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You Evening. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
It's been another run of the mill week in the Skybet Football League, | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
heading into the latest round of games. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Chris Kiwomya became the latest managerial change at Nottingham | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
County. The call for goal-line technology | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
got louder after Watford were denied on Monday night. | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
It's a case of new balls please across the three divisions with the | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
new high visibility number comes into play. | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Three days before bonfire night, Steve's here to separate Saturday's | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
sparklers from the duds and here's a sample then of what's in store this | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
evening. After a season of struggle, | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Sheffield Wednesday are once again finding life in the Championship | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
difficult - bottom of the table. This week Dave Jones' side faced a | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
club going well and looking to bounce straight back to the Premier | :01:19. | :01:30. | |
League, Reading. Today, Leicester had the chance to | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
gain some revenge for last season's painful play-off exit at the hands | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
of Watford. We've extended highlights from | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Vicarage Road. They were being widely tipped to | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
bounce straight back to the Championship, but three months into | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
the new season Bristol City are fighting for their lives at the | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
bottom of League One. I'm at Ashton Gate for the visit of | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Gary Johnson's Oldham. As ever, we've all the goals and | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
plenty of talking points from all three divisions of the Football | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
League. With Bristol City winning in League | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
One last week that meant Sheffield Wednesday went into today's game | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
against Reading as the only Football League club of the 92 yet to | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
register a victory this season. This week the Championship's bottom | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
club have turned to a familiar face in a bid to break that duck as | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
striker Conor Wickham arrived for a second loan spell. | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
As for the Royals, they had lost just once in the last nine and were | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
sitting comfortably in the play-off positions. | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
Here's John Roder. Sheffield Wednesday are the only team in the | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
top four divisions of English football yet to record a league | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
victory this season. Eight of their 12 Championship fixtures have ended | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
in draws: Antonio is up against his former | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
club. Three changes for Reading. Looking for Antonio, who might have | :02:50. | :03:19. | |
got in here behind Kelly. Antonio, can he set up the finish? He can | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
indeed! Matty Fryatt. Sheffield Wednesday, the Championship's bottom | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
team are in front. It fell kindly for. Wednesday. Antonio always | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
looking for the support to arrive in the penalty area. Fryatt was the man | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
who arrived at the right time. Olofinjana, looking for Antonio. | :03:45. | :03:58. | |
Lovely touch and turn against Kelly. Wickham making the run to his right, | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Antonio with the shot! What a sweet, sweet moment for him. He doesn't | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
celebrate against his former club. The rest of the home supporters very | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
much up on their feet. That was the touch to set it up. | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
There was still plenty of work to do. Perfect placement. Just beyond | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Alex McCarthy. Fryatt, he's in behind. His shot | :04:31. | :04:50. | |
curled away from goal rather than in towards it. Antonio couldn't quite | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
reach it at the far-post either. That's just inches wide. Reading's | :04:54. | :05:18. | |
best chance of getting a goal back so far. | :05:19. | :05:41. | |
Off the post and in. Rhead having a goal back. Chris Kirkland appeared | :05:42. | :05:52. | |
there to leave it, expecting the ball to go wide, but it struck the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
inside of the post and Reading have halved the deficit. | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
A goal created by Gunter. You can see there's not too much movement at | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
all from Chris Kirkland as Pogrebnyak heads that towards goal. | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
Guthrie, under pressure. Wickham. A chance to make it three for | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Wednesday. Saved by McCarthy. It's an own-goal. It is Sean Morrison who | :06:29. | :06:42. | |
got the final touch. Connor Wickham with an excellent start to his | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
second spell of loan here at Sheffield Wednesday. It's an | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
own-goal by the Reading skipper. There's the shot, the save, but it | :06:49. | :07:01. | |
hits the Reading defender. Wednesday restore their two goal advantage. | :07:02. | :07:15. | |
Plenty possession for Reading in the early stages of this second-half. | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
Guthrie's strike. Didn't look too far wide with the naked eye. Guthrie | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
with the shot, it just bends away from goal, right at the last moment. | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
Antonio, drives it across. It might drop nicely here for Wickham! What a | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
start to his second spell on-loan at Sheffield Wednesday. It's a fourth | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
goal for the side who were bottom of the Championship standings coming | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
into the weekend. Driven forward here by Buxton. Antonio really gets | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
power behind that ball across the area. It fell nicely for Connor | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Wickham. Nothing hurried about his shot. He lashes it in past McCarthy. | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
Sheffield Wednesday get their fourth goal of the afternoon. | :08:23. | :08:34. | |
A chance now for Sheffield Wednesday, Wickham with a little | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
touch on. Can they make it five? Oh, indeed they can! Matt Fryatt, it's | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
raining goals at Hillsborough. Those two there are the main providers. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
Reading have committed plenty of bodies forward. The little touch | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
there from Wickham, suddenly Fryatt was away. The question was, could he | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
score? O h, yes, he could. He gets his second goal of the match. His | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
fourth goal in total since his loan from Hull City started. | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
That is slightly short. Reading hesitated. A chance for the on-loan | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
man to get another goal for Wednesday. Still they have a chance. | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
Put over, Connor Wickham there, so close to getting another goal for | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Sheffield Wednesday. The backpass didn't have enough on it and Wickham | :09:40. | :09:52. | |
got ahead there of Morrison. Saved by McCarthy. The resulting shot went | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
right over. It's a penalty. Challenge on | :09:55. | :10:31. | |
Pogrebnyak from Roger Johnson. Le Fondre to take. Kirkland got a hand | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
to it, but couldn't stop it. It will be no more than a consolation goal | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
for Reading. Le Fondre gets his sixth goal of the season and his | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
150th club career goal. It will make no difference what so ever to the | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
overall result here at Hillsborough. Appeals for handball from Reading as | :10:50. | :11:03. | |
they look for another penalty kick, not given. Suddenly, it's three | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
against four. Johnson. Looking to go all the way, Jermaine Johnson, he | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
almost did as well. Alex McCarthy with the save. You can | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
