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Hello there. It has been a good week for the NPower Football League. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Crystal Palace and Cardiff disposed of Premier League opposition. They | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
reached the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. The focus remains on | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
teams that Championship, with clubs in League 1 and Two involved in a | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
League Cup action. And here at Upton Park, where West Ham that | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Burnley and that is one of several games taking place in England's | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
second tip. West Ham are chasing Southampton. The Saints won again | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
midweek. Today, they were looking to do likewise at Doncaster. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Middlesbrough's new a picture -- victory would take them up to third | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
in the table but they were up against one of the form sides, | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
Nigel Pearson left Hull City to take charge at Leicester only three | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
weeks ago. Today, he was back at the KC Stadium Cup, trying to get | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
one over his old side. And there has been a sense of deja vu at | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Portsmouth this week, as a certain -- as uncertainty Engels Fratton | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Park once more. There was the small matter of the game with Coventry to | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
focus on on Saturday. We start to date with the game involving Leeds | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
United and Millwall. It was Leeds'' first home game since news came | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
through of Gary Speed's death. Garry spent over a decade with the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
club and was part of the 19 added to title-winning side, so as you | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
can imagine it was a hugely emotional day at Elland Road. The | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
this was a day when being there meant so much. | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
When an name meant more than a game. Supporters gathered outside the | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
ground to pay tribute to one of their own. Today is giving itself | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
the opportunity to come in and witnessed this and be part of it, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
but it is not going to go away after today. This will be with us | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
for a long time. A lot of emotions today. It is going to be a big | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
build-up before the game and then hopefully we can have a good game | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
afterwards. I am filling up now. Yeah, it will be a good occasion. | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
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We will show everybody how to say goodbye to a legend. Fittingly Gary | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Speed's midfield partners from the league championship winning side of | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
1992, Gary McAllister, Gordon Strachan and David Batty, led the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
tributes on the pitch as Gary's widow, Louise, and there two sons | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
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Rivalries were put aside. This was football United, in honour of one | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
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of the game's most popular Players from both sides could be | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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forgiven a -- the didn't a player a corner. Alex McCarthy did well to | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
keep out Pedersen's header. -- Henderson's header. Howe and | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
another player had to be replaced because of injury but Snodgrass | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
threatened in the second half. It was the Scot who lined the free | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
kick just on the hour and some strike it was. The roar and the | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
celebration made it clear there was no doubt who that left-footed | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
special was four. Two minutes later, Sam teased Millwall again and there | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
was Snodgrass for his 7th goal of the season, stooping rather than | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
leaping, as per the Speed tradition. Leeds could have scored more but | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
for an outstanding performance by Milton Hall. How is this for a | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
safe? -- Morton Hall. He's somehow kept out this shot from the current | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
number 11 and there was another winner for Leeds United in their | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
difficult week, and Grayson who signed for the club as a schoolboy | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
Or you can think about are his family, who I went to see before | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
the game. My dad was there on that game, 20 years ago, with Gary's dad | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
and they have followed our careers. It has been a difficult week but it | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
is a celebration for what Gary Speed meant to this football club. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
It was a bit surreal seeing Gordon Strachan before the game, his legs | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
were wobbly and he was very emotional, for people that knew him. | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
Those guys were team-mates and lifelong friends and quite rightly | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
the atmosphere here today and the tribute paid to Gary was first- | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
class. It has been a very tough week for everybody connected to | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Gary, and those who did not know Gary. I was with his parents today, | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Louise and the kids and Gary McAllister, David Batty, Gordon | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Strachan, it has been a really tough week for everybody. But it is | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
a fitting tribute to a fantastic footballer, a fantastic person and | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
