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What a 24 hours it has been in the Football League, with a frantic end | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
to the transfer window, followed by the shock news of Brian Little | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Dummett's reported sacking by Leeds United. More on that later. Earlier | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
in the week, Chris Wilder swapped life at Oxford for Football League | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
survival at Northampton. From the Cobblers to the straight talking | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Leroy, who is with me tonight, and here is a taster of what is coming | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
up. QPR up the pressure on Leicester with their fourth consecutive win | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
against Bolton on Tuesday. Next for Harry Redknapp's boys, the visit of | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
Burnley. We have got the best of the action from the other end of the | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
table, as Sheffield Wednesday took on Barnsley in a South Yorkshire | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
derby. In League One, a world away from their days in exile in | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Sheffield, we will be with Rotherham united, as they test their hopes of | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
a second successive promotion against Leyton Orient. And as ever, | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
there are some spec tequila goals for you to enjoy. The Championship | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
promotion race is warming up quite nicely. -- spectacular. On Friday | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
night, Nottingham Forest came from behind to beat Watford. So, how | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
would their promotion rivals respond today? We start at Loftus Road, as | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
QPR went in search of a fifth consecutive win, this time at home | :02:20. | :02:20. | |
to Burnley. QPR, the preseason favourites, | :02:21. | :02:34. | |
taking on Burnley, who are refusing to let go in the race to reach the | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Premier League. It is a full house at Loftus Road. It could be a | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
cracker. Let's check on the two teams. Six players signed by QPR in | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
the last week, just one of them starting today, Kevin Doyle, on loan | :02:53. | :03:04. | |
from Wolves. Burnley's squad is small and compact. This is the same | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
team which drew with Brighton on Tuesday. | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
Danny Ings and Sam Vokes have got 28 of their 39 goals this season. Niko | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
Kranjcar takes the corner. Turned over by Heaton. Good goalkeeping | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
from Tom Heaton, that is a clever header and a fine save. Niko | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Kranjcar once again with the dead ball delivery. QPR live free. -- | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
lively. And this time it is in. Kevin Doyle, with a debut goal! They | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
had a warning from the first corner. Again, it came into the near | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
post. It was glanced in by Kevin Doyle. A great start for him. | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
Kevin Doyle, busy and bustling. Kevin Doyle! After 11 minutes, he | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
looks a cracking signing. Full of energy and endeavour. Charlie Austin | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
watching on, injured with that shoulder complaint, cannot face his | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
former club here this afternoon. The ball in from Trippier, great | :04:28. | :04:38. | |
effort! Danny Ings for Burnley again! What a season he is having. | :04:39. | :04:48. | |
17 league goals now for him. And that was some finish. That is going | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
to be a free kick going the way of Joey Barton. It comes in from Joey | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
Barton, it has come an awful long way, and out for a corner. | :05:10. | :05:23. | |
Taken by crunch are, once again to the near post. What a finish from | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
Richard Dunne! -- taken by Niko Kranjcar. That is his first QPR | :05:32. | :05:43. | |
goal, and one he will never forget. It was a Charlie Austin style volley | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
from the centre half. Try Ouray in full flow, menacing | :05:47. | :05:58. | |
stuff. Michael Kightly, great all in, and | :05:59. | :06:23. | |
Sam Vokes has scored! The Clarets have levelled again. It is the | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
deadly duo, first Danny Ings, now Sam Vokes. Between them, they have | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
now got 13 league goals this season out of 41. -- 30. | :06:40. | :06:55. | |
Trippier takes the quick throw. Arfield... It was pulled back for | :06:56. | :07:09. | |
Danny Ings, but for once, he got beneath it. | :07:10. | :07:20. | |
Now it is Burnley's turn to try to shape the game. Danny Ings has got | :07:21. | :07:37. | |
in behind Assou-Ekotto. Vokes! The double act have combined again. Sam | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Vokes having his most prolific league season ever. 14 now for the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
campaign. Assou-Ekotto was far too casual. And for the first time this | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
afternoon, Burnley are leading. Here comes that change. Coming on for his | :07:57. | :08:08. | |
debut, having signed right on the deadline last night, it is Maiga, | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
signed on loan from West Ham United. Can he get a goal on debut, like | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
Kevin Doyle did? Sam Vokes, and the flag stays down. | :08:20. | :08:41. | |
Danny Ings... It is a super run, but not quite. He saw the top corner | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
begging for him to find it, and he couldn't, but he was mighty close. | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
David Jones has been a steady presence in midfield for the Clarets | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
today. Joey Barton with a lovely ball out to junior toilet. | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
-- Junior Hoilett. Modibo Maiga, on his debut! It was toilet with the | :09:13. | :09:29. | |
presence of mind to get the ball in. | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
This really has been a cracking contest in the Championship. QPR | :09:36. | :09:55. | |
have not scored four goals in a game all season. They will need to now, | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
to win this one. Lovely play by Niko Kranjcar. Niko Kranjcar pulls it | :10:00. | :10:13. | |
back for Joey Barton. Assou-Ekotto. Clever play, once again it goes out | :10:14. | :10:27. | |
to Hoilett on the wing. Sam Vokes, fouled by Dunne. | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
Is there to be one more twist in a remarkable match? Angelo Balanta, | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
and now, Trippier. Stanislas! My word, what an effort. | :10:42. | :10:55. | |
Assou-Ekotto, not for the first time, was dispossessed. He has had | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
his pocket picked. And Stanislas was very close to getting a dramatic | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
winner for Burnley. I am very happy with the performance, that is for | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
sure. A couple of details with in it which cost us dearly, but generally | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
speaking, it is what we have come to expect from our group, with the good | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
work we do on the training pitch, together with the staff. The | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
framework and organisation but also good quality. Some of our moves, the | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
second goal was a terrific move, shifting the ball quickly, and a | :11:30. | :11:38. | |
great finish. Lots of positives. Are you able to give Queens Park Rangers | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
supporters any indication of how long Charlie Austin will be out for? | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Are we talking two months which Mark I think it will probably be the | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
season, I would imagine. We will be lucky if we see him this season. How | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
big a blow is that? Massive. He is an outstanding player for us. He was | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
our main man, scoring goals for us. But Andy Johnson worked hard today. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
We have got Kevin Doyle, and Maiga came on a and Bobby is fit. We will | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
get on with it. Yes, a big blow for Harry, but almost overnight, he has | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
got an embarrassment of riches, almost, in terms of strikers. As for | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
the game itself, it was a fantastic name. Fascinating, with two teams on | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
opposing ends of the financial spectrum, but giving us a classic. I | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
really enjoyed the game. I thought QPR started the game really well. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
They edged it in the first half, but Burnley came out and dominated in | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
the second half. When they got their noses in front, I thought they would | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
win it, but then Harry introduced Maiga to get the equaliser. I think | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Burnley might be slightly more disappointed. Harry touched on it, | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
they have almost been overreliant on the goals from Charlie Austin. It is | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
a huge blow for them. But he has shown once again his canny touch in | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
the transfer market. Absolutely. Kevin Doyle has got a good pedigree. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
