Let us hope this slow-burner of a match will serve as an inspiration for the rest of the Premiership season.
Sunday Telegraph
Luis Garcia sparks strike revival
A match mired in mediocrity took an amazing turn to provide both teams with a measure of delight and despair during a breathless final half-hour.
The Observer
Cisse ensures Birmingham pay penalty
Birmingham boss Steve Bruce had suggested that the Premiership was failing to provide good value for money but four goals in 17 second half minutes, a penalty and a sending-off must have sent every one of the 27,733 spectators home happy.
Sunday Times
Benitez calls for enquiry into leaks
After 68 minutes of more or less unrelenting tedium, by which point those parents who had paid £60.50 to bring themselves and a child along would have been easy converts to the End This Premiership Rip-off campaign, at last a football match broke out.
Independent on Sunday