see here where Jermaine Johnson picks the ball up. That was fired in | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
with some pace and power. You have always known about the | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
characters of your players, today why did it click for some reason? | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Because it does. I mean, there is no magic formula, we kept believing and | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
working hard. We felt we had been hard done by in certain games am we | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
felt we had let yourselves down by giving away sloppy goals in games. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
We knew it was there, just when it would come together am we have to | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
start again now. We gave poor goals away, that in respect, and the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
scoreline, gets the tails up of the opposition. Their confidence grows. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Hume nature, people's confidence starts to wane. We have so make sure | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
when we are in a situation they do the basics well consistently and you | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
hang in there and keep working hard for each other. Reading left to | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
reflect on their third away defeat of the season. What a way for | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Sheffield Wednesday to get their first win of the season. It made a | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
mockery of which team came down from the Premier League and which side | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
was winless at the start of the play? That isn't one you would have | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
have predicted. A decent start for Reading, no doubt about that. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Conceded less than a goal a game. I don't anyone saw that coming. | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
Wednesday fully deserved that result. David Jones has got himself, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
well, a very handy front two. Two players who clearly have been lost | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
to the system in recent months? Sometimes the loan system can be | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
castigated. It has helped the manager get a result when he | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
much-needed. The two boys have stepped back into the limelight. | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Where they are used to be and where they like to be. They take centre | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
stage. They were fantastic today. Albeit, against a side who maybe | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
left them selfs a little bit short, shall we say, in numbers when they | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
didn't have the ball. Those two were in great form. They have only just | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
got together, it is a bloos soming partnership. Doing the business. Is | :13:29. | :13:42. | |
-- bloosing. How concerned should Nigel be on the back of that | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
performance? They look like a lack of communication between the | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
midfield and the defence. A game they were trying to play catchup in. | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
At times they were trying to catch up too quickly and left themselves | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
open at the back conceded less than one goal a game before this. I don't | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
think they should be unduly concerned at one result, shall we | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
say, at this stage. Vicarage Road next. The Foxes are | :14:06. | :14:21. | |
second in the championship. Earlier today, Nigel Pearson's side returned | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
to Vicarage Road for the first time since last season's painful play-off | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
semifinal defeat to Watford. The Hornets made one change, with Ikechi | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Anya in for Faraoni. Leicester, meanwhile, made two changes, as | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Jeffrey Schlupp and Chris Wood replaced the injured Paul Konchesky | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
and Jamie Vardy. Jon Champion describes this one. | :14:39. | :14:53. | |
What a stroke of luck, Chris Wood. Almunia cleared it, it hit the New | :14:54. | :15:07. | |
Zealander and it ricocheted back into the net. A truly bizarre goal. | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Straight against the head of Chris Wood who scores his first | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
championship goal of the season. The whistle has gone. Dyer does not | :15:18. | :15:35. | |
have the joy of scoring a goal in quick succession. Yes, the flag was | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
raised correctly. That was great play by Knockaert. | :15:40. | :16:22. | |
And again. Probably Leicester's best move of the match. Under pressure, | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
the shot drilled wide. Knockaert. So unpopular here after | :16:27. | :16:51. | |
what was perceived as a dive in the play-off semifinal, he answers his | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
critics in the most positive fashion. Great work from Schlupp. A | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
calm and considered finished by Knockaert. Burying it with his | :17:03. | :17:03. | |
second touch. It looked offside but it wasn't | :17:04. | :17:19. | |
given. The goalkeeper came out, that should | :17:20. | :17:36. | |
have been one back. Deeney scored twice against Leicester last | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
season. They really need one from him today. | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
A chance to finish it. Dyer. And he has. Leicester's Dave. Ample revenge | :17:46. | :18:04. | |
for heartbreak six bonds ago. -- Leicester's day. Dyer was definitely | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
onside. Leicester City are looking the part today. | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Andy King. Only the trailing leg of Almunia stopped it. Casual | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
defending. I think the most important thing for | :18:27. | :18:38. | |
us today was to try and maintain our form. I know there was quite a lot | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
of talk in the build-up to this game because of last season but the | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
players have coped with that side of the build up very well. Pleased with | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
the result today, a good performance. | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
Honestly, the team was unbalanced. We risked too much. That is | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
something we need to assess. Probably if we had scored a goal | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
early in the second half, may be the result would have been different. I | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
think it is unfair to Leicester who played a good game. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
How good do you think you are? Are you substantially better than last | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
year? I think we have a better balance, we are a better side. | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
The players have used what has been difficult experience in a positive | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
way. I am relatively satisfied with how we are developing. | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
A good afternoon for Leicester City celebrating their best start to a | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
season. Particularly in the first half, they played with cohesion | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
which we saw from Watford last campaign. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
They took Watford by surprise because they were so was dead. Their | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
tactics were spot on. The winners were allowed to pose problems for | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
the centre halves. They congested those centre areas. In the first | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
half they were spot on. Gianfranco Zola said there was nothing lucky | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
about the result. The first goal was down to a bit of fortune. | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
He just followed it in. He doesn't expect that. He gets his reward for | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
closing the keeper down. There were a couple of big moments in the game | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
particularly for Watford. Forestieri in the second half. As it was, | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
Leicester were far more clinical. Knockaert got the second to | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Leicester. Did he lay a few Demons to rest after last season? | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
It happened. Schlupp did marvellously. They were very good on | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
the break, Leicester. It took a deflection but in the back of the | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
net. That puts Leicester in fine fettle | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
as they take on Nottingham Forest. As for the Championship leaders | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Burnley, they won the battle of the top two last week after a | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