It has not quite worked out for him at Wolves. But him on loan. Great | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
delivery from Niko Kranjcar as well. That is a difficult one to defend | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
against. You have to give that to the attacking side. Hoilett also | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
came on as a substitute, and was really effective down this right | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
hand side. I think Harry will be pleased. Charlie Austin, 15 goals in | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
all competition is, it is going to be hard to replace him with one | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
player, so Harry might have gone a bit over the top with four! There | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
are two more who did not take part today, but he wants options, and he | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
has got that. And credit to Burnley, they have become the first | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
team to score more than one goal at Loftus Road, with two players who | :13:58. | :13:58. | |
are in great form. I don't think you can blame the | :13:59. | :14:12. | |
defence. This was an excellent move, the switch of play and to the left | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
side and some folks gets across his mind and gets the first touch. The | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
typical training goal -- sam you can't blame the defence much. In | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
possession you some great movement for the second goal and out of | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
possession, they chased everything down and made it difficult for their | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
opponents. Is real energy about them. Is the Vokes and Ings | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
partnership good enough to take them up? | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
I think so, if you look at their dealings in the transfer window, | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Sean Dyche will be delighted they are still there. There are | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
definitely the best partnership in the Championship. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
After all of their recent troubles, if you thought you had seen it all | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
at Leeds, think again. The club has been thrown into turmoil in the last | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
24 hours, the confusion surrounding the club's ownership and Brian | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
McDermott's position as manager. Hardly the perfect backdrop for the | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
visit of Huddersfield. Also you'd think. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
McDermott had been told to stay away, despite being advised his | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
sacking on Friday wasn't authorised. So his assistants Nigel Gibbs took | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
charge and the fans continued their protests against Massimo Cellino. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Also on the basis of this result, maybe the powers that be will be | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
tempted to have people before every game. Things didn't start too well. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Oliver Norwood inches away from putting Huddersfield ahead before | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
Danny Ward did give them the lead. He scored for the Terriers when they | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
beat Leeds earlier in the season, but this was as good as it got this | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
time around. On the stroke of half-time, the Championship's top | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
scorer came up with the goods for Leeds once again. Ross McCormack | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
showing the predatory instinct that made him the subject of plenty of | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Premier League interest during the transform window. -- transfer | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
window. He turned provider after the break to teacup Jimmy Kebe for his | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
first goal since arriving on loan from Crystal Palace. The crowd | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
showing who they wanted to be in charge. MacCormack took centre | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
stage, scoring twice more in the space of 11 minutes. -- Ross | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
McCormack. Then he made it 16 goals in his last 15 appearances when he | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
buried Cameron Stewart's cross. Leeds had only managed five goals in | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
their last eight matches but they equalled that inside the last ten | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
minutes. It was a special moment for 18-year-old Alex Mowatt as he scored | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
his first goal for the senior club -- senior goal for the club. A day | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
that ended in celebration but with plenty of questions still to be | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
answered. Yesterday wasn't nice, what was happening at the club, but | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
the most important thing is what happens on the pitch. We had a chat | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
before the game, we rallied the troops and we knew the most | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
important thing was the three points and we showed good character from | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
1-0 down. We could have folded, everything was against us but we | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
came back and scored five great goals. It is a shame Brian wasn't | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
here to witness that, if his team. They followed his instructions to | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
the tee and it was a fantastic victory. I am led to believe he will | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
be back in the club on Monday as manager and he will be welcomed back | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
by me and the squad. So after 24 hours of mayhem and | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
confusion, it is as you were. But is it? Of course it isn't. Brian was | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
supposedly sacked by a lawyer acting for the potential owners and as we | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
saw on the clip, it wasn't authorised. What it has done in a | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
funny way is unite everybody at the club and give everybody and | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
understanding about what they feel about the job Brian McDermott is | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
doing. Leeds were going through a very sickly patch -- sticky patch. | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
Ross McCormack said when he thought Brian McDermott had gone that he was | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
gutted and you don't often hear that, you hear about players being | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
mercenaries and only worrying about their wage packets, but there is a | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
real belief that Brian was doing a great job at the club and he didn't | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
want to take the moves is offered to him to go to the Premier League. So | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
I think it has strengthened the resolve at Leeds United and it could | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
turn out to be good. You had to give Ross McCormack credit, not only for | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
the hat-trick but he by quoting -- he spoke of an interview and has | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
become a real leader in the dressing room but what a PR disaster for any | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
owner wanting to come into a new club, not just a club with history | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
lightly generative. All of these reports about Gianluca Festa being | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
asked to sit on the bench midweek, being refused because it would | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
undermine Brian McDermott. All of these reports do not ingratiate the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
new owners to the fans. Of course it doesn't and owners need to do their | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
homework on the managers who are in charge at the time. Some owners by a | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
club, bring their own people in, they say, " You are no good" but | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
they need to find out about who the manager is, that is Brian McDermott. | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
He came from a Premier League job, he was so excited to get the Leeds | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
job because he considered potential and the players can see the | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
potential in him and the owner should recognise that and move | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
forward with him as manager. After seeing that, I think Leeds are on | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
the right track. So Brian is due to report to the training ground on | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
Monday, should be interesting. There is no stopping the league | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
leaders Leicester at the moment. They notched an eight successive | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
league victory against Birmingham in midweek. Could they extend their | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
lead at the top with a ninth win at Bournemouth? | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Leicester's manager revealed this weekend that he once had to fight | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
off a pack of wild dogs in Romania. Strange, but true. At least at this | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