he will not be forgotten, that is for sure. An incredibly emotional | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
afternoon at Elland Road and up and down the country as clubs paid | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
tribute to Gary Speed, including him at Upton Park, where West Ham | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
played Burnley. Before we see whether the Hammers can close the | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
gap on Southampton, there was a minute's applause before kick-off | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
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straight league win and dominated the first half stop Nolan should | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
have put them in front but did not quite make the connection from | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Cole's' cos. In the second half a move that was not quite the | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Westcarr way. There was a flick, a kick and Nolan had scored a fitting | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
tribute to his former Bolton team- mate, Gary Speed. Stanislas signed | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
in the summer. Five minutes after that Nolan goal it was his cross | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
that set up Grant McCann to level before the Clarets. West Ham had | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
hammered five past Burnley in each of their previous two visits but | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
they were struggling to add to their one this time. Piquionne | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
denied. Then it was Collison's turned but the Burnley defence | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
continued to throw various parts of their bodies at any attempts on | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
goal. On came Wallace and Vokes for Burnley. Wallace took a corner, | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Vokes headed past Green at Burnley were in the lead. The hosts pushed | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
on as they look to salvage something. Carlton Cole tried his | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
luck but it was not to be and West Ham's winning run came to an abrupt | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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halt. A third winner wrote Burnley. Southampton take advantage against | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
the bottom club? After last week's shock defeat at Bristol City. The | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
home side started brightly and they showed they were not going to be | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
intimidated by their high-flying visitors. Davies was tested from 20 | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
yards out. Another charge forward, this time from O'Connor, led to | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
another Doncaster chance but after all the good work by the right back, | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
the shot went the wrong side of the post. Southampton have won the most | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
games and they scored the most goals in the Championship this | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
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season and there was almost a 43rd Fonte prevented a goal. At the | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
other end as did -- they went close. The goalkeeper needed to be alert | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
to keep the game goalless at the break. A high-octane nature of the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
first half was not repeated after the restart but a goal did arrive | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
at. Sharp turned the form book on its head. It was his 7th League | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
goal of the season. He might have had another as the game drew to a | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
close. Only the intervention of an official's flag rescued the | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
visitors from conceding a certain penalty after the player went out. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Rovers are off the bottom but for Southampton it was an opportunity | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
We have good players and I have tried to bring good players and the | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
club. It was a matter of time before we got the result. We talk | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
about it, we give Doncaster a lot of respect in our preparation. You | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
never underestimate the opposition. We have got away from home and had | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
a lot of good football, try to score goals but we had a sucker- | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
punch when we were attacking. There was a clearance from them which | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
allowed them to get in and scored a goal, we are very disappointed with | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
our defensive point of view. Very well done, three wins in a row, you | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
must be delighted? Very pleased. It is a tough place to come. They have | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
one of the best sides in the league and to win, it really pleases me. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
It is a shame after a big three- game week, we have the opportunity | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
to get nine points out of it with a home game that we end up slipping | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
up and getting nothing and I would have settled for a point. I always | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
respect the point, whether you should be winning or shouldn't to | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
make sure you don't lose it particularly at home. The lads are | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
sick and now they have heard that Southampton lost at Doncaster. It | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
is very disappointing for us, result wise, but in terms of the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
players' commitment and quality and effort, really very good. After | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
this sticky start what has clicked in the last three games? I think | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
confidence, really. We are a young side. We had a lot of changes from | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
last year. The lads are starting to believe in themselves and jailed. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
They haven't played a lot of a football together and sometimes it | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
does take time but we can look up rather than down. A word for the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