comfortable win over QPR to retain their place at the top. | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Today, Sean Dyche looked to maintain his incredible run against his | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
former club Millwall, who he hadn't lost to in 12 meetings. Three years | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
as a Millwall player meant Sean Dyche knew what to expect. Never | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
mind league positions, Millwall couldn't be taken lightly. So it | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
proved. Out of the blue, McDonald conjured up his third goal in four | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
appearances. And then they conceded before half-time. A sizeable | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
deflection. Adverse Deke often brings the best out of leaders and | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Burley Street up back, Sam Vokes was quick on the uptake. One reason he | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
has nine for the season. Burnley have won their last seven league | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
games. And into the second half, they caused chaos. Larry put his own | :22:29. | :22:40. | |
name against -- on the scoresheet with an own goal. A hard fought | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
point apiece. We are enjoying being on top and we | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
know teams will be working hard to beat us. Overall I am pleased with | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
the fact the lads have dealt with it well, we were the best side in the | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
second half. We felt we could have defended | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
better. It could have crept wide, the goal. We should have dealt with | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
it better. A month ago, Steve McClaren was on | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
the staff at QPR. His switch seemed to bring about a change in fortune | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
for both clubs. Three games without a win so QPR slip. They were | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
grateful for an early goal from Jenas, his first of the season. | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
Darby levelled through Simon Dawkins, on loan from Spurs. Loftus | :23:41. | :23:53. | |
Road suffered an after-shock in the second half a Dawkins setting up a | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
shot for Bryson. Robert Greene did well to keep it out. Rangers | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
regained the lead after boxed and headed on to Clint Hill. Phillips | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
might have made the scoreline more emphatic. But Rangers would settle | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
for 2-1. Really lucky to coming at 1-1. I | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
felt we were the better team and in second -- in the second half we | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
lifted our game. QPR are the best in the second | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
division -- the best the division. The start of a testing hear for | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
Nottingham Forest. Blackpool were aiming to be the first team to win | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
on this side of the trend since the final day of last season. Darlow | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
needed to be sharp to keep out Dobbie. | :24:58. | :25:09. | |
The decision not to give Henderson a penalty by the referee. But the | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
referee was less lenient here. No complaints this time as the Algerian | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
defender saw red. Darlow again here but to the rescue | :25:24. | :25:38. | |
with a double save. Henderson saw his shot blocked. Gilks was at full | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
stretch. We worked on tactics all week but to | :25:44. | :26:06. | |
give away such a naive penalty. After that, I thought we deserved a | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
point. The players were fantastic with their work rate and attitude. | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
But, as I said to the referee and his assistants and assessor, this | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
game was about big decisions and unfortunately I think we lost those | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
decisions. QPR couldn't win at the DW Stadium | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
midweek so what chance for Huddersfield? The home side made a | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
lively start and the latter eggs made a good start. -- Latics. As it | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
seemed Wigan would hold their advantage to half-time, there was a | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
stroke of good fortune. From a far corner which saw this shot deflect | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
from Ryan Shotton. After the break, within wasted no time setting the | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
record straight. With the home side positive from the start. High | :27:17. | :27:28. | |
quality finishing from this man. Good enough to clinch this one. | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
Wigan's strong home form continues. We stayed in the game. It was just | :27:34. | :27:43. | |
one of those days where we couldn't find the second goal. Is put Dasher | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
much as Huddersfield put the pressure on, I don't think there was | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
any doubt that Wigan Athletic were saying, will they win us today? | :27:53. | :28:02. | |
It was fingernails rather than legs that were being bitten today at | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
Elland Road. The usually lethal Matt Smith then | :28:06. | :28:19. | |
contributed a contender for Miss of the week. Neither side were at their | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
best here but leads had that extra bit of quality needed to seal the | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
win. Early in the second half, Austen to get this. MacCormack | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
brought the lead to an increasingly edgy Elland Road. Yeovil were flat. | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
And over egged free kick from McAllister represented their | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
opportunity. They desperately needed someone of Austin's class. He also | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
created MacCormack's second of the match. It came with just over 20 | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
minutes to go. The Triumph of persistence, according to the | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
manager. We didn't need to win it in the first five minutes. We got a | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
goal after 48 minutes. Good play. Another really quality gold to make | :29:09. | :29:18. | |
it 2-0. Blackpool got themselves a late win against Nottingham Forest. | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
They are unbeaten in six now. They are doing ever so well. Considering | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
in the last three games they've been without Paul Ince on the sidelines. | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
Fantastic. They've only conceded 11 all season. They kept it tight. When | :29:31. | :29:43. | |
you consider the preseason and what went in, to get up and running so | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
quickly, it wouldn't be one of the biggest budgets, they can't just | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
spend money willy-nilly on whoever they like. But to get them settled | :29:52. | :29:58. | |
and get a winning side that have accumulated that amount of points | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
already this year, it's a fantastic achievement. For Nottingham | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
Forest... Both both -- 's choice centre backs, Kelvin Wilson, along | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
with Danny Collins, both out for three months. It's turning out to be | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
a sticky time. I don't know where they are in the scheme of things. If | :30:18. | :30:24. | |
you are talking about the play-offs being his expectation, you can live | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
with that one. You'd expect them to turn things around. If it is | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
automatic then there is a bit of pressure coming with that. With | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
regard to we don't know the internal affairs and we don't know what the | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
expectations are, we don't know whether they think they've got to | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
get automatic this year or whether it's a long-term plan. I think he | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
has signed for four years. Patience is a virtue. That will come into | :30:51. | :30:59. | |
four over the next couple of years. Our last look at the Championship | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
starts with Friday night's game at Portman Road, as Mick McCarthy's | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
side without a win in the last four were at home to second bottom | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
Barnsley, who'd lost their last six on the road. And Aaron Creswell | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
Corner here. Murphy's goal! He broke free. | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
Ipswich lead. He gave him the slip completely. The | :31:20. | :31:35. | |
