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Hello there. It has been a good week for the NPower Football League.

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Crystal Palace and Cardiff disposed of Premier League opposition. They

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reached the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. The focus remains on

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teams that Championship, with clubs in League 1 and Two involved in a

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League Cup action. And here at Upton Park, where West Ham that

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Burnley and that is one of several games taking place in England's

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second tip. West Ham are chasing Southampton. The Saints won again

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midweek. Today, they were looking to do likewise at Doncaster.

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Middlesbrough's new a picture -- victory would take them up to third

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in the table but they were up against one of the form sides,

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Nigel Pearson left Hull City to take charge at Leicester only three

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weeks ago. Today, he was back at the KC Stadium Cup, trying to get

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one over his old side. And there has been a sense of deja vu at

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Portsmouth this week, as a certain -- as uncertainty Engels Fratton

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Park once more. There was the small matter of the game with Coventry to

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focus on on Saturday. We start to date with the game involving Leeds

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United and Millwall. It was Leeds'' first home game since news came

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through of Gary Speed's death. Garry spent over a decade with the

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club and was part of the 19 added to title-winning side, so as you

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can imagine it was a hugely emotional day at Elland Road. The

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this was a day when being there meant so much.

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When an name meant more than a game. Supporters gathered outside the

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ground to pay tribute to one of their own. Today is giving itself

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the opportunity to come in and witnessed this and be part of it,

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but it is not going to go away after today. This will be with us

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for a long time. A lot of emotions today. It is going to be a big

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build-up before the game and then hopefully we can have a good game

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afterwards. I am filling up now. Yeah, it will be a good occasion.

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We will show everybody how to say goodbye to a legend. Fittingly Gary

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Speed's midfield partners from the league championship winning side of

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1992, Gary McAllister, Gordon Strachan and David Batty, led the

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tributes on the pitch as Gary's widow, Louise, and there two sons

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Rivalries were put aside. This was football United, in honour of one

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of the game's most popular Players from both sides could be

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forgiven a -- the didn't a player a corner. Alex McCarthy did well to

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keep out Pedersen's header. -- Henderson's header. Howe and

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another player had to be replaced because of injury but Snodgrass

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threatened in the second half. It was the Scot who lined the free

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kick just on the hour and some strike it was. The roar and the

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celebration made it clear there was no doubt who that left-footed

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special was four. Two minutes later, Sam teased Millwall again and there

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was Snodgrass for his 7th goal of the season, stooping rather than

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leaping, as per the Speed tradition. Leeds could have scored more but

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for an outstanding performance by Milton Hall. How is this for a

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safe? -- Morton Hall. He's somehow kept out this shot from the current

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number 11 and there was another winner for Leeds United in their

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difficult week, and Grayson who signed for the club as a schoolboy

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Or you can think about are his family, who I went to see before

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the game. My dad was there on that game, 20 years ago, with Gary's dad

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and they have followed our careers. It has been a difficult week but it

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is a celebration for what Gary Speed meant to this football club.

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It was a bit surreal seeing Gordon Strachan before the game, his legs

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were wobbly and he was very emotional, for people that knew him.

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Those guys were team-mates and lifelong friends and quite rightly

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the atmosphere here today and the tribute paid to Gary was first-

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class. It has been a very tough week for everybody connected to

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Gary, and those who did not know Gary. I was with his parents today,

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Louise and the kids and Gary McAllister, David Batty, Gordon

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Strachan, it has been a really tough week for everybody. But it is

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a fitting tribute to a fantastic footballer, a fantastic person and

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he will not be forgotten, that is for sure. An incredibly emotional

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afternoon at Elland Road and up and down the country as clubs paid

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tribute to Gary Speed, including him at Upton Park, where West Ham

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played Burnley. Before we see whether the Hammers can close the

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gap on Southampton, there was a minute's applause before kick-off

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straight league win and dominated the first half stop Nolan should

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have put them in front but did not quite make the connection from

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Cole's' cos. In the second half a move that was not quite the

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Westcarr way. There was a flick, a kick and Nolan had scored a fitting

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tribute to his former Bolton team- mate, Gary Speed. Stanislas signed

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in the summer. Five minutes after that Nolan goal it was his cross

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that set up Grant McCann to level before the Clarets. West Ham had

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hammered five past Burnley in each of their previous two visits but

