The final round of the English Premier league season finished in last gasp suvival for Wolves, and disaster for Birmingham and Blackpool as they will join already relegated West Ham in the League Championship next season. With only minutes to go on Sunday, Birmingham looked like they would manage to stay up at the expense of Wolves who were being badly beaten by Blackburn, while Birmingham were level at Tottenham. However, Wolves fought back with two second half goals to only go down 2-3 at home to Blackburn, boosting their goal difference above Birmingham's with the crucial second in the 87th minute. Then Pavluychenko scored a winner in the third minute of injury time for Spurs, and Birmingham's fate was sealed.
Blackpool looked like they might escape as they came back to lead Manchester United 2-1 despite giving up an early goal, but United poured it on in the last half hour to triumph 4-2. Wigan managed to escape the relegation zone with a 1-0 win at Stoke, thanks to Hugo Rodallega's 77th minute winner. Prior to that goal, they looked like they may have gone down narrowly in place of Wolves.
At the other end of the table, Manchester City clinched the last Champion's League automatic spot ahead of Arsenal, with City 2-0 winners at Bolton, while Arsenal twice came from behind to draw 2-2 at Fulham. Spurs victory clinched their Europa League place ahead of Liverpool, although Liverpool's loss at Aston Villa made Spurs' victory irrelevant. Thus England's threesome in the Europa League next season will be Spurs, Stoke and relegated Birmingham.
ESPN Soccernet's final table can be seen here.
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