Barnsley skipper went walkabout, Murphy escapes and punishes him with | :31:36. | :31:37. | |
a brutal header. It's a good hit. What a touch by | :31:38. | :31:50. | |
Pedersen. Look at this. Here is O'Brien! The goal was more | :31:51. | :32:33. | |
than warranted. Jim O'Brien with his first goal since the spring, has got | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
them level. A well-deserved goal for Barnsley. Since half-time, much | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
brighter, much better. The manager's half-time team talk is | :32:42. | :33:00. | |
really worked. Here is Scotland. A chance! His face paint the picture. | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
His first game back at Portland Road here. This was a chance to win it. | :33:06. | :33:16. | |
The referee says no. Ipswich are furious here. They were adamant. No | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
penalty. There is a case to answer. Ipswich | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
are unlucky. To come in at half-time at 1-0, I | :33:27. | :33:40. | |
thought we were quite lucky. The second half demanded more. We | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
created quite an incredible tempo. It forced and rocked Ipswich, | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
certainly in the second half. They deserve equaliser. To be fair, they | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
could have won the game. It's a valuable point, but disappointed | :33:56. | :33:57. | |
with the performance in the second half. Disappointment with Creswell | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
being sent off? Guess. It took them two months to win a | :34:01. | :34:15. | |
game but Bolton's form is steadily improving. They arrived looking to | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
stretch their unbeaten run to six games. Lee Camp was borrowed from | :34:20. | :34:27. | |
West Brom this week. He kept Alex Baptiste at bay. The Cherries were | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
found wanting far too often in this one. | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
Bolton soon had the wind in their sales, quite literally. In blustery | :34:41. | :34:48. | |
conditions, Lee put the Gog in the clear. Not the cleanest of | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
connections from the Frenchman but they had them at the top by | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
half-time. With the home side struggling to threaten that lead, | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
Bolton sensed this could be a promising trip. A glorious chance | :35:00. | :35:06. | |
was wasted to make the game safe. But Jermaine Beckford didn't fail. | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
The former Everton striker had the Bournemouth backline retreating and | :35:12. | :35:14. | |
then regretting not making more of a challenge. His fourth of the season, | :35:15. | :35:21. | |
ensuring a happy trip home for the big Trotters' following. I'm | :35:22. | :35:29. | |
pleased, I thought we got it spot on tactically. In the counter attack we | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
had a few very good opportunities. It could have been more but I | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
thought the lads deserved the win. After conceding eight in two games, | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
Doncaster liked the look of this. Writing in town, a team that hadn't | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
scored away in more than six hours of football. The drought was soon | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
broken in style. That early stunner from the teenager. The difference | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
between the sides until 15 minutes from the end, until Chris Brown | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
claimed the final touch and Mark Duffy's free kick. Albion looked | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
destined for a seventh draw of the season. They wouldn't be happy with | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
that and went for broke. Ashley Barnes was desperately unlucky. He | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
was the only fit striker and Brighton's books, but reinforcements | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
have arrived. Inside three minutes of the substitute's first | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
appearance, he delivered. Doncaster's defensive frailties | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
exposed again, and with just five minutes remaining. Still enough time | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
for Lopez to give the scoreline a flattering sheen. Three points are a | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
huge boost for Brighton side yet to realise its full potential this | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
season, with several key players out injured. When you score three goals | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
away from home you are always pleased. The quality of the goals | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
today was of real championship quality. Once we get everyone back | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
and have that quality in abundance, that is what we are trying to do. We | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
are just trying to stay in there at the minute. Until we get everyone | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
back and then we can hopefully kick on from there. We will take the | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
positives out of the second half. We play like that and put pressure on | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
good teams, we will stop picking up results. Having posted details of a | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
?54 million debt, Blackburn were hoping it would be a good day to | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
bury bad news. From this free kick, Jason Steele did the one thing | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
Rovers can't. Save. Blackburn's profligacy continued in front of | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
goal. Jordan Rhodes normally buries chances like this. It looks like it | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
might cost Rovers. Still under caretaker boss Mark Venus, they | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
showed little of the goal that they displayed last week. This header was | :37:47. | :37:53. | |
as good as it got. At the other end, Rovers tried to power their way to | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
victory. This effort was found far too hot to hold. It took something | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
special to finally beat the keeper. Step forward Jason Lowe, whose first | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
goal for Blackburn was worth waiting for. Rovers indebted to him on this | :38:09. | :38:16. | |
occasion. It was really tight in the first half, a bit nervy. I thought | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
the second half we scored a wonderful goal, might have had a | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
penalty. Really pleased to get the three points. I'm just disappointed | :38:27. | :38:33. | |
we couldn't build on last week's victory. We have to move on. He's | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
been in charge of Charlton for less than three years, but Chris Powell | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
is now the championship's longest serving manager, a fact that he says | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
saddens him, but he still got plenty to be chipper about. His team have | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
proven to be a tough nut to crack. Even when away was found past that | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
stubborn defence, the referee ruled it out for a foul on the keeper. The | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
Addicks have now gone seven hours without conceding but they are | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
finding goals hard to come by. They found the net just twice in six | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
games in the run-up to their trip to St Andrews. And after Darren | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
Randolph denied Cameron Stewart and Johnnie Jackson in quick succession, | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
he wouldn't pass up the opportunity this time. By the finish, that | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
solitary goal proved to be the difference. Having pushed Stoke all | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
the way to penalties in the Wii, Birmingham looked dead on their | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
feet. Peter Lupton Krantz could have nicked a point but the Blues are now | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
in the bottom three. We have now gone seven hours plus and that's a | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
really pleasing aspect. But it's not just the back four and the keeper. | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
The whole team, we've talked about it and have done the hard yards on | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
the training field. It is paying off at the moment. For some reason, | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
whether it was fatigue from Tuesday, they never seemed to get | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
out the traps today. Having said that, we still had one or two | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
chances to get something out of the game but we didn't. We are all very | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
disappointed tonight. Disappointing times for your old club, Birmingham | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
City. They find themselves in the bottom three for the first time this | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
