed rest ahead of the team's highly anticipated UEFA Champions League match against Bayern Munich in Munich on Tuesday.

As for the game itself, to say that Bolton put up a spirited fight would be accurate. However, it was one of those games when Manchester was firing on all cylinders, and used superb teamwork to wrong-foot Bolton time and again, leaving enough space to find the back of the Bolton net on four occasions.

But the English Premier League leaders aside, it is the second place team, Chelsea with has 71 points, that football fans all over the UK will be discussing today around office water coolers, dole offices and job centers alike, because The Blues 'thrashed' Aston Villa by a convincing 7-1 on Saturday.

Chelsea's talented midfielder Frank Lampard particularly shined on Saturday by scoring four of his team's seven goals. In fact, his skill took his total goals for the season up to 21, which is an incredible achievement for any midfielder, and bodes well for his chances in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Of the top three teams, it was only Arsenal, who is third in the Premier League with 68 points, that failed to deliver on Saturday, after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Birmingham, who are ninth in the League. No doubt Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger had some choice words for his team after the game.

Here are the full English Premier League Football results from Saturday March 27 and Sunday March 28, 2010:

Burnley 0-1 Blackburn
Liverpool 3-0 Sunderland
Birmingham 1-1 Arsenal
Chelsea 7-1 Aston Villa
Hull City 2-0 Fulham
Tottenham 2-0 Portsmouth
West Ham Utd 0-1 Stoke City
Wolves 0-0 Everton
Bolton 0-4 Man Utd