fitting tribute before kick-off to on Gary Speed. You knew him quite | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
well from your time to get red Bolton? Sure. It is a real | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
difficult situation to accept or even understand but it has affected | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
is also very badly. The people who have been in touch with Gary in | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
terms of playing with him, or me managing him, or Martin here, his | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
goalkeeping coach, Jack Collison, who plays for Wales, are absolutely | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
devastated of course and the tributes are reverberating around | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
football, they are unbelievable and of course for everybody now it is | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
about the family, about Louise and the boys and the family hopefully | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
taking some comfort out of that help. Yes, some supportive words | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
there from Sam Allardyce. Next Comer the match involving Hull City | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
and Leicester City moved into the play-off positions after their | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
midweek win over Blackpool and all eyes were on Nigel Pearson for this | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
one, who was in charge of Hull three weeks ago to take up the rest | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
of for the second time of asking. In charge of Hull, their caretaker | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
manager, Nick Barmby. A highly- charged KC Stadium, we had Martin | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
beacon after Martin Pierson controversially Kuit Hull. He | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
walked out 18 days ago. The wounds of fresh air. There is a hostile | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
reception on his Humberside return. How delay the home fans want to win | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
this one. Pierson signed ten of Hall's line up, the only exception, | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
Dawson. The sole survivor from the Premier League days. McKenna is | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
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back from suspension. Hobbs and extend their recent unbeaten run. | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
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Emotional scenes emulated across certainly got the Leicester fans | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
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behind that goal in their required. Leicester were horribly | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
exposed at the back. Great work from Stewart, a great vision to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
pick out Koren. The angle was not kind for a shot on goal. He tried | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
to cut it back but Fryatt and Stewart were arriving and neither | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
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robbed the Hull City forwards could there, but it's reached the clean. | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
It took too long. He was just caught by a Mills, after males | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
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sent off. -- males. Leicester down to 10, with less than half-an-hour | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
on the clock. I thought the chance initially had gone here as he took | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
too long, but there, as Maclean looked to wriggle away, Mills | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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appeared to stick out his booked front. He scores! Fryatt continues | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
his purple patch in front of goal. The hole fans have their wish. -- | :16:26. | :16:36. | |
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What a shocking start for Nigel Pearson on his return. A man down | :16:45. | :16:55. | |
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made much of an impact on the promotion race. Neither made it | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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into the top six. Nugent is through minutes from half-time. It looked | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
as though the chance had gone here, as Nugent sized up the opportunity. | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds | :17:28. | :18:26. | |
Some cool finishing from Konchesky. feet tangled. It was a fabulous run | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
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by the right-back, a wonderful pass, league coach, having a look at how | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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save by Schmeichel. Dawson caught about so well. Brilliant stop from | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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Schmeichel. What a goal that could Never likely to beat Schmeichel | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
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The referee is not interested. Two penalties in a day might be a | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
little generous. No doubt about the first one, let's have a look at | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
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this one again. There is definitely What a strike by Robert Koren. Hull | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
City have probably won it with that strike, three minutes from time. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
The patient build-up again. Rosenior Square, suddenly a bit of | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
room for Koren. Schmeichel never smelt it. Like the ball at it flew | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
past him. Hull City go in front again with less than three minutes | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
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18 days ago, presumably because he felt that Leicester offered him a | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
better chance to make it back to the top line. Hull City, a team | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
that he assembled, have underlined their worth today, admittedly | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
against a side down to 10 men for much of the contest. Would it have | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
been different if it had been 11 against 11? The whistle goes, it's | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
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The build-up to this was all about your return, how was it for you | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