season. Lee Clark talking of possible fire sale at the club. The | :40:19. | :40:25. | |
longer it drags on, it is not making his job any easier. Know. Sometimes | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
you can get off field, affairs field can affect you an field. But I think | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
with league, he is disappointed. Because he knows they can do better. | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
I don't think he will use anything as an excuse. We've seen them play | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
well in the cup on occasions, even in the league. Their form has spiked | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
to a level where you think, why can't they play like that every | :40:53. | :40:55. | |
week? He will find that frustrating and will have to address that. The | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
Blues are the latest club unable to Bridge that formidable Charlton | :41:02. | :41:04. | |
defence, who is not conceded in something like seven hours. It | :41:05. | :41:07. | |
wasn't that long ago that Bolton were down there with Birmingham. | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
Slowly but surely he has turned things around. It's starting to take | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
on a familiar look. It is deja vu from last season. I think we all | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
expected and knew it would turn around. It was only a matter of | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
time. They've got a really good squad and good players. They want to | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
leave it like they did last year, a little bit too late. He's already | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
said, we think we can get top six. Everybody else thinks that is the | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
case. Now they are stringing a few results together, I don't think | :41:42. | :41:44. | |
anyone will look forward to playing them. Let's have a look at some | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
quality goals. This one from Jason Lowe. And it was the winner as well. | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
If you score a goal like that, it doesn't matter. That is a winner and | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
you get three points. And this is the opener for Brighton. That was a | :42:01. | :42:14. | |
wonderful strike. It wasn't particularly a hit with a lot of | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
power, but it's because it's such a clean strike. It took everyone by | :42:19. | :42:21. | |
surprise. It helped them on their way, they needed it. Right, let's | :42:22. | :42:28. | |
have a look at how League One unfolded on Saturday. First up, the | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
division's big game at London Road, as leaders Leyton Orient took on | :42:32. | :42:33. | |
third placed Peterborough. Leyton Orient's promotion | :42:34. | :42:45. | |
credentials looked ready to take a knock at London Road, when Tommy | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
Rowe gave Peter borrowed the lead. Any remaining doubts about their | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
ability to sustain a challenge at the top was surely silenced by the | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
response. David Mooney in particular was outstanding. Following his | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
effort to rattle the bar, it was Dean Cox who went mighty close from | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
the edge of the penalty area as the East London side shifted up through | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
the gears. And it was no surprise when they equalised. This knocked | :43:11. | :43:17. | |
down, put away sweetly by Mooney, to take him into double figures for the | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
season. And the League One pacesetters took control early in | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
the second half. Important header one, before Dean Cox lifted the ball | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
neatly. And it was Mooney who put the match to bed with the goal of | :43:35. | :43:41. | |
the game. When Cox said the ball wide, Mooney put the seal on a | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
performance of courage and beliefs that understandably delighted their | :43:47. | :43:56. | |
manager. We did it the hard way, we came from behind. It knocked us | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
back. We stayed in control in the game. We were creating chances all | :44:03. | :44:05. | |
afternoon and eventually put three in which was important. | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
This was the first meeting between these clubs and for Stevenage it was | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
a tough proposition against Wolverhampton who were going so | :44:17. | :44:25. | |
well. Doyle gave the home side an early lead, the Irishman on target | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
on his return to the starting line-up. The hosts continued to | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
create the better openings but Stevenage remained defiant. The | :44:35. | :44:41. | |
visitors arrived off the back of successive wins over Crewe and | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
Crawley. Ikeme had to be at his best to deny this one. If Wolverhampton | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
can win on Tuesday they will be level at the summit with Leyton | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
Orient. James Henry got behind the visitors test defence and kept his | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
cool. Terrific clean sheet by ourselves. | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
At times at the back we were under a lot of pressure and we would have | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
liked to do more, particularly in the second half, with the amount of | :45:11. | :45:19. | |
possession. But winning is winning. You need points on the board. | :45:20. | :45:27. | |
In the seventh minute, Tranmere fans pay tribute to their number seven Jo | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
Thompson who was diagnosed with cancer this week. They took the lead | :45:32. | :45:40. | |
when Chris Atkinson beat writer. Preston were far from their best but | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
managed to salvage a point with a late equaliser by Ghana. -- Garner. | :45:46. | :45:58. | |
There's no getting away from the fact we were poor all-round. We | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
didn't do the things we were good enough at doing, passing the ball | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
well, defending well. Becoming predictable. But we hung in. | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
I thought we were fantastic today. It is a fair result when you look at | :46:14. | :46:18. | |
it. We need the points more than them. | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
Most pundits would have included Brentford on their promotion short | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
list before a ball was kicked. Their fourth win on the spin arrived after | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
Harris was clipped in the box after just five minutes. Forshaw summed up | :46:36. | :46:42. | |
the growing confidence in the camp by calmly despatching the spot kick. | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
Crawley have lost their two previous games without scoring. They | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
squandered an excellent chance to equalise when Jones picked out this | :46:51. | :46:58. | |
chance. Brentford finished the stronger. The one goal proved | :46:59. | :47:05. | |
sufficient for the fast improving Brentford. | :47:06. | :47:12. | |
After two defeats and with the worst defensive record, there were | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
wholesale changes including a recall for goalkeeper Martin. The Bantams | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
are injuring five games without a win. The Alex can take comfort from | :47:27. | :47:35. | |
a clean sheet. After a run of one win in five you | :47:36. | :47:47. | |
could forgive MK Dons early jitters. Walsall had the best of the | :47:48. | :48:01. | |
few first half chances. But in Bamford, MK Dons have a good player. | :48:02. | :48:10. | |
The game needed something special. On 65 minutes, Williams provided it | :48:11. | :48:17. | |
with a stunning free kick. A much needed win the MK Dons. | :48:18. | :48:36. | |
Leyton Orient at London Road put in a great performance. Is this the | :48:37. | :48:46. | |
most impressive performance they have put in? | :48:47. | :48:49. | |
It has been a wonderful season so far. A bit of a wobble with | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
commentary, and if you questions asked and answered. A wonderful | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
performance. Once I think everybody will believe in. Now they can see | :49:02. | :49:10. | |
this through. A real marker for everyone. | :49:11. | :49:20. | |
Wolverhampton, 11 wins, after beating Stevenage. Kenny Jackett has | :49:21. | :49:30. | |
gone about his job very effectively. Got rid of the old guard, kept what | :49:31. | :49:37. | |
he wanted. He will take the expectation away rather than bring | :49:38. | :49:39. | |
it on the club which is fantastic. After finishing bottom of the | :49:40. | :49:49. | |
Championship in May, who would have predicted Bristol City would find | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
themselves bottom of League One nearly six months later? City | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
notched up their first win in 22 games at Carlisle last week, hoping | :49:56. | :49:57. | |
that would be the catalyst whatever the pressure for a quick | :49:58. | :50:15. | |
fix, Bristol City's decline has been long and lingering. Relegation and a | :50:16. | :50:27. | |
