With 12 games left of the EPL season (English Premier League), the title race is as close as ever, with Arsenal & Spurs now closing in on the impressive foxes.
The gunners hosted Leicester on Sunday's early kick off with Leicester scoring on half time to go into the break ahead, however the gunners fought back and scored an injury time winner to bridge the gap and leave the title race wide open.
Tottenham had a massive win away at Manchester City in the other Super Sunday fixture, and are now only 2 points off top spot and in red hot form. Spurs were maybe lucky to be awarded an early spot kick but sealed the win late on in the second half to have a chance of winning their first ever Premier League Crown.
The defeat for Manchester City was back to back home defeats and leaves City 6 point s adrift however still holding onto the all-important 4th Champions League place.
Manchester United were humbled with their first ever Premier League defeat to relegation threatened Sunderland. Sunderland needing the win, are now only 1 point off the safety zone with an outstanding display and won with a late header to record a 2-1 victory that will give them great confidence to get out of the fight at the foot of the table.
The pressure is now firmly on VanGal as Old Trafford fights to keep European football at the theatre of dreams, only 1 point ahead of Southampton & West Ham in 6th position.
Saturday's other fixtures included Stoke's fantastic 3-1 away win at Bournemouth whilst Watford continued Crystal Palace's miserable run with a 2-1 win in London.
West Brom halted Everton's impressive form with 1-0 win away at Goodison Park while Norwich & West Ham played out an entertaining 2-2 draw which included a spirited fight back from West Ham with 2 late goals to claim a point.
Southampton won away at Swansea to keep their European goals alive and hurt Swansea as they are being dragged back into the relegation scrap and Chelsea brought back the glory days to Stanford Bridge with a 5-1 thumping of Newcastle.
Sunday's last fixture was one to remember for Liverpool as Aston Villa slumped to one of the worst performances of the season, with Liverpool heaping more misery on the Midlands club with an emphatic 6-0 hammering at Villa Park.
With Sturridge back from injury, Liverpool were on fire with 3 goals either side of the break to make other premier league teams stand up and take notice of Liverpool. Villa have been slammed by the media as they are nearly assured of relegation.
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Wesley Tronson is a bank manager in Brisbane CBD and lived in England for seven years to 2010 in banking and soccer.
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