today? Another game. That is your people's job to build it up like | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
that. It was a game we were looking forward to but unfortunately we | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
were on the wrong side of a 2-1 scoreline. How strange was it for | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
you today to line up against your former gaffer? It is strange. He | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
did a great job here at the club. I don't think anyone will dismiss | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
that. We were sad to see him leave but everyone moves on. The club | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
certainly moves on. I think the players were delighted in the | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
result today. Personally for you, is this a job that you desperately | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
want? I've been on record before saying we will see how we go. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Things don't change. We will take it game by game, we are back on | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
winning ways which is more important. It's more about the team | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
that my personal self. We will see how we go. Nick got the better of | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
you today. Do you feel he's got the characteristics to make a decent | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
manager? It depends on whether he wants to. That's a question you've | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
got to ask him. He won't answer that. There you are, you are asking | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
me a question that I don't know the answer to. He has certainly got a | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
very good side to work with. I wish him and the players all the best. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
Later joy for Hull City, heartbreak for Leicester. Next tonight, the | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
match that took place this evening between Bristol City and | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Middlesbrough. Two teams on the opposite ends of the championship | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
table. After a shaky start, City are very much on the up under their | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
new coach, Derek McInnes, and have gone and beaten up through the | :23:10. | :23:19. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds | :23:20. | :25:39. | |
The goalkeeper is made up. What a says a clear handball in his eyes. | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds | :25:50. | :26:51. | |
The ball hits his hand, but nothing We would have been disappointed to | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
draw a game in the manner we took the game on the second half. We | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
work to the goalkeeper, their goalkeeper was far busier than ours. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
We tried to be positive with substitutions and played on the | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
front foot second half. They are a good side. We sometimes can be cut | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
open, the quality of their goal was there to be seen. But I felt also | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
there were a few decisions that went against us. I felt we were a | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
bit and just in some of the decisions. It was a great strike. | :27:21. | :27:30. | |
Larry has got his -- that in his locker. We see him do it regularly | :27:30. | :27:38. | |
in training. We got a free-kick and he was on the pitch. I felt | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
confident he would hit the target. Let's round of the rest of the | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
matches in the championship, starting with the game at Selhurst | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
Park between Crystal Palace and Derby. There was a terrific | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
reception for the Palace players in recognition of their heroics on | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Wednesday, when they went up to Manchester and knocked United out | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
of the Carling Cup, the 2-1 victory setting up a semi-final double date | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
with Cardiff City. Just 48 hours on after that famous win at Old | :28:04. | :28:12. | |
Trafford, it was crystal Palace bursars Derby. -- Crystal Palace | :28:12. | :28:22. | |
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have won away on their travels on three occasions, plus 1 draw. But | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
here comes Ambrose, steaming forward. That has come across to | :28:31. | :28:39. | |
Murray. Shouts for a penalty. The referee says ano macro. What a | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
blistering start by Crystal Palace. Ambrose went for the shot, it was | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
blocked. It goes down as an excellent start by the 23-year-old | :28:49. | :28:59. | |
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England Under 21 international on loan from Norwich, only his | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
third appearance tonight. He has but Crystal Palace ahead in the | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
15th minute. It flew past Frank Fielding. It looked as though the | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
goalkeeper could at least have made an effort. He just seemed to watch | :29:22. | :29:29. | |
it flashed past him, or maybe a slight deflection on it. Plenty of | :29:29. | :29:39. | |
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There's no doubt that Nigel Clough own-goal. McCarthy has put Derby | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
back in again with an own-goal. It was an awkward cross to deal with. | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
He knew that there was a white shirt Derby player behind him, but | :30:19. | :30:28. | |
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he stretches out a leg and he has I am pleased with that, it was a | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
good Derby team in the second half. We played fantastic in the first | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
half. We could have got two or three. In the second half they came | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
writers, they had nothing to lose. We defended fantastically well. We | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
are happy with the point. In the context of the run we have been in | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
we would have taken a point tonight but we played very well, as we did | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
on Tuesday at home to Brighton. Unfortunately those two | :31:19. | :31:29. | |
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performances have yielded only one but it was Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