21 game overlapping run without a win may have taken the club to one | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
of its lowest ebb 's. But not for the want of trying. They nearly | :50:32. | :50:38. | |
reached the Premier league in 2008. They have had for managers and ?40 | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
million of accumulated losses which have been chewed up and spat out. It | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
was always going to be an transition. As far back as June, | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
with the local press saying, there may be some more pain to come. It | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
must be horrible to find yourself in the middle of this kind of run. How | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
does it manifests itself in new, are you fretting, worrying all the time? | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
I think you do that when you win! It is part of the job. The players have | :51:14. | :51:19. | |
been really good. It is more about trying to make sure everybody | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
understands -- understands what we are trying to do. If they buy into | :51:24. | :51:36. | |
it, the club can go places. Your old man has clearly chucked a | :51:37. | :51:40. | |
bob or two at this. The two of you must be flummoxed. Money doesn't | :51:41. | :51:46. | |
always get you anywhere in football. It can help but there are a lot of | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
people after a few prizes. It never guarantees anything. We are looking | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
to stay and build something successful long-term. | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
With the amount of money spent, rather than pointing fingers, you | :52:04. | :52:12. | |
have to look at everyone. Results on the pitch is what you are | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
judged on straightaway and is the hardest thing to control. We are | :52:17. | :52:25. | |
doing nothing is bright. -- enough things right. | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
This is a big challenge. We are a big city and a big club. And a great | :52:32. | :52:44. | |
set of supporters. At Forest, we knew it could end in tears. But we | :52:45. | :52:47. | |
started the process. A highly presentable opportunity was | :52:48. | :53:01. | |
missed early on but they were well capable of following up their | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
victory at Carlisle. Nine minutes before the interval, Emmanuel-Thomas | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
put them in front. The hat-trick hero from last week. He finished | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
superbly from the cross. Data and buried a tidy equaliser to | :53:14. | :53:31. | |
extend Bristol City's winless run at home to 11 matches. | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
What are you not doing that would have made a difference in that game? | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
Passing the ball would have helped, wouldn't it? That is bubbly the | :53:45. | :53:53. | |
worst we have played all season. We didn't deserve anything in this game | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
but we got a point. It must be disheartening for Bristol city fans, | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
hearing that from Sean O'Driscoll. Putting in their worst performance | :54:04. | :54:07. | |
arguably this season. Taking one step forward, ten steps back. It has | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
been difficult. He wears his heart on his sleeve. It | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
is creditable what he is trying to do, but is it too much too soon? He | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
wants them to play football. To pass the ball. You have two play from the | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
back and pass all the way through. He wants players to be brave, to be | :54:32. | :54:39. | |
responsible on the ball. When you are struggling, that finds people | :54:40. | :54:43. | |
are very quickly. That's when people don't want the hard option. Is it | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
too quick? I don't know. Has he got the players to play the way he | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
wants, you would like to think so. It is a difficult task. | :54:54. | :55:01. | |
Our last look at League One now. And, with two successive defeats, | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
Swindon's promotion charge had gone off the boil in recent weeks. On | :55:06. | :55:08. | |
Saturday, Mark Cooper's side entertained the team just below them | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
in the table on goal difference: Port Vale. | :55:12. | :55:13. | |
After two defeats, Swindon were desperate to get back on track. | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
N'Guessan settled nerves around the County Ground. | :55:20. | :55:33. | |
It was certainly blustery in this part of Wiltshire and the visitors | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
were in danger of being blown away. Luongo's fourth of the season drew | :55:37. | :55:52. | |
an immediate reaction from the boss who put in place an immediate | :55:53. | :55:55. | |
substitution. With tenants still on the clock, | :55:56. | :56:08. | |
this cross eventually fell for Hughes. It cut the deficit to one | :56:09. | :56:18. | |
goal but not for long. Two minutes later, an absolute beauty. Byrne had | :56:19. | :56:24. | |
every right to enjoy his goal. There was added time. Luongo had the last | :56:25. | :56:39. | |
word. A couple of step overs before sealing a miserable afternoon for | :56:40. | :56:42. | |
Port Vale. Sometimes, when you get a really | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
young group of players, they can be naive and make mistakes. Which is | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
what happened a little bit with the two goals. But we got back. | :56:52. | :57:01. | |
Every story has two have a cracking start. Marcus Bean became the centre | :57:02. | :57:08. | |
of attention when he sent home and early set piece. The response was | :57:09. | :57:17. | |
swift. Home fans were delighted to see Matt Tubbs register his first | :57:18. | :57:26. | |
goal of the season. Agard put the Millers in front. And so, the final | :57:27. | :57:34. | |
twist. Colchester are noted for drawers. They have more than any | :57:35. | :57:42. | |
others in League 1. Lee scoring his first goal in the Premier league | :57:43. | :57:45. | |
coach -- in League 1. County got off to a terrific start. | :57:46. | :57:57. | |
The red card inevitable. Coventry took full advantage. Lyon Clarke | :57:58. | :58:03. | |
opened the scoring two minutes into the second half, following neat work | :58:04. | :58:11. | |
out wide from Blair Adams. Soon he was latching on to a weak backpass | :58:12. | :58:15. | |
from for the Wrington, to double the lead. Its five goals in his last | :58:16. | :58:23. | |
three games. He is at the top of his game, and so is his strike partner, | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
Callum Wilson. The 21-year-old racing clear to put the issue beyond | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
all doubt. The Sky Blues reported three successive league wins for the | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
first time in almost three years. A wonderful passage of play. I thought | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
Blair Adams was outstanding. I've said this over the past few weeks, | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
there are several unsung heroes in the squad and he is one of those. | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
His performances of late have been magnificent. At what he was | :58:55. | :59:01. | |
inspirational. With Gelling expected to announce a permanent manager in | :59:02. | :59:04. | |
the next fortnight, Peter Taylor's prospects improved just after the | :59:05. | :59:12. | |
hour mark. Danny Kedwell put away the spot kick. That's six in as many | :59:13. | :59:16. | |
games for the former Wimbledon front man. Graham Kavanagh reshuffled his | :59:17. | :59:23. | |
team and recalled striker Lee Miller. But when the Scot tangled | :59:24. | :59:28. | |
with Adam Barrett, the referee produced a straight red card. It was | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
Miller's second dismissal of the season and will again leave him | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
sidelined. The sites to finish all square in terms of personnel, as the | :59:38. | :59:43. | |
hosts were also reduced to ten when this challenge earned a second | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
yellow card. But the vital statistic much # must strengthen the interim | :59:48. | :59:49. | |
boss's position. In the second half I thought we | :59:50. | :00:02. | |
grafted away. It wasn't a good performance but we kept going. | :00:03. | :00:05. | |
Thankfully we got the penalty. I thought the players then just really | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
dug in to work extremely hard to get a result. Tempestuous weather and | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
two sides desperate for a win, not great indicators. This 39th minute | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
opener one of the season highlights. Febian Brandy was sent on at | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
half-time to get the visitors back on level terms, but he lasted only | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
12 minutes. He was red card for the second time this season. It was that | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
ill discipline that Nigel Clough felt Costas team, as they pushed for | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
an equaliser but Shrewsbury finished them off with a fine counter attack. | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
It was a terrific strike. You will go a long way to see a shot like | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
that, the power and accuracy of it. It set us going. We've seen some | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