rate there will be no one snapping at Nigel Pearson's heels in the | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
running. Bournemouth's star performer was Lee camp, keeping | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Jamie Vardy off the scoresheet. They were rarely able to trouble his | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
counterpart Kasper Schmeichel. Even lose grab them off target. The tide | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
was predominantly against the home club. League Cup's refusal to be | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
beaten was becoming a worry for the table toppers. Anthony knockout | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
thwarted. The goalkeeper will think he wasn't beaten -- knockout. The | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
linesman intervened for the victory. Kevin Phillips was convinced the | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
ball had crossed the line, as you would expect. The evergreen | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
40-year-old becoming the club's oldest ever scorer as the lead went | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
into double figures. It is satisfying to extend their winning | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
run. It is a shame, I suppose, that the game has been settled with a | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
goal which has a bit of controversy surrounding it, I suppose, but our | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
players were convinced it was a goal. And I think we deserved to win | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
the game. Having acquired three Manchester | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
United players on deadline day, Lee Clark says he is delighted with | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Birmingham's transfer business. He might have been having second | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
thoughts when one of them gave Derby a first-half penalty. The teenager | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
bringing down we'll fuse. Fortunately for him, Randolph saved | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
Craig Bryson's spot kick. The second half began with another January | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
signing Kevin lose the lead. Free agent Brian Howard was snapped up a | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
couple of weeks ago. A spell in Bulgaria didn't go as the midfielder | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
had hoped. His celebration showed relief at another crack at the | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Championship. The lead lasted less than a minute. The 21 goals this | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
season for Derby's Patrick Bamford mean he's tied to miss chances, | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
certainly when he has two opportunities to put them away. That | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
began a 25 minute spell when Derby appeared to take the game away from | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
their hosts. A freak goal edged them ahead just before the hour. Chris | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
Martin's shop looping in thanks to a deflection from his own team-mate -- | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
shot. Still on the fringes of the relegation battle, Birmingham's new | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
signings need to gel quickly. The back four looks like perfect | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
strangers as Craig Forsythe made it 3-1. With only seven minutes ago -- | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
to go, it looked bad for Lee Clark's site. Steve McLaren was left | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
ringgit, Chris Bertram giving Birmingham hope, before another | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
deadline day signing had his say. Federico Macheda, another buy from | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
the Red Devils, struck in injury time and Birmingham salvaged a | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
draw, their sixth in nine winless home matches. | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
The passion and the driver and the desire to come back into the game | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
was there for all to see, and you saw the reaction from the supporters | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
at the end, they are with the players so much, they are desperate | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
for them to do well, and they are backing the young players every step | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
of the way. We can only blame ourselves, in a game where we have | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
had 20 opportunities, they have had three shots and it is 3-3. | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
Millwall's third home fixture in a row, and they were beginning to find | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
some form at the new Den. The visitors, free scoring Reading, | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
would always test them, and so it proved. Stephen Bywater in the | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
Millwall goal was at fault for the breakthrough. He didn't deal with a | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
lofted ball and Pavel Pogrebnyak took full advantage. Ian Holloway's | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
teams always play with an attacking spirit, but the Lions were | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
struggling to match their opponents. Liam Feeney wasting one of their | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
better opportunities. Reading had put seven past Bolton, five past | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Blackpool and added to their tally. Stephen Bywater with a terrific stop | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
from Pogrebnyak, but Alex Pearce put away the rebound. Just minutes | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
later, Danny Williams claimed his first goal for Reading to complete | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
the scoring. Millwall remained just outside the relegation places, but | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
for the Royals, it is now four wins in five and all of the signs are | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
encouraging. A real, good, hard-working performance from the | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
players yet again. Consistency in team selection, consistency of | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
performance and togetherness, goals through the team, and everyone is | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
enjoying it. Dougie Freedman has been bemoaning | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Bolton's bad luck at the moment but he couldn't blame ill fortune for | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
their failure to take an early lead at which ship. The ball to Lucas | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
Djokovic fell kindly to Mark Davis but he couldn't convert either of | :25:38. | :25:38. | |
his fights at the cherry -- Leuchars this winter Ipswich gives them one | :25:39. | :25:50. | |
place away from the play-off spots. Frank Nouble wasn't far from giving | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
them the lead in the first half. Mick McCarthy said he was happy to | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
keep hold of Erin Cresswell and David McGoldrick up the Premier | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
League interest in the pair and after Cresswell's long-range effort | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
was tipped over, McGoldrick was brought down by the goalkeeper in a | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
challenge Dougie Freedman called a Rush of blood to the head. | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
Ipswich's top scorer kept pickle head to convert from the spot and | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
like his 15th goal of the campaign -- kept a cool head. | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Making his boss a happy man in the process. Nick, you are right in the | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
play-off picture. If you keep on winning at home and drawing away, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
that is what you want -- make. I couldn't agree more, I don't know | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
what you want to say to that. Absolutely. | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
Mick McCarthy, as concise as ever. It is pinch yourself time for | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Leicester fans, nine consecutive wins, going from strength to | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
strength at the right time. Compare their standing from this time last | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
season, they are two points shy of last season's tally with 17 left to | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
play. It is a change of environment. Everyone knows the budget was cut | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
from Nigel at the start of the season and last season, it seemed to | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
be if we have a problem, we will buy a player. Now he has a group of | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
players he is working with and they are progressing, there is a great | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
spirit there. They are a talented bunch and he's getting the best out | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
of them, that is testament to him and his staff. We will not talk | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
about Kevin Phillips's age, he is probably as sick as we are talking | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
about it, but he has been brought in when he doesn't even need strikers. | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Was it a goal? Well, it was given, but was it over the line? It is such | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
a poor angle, it is hard to tell. Bournemouth will be felling hard | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
done by what I would do the same if I was Kevin, putting pressure on the | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
referee. We saw Birmingham get into injury time before they could dish | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
out the leveller against Derby County. They had lost three going | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