who got one instead from Gus Poyet, almost suffocating him. It is a | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
Chelsea think, a beautiful thing. Unlike the match. He is one of the | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
few efforts in the first half. It came from Anderson. Those hoping | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
for an improvement in the second half were left disappointed. Tudgay | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
should have found the Brighton that with this header. Majewski tried | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
his luck from range but the end result was the same as Forest | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
looked like there would have to settle for point. But those fans | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
who left the game early after writing it offers a goalless draw | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
missed the last gasp winner from substitute Buckley. His 92nd minute | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
goal ensured this Eagles clinched their 4th win in five. -- the | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
Seagulls. As for Forest, the whole team could do with a hug. They | :32:19. | :32:28. | |
remain -- they remain in the bottom be a happy day by the seaside, | :32:28. | :32:32. | |
albeit well muffled. Their team was looking for a third straight | :32:32. | :32:38. | |
Championship win. The Royals had the better of the first half. There | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
was a great chance to put the team ahead. But ten minutes before half- | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
time, Reading did have the ball in the back of the Blackpool net. | :32:49. | :32:55. | |
Church got the final touch but his header was ruled offside. That | :32:55. | :33:00. | |
proved crucial because one goal decided the game. Phillips started | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
the move, making the initial run, before setting up 20-year-old | :33:04. | :33:12. | |
McManaman. He is on loan from Wigan for his first League goal. And, yes, | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
it is McManaman, if you didn't know. It was a landmark goal for the | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
manager, Holloway. It brought up a century of Blackpool goal since he | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
took charge and there was almost room for another, but it was denied | :33:25. | :33:34. | |
It took a brilliant goal, fantastically executed, two young | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
fellows, both running away excited. We did it out after that. It was | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
not our normal flowing performance but you have to give the credit to | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
Reading for that. We felt we should have been a two or three-nil what | :33:49. | :33:59. | |
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and how we got nothing from the Peterborough. Barnsley were the | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
visitors, going for a third straight win, something they | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
haven't had all year. It was an incredible game, 21 shots on target. | :34:08. | :34:15. | |
Here is one. Peterborough had 14 of those shots on target but they | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
found Barnsley keeper Steele in inspired form, saving from Grant | :34:20. | :34:27. | |
McCann. And then foiling Boyd, who was making his 200 th macro league | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
start for Peterborough. Barnsley's attacks always seemed to produce | :34:32. | :34:38. | |
goals. Here is Butterfield, unchallenged, letting rip. Two-nil | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
to Barnsley. They have won on their previous four visits to London Road | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
and were well on their way to number five when Vaz Te picked up | :34:46. | :34:53. | |
the ball and released. Three up, game over. Or was it? Darren | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
Ferguson's reaction was to make three substitutions in one go and | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
his team responded almost immediately. Boyd, who had been on | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
from the start, got the ball rolling, we'll probably quicker | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
than rolling but you get the idea. Then four minutes later it really | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
was game on. One of those three substitutes, Frecklington, got | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
behind the Barnsley back line and picked out Bennett and it was | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
suddenly 3-2. And when Boyd found Frecklington soon after the | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
comeback was complete. Three goals in six Matt minutes come as a score | :35:27. | :35:34. | |
three-three, with 20 minutes to play. Next it was Barnsley's turn. | :35:34. | :35:41. | |
Davies smacked how on the ball or the rise and it was 4-3 to Barnsley. | :35:41. | :35:47. | |
But the posh pushed and almost delivered but Steele lived up to | :35:47. | :35:54. | |
his name as they were two attempts to level -- Posh. The 20 League | :35:54. | :36:00. | |
games involving Peterborough this season provided 77 goals, almost | :36:00. | :36:09. | |
four each game. It was almost 78. I thought we had thrown away a gift, | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
not a gift, we worked really hard to go three-nil up. Against the | :36:15. | :36:21. | |
next side we scored goals. The first goal they conceded changed | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
the momentum of the game and sometimes it is very difficult to | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
change that momentum and they were worthy of at least three each but | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
the next goal was hours, a great goal from Davies. That one as the | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
game. I would not have minded the final whistle then, for whatever | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
reason. I had a bad feeling. They had looked today, four shot, four | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
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 | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
resigned after his company went into administration. Pre-match | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
assurances from the manager Appleton that his players would be | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
played -- paid had the desired effect. A bad week for the long- | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
suffering home supporters improved in the 19th minute. Murphy was | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
adjudged by the referee to have tripped Ward. Theatrical, maybe, | :37:23. | :37:32. | |
but a penalty. And Halford coolly did the rest. The home side then | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
