Alan Shearer scored after 10 seconds as Newcastle beat Manchester City 2-0 at St James' Park to leapfrog Chelsea into third place in the Premiership this afternoon.
The former England captain collected a wayward clearance by City goalkeeperCarlo Nash to strike and make it a terrible start for Kevin Keegan's men.
Shearer's strike partner Craig Bellamy added a second in the 64th minute whenhe got on the end of Laurent Robert's cross to the far post from the left toseal a miserable week for City, who missed out on signing Robbie Fowler.
An overhead kick in the 85th minute from Youri Djorkaeff earned a vital pointfor Bolton as they drew 1-1 at Charlton to stay in 17th place.
Mark Fish's first goal since April 2001 had looked to be enough to condemnBolton to defeat.
Sunderland slipped to a 2-1 defeat at Everton to remain in the relegationzone.
The Toffees had the better of the first period but it was the Black Cats whodrew first blood in the 34th minute when Kevin Phillips picked out Kevin Kilbaneand the Republic of Ireland international fired across Richard Wright and intothe net.
David Moyes' side came back thanks to a brace from American striker BrianMcBride, who now has three goals in two games after joining on loan fromColumbus Crew.
There was no score at Elland Road, where rock-bottom West Brom held Leeds.
Albion's neighbours Birmingham, who could still conceivably be sucked into therelegation battle, arrested their run of three defeats with a creditable 1-1draw against Blackburn at Ewood Park.
Graeme Souness' side forged ahead in the 19th minute after Andy Cole's cutbackeventually found its way to Damien Duff who despatched the ball into the net.
Rovers had to cope with 10 men in the second half after Andy Todd was sent offon the half-hour for needlessly lashing out at Birmingham striker ChristopheDugarry and they were eventually made to pay when Stern John scored with sevenminutes left.
Teddy Sheringham grabbed the only goal as Tottenham beat Aston Villa 1-0. Theveteran striker latched onto Stephen Carr's cross from the right with 21 minutesto go.
At the top of the table, Manchester United left it until injury-time to securewhat could ultimately be a valuable three points in a lunchtime 2-1 win overChelsea.
The Blues took the lead at Old Trafford through a neat finish by EidurGudjohnsen on the half-hour but Paul Scholes headed home an equaliser nineminutes later after Carlo Cudicini's poor clearance fell to David Beckham and hecentred the ball for his England team-mate.
Sir Alex Ferguson's men appeared set for a draw before South Americansubstitutes Juan Sebastian Veron and Diego Forlan combined for the winner aminute into stoppage-time.
The Red Devils are now two points behind leaders Arsenal, who are at home torelegation-threatened West Ham tomorrow.
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