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No guessing who gets Kammy's praise, but Scott Parker and Arsenal also share the limelight with Wayne.

Chris Kamara's Picks of the Premier League weekend

Every Saturday afternoon, Chris Kamara heads to stadiums up and down the country to deliver his unique match reports for Soccer Saturday. On Sundays you can see him back in the Sky Sports studios as he brings you all of the highlights on Goals on Sunday. And then on Mondays you can find Kammy right here on skysports.com as he brings you his picks of the weekend. Join us every week as he runs through his highs and lows... GAME - West Brom 3-3 West Ham
What an amazing game of football! There was not much going on where I was at Blackburn, so I kept listening to the goals go in at the Hawthorns and in terms of excitement it was another sensational 90 minutes of Premier League football. Michael Appleton must have thought this football lark was easy after the first 45 minutes, but the second half probably saved Avram Grant his job. Had he got beaten 3-0 or 4-0, or even 5-0 at West Brom, given what has happened to Roberto di Matteo - who had never been in the bottom three remember - I think West Ham might have had to call time on him. The defending was of course terrible, as we highlighted on Goals on Sunday. How, for the West Ham second, Nicky Shorey was left marking Carlton Cole and Frederic Piquionne, both well over 6ft, is beyond me - he's only 5ft 9in! Even on Sunday mornings the big lads always marks the big centre-forward at set-pieces, so someone, somewhere was not doing their job at West Brom. But all the defensive errors on display made for another terrifically entertaining game.

TEAM - Arsenal
There were some more good performances from teams but I just think the Gunners were the ones under real pressure and produced just the sort of display they needed. With Manchester United winning earlier in the day, all eyes were on them and whereas in the past we have seen them slip up in this sort of situation before they, as Mick McCarthy put it, "spanked" Wolves. Robin van Persie is just a goal machine right now and it was the perfect warm-up for the massive game with Barcelona on Wednesday, which will tell Arsene Wenger just where his side are this season. I don't agree that Arsenal are the only side that can catch Manchester United in the race for the Premier League title because Manchester City, but for Wayne Rooney's wonder goal, would've got a point at Old Trafford, and Chelsea cannot be discounted. But the Gunners needed a win for their league table and a good performance going into the Barca game and they got both of those on Saturday.

GOAL - Wayne Rooney
I don't think anyone will be surprised with this! It was a goal worthy of winning a big game like the Manchester derby and those that were at Old Trafford to see it will remember it forever and a day - and I include the Manchester City players in that too. We have seen Rivaldo and Trevor Sinclair score similar goals in recent years so I am not going to get too carried away with Rooney's goal, but it was truly spectacular and showed sensational technique. The thing is with these overhead kicks, bicycle kicks, whatever you want to call them, if you catch them full on the boot they go a million miles over, but Rooney managed to catch it in that little indent between ankle and boot and that was the perfect connection to send it back in the direction it came - and into the top corner. He isn't playing his best and wasn't again on Saturday but the one thing about Wayne Rooney is he never stops trying these things even when he's not on top form.

PLAYER - Scott Parker
Only the West Ham players know just what he said to them at half-time at The Hawthorns but that is just what you want from your captain. People might think that undermines Avram Grant a little, but I disagree. It shows just how much Scott Parker thinks of his manager to come out and say what he did and when you are in trouble, you want your players to stand up and take responsibility. There is nothing worse when all you get back in the dressing room is blank looks and Parker could've just sat there and accepted the situation and said nothing. But he didn't. It was a throwback to the old days when captain's not only led by example - as Parker has done all season - but also gave out the odd rollocking and the odd teamtalk. It can be difficult as a player because the other players can always point the finger back and say 'well you're not exactly pulling up any trees - and Scott did not have the best first half - but he was willing to take that risk and was rewarded with that amazing comeback.

GAFFER - Ian Holloway
I was wondering if I should also give this one to Scott Parker, but I guess he's not technically a manager! So instead, I'll give it to Ollie. Blackpool needed to stop the rot and get some sort of positive result after five straight defeats so he will be delighted with the draw against Aston Villa - even against 10 men. What I liked it is that Ollie has realised the time has now come to be a little protective of what they have going into the last 15 minutes of games. His attacking philosophy is right but sometimes in the Premier League it's just not practical. Blackpool have had their day entertaining us all and taking on the big boys but Ollie realises he probably needs 10 more points to make sure they are in the Premier League next year so there will be times when they do sit back and stop attacking teams for the whole 90 minutes. In the past they would've pushed for the win and maybe got caught for the counter, but given their recent results, they did the right thing against Villa.

GRIPE - Second fazed
It's not exactly a gripe but I still think the off-side rule could be cleared up a little when it comes to the second phase. Arsene Wenger came out and said Robin van Persie was off-side for his second goal, but he wasn't was he? It was not as bad as Cristiano Ronaldo doing up his boots 20 yards off-side and then eventually putting the ball in the net, but there is no doubt Van Persie gained an crucial, split-second advantage on the Wolves defence. But like it or not, understand it or not, that second phase ruling is in place and you have to credit the officials for getting it right - even if Arsene didn't! It's not exactly a massive problem but it does crop up from time to time and I am not sure everybody knows whether it is off-side or not. It was though, typical of a weekend when were not left talking about officials, which is so nice: give the refs and their assistants credit where it is due. I am sure Kenny Dalglish had a little complain about the Wigan equaliser and the fact that Steve Gohouri could've been flagged off-side, but the Latics deserved their goal and their point. But there were sendings-off and big decision and I couldn't find anything the officials got really wrong... which makes a lovely change.