into this. He has had such a tough time, Lee Clark, considering the | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
lack of leadership in the boardroom and six of his 1122. Yes, and a big | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
turnover of players. A lot of his experience, he moved them out, | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
Ambrose, Mullins and Wade Elliott. Six of his players are under 22 but | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
they are putting in a shift for him. They have a poor home record, so to | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
go out against the good Derby County side and get that result will | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
certainly give them a lift. McCague was signed yesterday, that is a good | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
way to start for any striker. -- Federico Macheda. And the sooner the | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
ownership issues are sold, the better. The dogfight at the other | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
end now and what a difference Stuart Gray has made at Sheffield | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
Wednesday. Under the new head coach, whence they are unbeaten in | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
six, lifting them out of the relegation zone. -- Wednesday. Their | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
next challenge came in a way of local rivals Barnsley. Second from | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
bottom. Local pride and precious points at | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
stake as these two Yorkshire rivals find themselves in another scrap for | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
survival. Stuart Gray has led Wednesday's revival, pulling them | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
out of the bottom three. They are aiming to go ten games unbeaten in | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
all competitions. Barnsley have turned to the man who took them to | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
their one and only season in the Premier League, Danny Wilson, | :29:27. | :29:27. | |
against his former club. Danny Wilson has brought in no fewer | :29:28. | :29:43. | |
than six new players during the transfer window. Jack Hunt is in | :29:44. | :29:51. | |
right back and Emanuel Frimpong, signed from Arsenal, gets the nod at | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
midfield. Barnsley corner. Barnsley inching | :29:54. | :30:03. | |
themselves into the game. A blistering strike! Blocked twice. | :30:04. | :30:26. | |
My word, that was travelling. How close were Barnsley to scoring here? | :30:27. | :30:36. | |
Howard Wilkinson and Dickie Bird, side by side. | :30:37. | :30:48. | |
Frimpong has to be careful. At this rate he will end up getting himself | :30:49. | :30:59. | |
booked. Too keen to get involved. He got nowhere near the ball. The | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
referee taking charge of his first football league fixture of the | :31:05. | :31:13. | |
season. Tells Frimpong to calm down. Maguire goes down on the edge. And | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
it is Frimpong again. What did we say? Yellow card. He should have | :31:18. | :31:27. | |
learnt. But he didn't. And now he is walking a tightrope. | :31:28. | :31:39. | |
It is Frimpong with the challenge. It will be a second yellow and it | :31:40. | :31:47. | |
will be red for Emanuel Frimpong on his debut. He lost his cool area in | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
the game. Someone needed to calm him down. But Emanuel Frimpong has a | :31:54. | :32:01. | |
debut to forget. Barnsley down to ten men. He has to put up with the | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
stick he is getting from the Sheffield Wednesday fans. He has got | :32:08. | :32:20. | |
to walk right past them. Jennings! Good save from Chris Kirkland. That | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
would've been turned up. -- that would have been a surprise. He is | :32:27. | :32:34. | |
yet to score for Barnsley. The last action of the first tab. | :32:35. | :32:44. | |
-- the first half. Of his own post from Jack Hunt! | :32:45. | :33:09. | |
Kieran Lee! Pushed away by the goalkeeper. They are getting closer. | :33:10. | :33:17. | |
But not close enough. Jennings caught in possession. Lee has a go. | :33:18. | :33:30. | |
That was a good save. Far from a classic but it has had its talking | :33:31. | :33:32. | |
points. Let's have a look at this. Mellis is | :33:33. | :33:52. | |
pointing the finger at Jermaine Johnson. He is going for the | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
pocket. I think this is going to be red. It is! He has only been on the | :33:57. | :34:03. | |
field a matter of minutes, Jermaine Johnson. Let's have a look. That was | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
high. That was reckless. Mellis slipped. It looked that way | :34:09. | :34:28. | |
at first glance. A second viewing might make the decision easier. He | :34:29. | :34:34. | |
steps on the inside of the defender. Was their contact? Barnsley have a | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
throw. Mellis went flying in. That looked | :34:38. | :35:00. | |
reckless from Jacob Mellis. Are we going to see a third player sent | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
off? We are. Jacob Mellis dismissed. Incredible. And is that because he | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
felt he should have had a penalty moments before. --? Has he taken his | :35:12. | :35:20. | |
frustration out? The speed at which he comes over the top there. | :35:21. | :35:40. | |
Would you believe it! Chris Maguire with only seconds to spare, wins the | :35:41. | :35:51. | |
game first Sheffield Wednesday! -- first Sheffield Wednesday. Wild | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
celebrations all around. Nobody saw this coming. An incredible end to a | :35:57. | :36:06. | |
very odd game. Chris Maguire wins it for Sheffield Wednesday. | :36:07. | :36:13. | |
A couple of the tackles were a little warning, stop it, by the way. | :36:14. | :36:22. | |
But an experienced referee would have recognised that. I think Dan is | :36:23. | :36:32. | |
a little disappointed that he played over five minutes. Would you play to | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
the final whistle. Chris Maguire picked the ball up and we know he is | :36:37. | :36:39. | |
going to shoot. A great feeling when it went in. We played five minutes | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
over time. Seven and a half minutes at the end. The goal has, from that. | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
I don't know where the rest of the time has come from. | :36:53. | :37:00. | |
Danny Wilson feeling hard done by. Wednesday came out on top in pretty | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
dramatic fashion. Was it the right result? Sheffield Wednesday sneaked | :37:05. | :37:11. | |
it on the majority of possession. I thought Barnsley showed terrific | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
spirit. But yes, they just about edged it, Sheffield Wednesday. No | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
argument over the red cards. Frimpong had been warned. The | :37:21. | :37:27. | |
challenge by Johnson was horrific. And Mellis, he was reckless. The | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
referee was right on all counts. As for the all-important goal, we will | :37:33. | :37:40. | |
see this as a pivotal goal both clubs. Definitely. O'Brien will be | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
disappointed. He could have done better with the clearance. Sheffield | :37:46. | :37:54. | |
Wednesday have gone ten unbeaten. For Barnsley, they have just gone on | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
a nice little run themselves. Danny knows it is a run of results that | :38:00. | :38:02. | |
will get them out. He needs to pick them off the floor and get on the | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
road again. That was a big setback. Blackburn's promotion push suffered | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
another blow at the week -- in the week as they dropped points against | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
Barnsley. Blackpool were the visitors today. | :38:19. | :38:26. | |
Blackpool were seeking a spark to reignite their season. The man who | :38:27. | :38:34. | |
got the ball rolling for Blackburn needed no introduction. David Dunn, | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
still going strong at 34. Another blow for Blackpool, who need a new | :38:41. | :38:48. | |
playmaker now Thomas Ince has moved to the Premier League. Steve Davis | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
did his best. Barry Ferguson reckons Blackpool could still make the | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
play-offs but that is surely a long shot. Much more realistic for | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
Blackburn Rovers, five points adrift. The home side made sure they | :39:01. | :39:09. | |
keep tabs on the top six, with Grant Hanley scoring. It was a goal which | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
guaranteed Blackpool's 10th league defeat in 12. | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
I am disappointed, obviously. I wanted to win the game. The two | :39:19. | :39:25. | |
goals we could have dealt with a bit better. But overall, I think you | :39:26. | :39:34. | |
could see, once we get a bit of time to spend on the training pitch, | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
which will passion -- which we will be doing next week, we have got a | :39:39. | :39:47. | |
good team. We just need to believe. Doncaster have found some form. | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
Against Middlesbrough they were seeking a third win out of four. | :39:51. | :39:57. | |
They might have got it. Neither side created much. Paul Dickov's site are | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
much stronger at the back. Saint Aitor Karanka arrived at | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
Middlesbrough, they have improved at that -- in that position as well. | :40:07. | :40:14. | |
The Teessiders did not quite have the quality to win the game. | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
Goalkeeper Sam Johnston was not tested. A goalless draw. | :40:19. | :40:28. | |
Two clubs with different agendas. Two managers with a genuine mutual | :40:29. | :40:37. | |
respect. The ease with which Charlton opened up the Wigan defence | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
will have been cause for concern. Johnnie Jackson with the assist. | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
Sordell beat the advancing goalkeeper. One of the best moves of | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