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they were struggling to add to their one this time. Piquionne

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denied. Then it was Collison's turned but the Burnley defence

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continued to throw various parts of their bodies at any attempts on

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goal. On came Wallace and Vokes for Burnley. Wallace took a corner,

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Vokes headed past Green at Burnley were in the lead. The hosts pushed

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on as they look to salvage something. Carlton Cole tried his

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luck but it was not to be and West Ham's winning run came to an abrupt

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halt. A third winner wrote Burnley. Southampton take advantage against

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the bottom club? After last week's shock defeat at Bristol City. The

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home side started brightly and they showed they were not going to be

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intimidated by their high-flying visitors. Davies was tested from 20

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yards out. Another charge forward, this time from O'Connor, led to

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another Doncaster chance but after all the good work by the right back,

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the shot went the wrong side of the post. Southampton have won the most

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games and they scored the most goals in the Championship this

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season and there was almost a 43rd Fonte prevented a goal. At the

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other end as did -- they went close. The goalkeeper needed to be alert

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to keep the game goalless at the break. A high-octane nature of the

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first half was not repeated after the restart but a goal did arrive

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at. Sharp turned the form book on its head. It was his 7th League

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goal of the season. He might have had another as the game drew to a

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close. Only the intervention of an official's flag rescued the

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visitors from conceding a certain penalty after the player went out.

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Rovers are off the bottom but for Southampton it was an opportunity

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We have good players and I have tried to bring good players and the

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club. It was a matter of time before we got the result. We talk

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about it, we give Doncaster a lot of respect in our preparation. You

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never underestimate the opposition. We have got away from home and had

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a lot of good football, try to score goals but we had a sucker-

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punch when we were attacking. There was a clearance from them which

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allowed them to get in and scored a goal, we are very disappointed with

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our defensive point of view. Very well done, three wins in a row, you

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must be delighted? Very pleased. It is a tough place to come. They have

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one of the best sides in the league and to win, it really pleases me.

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It is a shame after a big three- game week, we have the opportunity

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to get nine points out of it with a home game that we end up slipping

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up and getting nothing and I would have settled for a point. I always

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respect the point, whether you should be winning or shouldn't to

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make sure you don't lose it particularly at home. The lads are

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sick and now they have heard that Southampton lost at Doncaster. It

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is very disappointing for us, result wise, but in terms of the

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players' commitment and quality and effort, really very good. After

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this sticky start what has clicked in the last three games? I think

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confidence, really. We are a young side. We had a lot of changes from

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last year. The lads are starting to believe in themselves and jailed.

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They haven't played a lot of a football together and sometimes it

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does take time but we can look up rather than down. A word for the

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fitting tribute before kick-off to on Gary Speed. You knew him quite

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well from your time to get red Bolton? Sure. It is a real

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difficult situation to accept or even understand but it has affected

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is also very badly. The people who have been in touch with Gary in

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terms of playing with him, or me managing him, or Martin here, his

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goalkeeping coach, Jack Collison, who plays for Wales, are absolutely

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devastated of course and the tributes are reverberating around

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football, they are unbelievable and of course for everybody now it is

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about the family, about Louise and the boys and the family hopefully

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taking some comfort out of that help. Yes, some supportive words

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there from Sam Allardyce. Next Comer the match involving Hull City

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and Leicester City moved into the play-off positions after their

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midweek win over Blackpool and all eyes were on Nigel Pearson for this

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one, who was in charge of Hull three weeks ago to take up the rest

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of for the second time of asking. In charge of Hull, their caretaker

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manager, Nick Barmby. A highly- charged KC Stadium, we had Martin

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beacon after Martin Pierson controversially Kuit Hull. He

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walked out 18 days ago. The wounds of fresh air. There is a hostile

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reception on his Humberside return. How delay the home fans want to win

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this one. Pierson signed ten of Hall's line up, the only exception,

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Dawson. The sole survivor from the Premier League days. McKenna is

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back from suspension. Hobbs and extend their recent unbeaten run.

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Emotional scenes emulated across certainly got the Leicester fans

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behind that goal in their required. Leicester were horribly

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exposed at the back. Great work from Stewart, a great vision to

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pick out Koren. The angle was not kind for a shot on goal. He tried

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to cut it back but Fryatt and Stewart were arriving and neither

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robbed the Hull City forwards could there, but it's reached the clean.