decent goals tonight, the latest there from Joe Jacobson. What about | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Coventry City? They've won their last three, their ninth win coming | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
on Saturday against managerless Notts County. Lyon Clarke and Colin | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
Wilson trying to do -- trying to outdo out dashed back each other. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
You can imagine, it gives them a real chance. They will be maybe | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
fourth, 30 points. And now three points off the play-offs. | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Fantastic. Not playing at home as well. Small crowds, for a very big | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
club as well. They've done really well to turn things around. Some | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
really big results. All of a sudden, from what looked like just a season | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
of survival, it could be a season of real encouragement. As for Notts | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
County, they've had ten different managers in the dugout in the last | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
four gears. Danny Wilson heads a short list of four at the minute but | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
it goes without saying they've got to get this one right. When you say | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
ten in four years, you've really said it all. That's far too many. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
There is no stability. The people who are running the club, it's | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
important they get the right manager in and have the right sort of | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
expectation with the budget they have. It's important they get the | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
foundations down, that somebody can build something off them. Some | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
quality goals at the County ground, too. OK, let's take a look at League | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Two now, which had new leaders going into Saturday's games. A 2-0 win at | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Wimbledon lifted Oxford United to the summit for the first time on | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
goal difference. Chris Wilder's side were at home to injury-hit Bristol | :02:57. | :02:57. | |
Rovers. In theory this looked routine for | :02:58. | :03:10. | |
Oxford. Bristol Rovers haven't won a game since August, but John-Joe | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
O'Toole dispatched the warning that they should take nothing for | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
granted. The best chance of the match fell to the high-flyers. That | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
glaring miss left the door open for a shock. Elliot Richards looked | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
determined to capitalise. His ankle appeared to be clipped just outside | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
the box, but the Bristolians had their break, a penalty for O'Toole | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
to take. Emphatic. His side's first away win against the odds. Pretty -- | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
really placed for the players and supporters. There are fine margins | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
in games and we've had some go against us, today we've had a | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
victory with a good performance. More than a couple of players were | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
off their game today. That's disappointing when they've got a | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
good opportunity to cement our place at the top, that we've not too good. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Watched Dale's winning record this season when they've opened the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
scoring is 100%. So they would have been confident when teenager Jamie | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Allen put away his first senior goal. The credit Wimbledon. They had | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
an unexpected response. Now it was anybody's game, but it wasn't | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
decided until after a 25 minute floodlight failure caused by a bolt | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
of lightning. Just three of the four lights working, but Andy Frampton | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
had no problem finding the corner of the Rochdale net. It's amazing how | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
much of the game is psychological. We've had a really positive week on | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
that. I knew no matter what happened today, Win, lose or draw, that this | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
could be a catalyst for us to kick back into gear. The boys today, they | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
took on everything we did during the week. It's a results driven | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
business. The players are being brave, but they are accountable for | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
it. Defeats for the top two gave Fleetwood the chance to take pole | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
position. The third week Wilmot's handling of the situation. Straight | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
red card, leaving Schumacher to put the home side in the driving seat. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
The rest of the half was far from one-way traffic. | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
From the restart, Fleetwood began to move through the gears. Schumacher | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
doubling his tally, thumping home early in the second half. By the | :05:47. | :06:00. | |
hour mark, Newport were finished. Brian Jackson chopping down Charlie | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
Taylor. Schumacher again to the business from the spot to quit his | :06:09. | :06:18. | |
first-ever hat-trick. The Crucible by now, Justin Edinburgh was | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
wonder. That's because I'm Bethwell Birgen handball. First penalty of a | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
match of the dispatched. That proved to be just a bump in the road for | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Fleetwood been put up a David Ball/ Brockman. Game for us, even though | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
they went down ten men after couple of minutes. We scored a goal at | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
half-time and I thought we played some great stuff after then. A lot | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
more patient in our play. Deserved to win. After a flying start to the | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
season, Chesterfield have stuttered and were looking for their first win | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
in seven league games. They were helped when Mark Richards punished | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
this error. Richards seizing his opportunity on his recall to the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
starting line-up. In the 88th minute, Waterfall atoned for his | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
early mistake. Talk about Berlin and hero. It was rolled into one for | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
him. Making his debut as well. Great credit to him, he responded | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
magnificent, got himself a goal and that certainly takes away the pain. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Delighted for him because he's had a good game. We've just forgotten how | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
to win. That's a massive thing in football. See what you think of this | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
one from Portsmouth's Ricky Holmes. Cross or shot? It was a spectacular | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
way for Pompey to take the lead. Portsmouth doubled their advantage | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
four minutes after the break. Brian Bird making the most his first ever | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Football League start. They do say a natural goal-scorer | :08:00. | :08:13. | |
will get them at any level. But Portsmouth do love to put their fans | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
through the ringer. An unlikely Exeter comeback began with 19 | :08:21. | :08:32. | |
minutes to go. Danny Coles headed home and Aaron Davies cross. When | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
John O'Flynn pulled it back to 3-2 with six minutes still remaining, | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
Fratton Park suddenly became a very nervy place. Trevor Carson reserved | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
all three points. Tom Nichols denied. Pleasing that we have won | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
the game will stop. Burton entertained at Morecambe in | :08:43. | :09:00. | |
what was their 100th Football League fixture. The home side made a bright | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
start but Adam McGuirk failed to beat Barry Roach. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
Jack Sampson failed to land a telling touch. A momentary slip | :09:11. | :09:22. | |
gifted the ball to Ellison. It went in by Ryan Williams. Their quest for | :09:23. | :09:32. | |
an equaliser ended when this challenge on Ellison was deemed | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
worthy of a second yellow card. Dagenham and Redbridge were looking | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
