And 3-1 it is!

Newcastle vs City will be pretty interesting. City lost the chance to get to the top despite dominating against Everton and Newcastle beat Liverpool at home. Getting a result against City would mean a bright start for Pardew's tenure.

How are Man U only a goal up at half time is unexplainable. They could have scored four or five in the first twenty minutes itself. Sunderland have looked safer defensively after that but haven't even come close to creating a chance.

Also, Rafael is a quality player. That's United's right back problem solved.

5 points behind United, oh joy.

Roll on tomorrow....

Looks like Spurs are going to beat Villa :mad:
United and City won, we can't afford to drop points tomorrow.
Can we handle the pressure?

Probably not.

This season is so unenjoyable. Villa need to score just one to level. Please.

Haha ManU, how d'ya like them apples? Get the fuck in!

3 points behind with the same number of games played.

We NEED to beat Wigan tomorrow.

Bowyer you beauty!

Big Sam really did his best to help United before checking out. They have a superior goal difference to us by 5 goals.

This is shaping up to be a great season. I love th volatility at the top of the table. I also think people are sleeping on Citeh. Yes, they've played more games, but they're slowly putting together decent form

Yep City are a lurking menace.
They have some fairly volatile stars but unfortunately despite their dubious mental health they are still producing match winning performances.
Good to see that United are sticking to throwing away leads and drawing away games.

And they've agreed a deal to get Edin Dzeko. Still not sure if it's a bad thing though.

The more I think about Dzeko, the less worried I am.

What Citeh needed was either an offensive-minded central midfielder or another attacking mid like Silva.

So they play Dzeko. He occupies Tevez's favorite areas of the pitch. Where do you put Tevez? Balotelli? Milner? It's going to be tricky. Hopefully, Mancini sticks to 3 defensive midfielders, and ends up causing more commotion amongst already volatile forwards

He's just an Adebayor replacement; not a big deal at all.