the match ended without reward. Callum McManaman had a chance for | :40:53. | :41:00. | |
the equaliser. Nicky Maynard felt aggrieved. He found the net but the | :41:01. | :41:12. | |
goal was wrongly ruled out. Uwe Rosler made changes to his team. In | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
the final minutes his tactical reshuffle paid off. Fortune | :41:19. | :41:26. | |
equalised. The last of the Wigan substitute provided the greatest | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
drama. Jordi Gomez spark jubilant scenes with a set piece special. | :41:32. | :41:38. | |
Charlton stay in the bottom three. There is always drama with me. There | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
is always the chance to come back into the game. The players did | :41:43. | :41:48. | |
magnificently. They started a bit sloppy. Conceded so early in the | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
game. The way we chased the game, especially in the second half, all | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
Charlton -- credit to Charlton, they defended for their lives. The three | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
substitutions helped us. It was disappointing to concede that | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
free kick and come away with nothing. I thought the players were | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
brave in the way they played. And to hang in there. But they need to do | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
that to the end. Dramatic late turnaround at Wigan. | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
They remain in the play-off hunt with games in hand. For Charlton, no | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
win in eight matches away from home. Chris Powell, 15 players out of | :42:25. | :42:33. | |
contract in the summer. He has almost got a new look squad to start | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
again with? Yes. With all that uncertainty going around your | :42:39. | :42:41. | |
contract, which is difficult to live with, he has put out a side with | :42:42. | :42:49. | |
four debuts, to academy players, a goalkeeper playing his second game. | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
To perform like that was admirable. It was heartbreaking to lose the way | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
they did. Chris will be proud the way the players performed. It will | :42:59. | :43:06. | |
take a bit of patience, wanted? -- want it? Yes, it will. I wonder if | :43:07. | :43:13. | |
the Charlton fans will buy into it. Lots of promise for the future. They | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
need to give him time to get these young players to gel. I think it is | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
great that a club like Charlton are dipping into the academy and giving | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
them an opportunity and they are performing like that. All Charlton | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
fans should be proud. The same could be said of Blackpool, who have had a | :43:33. | :43:35. | |
a mulch or as few days. They came unstuck against Blackburn. They were | :43:36. | :43:44. | |
hit for five in the mid week and they are now without the other | :43:45. | :43:52. | |
inputs, Thomas has gone. It is difficult when you are in freefall. | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
Paul Ince has gone, they have not won in 12 games. So taking over a | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
team that is lacking in spirit and have lost their best player. The | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
goals they conceded were poor goals. It is a shame, because the | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
performance wasn't bad. It will give them hope that they have stuck in | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
there against a decent Blackburn side. Barry is a work and is | :44:16. | :44:18. | |
determined and they need a win to get them going. To League One, which | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
had three games called off because of the weather, but no such problems | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
for Rotherham, who, after celebrating promotion back in May, | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
have pretty much carried off where they left off last season, in the | :44:31. | :44:32. | |
play-off positions. They welcomed promotion rivals | :44:33. | :44:42. | |
Leyton Orient. A gleaming beacon of urban | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
regeneration on Rotherham's once industrial heartland. The New York | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
Stadium, where it is time's football club who have doubled their | :44:53. | :45:01. | |
attendances over 18 months. Rotherham United, exiled in | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
Sheffield United and hit by a cumulative deduction of 37 points, | :45:06. | :45:08. | |
have been to hell and back since they were last in the Championship | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
nine years ago. And Steve Evans, one of the technical areas most | :45:13. | :45:19. | |
formidable adversaries, is campaigning for promotion in the | :45:20. | :45:20. | |
fourth year in succession. How are you? Can I get you some | :45:21. | :45:44. | |
cushions or something? I was falling asleep. Don't you love it when a | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
plan comes together, I think you knew what could be done. | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
Absolutely, it was always a club that was below it could have been, | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
but the best manager in the game, Sir Alex, told me that if I was | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
going to leave, check with the chairman, and I spoke to the | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
chairman and asked what the facilities were going to be, what he | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
was trying to do with the club and it was a no-brainer. How ambitious | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
are you long-term? I said when we get to the Championship, I'll start | :46:21. | :46:24. | |
dreaming again. We have quite a way to go but ambition is about being | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
able to perform with the best and that will never leave me. It is a | :46:28. | :46:36. | |
really tough league to competing but we are trying our best to make sure | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
that, come the end of the season, when we have a few games played, we | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
have this place rocking and we play-off place. Is this the new you? | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
People always see the work persona, are you chilling a bit? I had to | :46:52. | :46:58. | |
channel my enthusiasm and passion. I had a Watford chairman who wanted me | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
to channel it and directed in the right way -- and I work for a | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
chairman. If I was married to you, I would be worried about you. The | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
stress comes with it, but it is about how you manage it. In the last | :47:14. | :47:20. | |
year, being away from match day, it has taken the stress levels down and | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
then I manage it on match day. Do you want a cup of tea and your | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
cushions? Back into normal position. 50 minutes before | :47:31. | :47:32. | |
kick-off, have a sleep. Leyton Orient's usually impressive | :47:33. | :47:43. | |
away record has kept them at the right end of the table. Rotherham | :47:44. | :47:50. | |
harbouring similar ambitions. Wes Thomas on the end of a Pringle | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
cross, his first goal for the club. They nearly strengthened their hold | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
on proceedings when Tom Hitchcock was sent clear. Only a smart save | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
prevented him from claiming Rotherham's second of the afternoon. | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
Orient haven't been beaten in six and have scored more goals than any | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
of their rivals, so it was no surprise when Moses Odubajo brought | :48:14. | :48:15. | |
them back into this game in the final quarter of an hour. Pringle | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
was a player Rotherham did well to hold onto. His drive from distance | :48:22. | :48:29. | |
flashing just wide. Alex Revel, who enjoyed a productive spell with | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
Orient before moving north won it in the fifth minute of stoppage time. | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
Rotherham turned down a bid from commentary for the striker and that | :48:39. | :48:41. | |
looked a good move as he claimed his third goal in week. | :48:42. | :48:48. | |
Steve, I'm going to forgive you those histrionics at the end. That | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
was not what we were talking about pre-match. We knew the game was time | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
up and I think that is too good teams that have gone toe to toe, | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
perhaps we should have been further in front at half-time. They have had | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
a real go, and the medical man has the watch and he said it was time. | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
Richie wins the ball, gives it to Alex and the rest will be history, | :49:11. | :49:14. | |
that we have beaten them. It is a great win for us. I am not playing | :49:15. | :49:20. | |
it down, they are a great side. What a great late performance from Steve | :49:21. | :49:23. | |
Evans's Rotherham. He says he has mellowed but no luck | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
fighting spirit from his players. Certainly not, a great performance | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
against Oriente. He had to mellowed, believe me, because when he was in | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
the opposite dugout, he was abrasive and aggressive but he is a winner. | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
They are in the play-off positions now and he is going for his fourth | :49:44. | :49:45. | |
consecutive promotion, which is outstanding. It shows not only is he | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
someone who likes winning but he knows what he's doing, he knows his | :49:52. | :49:53. | |
players and is building something very good. We mustn't forget they | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