to break into the top seven, but Hartlepool is now a really hard | :09:44. | :09:59. | |
place to go. Dagenham responded. Scott Flinders standing firm. The | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
daggers sliced open the home side again in the second half, even | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
though Hartlepool for they had they won Hines surrounded. The | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
early-season struggle is now just three points from the play-off | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
places themselves. A brilliant turnaround. Southend were on the | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
fringes of the play-off places again after this close range finish set | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
them on the way to victory over Mansfield on Friday night. They | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
warmed down and just past the half hour they were a man down as well. A | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
sending off for a clumsy challenge. Southend were most definitely in the | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
driving seat. But five minutes before the break the home | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
midfielder, Clifford, lunged in an Andrew. The refs produced the red | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
card once again. You sense Mansfield were back in the game, but | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
amazingly, their keeper was standing behind the line when he grabbed a | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
header from his own defender, James McGuire will stop Southend were | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
gifted a two goal cushion. Mansfield's night got even worse | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
late on, when there was a third player dismissed. A second yellow | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
after he blocked the run of Will Atkinson. Five minutes into stoppage | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
time, a deflected shot completed their misery. Seven games without a | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
win now for Mansfield. Despite being bottom, Accrington | :11:35. | :11:47. | |
have been one of the form teams in recent weeks, so Wycombe knew they'd | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
have to be at their best. Often if you lose your focus you can get | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
punished for it. Accrington did, leaving Anthony Stuart and marked to | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
smash home at the far post. That put Wycombe on course for their winning. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Stanley are made of tougher stuff lately. Accrington were taken off | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
the foot of the table. Cheltenham made the breakthrough | :12:11. | :12:22. | |
when Mark Richards' corner came and Byron Harrison could hardly miss. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
But their challenge is to tighten up defensively. They allowed this, the | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
21-year-old headed his first goal to level things up. The hosts were back | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
in front just before the break. The referee consulted with his assistant | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
before awarding the goal. But Cheltenham have conceded more than | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
any other team in the division, and Nigel Worthington's men followed up | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
their midweek win with a useful way point. A dreadful muddle allowed | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Bowman to head his second of the afternoon. The way we get into a | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
game, very pleasing. Disappointed with the goal but we showed the | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
character and resilience that we've got to get back into the game. | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
People must be sick of hearing me say it, defensive mistakes. They are | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
costing us. The first goal and second goal were a disappointment, . | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
a narrow escape preceded Plymouth's straight win. Nelson hitting against | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
the frame of his own goal. A strong finish ensured the Pilgrims that | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
breathing space between themselves and the drop zone. The Cobblers | :13:42. | :13:53. | |
began to run out of steam. For the second week in a row, Plymouth | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
claimed a late winner. Alessandra was on target. | :13:58. | :14:11. | |
Torquay ended their six-game winless run. Aaron Downes scoring. The | :14:12. | :14:33. | |
Shakers equalised. But the Torquay manager was not to be denied. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
McCallum made a difference, converting this cross. Torquay dealt | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
with the worsening conditions are better. The current scoring his | :14:47. | :15:01. | |
second goal of the season. -- McCallum. | :15:02. | :15:18. | |
Considering the injuries, this is a terrific result. It is. To keep a | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
clean sheet as well. It is what they need. A few injuries. They finished | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
well last season. Expectation was reasonably high. But not able to get | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
a decent start. Talking about clubs which finished | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
last season while, Northampton town. They have gone from play-off | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
finalists to the bottom of the Football League. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
A difficult one to work out, when you do so well, then things collapse | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
so quickly. I would imagine they are wondering what has gone wrong. I do | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
know whether he will try to change the system. | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
It is sadly a concern. Let us have a look at the tables before we go. | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
Burnley remain top of the Sky Bet Championship, despite drawing at | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Millwall. But their lead has been cut to a single point by second | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
placed Leicester who have now enjoyed their best ever start to a | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
league season. There was no change in the play-off | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
positions, but Leeds, Blackburn and Wigan all climbed at Derby's | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
expense. Brighton also moved into the top half, thanks to their first | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
win since September. At the other end of the table, | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
Sheffield Wednesday's emphatic first win of the season meant the Owls | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
moved not only off the bottom, but also out of the relegation zone. | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
Yeovil's mini-revival came to an end at Elland Road, which leaves them at | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
the foot of the table. While Birmingham's home defeat | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
against Charlton sees them drop into the bottom three for the first time | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
this season. There was no change in the top six | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
positions of League One. But Leyton Orient's win at London Road | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
maintained their three-point lead. Wolves remain their closest | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
challengers, and still have a game in hand. | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
Coventry's third consecutive win saw the Sky Blues move into the top-half | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
of the table for the first time this season. | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
It's been a bad week for Notts County who parted company with | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
manager Chris Kiwomya last Sunday, and have now dropped back to the | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
bottom of League One. Sheffield United rejoin them back in the | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
relegation zone, as Nigel Clough suffered defeat for the first time | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
as new Blades boss. Fleetwood are the new leaders of | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
League Two, as they hit top spot for the first time since they won | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
promotion to the Football League. Jim Bentley's Morecambe were the big | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
movers, jumping five places into the play-off places, with their 100th | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
win in the Football League. Accrington extended their five-match | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
unbeaten league run, to move off the foot of the table for the first time | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
since early August. They've been replaced at the bottom by | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Northampton, just six months after the Cobblers lost at Wembley in the | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
League Two play-off final. Have a great week. See you next | :17:47. | :18:00. | |
Saturday. | :18:01. | :18:05. |