Sunday review

Arsenal 2-1 Fulham
Arsenal made hard work overcoming a solid Fulham. Mad Jens early insanity aside, Fulham rarely looked threatening and might find the goals hard to come by, but David Healy has hit the back of the net already, so who knows. Arsenal looked attractive going forward, but might struggle against tough-tackling teams.

Man Utd 0-0 Reading
A disastrous start for the Purple One's boys; a goalless home draw against one of this season's likely strugglers, and the loss of Wayne Rooney to yet another foot injury, amazingly playing on for five minutes. His fractured left foot will harm England's paucity of strikers more than the Tevez-enabled Man Utd, but it will harm them. Ferguson will be hoping he's not out too long. Match-wise, Reading played the perfect defensive game, holding Man Utd back; the man-to-man marking will prove effective against them, and that will be one of Ferguson's biggest fears.

Chelsea 3-2 Birmingham
Jose's promised attacking football was finally in evidence here; two wingers employed and both SWP and Malouda looking threatening, two useful looking centre forwards. And a five-goal thriller. Birmingham showed a lot of nerve scoring two goals here, and that sort of belief will stand them in good stead against the likes of Wigan and Derby.