have only just got back into this division after a while. While some | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
people say it is then to a decent sometimes they won't keep the | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
momentum, you can see them holding their position through till the end | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
of the season. He will certainly be relentless with his players and | :50:11. | :50:12. | |
there is a real desire in that football club. He is a deep thinker | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
of the game. They have got a poor home record, so I think he got his | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
players to stay in a hotel. I think he may have driven around town to | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
recreate an away performance. That is how he thinks about the game, no | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
stone is unturned, he knows his stuff, and that is why he has had so | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
much success. It is all right having money but you have to spend it | :50:36. | :50:38. | |
wisely in the lower divisions and he has done that. There is no doubt who | :50:39. | :50:45. | |
the division's inform side is at the moment. Brentford's win over Bristol | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
City on Tuesday was their 10th win in 11 league games to maintain their | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
2-point lead at the top. Mark Aubert and faced a trip to relegation | :50:55. | :51:00. | |
threatened Shrewsbury, who are adapting to life after Graham | :51:01. | :51:01. | |
Turner. Leyton Orient's last-gasp defeat | :51:02. | :51:11. | |
left the way open for Brentford to extend their lead at the top and | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
they opened the scoring at Shrewsbury following a generous | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
refereeing decision to award them a penalty. Marcello Trotta hit both | :51:20. | :51:27. | |
posts from the spot kick but was on hand to put the loose ball in. | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
Shrewsbury, who had not scored or picked up a point in their previous | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
five matches, earned a draw when online Bolton youngster Tom Eaves | :51:36. | :51:51. | |
score. But the Bees are still on top. It is a 90 minute game, we | :51:52. | :51:57. | |
pressed and we got the goal, but it was a fantastic goal to draw level | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
and that his life, we move on and we are top of the table. It wasn't a | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
great day conditions was, with the wind and the pitch was heavy but we | :52:06. | :52:08. | |
are pleased with a point. I think we deserved that. | :52:09. | :52:14. | |
Having used the window to clear out some of the higher wage earners, it | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
is a leaner and meaner walls. Leon Clarke joined from commentary but | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
there was no debut goal. The game turned when Nathan Doyle went in | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
hard on Kevin McDonald. A second caution inside 28 minutes. Even so, | :52:31. | :52:41. | |
the bantams still posed a threat. Adam Reach battering the bar for | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
Bradford. The opener came right on half-time. Kevin McDonald, goalless | :52:49. | :52:56. | |
since August, made it two in two games. Right back Stephen Dobbie | :52:57. | :53:07. | |
went on and once again, they would work rescued League One's best | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
defence. A game where walls needed a second goal as an insurance policy, | :53:12. | :53:20. | |
it came like the first, via Bakary Sako's assist, Nouha Dicko scoring | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
his third in three league games. Clark nearly had a bad goal on his | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
second Molineux debut. Wolverhampton Wanderers back of the second, the | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
managers verdict? Could do better. -- back up to. I think we can do | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
better than we did today. It is a professional performance and the | :53:43. | :53:45. | |
conditions weren't easy but for the amount of possession, we should do | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
better. The sending-off was disappointing, Nathan has got to | :53:49. | :53:51. | |
stay on his feet after being booked. He has left ten players to a | :53:52. | :53:55. | |
real tough task out there and it was difficult. | :53:56. | :54:02. | |
This one was in keeping with league positions, but the magpies did | :54:03. | :54:10. | |
frustrate Simon Grayson's high-flyers thrown our thanks to an | :54:11. | :54:12. | |
inspired performance by the goalkeeper Pilkington. He was named | :54:13. | :54:21. | |
between the post because of illness and injury. You wouldn't have | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
guessed it was his first appearance since last March. The hosts did | :54:24. | :54:29. | |
finally find a way through courtesy Davies, when he produced a wonderful | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
spin and hit midway through the second half to find the net on his | :54:34. | :54:40. | |
Preston debut. And the points were wrapped up soon after when Jack | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
Grealish's attempted interception sent babies through and in trying to | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
repair the damage, Jack Grealish brought him down. Canty felt it was | :54:51. | :54:53. | |
outside the box but the referee said inside. Joe Garner did the necessary | :54:54. | :54:59. | |
and the magpies slipped into the relegation zone. | :55:00. | :55:06. | |
Jon Stead was a Transfer Deadline Day soldering for Oldham athletic | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
and was soon showing Swindon town exactly what he was capable of. | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
Oldham hadn't won away since late November but that run came to an end | :55:18. | :55:26. | |
at the County ground. Jon Stead involved again until Jonathan | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
Grounds settled matters with the only goal. Having already been | :55:30. | :55:39. | |
booked, the substitute went in late two end his all too brief | :55:40. | :55:41. | |
appearance, and victory was Oldham's. | :55:42. | :55:48. | |
Yes a good response from Oldham's players at that heavy defeat to | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
Wolverhampton Wanderers, but for Shrewsbury, it may not be the wind | :55:53. | :55:55. | |
that Michael Jackson wanted but it is a very good point against the | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
league leaders -- the win. The first goal at greenhouse Meadow. It is | :56:03. | :56:11. | |
right in the dying embers of the game, Tom Eaves, it is a great half | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
volley. They didn't want to come away with nothing again but as you | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
said, first goal in six games and first point, he is up and running. | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
Of course, he follows Graham Turner, it is quite some task. It certainly | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
is. When Graham resigned a couple of weeks ago, it was the end of an | :56:33. | :56:36. | |
era, as such. A great football man, he knew his stuff, Aston Villa, | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
Hereford, do a fantastic job and a legend at Shrewsbury, so it was a | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
real shame it had to come, but great careers to come to an end and he | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
made a really respectful decision to Shrewsbury to resign, because he | :56:53. | :56:54. | |
felt he couldn't take the club forward. Michael Jackson has bad | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
start, I'm sure he has somebody he can call at times -- has that stuff. | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
I'm sure Graham will provide him with all of the help he requests. | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
From Michael Jackson to Craig Davies, who looks like a very decent | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
acquisition for Preston. He has come in, got a goal and won a penalty on | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
a dream debut. A great touch and finish from the big man. He has | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
always had good faith but he has had injury problems at Barnsley, Bolton | :57:25. | :57:28. | |
and hasn't had a run-in with those injuries but let's hope that he can | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
get a good run of games and get his fitness, because he has quality. Our | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
last look at League One begins at Priestfield, as Chillingham look to | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
get their recovery under Peter Taylor back on track after a setback | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
at Brentford last time. The visitors were Port Vale. Gillingham's striker | :57:46. | :57:57. | |
Akinfenwa put away three goals in his previous three starts. He said | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
the Gills on their way to a third consecutive home win. Just past the | :58:03. | :58:09. | |
hour he met another magnificent delivery. Port Vale were heading for | :58:10. | :58:17. | |
a fourth league defeat on the spin. That was confirmed by the goal of | :58:18. | :58:23. | |
the match a few minutes later, McDonald's scoring. -- McDonald. | :58:24. | :58:30. | |
There was a late flurry from Port Vale when Chris Robertson cut the | :58:31. | :58:36. | |
arrears. The referee's assistant superbly placed to award the goal. | :58:37. | :58:41. | |
In the end it didn't matter, although the last three minutes were | :58:42. | :58:48. | |
nervous for the home fans. A tied scoreline but Gillingham were good | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
value for the win. I am over the moon the way the | :58:54. | :58:56. | |
players have got a result. We can always learn from things. Sometimes | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
you get a win and you don't think so much about the game. But we got a | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
win today and we can learn a lot from -- from it. That is good. | :59:06. | :59:12. | |
It was a fruitless deadline day for MK Dons. They lack of goals is | :59:13. | :59:21. | |
becoming a real problem. -- the lack of goals. The goals of dried up with | :59:22. | :59:31. | |
