Portsmouth win at last & Man Utd injury time drama

Portsmouth finally broke their points drought this weekend, beating Wolves, while Chelsea returned to the top of the Premier League by defeating Liverpool - after a below-par Manchester United had slipped up against Sunderland, only securing a draw at home in the last few seconds of the game. Here are the Premier League highlights of the weekend

Pompey in the points...The south coast side may still be a basket case off the pitch - a new Saudi angel has appeared in the shape of billionaire Ali al-Faraj, to take over from Sulaiman al-Fahim - but at Wolves on Saturday the team finally won at their eighth attempt this season. A 19th minute goal by Hassan Yebda was the difference between the sides as Portsmouth held on through an astonishing barrage from the Premier League new boys. David James's clean sheet was the club's first of the season and only the second of another high-scoring weekend (Chelsea were the other) in the Premier League. Indeed of all the former and current England goalkeepers in action, James was head and shoulders above the rest - Robert Green conceding two for West Ham, Ben Foster the same against Sunderland at Old Trafford, and Paul Robinson picking the ball out of the net at the Emirates six times for Blackburn.

More injury time drama at Old Trafford
Manchester United got out of jail at home against Sunderland on Saturday evening, when an Anton Ferdinand own goal two minutes into injury time denied Steve Bruce his first ever victory over his former manager. There can be no complaints - as fellow former United legend Mark Hughes had when his Manchester City team lost to a Michel Owen decider in the sixth minute of time added on - though about the legality of the equaliser, as there were two minutes left on the clock, but Alex Ferguson will be alarmed and the flatness of the display from his rejigged team. The return of keeper Edwin van der Sar cannot come soon enough for the home team, for whom Ben Foster struggled, making a poor decision to allow Kenwynne Jones to head home the second for Sunderland, and Ferguson's sour rant against "unfit" referee Alan Wiley highlighted the unpleasant side of the champions when things aren't going their way.

Burnley's home comforts
Owen Coyle's promoted Clarets are fast making Turf Moor one of the fortresses of the Premier League, retaining a 100 per cent record there after four games that only table-toppers Chelsea can match in the top flight. Goals from Steven Fletcher and Andre Bikey helped them past fellow promoted side Birmingham on a blustery day in Lancashire, and should they keep their home run going, they will be able to offset an appalling away record (four losses from four, fourteen goals conceded and none scored). Celebrity fan and former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell will at least have one thing to keep him happy next May if Coyle can keep Burnley in the top flight beyond their first season.

The Premier League's emotional rollercoaster
Phil Brown's Hull City were on a typically unconventional training session last week, crossing the Humber Bridge when they came across a woman apparently trying to commit suicide on the structure. Brown talked the woman down, and his ability to turn round seemingly hopeless situations was on display again on Saturday, when the Tigers beat Wigan - conquerors last week of Chelsea - by 2-1. But perhaps the result was more a reflection of the manic tendencies of a raft of teams that are clustering in the lower reaches of the table and which are going to make predicting the relegation candidates this season tougher than ever. From Fulham and West Ham, whose 2-2 draw yesterday was the stuff of managerial nightmares for both bosses (ten-man Fulham were leading until an injury time equaliser for the Hammers), through the weekly oscillations of Wolves, Pompey and Hull (lose 6-1 to Liverpool), win 2-1), one fears for the nerves and the jobs of the Premier League's gaffers. ·