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It took too long. He was just caught by a Mills, after males

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sent off. -- males. Leicester down to 10, with less than half-an-hour

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on the clock. I thought the chance initially had gone here as he took

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too long, but there, as Maclean looked to wriggle away, Mills

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appeared to stick out his booked front. He scores! Fryatt continues

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his purple patch in front of goal. The hole fans have their wish. --

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What a shocking start for Nigel Pearson on his return. A man down

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made much of an impact on the promotion race. Neither made it

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into the top six. Nugent is through minutes from half-time. It looked

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as though the chance had gone here, as Nugent sized up the opportunity.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds

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Some cool finishing from Konchesky. feet tangled. It was a fabulous run

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by the right-back, a wonderful pass, league coach, having a look at how

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save by Schmeichel. Dawson caught about so well. Brilliant stop from

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Schmeichel. What a goal that could Never likely to beat Schmeichel

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The referee is not interested. Two penalties in a day might be a

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little generous. No doubt about the first one, let's have a look at

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this one again. There is definitely What a strike by Robert Koren. Hull

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City have probably won it with that strike, three minutes from time.

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The patient build-up again. Rosenior Square, suddenly a bit of

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room for Koren. Schmeichel never smelt it. Like the ball at it flew

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past him. Hull City go in front again with less than three minutes

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18 days ago, presumably because he felt that Leicester offered him a

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better chance to make it back to the top line. Hull City, a team

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that he assembled, have underlined their worth today, admittedly

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against a side down to 10 men for much of the contest. Would it have

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been different if it had been 11 against 11? The whistle goes, it's

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The build-up to this was all about your return, how was it for you

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today? Another game. That is your people's job to build it up like

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that. It was a game we were looking forward to but unfortunately we

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were on the wrong side of a 2-1 scoreline. How strange was it for

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you today to line up against your former gaffer? It is strange. He

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did a great job here at the club. I don't think anyone will dismiss

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that. We were sad to see him leave but everyone moves on. The club

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certainly moves on. I think the players were delighted in the

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result today. Personally for you, is this a job that you desperately

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want? I've been on record before saying we will see how we go.

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Things don't change. We will take it game by game, we are back on

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winning ways which is more important. It's more about the team

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that my personal self. We will see how we go. Nick got the better of

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you today. Do you feel he's got the characteristics to make a decent

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manager? It depends on whether he wants to. That's a question you've

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got to ask him. He won't answer that. There you are, you are asking

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me a question that I don't know the answer to. He has certainly got a

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very good side to work with. I wish him and the players all the best.

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Later joy for Hull City, heartbreak for Leicester. Next tonight, the

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match that took place this evening between Bristol City and

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Middlesbrough. Two teams on the opposite ends of the championship

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table. After a shaky start, City are very much on the up under their

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new coach, Derek McInnes, and have gone and beaten up through the

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds

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The goalkeeper is made up. What a says a clear handball in his eyes.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds

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The ball hits his hand, but nothing We would have been disappointed to

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draw a game in the manner we took the game on the second half. We

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work to the goalkeeper, their goalkeeper was far busier than ours.

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We tried to be positive with substitutions and played on the

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front foot second half. They are a good side. We sometimes can be cut

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open, the quality of their goal was there to be seen. But I felt also

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there were a few decisions that went against us. I felt we were a

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bit and just in some of the decisions. It was a great strike.

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Larry has got his -- that in his locker. We see him do it regularly

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in training. We got a free-kick and he was on the pitch. I felt

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confident he would hit the target. Let's round of the rest of the

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matches in the championship, starting with the game at Selhurst

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Park between Crystal Palace and Derby. There was a terrific

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reception for the Palace players in recognition of their heroics on

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Wednesday, when they went up to Manchester and knocked United out

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of the Carling Cup, the 2-1 victory setting up a semi-final double date

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with Cardiff City. Just 48 hours on after that famous win at Old

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Trafford, it was crystal Palace bursars Derby. -- Crystal Palace

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have won away on their travels on three occasions, plus 1 draw. But

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here comes Ambrose, steaming forward. That has come across to

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Murray. Shouts for a penalty. The referee says ano macro. What a

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blistering start by Crystal Palace. Ambrose went for the shot, it was

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blocked. It goes down as an excellent start by the 23-year-old

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England Under 21 international on loan from Norwich, only his

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third appearance tonight. He has but Crystal Palace ahead in the

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15th minute. It flew past Frank Fielding. It looked as though the

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goalkeeper could at least have made an effort. He just seemed to watch

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it flashed past him, or maybe a slight deflection on it. Plenty of

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There's no doubt that Nigel Clough own-goal. McCarthy has put Derby

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back in again with an own-goal. It was an awkward cross to deal with.