Bamford's departure. Powell offered the dons some hope. The goalkeeper | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
in the way. Tranmere rode their luck. Powell almost scored again but | :59:37. | :59:45. | |
Rovers held firm. How is this for a kick in the teeth? Ryan Lowe on hand | :59:46. | :59:48. | |
to smash and grab. Derek Williams will be a relieved | :59:49. | :00:02. | |
man this evening. His loose pass almost led to an early opener for | :00:03. | :00:11. | |
Carlisle. The Cumbrians arrived on a run of four straight defeats. They | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
took the lead when Potts found the net for the second game running. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
With just one clean sheet in their last 12 matches, one was always a | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
fragile advantage. Two city goals proved that. Both came courtesy of | :00:29. | :00:40. | |
Marvin Elliott. They move out of the relegation zone for the first time | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
since November. Crewe have not won consecutive home | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
matches all season. Nigel Clough's first game in charge for Sheffield | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Crewe. He won on that occasion. There was to be no repeat. Cloth's | :00:59. | :01:15. | |
team in deep trouble and facing a 2-goal deficit. Things got worse. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
They rarely threatened the home defence. A penalty appeal waved away | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
my first wedding day for a struggling team. Crewe went on to | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
claim a third in stoppage time. Moore guaranteed a highly | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
significant victory. Sheffield United dropping to the bottom two. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
The threat of relegation is all too clear. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Terrific performers like Crewe, thanks mainly to the inform striker. | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
Nigel Clough must be tearing his hair out, particularly after holding | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
full to draw a few days earlier? Bloom It is just what he didn't | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
want. He will be disappointed. Their performances have been good under | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
Nigel Clough. Nigel will be disappointed. We saw | :02:20. | :02:40. | |
Ryan Lowe come up with the winner for Tranmere. He has scored 15 of | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
his team's 32 goals. At that age, playing as a lone striker, it is a | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
great return? It is. Apparently he had cramp and he wanted to come off. | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
Ronnie kept him on. Ronnie has done little bit of magic. He brought | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Astley back into the fold. Ryan will get a little bit of help. I think | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
you will be pleased. Let's see how the Sky Bet League two | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
fared. On Friday night, Southend looked to extend their unbeaten run | :03:26. | :03:37. | |
against Newport County. The pitch always promised to spoil | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
the spectacle. The home side went close to livening up a quiet first | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
half. Atkinson's header was turned on to the post. Newport County work | :03:47. | :03:59. | |
cursing in the second half. Bobby Wilmot put his penalty into the | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
seats. Hugely frustrating for a club yet to win in 2014. Southend were | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
held to their first goalless draw the season. Having climbed into top | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
spot during the week, Chesterfield were in no mood to slip up against | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Bristol Rovers. They needed less than five minutes to take the lead. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Morsy scoring his first goal for the club. Rovers were briefly back on | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
level terms. An inch perfect finish from Lee Brown raised hopes of a | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
shock result. The Pirates hang --: Until half-time. -- had the Pirates | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
held on until half-time, they may have had a chance. But Banks | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
restored the advantage. There was more dodgy defending the other side | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
of the interval. Parks gave the ball to Roberts, and he teed up Owen | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Coyle. The home side might have had more. O Shea was unlucky with this | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
effort. A fourth would not have flattered Chesterfield. | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
Fair credit to the lads, they worked hard from the first minute to the | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
final whistle. A good game considering the conditions. We have | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
been penalised for some poor defending. The second goal was a | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
mistake. Suddenly you are chasing a massive game against the league | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
leaders, who are a massive side. Scunthorpe have not lost in 12 under | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
manager Russ Wilcox. It has been a sticky spell for Hartlepool. Four | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
defeats in five. The second have failed to ignite. Williams was too | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
high with his chance. It is difficult for both teams. They | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
both played really well. I thought it was a decent point for both | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
teams. Just a frustrating afternoon really. The conditions played a | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
part. A win for Fleetwood would have taken | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
them into the top to -- two. An own goal gifted them the lead at the end | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
of the first half. They found an equaliser with 18 minutes left. | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Mandron tapping home after Yorke repeatedly failed to clear their | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
lines. Surely now Fleetwood were favourites to take the points? A | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
minutes into stoppage time it was Fletcher who arrived at the near | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
post for his 12th of the season. Your cut had pulled off one of the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
shocks of the weekend. -- York. Disappointing because I don't think | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
we deserved to lose. But we have lost. Two sloppy bits of defending | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
cost us the game. It has been on Lycos so far this calendar year. It | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
is something we have to make right for the next game. | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
Boasting League two's best home record, Rochdale were set to make | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
short work of Dagenham Redbridge. But when Donnelly missed the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
target, it was the first hint of the afternoon would not run to form. The | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
next time he had the goal at his mercy, he did better only fully | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
goalkeeper to pull off a stop. Dagenham's defensive resilience | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
provided the platform for a sizeable surprise. Murphy secured the win. | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
That made it five points from three successive games against promotion | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
changes. 2014 is promising so far for the Essex club, even if they | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
could not pinch a second. We knew it was going to be a difficult game. We | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
came out in the second half and I thought we had some decent chances. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
But it was always going to be a difficult game. Reasonably happy | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
with where we are. Listen, I'm just looking forward to next week. | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
Oxford are yet to taste defeat under caretaker manager Mickey Lewis. They | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
took the lead against Wimbledon. David Connolly scored a second. Back | :08:27. | :08:38. | |
in the day Connolly was a regular scorer for Wimbledon. On another | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
day, Wimbledon might have taken something from this game. Charlie | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
White pulled one back with 15 minutes remaining. -- Wyke. Oxford | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
held on and climb back into the top three. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Fair play to him, -- them, they shook people up front. That is what | :08:59. | :09:08. | |
you do when you are too-1 down. Had a half decent chance towards the | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
end. It was a tough game. I am disappointed for the boys | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
because I said to them before the game it is about both boxes. Between | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
the boxes we have been at least as good as them if not better. | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
Paul Tisdale talk is team to face Burton. Alexander begin the game on | :09:36. | :09:49. | |
the bench. -- began. After long spells of midfield hustle and | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
bustle, the opening goal was a hard luck story for Burton. The | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
goalkeeper saved superbly from O'Flynn. The ball hit Sharps in the | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
face. An unlucky own goal. The lead lasted barely two minutes. The | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
impressive McGurk began the move. And he finished, his eighth league | :10:14. | :10:23. | |