withstood a spirited response from the visitors before coming close to | :37:35. | :37:42. | |
a second goal. Kitson could not finish again. Few who were born and | :37:42. | :37:49. | |
bred in Southampton are popular at Fratton Park, this neat finish | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
early in the second half did little for his standing among the Pompey | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
phase four but did endear him to his own fans. Ward birthplace has | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
never been an issue for Portsmouth, born in the City. His popularity | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
rose in controversial circumstances. A free kick was quickly-taken, too | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
quickly for the Coventry defence. The home side regained the lead. | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
They should have been an equaliser on 90 minutes remaining. The | :38:19. | :38:29. | |
:38:29. | :38:31. | ||
Players are thick-skinned, they get on with things and ten-under | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
adverse circumstances roll up their sleeve cent meeting head-on -- they | :38:37. | :38:47. | |
:38:47. | :38:48. | ||
Watford arrived in Suffolk determined to bring more gloom for | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
Ipswich, who had lost their last six games and the Paul Jewell. | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
Watford had failed to score in nine of their 19 League games. Maybe | :38:57. | :39:03. | |
this is why. Even top scorer Sordell looked out of sorts. But | :39:03. | :39:09. | |
Ipswich have suffered even more, as they'd also showed how to miss when | :39:09. | :39:17. | |
this was saved. Loach could do little before the break as Ipswich | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
duo of Murphy and Andrews, both looking to join the Republic of | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
Ireland's Euro 2012 squad, combined to put their squad in front. Andrew | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
has got to finish. Could the Ipswich run of defeats be over? | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
After half-time the Ipswich goalkeeper kept it at one-nil, | :39:37. | :39:44. | |
tipping over this. The visitors kept up the pressure as Yeats | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
rattled the woodwork as he went in search of his 4th goal of the | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
season. But Watford pressed on and turned the game on its head this 20 | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
minutes remaining. Sordell earned the Hornets a penalty after this | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
challenge. It gave Sordell the chance to make it six league goals | :40:02. | :40:09. | |
this season. One-one. And then the wheels came off again for the | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
Tractor Boys. Four minutes later Watford substitute Deeney, who had | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
only been on for eight minutes, quickly found his bearings to seal | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
Watford's first away win in seven and give Ipswich their 7th defeat | :40:21. | :40:30. | |
A very good win for Watford. Here at Upton Park I have been joined by | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
the scorer of Burnley's winner, Sam Vokes. Very well done. A massive | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
result today. Yes, a massive result to us. When I first came in we had | :40:39. | :40:45. | |
a few bad results but we have had three wins and it is huge for us. | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
coinciding with your arrival, you must be delighted. It was the main | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
objective to play some games and as a striker you want to score goals, | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
so Tuesday night and tonight is massive. Have you noticed a change | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
in mentality? From what has gone on before hunted at the club? I think | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
so. I can't speak from the start of the season because I wasn't here | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
but the big turning point I have seen his two-nil down, we have | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
turned it around to 3-2. The boys have taken confidence from that and | :41:16. | :41:22. | |
we saw the spirit of the boys today, to come from one-nil down is to | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
have all stopped what do you make of your manager, he did not take | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
the bad start of the season to heart and it goes to show that that | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
face was well placed? Yes, of course. He is a great | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
manager. The day I came in, he said he has great confidence in the | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
players at the club and that is the key point for him. He tells us that | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
all the time and to have that confidence in the lads to go and | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
play at places like West Ham and come away with a victory, it shows | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
we can do it. Two goals the way and the back of what has been a pretty | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
difficult week I imagine? Yes, the sad news at the weekend with Gary | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
Speed, it has been a tough week for everyone in football especially | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
people involved with Wales. There is a few lads from West Ham here | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
today with coaches and players that played with him so it has been a | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
tough week but hopefully we can mark our respects with performances | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
like this. Was Gary on your mind a few -- if you scored that goal? | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
he has been on everyone's mind for the past week and we send our | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
thoughts to his family. Very well done today. The thoughts of Sam | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
Vokes. Let's look at what Saturday's results mean to the end | :42:27. | :42:37. | |
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the table. That dubious honour goes to Coventry, after their defeat at | :42:56. | :43:05. | |
That is almost it for tonight. Before we go, a reminder that if | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
you want to watch the goals again they are available on the red | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
button until midday on Sunday and on Freeview until 11 o'clock on | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
Sunday morning. Otherwise it is on the iPlayer all week but for | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
extended match highlights they will be on line courtesy of the BBC | :43:19. | :43:22. |