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He knew that there was a white shirt Derby player behind him, but

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he stretches out a leg and he has I am pleased with that, it was a

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good Derby team in the second half. We played fantastic in the first

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half. We could have got two or three. In the second half they came

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writers, they had nothing to lose. We defended fantastically well. We

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are happy with the point. In the context of the run we have been in

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we would have taken a point tonight but we played very well, as we did

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on Tuesday at home to Brighton. Unfortunately those two

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performances have yielded only one but it was Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink

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who got one instead from Gus Poyet, almost suffocating him. It is a

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Chelsea think, a beautiful thing. Unlike the match. He is one of the

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few efforts in the first half. It came from Anderson. Those hoping

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for an improvement in the second half were left disappointed. Tudgay

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should have found the Brighton that with this header. Majewski tried

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his luck from range but the end result was the same as Forest

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looked like there would have to settle for point. But those fans

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who left the game early after writing it offers a goalless draw

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missed the last gasp winner from substitute Buckley. His 92nd minute

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goal ensured this Eagles clinched their 4th win in five. -- the

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Seagulls. As for Forest, the whole team could do with a hug. They

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remain -- they remain in the bottom be a happy day by the seaside,

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albeit well muffled. Their team was looking for a third straight

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Championship win. The Royals had the better of the first half. There

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was a great chance to put the team ahead. But ten minutes before half-

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time, Reading did have the ball in the back of the Blackpool net.

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Church got the final touch but his header was ruled offside. That

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proved crucial because one goal decided the game. Phillips started

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the move, making the initial run, before setting up 20-year-old

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McManaman. He is on loan from Wigan for his first League goal. And, yes,

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it is McManaman, if you didn't know. It was a landmark goal for the

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manager, Holloway. It brought up a century of Blackpool goal since he

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took charge and there was almost room for another, but it was denied

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It took a brilliant goal, fantastically executed, two young

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fellows, both running away excited. We did it out after that. It was

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not our normal flowing performance but you have to give the credit to

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Reading for that. We felt we should have been a two or three-nil what

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and how we got nothing from the Peterborough. Barnsley were the

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visitors, going for a third straight win, something they

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haven't had all year. It was an incredible game, 21 shots on target.

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Here is one. Peterborough had 14 of those shots on target but they

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found Barnsley keeper Steele in inspired form, saving from Grant

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McCann. And then foiling Boyd, who was making his 200 th macro league

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start for Peterborough. Barnsley's attacks always seemed to produce

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goals. Here is Butterfield, unchallenged, letting rip. Two-nil

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to Barnsley. They have won on their previous four visits to London Road

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and were well on their way to number five when Vaz Te picked up

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the ball and released. Three up, game over. Or was it? Darren

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Ferguson's reaction was to make three substitutions in one go and

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his team responded almost immediately. Boyd, who had been on

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from the start, got the ball rolling, we'll probably quicker

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than rolling but you get the idea. Then four minutes later it really

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was game on. One of those three substitutes, Frecklington, got

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behind the Barnsley back line and picked out Bennett and it was

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suddenly 3-2. And when Boyd found Frecklington soon after the

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comeback was complete. Three goals in six Matt minutes come as a score

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three-three, with 20 minutes to play. Next it was Barnsley's turn.

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Davies smacked how on the ball or the rise and it was 4-3 to Barnsley.