goal of the season. Scott Bennett had and missed one of | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
the better chances late on. Davies went closer still, kept out by the | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
post. Honours even, but Burton way below their best. If you had told me | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
we would draw before the game, I would be disappointed because it was | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
a big game for us. If we won, it would give us impetus for the next | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
few. But after seeing how we have played and the conditions, I would | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
have to say probably a point gained. I don't know how other teams around | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
us have done but it might be an important point at the end of the | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
season. We didn't play anywhere near well enough. | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
Conditions for the Accrington and Morecambe fixture were absolutely | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
shocking. Just before the break, with the ball slashing all over the | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
place, Alex Kenyon lost his composure and following a two footed | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
tackle on Peter Murphy, the referee produced a red card as tempers began | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
to flare. And with the rain continuing to Bandstand and with | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
standing water on the pitch, the referee abandoned the match before | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
the hour mark, although comanager James Beattie was critical of the | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
decision. -- home manager. Plymouth Argyle | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
lost goalkeeper Luke McCall back at a later -- McCormack to injury after | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
15 minutes and his replacement was in picking the ball out of the net. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
A big moment for Mansfield team looking to put them selves away from | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
the bottom two. But Plymouth came roaring back. They knew that in | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
October, Plymouth had snatched the winner right at the death, so six | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
minutes of stoppage time was far from welcome. In the very last of | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
those, Nathan Thomas bamboozled the Beavers and Mansfield ended up with | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
their third draw in a row. Chris Wilder's tenure at Northampton could | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
hardly have started any worse. Mr Allam two minutes had been played | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
when the Cobblers keeper Matt Duke -- less than two minutes had been | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
played when the Cobblers keeper Matt Duke misread that one. Northampton | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
did enough to suggest there may be better days ahead. Ian Morris nearly | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
scored, his effort striking the woodwork. His next contribution was | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
almost disastrous. His under weighted pass letting in the | :13:20. | :13:32. | |
opposition, Matt Duke saving. But with 14 minutes to go, Matty Blair | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
prevented Northampton's third straight defeat. | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
Not so much Fawlty Towers but a faulty Rifat Torquay's hotel meant a | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
2am evacuation under 5am move to a new accommodation. No signs of | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
fatigue, Trevor Carson keeping at this effort. It was Pompey who were | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
caught napping. Billy Bodin in the wide awake club, grabbing his first | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
goal since April. There was a response in the second | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
half from Portsmouth. After good work from Ricky Holmes, the best | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
chance fell to Wes fobbed. He is still goalless for his club. -- Wes | :14:21. | :14:33. | |
Fogden. A good shed the humble wasn't giving. A first-ever Torquay | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
win at Fratton Park -- a good shed for handball wasn't given. Just two | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
points above the drop zone before kick-off, Berry managed to leapfrog | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
their opponents after Anton Forrester latched onto a past from | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Ashley Grimes to tidily put away the only goal of the game. | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
Unbeaten on their previous four games on the road, Nick Arnold was | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
only just off target late on, as Bury held on for a massively | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
important three points. A huge win for Bury, and notable away wins for | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
your and Dagenham Redbridge but at least all of those sides could have | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
boasted a good night's sleep -- York. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
One team that couldn't say that were Torquay, but they got themselves a | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
great result. Fantastic, given the circumstances. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
To have no sleep, get woken at two o'clock in the morning, to be | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
evacuated and then be rehoused at five o'clock and then go and perform | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
is an incredible performance. I think Chris will be really pleased, | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
and the fact that there are no excuses. Players can look for | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
excuses and they didn't use it, it was a really important result. We | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
saw the result that left Northampton six points adrift of safety and the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
battle retain -- to retain league status is getting harder. People | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
will question why Chris Wilder has left the job at Oxford to go to | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
Northampton. Is it just about money? No, Chris was at Oxford for five | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
years, got them success, got them to a league -- tabbouleh, and it can | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
drain you. A lot of the Oxford fans were not taken with him, so I needed | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
a new challenge. He's definitely secure, he has a three and a half | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
year contract, he only had a year at Oxford, so that is important feel | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
family and how you feel going into work but I think a new club that do | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
have resources should do a lot better and they certainly have got | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
the belief that they can go forward under the manager with experience. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Let's have a look at the league tables before we sign. Leicester | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
stretch their lead at the top of the Sky Bet Championship to ten points | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
after their ninth consecutive win. The three teams directly below them | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
all truths are no changes. Leeds ended a turbulent week with an | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
emphatic win to move them up to 11. Sheffield Wednesday with a big | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
movers in the bottom half of the table, dropping three -- going up | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
three places to 17th after a dramatic last-minute winner. No | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
change in the bottom three. Bolton slipped to 20th upgrade third | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
successive defeat. Brenton remain top of League One | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
despite conceding a late equaliser at Shrewsbury. Leyton Orient dropped | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
to third. They are out of the automatic promotion places for the | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
third time this -- first time this season. Sheffield United dropped to | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
23rd after a third defeat in four. Notts County also drop into the | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
relegation zone. Bristol City climb three places after their first | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
league win this year. Chesterfield extend their lead at the top of | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
League 2 to three points that Scunthorpe could only draw at | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
Hartlepool. Oxford are up to third after winning | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
back-to-back home matches for the first time this season. Chris Wilder | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
faces a tough task to keep Northampton in the Football League | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
despite earning a drawer in his first match. The Cobblers remain | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
bottom and six points adrift of Torquay, who won away at Portsmouth. | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Before we go, the usual reminder to catch up on all of the weekend's | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Premier League goals, join Mark Chapman for much of the data on | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Monday night at 10:35pm. -- Match of the Day too. We are back next week | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
straight at the Match of the Day. Thank you, Leroy, and have a great | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
week. Good night. | :18:38. | :18:39. |