Premiership Review

Reigning champions Manchester United have drawn for the second time in two games after a 1-1 result at Portsmouth. Manchester United looked strong in the first half and Portsmouth fell behind to a goal from Paul Scholes however Portsmouth levelled early in the second half. Both teams had a player sent off - Portsmouth's Sully Muntari for two yelow cards and a straight red for Ronaldo for a head butt on Hughes.

A team that has started their campaign completley differently to Manchester United is Chelsea who have maximumpoints so far after their win aganst Reading. It was Reading that too the inative first after an error by Cech allowed Bikey to tap into an open net. However Mouruinho's men came out a different team in the second haf and scored 2 goals in five minutes curtesy of Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba.

Manchester City, like Chelsea, have also got maximum points from the campaign so far. Young Englishman Michael Johnson was handed his debut, produced an impressive display and scored to beat Derby 1-0.

It was a case of deja vu for Sunderland fans after a last minute goal see them share the points with Birmingham. Paul McShane inadvertently struck the ball into his own net for Birminghams first which was cancelled out from a superb volley from impressive new boy Michael Chopra. Substitue Gary O'Connor scored a well struck effort only for ex-Birmingham man Stern John to level things up.

Bolton have yet to get a point under Sammy Lee after Fulham beat them 2-1. In incredibly bad conditions it was a goal-keeping mistake which initally put Fulham behind. Saturday's hero Tony Warner had comfortably saved the ball only for him to spill it directly into the path of ex-teammate Heider Helguson. An equaliser came from David Healey with the ball taking a massive deflection of Helguson from a Zat Knight header the North Irish star was able to score his second goal in as many games. The last goal of the game was from Alexi Smeritin whose lash at goal hit Bolton's Cid and found it's way past Jussi Jaskelainan.

It was another goal-keeping error that saw Middlesborough fall on their sword this time Schwarzer fumbling the ball into the path of Siberski for Wigan to win 1-0.