A week for the away teams and it's Reading's month

It all started last Tuesday with Barnsley, Blackpool and Millwall suffering home defeats at the hands of Birmingham, West Ham and Middlesbrough respectively.

Move on two days and Leicester won the East Midlands derby at Derby County and then on Saturday there were five away wins in ten games with only Brighton and Coventry managing to secure home wins.

Well done to Coventry for whom Clive Platt scored a stoppage time winner against Barnsley. It's lifted them to third from bottom, ahead of bottom club Doncaster Rovers and Portsmouth.

Pompey had ten points deducted a week last Friday. They were still out of the bottom three, but that's not the case now. They now find themselves five points adrift of safety and that's due mainly to Nottingham Forest winning a couple of games.

Millwall have pulled themselves further away with their win at the Turf. They might still get sucked in to the relegation scrap but I can't see anyone any higher now being involved.

Up at the top it is a case of keep your eyes on Reading. Saturday's win at Middlesbrough was their fifth successive victory and they stand head and shoulders above the rest of the league in February, just about guaranteeing Brian McDermott the manager of the month award.

There has been no change at the top; it's the same top two and the same four clubs in the play offs as last week. It's tight now and Cardiff, who did so well in yesterday's Carling Cup Final, are ahead of Brighton and Middlesbrough only on goal difference.

We are now still just six points away from that top six. We've won just one of the last five league games, picking up only four points. We probably weren't surprised at the two away defeats, given they were against Southampton and Reading, but again our home form is seriously letting us down. Four points from games against Peterborough, Barnsley and Millwall is what you'd expect from a team struggling at the bottom and not one with play off aspirations. Those play off hopes seem to be fading away.

Still, we're away from home next week at Watford so that would suggest more chance of a win than if we were playing at home.

Last week's results are all below along with the stats, the leading goalscorers, each club's disciplinary record, the highest and lowest attendances and the next fixtures.