An early miss by Michail Antonio allowed Aston Villa to survive in the top flight league after scrapping a draw against West Ham.
A point at the London Stadium was enough to save the Villians with Watford and Bournemouth relegated.
Bournemouth put up a late fight beating Everton 3-1 but it was too little too late and Eddie Howe and his men will now face life in the Championship. Watford who sacked their third manager of the season after their West Ham defeat were relegated after losing 3-2 to Arsenal.
The caretaker manager put in charge was former Hammer Hayden Mullens and their CEO is Scott Duxbury who is the former Hammers managing director who was at the centre Tevezgate so perhaps no love lost there with West Ham supporters.
The real story of Aston Villa’s survival will centre around the failure of Hawkeye technology in the game between Villa and Sheffield United after the restart. That technology failure has cost Bournemouth their Premier League status and would not be surprising if the Cherries mounted some kind of leagl challenge at some point.
Hawkeye incident was one point, whereas VAR denied us a point at Palace and a point at Arsenal, not to mention the penalty given to United when Villa were on top, so take your Hawkeye incident and ram it, we deserved to stay up
Whether we ram it or not is totally irrelevant. Depends whether it is challenged.
Ludicrous to even think that villa didnt deserve to stay up as they could challenge other decisions not gone their way as we could at west ham. Villa have history and great support and Bournemouth have 10k stadia with not a football supporting town other than other teams that supporters support . They punched well above their weight for five years so well done Bournemouth and Eddie Howe. Now your time is up and good luck in the championship with the nice football you tried to always play.