First goals from Chris Swailes and Rob Scott, both from John Mullin crosses, looked to have set them on their way to a first win of the season. But
The day before the takeover of the club by Earth Mortgages collapsed. Darren Millington and Mike Worthington from the company (I think they used to be the Chuckle Brothers) pulled out after conducting an analysis of the affairs of the Club.
The Club are now looking at a Community ownership, maybe they should be talking to RUST. No that’s not what falls off the roof in the away end at Millmoor, it’s the Rotherham United Supporters Trust.
Rotherham were never meant to take the headline of this week’s look at the Championship, that was already entitled, ‘Jones on the brink’ but Wolves put an end to that headline by sacking manager Dave Jones this morning.
I cannot think that he would have even been mildly surprised, providing
It was the only red card in the division over the weekend but there were a record number of yellow cards for a weekend’s fixtures this season with an amazing 41 from 12 games.
Despite the victory Gillingham are still next to bottom but have now caught Nottingham Forest who fell to a third home defeat of the season when they went down 2-1 against Watford. Both goals came from Heidar Helguson, a player Steve Cotterill was looking at earlier in the season.
After their excellent start to the season, inspired by goals from Danny Webber, this ended a run of six without a win for the Hornets. Webber’s goals look to have dried up and he hasn’t scored since mid-September.
Watford
The partially deaf Millwall Chairman Theo Paphitis missed the goal, he was too busy trying to hear things that weren’t being shouted.
Leeds 0
And the flush club came out on top at
They are now six points clear at the top and no one would bet against them going all the way to the Premiership, whilst playing in front of paltry crowds at home.
Reading
That’s both
The home side pulled one back though and a last minute own goal from Paul Thirlwell made the score look a bit more respectable.
The Clarets weren’t the only side to go down 3-0, it was matched by our near neighbours Preston who lost by the same score at
Billy Davies looks to have kept one tradition since replacing WW Craig Brown, the inability to win away. Their last league win away from Deepdale was as far back as last January when they beat West Ham at the Boleyn Ground.
Craig Levein had a watching brief for Leicester’s trip to
It’s Leicester’s fifth successive draw whilst Cardiff have now gone five games undefeated since a late Richard Chaplow goal on the Turf gave the Clarets a 1-0 win against them.
Elsewhere Sunderland picked up all three points in a 2-0 home win against Brighton with the goals coming from Julio Arca and a Liam Lawrence penalty whilst
Apart from the Clarets, both
It’s a full fixture list again this midweek and the full fixture list up to next Monday are included below.
The weekend results | |
Friday 29th October | |
Crewe 2 Sheff Utd 3 | . |
Saturday 30th October | |
Cardiff 0 Leicester 0 | Nottm Forest 1 Watford 2 |
Coventry 3 Reading 2 | Plymouth 1 West Ham 1 |
Derby 3 Rotherham 2 | QPR 3 Burnley 0 |
Gilingham 1 Wolves 0 | Stoke 1 Millwall 0 |
Ipswich 3 Preston 0 | Sunderland 2 Brighton 0 |
Sunday 31st October | |
Leeds 0 Wigan 2 | . |
The weekend stats | |
Biggest win | Ipswich 3-0 v Preston (home) |
Total goals scored | 32 |
Player scoring most goals | 2 - Heidar Helguson (Watford) |
Highest Attendance | 27,432 - Wigan v Leeds |
Lowest Attendance | 7,131 - Crewe v Sheffield Utd |
Total Yellow Cards | 41 |
Total Red Cards | 1 |
Most cards in a game | Ipswich v Preston |
The leading scorers (league only) | |
11 | Nathan Ellington (Wigan) |
10 | Jason Roberts (Wigan) |
9 | Paul Furlong (QPR) Dave Kitson (Reading) Danny Webber (Watford) |
7 | Dean Ashton (Crewe) Teddy Sheringham (West Ham) |
6 | Darren Bent (Ipswich) Stephen Elliott (Sunderland) Heidar Helguson (Watford) Shefki Kuqi (Ipswich) Kenny Miller (Wolves) Andy Morrell (Coventry) Paul Shaw (Sheff Utd) - 2 with Rotherham Marcus Stewart (Sunderland) |
5 | Ade Akinbiyi (Stoke) Robbie Blake (Burnley) Darren Byfield (Gillingham) Richard Cresswell (Preston) David Friio (Plymouth) Kevin Gallen (QPR) Andy Gray (Sheff Utd) David Healy (Leeds) - 5 with Preston Eddie Johnson (Coventry) Steve Jones (Crewe) Danny Pugh (Leeds) Marco Reich (Derby) Marcus Tudgay (Derby) |
This week's fixtures | |
Tuesday 2nd November | |
Cardiff v West Ham | Plymouth v Reading |
Crewe v Leicester | QPR v Millwall |
Gillingham v Watford | Stoke v Wigan |
Ipswich v Sheffield Utd | Sunderland v Wolves |
Wednesday 3rd November | |
Coventry v Preston | Leeds v Burnley |
Derby Brighton | Nottm Forest v Rotherham |
Friday 5th November | |
Millwall v Sunderland | . |
Saturday 6th November | |
Brighton v Crewe | Sheffield Utd v Gillingham |
Burnley v Ipswich | Watford v Derby |
Preston v Leeds | West Ham v QPR |
Reading v Stoke | Wigan v Plymouth |
Rotherham v Cardiff | Wolves v Nottm Forest |
Monday 8th November | |
Leicester v Coventry | . |