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But the posh pushed and almost delivered but Steele lived up to

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his name as they were two attempts to level -- Posh. The 20 League

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games involving Peterborough this season provided 77 goals, almost

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four each game. It was almost 78. I thought we had thrown away a gift,

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not a gift, we worked really hard to go three-nil up. Against the

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next side we scored goals. The first goal they conceded changed

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the momentum of the game and sometimes it is very difficult to

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change that momentum and they were worthy of at least three each but

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the next goal was hours, a great goal from Davies. That one as the

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game. I would not have minded the final whistle then, for whatever

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reason. I had a bad feeling. They had looked today, four shot, four

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unbelievable goals, two defections, the first two goals. That is

:36:48.:36:58.
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another owner, another crisis. Earlier in the week the chairman

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resigned after his company went into administration. Pre-match

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assurances from the manager Appleton that his players would be

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played -- paid had the desired effect. A bad week for the long-

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suffering home supporters improved in the 19th minute. Murphy was

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adjudged by the referee to have tripped Ward. Theatrical, maybe,

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but a penalty. And Halford coolly did the rest. The home side then

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withstood a spirited response from the visitors before coming close to

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a second goal. Kitson could not finish again. Few who were born and

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bred in Southampton are popular at Fratton Park, this neat finish

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early in the second half did little for his standing among the Pompey

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phase four but did endear him to his own fans. Ward birthplace has

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never been an issue for Portsmouth, born in the City. His popularity

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rose in controversial circumstances. A free kick was quickly-taken, too

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quickly for the Coventry defence. The home side regained the lead.

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They should have been an equaliser on 90 minutes remaining. The

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Players are thick-skinned, they get on with things and ten-under

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adverse circumstances roll up their sleeve cent meeting head-on -- they

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Watford arrived in Suffolk determined to bring more gloom for

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Ipswich, who had lost their last six games and the Paul Jewell.

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Watford had failed to score in nine of their 19 League games. Maybe

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this is why. Even top scorer Sordell looked out of sorts. But

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Ipswich have suffered even more, as they'd also showed how to miss when

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this was saved. Loach could do little before the break as Ipswich

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duo of Murphy and Andrews, both looking to join the Republic of

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Ireland's Euro 2012 squad, combined to put their squad in front. Andrew

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has got to finish. Could the Ipswich run of defeats be over?

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After half-time the Ipswich goalkeeper kept it at one-nil,

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tipping over this. The visitors kept up the pressure as Yeats

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rattled the woodwork as he went in search of his 4th goal of the

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season. But Watford pressed on and turned the game on its head this 20

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minutes remaining. Sordell earned the Hornets a penalty after this

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challenge. It gave Sordell the chance to make it six league goals

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this season. One-one. And then the wheels came off again for the

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Tractor Boys. Four minutes later Watford substitute Deeney, who had

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only been on for eight minutes, quickly found his bearings to seal

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Watford's first away win in seven and give Ipswich their 7th defeat

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A very good win for Watford. Here at Upton Park I have been joined by

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the scorer of Burnley's winner, Sam Vokes. Very well done. A massive

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result today. Yes, a massive result to us. When I first came in we had

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a few bad results but we have had three wins and it is huge for us.

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coinciding with your arrival, you must be delighted. It was the main

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objective to play some games and as a striker you want to score goals,

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so Tuesday night and tonight is massive. Have you noticed a change

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in mentality? From what has gone on before hunted at the club? I think

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so. I can't speak from the start of the season because I wasn't here

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but the big turning point I have seen his two-nil down, we have

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turned it around to 3-2. The boys have taken confidence from that and

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we saw the spirit of the boys today, to come from one-nil down is to

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have all stopped what do you make of your manager, he did not take

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the bad start of the season to heart and it goes to show that that

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face was well placed? Yes, of course. He is a great

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manager. The day I came in, he said he has great confidence in the

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players at the club and that is the key point for him. He tells us that

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all the time and to have that confidence in the lads to go and

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play at places like West Ham and come away with a victory, it shows

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we can do it. Two goals the way and the back of what has been a pretty

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difficult week I imagine? Yes, the sad news at the weekend with Gary

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Speed, it has been a tough week for everyone in football especially

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people involved with Wales. There is a few lads from West Ham here

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today with coaches and players that played with him so it has been a

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tough week but hopefully we can mark our respects with performances

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like this. Was Gary on your mind a few -- if you scored that goal?

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he has been on everyone's mind for the past week and we send our

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thoughts to his family. Very well done today. The thoughts of Sam

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Vokes. Let's look at what Saturday's results mean to the end

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the table. That dubious honour goes to Coventry, after their defeat at

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That is almost it for tonight. Before we go, a reminder that if

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