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Reds pile on the pressure

Author: Rose Young
Date: 10/05/2009

Liverpool piled the pressure on Manchester United in the race for the Premier League title, wining 3-0 at West Ham United to move top of the table.

Two goals from skipper Steven Gerrard and one from Ryan Babel gave the Reds a comfortable victory at Upton Park and moved them above United on goal difference, shortening the odds at many online betting services.

At the other end of the table rock-bottom West Bromwich Albion kept alive their survival hopes with a 3-1 victory at home to Wigan Athletic, but Hull City are too close to the drop zone for comfort after going down 2-1 at home to Stoke City.

Bolton Wanderers and Sunderland drew 0-0 at the Reebok Stadium, while Blackburn Rovers are safe after beating Portsmouth 2-0 at Ewood Park.

The clash of Everton and Spurs at Goodison Park ended goalless, while Fulham's fine season continued as they won 3-1 at home to Aston Villa.

Rangers moved top of the SPL table with a 1-0 Old Firm victory over Celtic at Ibrox, with Steven Davis bundling home the only goal of the game.

Burnley won the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final at home to Reading thanks to a late Graham Alexander penalty.

In League One Millwall edged out Leeds United 1-0 at the Den in the first leg of their play-off semi-final, Neil Harris netting the Lions' winner.

At the Spanish Grand Prix Jenson Button took pole position for the Brawn GP team, with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel alongside him on the front row.

Leicester Tigers brushed Bath aside 24-10 to book their place in the Guinness Premiership Final for the fifth year in a row.

Leicester reached the Heineken Cup Final via a dramatic place-kick shoot-out against Cardiff Blues last weekend and Richard Cockerill's side picked up where they left off at the Millennium Stadium.

Tries from Dan Hipkiss and Sam Vesty - both converted by Julien Dupuy - saw them led 14-0 at half-time.

To Bath's credit they rallied in the second half and clawed back the lead through tries from Michael Claassens and Stuart Hooper.

However, Lewis Moody's touchdown further extended the Tigers' lead and killed off any hopes Bath had of staging a late fightback.

Leicester's opponents in the final next weekend will be London Irish after they got the better of Harlequins in Saturday's other last four encounter.

Following a pointless first half, the Exiles secured their first ever final appearances courtesy of tries from Delon Armitage and Mike Catt in a 17-0 success.

Wigan Warriors bounced back from a slow start to book their place in the last eight of the Challenge Cup following a 28-17 fifth-round victory over Wakefield.

Championship side Gateshead were 34-16 winners over Oldham to book their own place in the quarter-finals.

Meanwhile, an extra-time golden point by Castleford's Brent Sherwin secured a dramatic 35-34 victory over a heartbroken Halifax side.

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