Ipswich and Reading take the weekend honours

Steve Cotterill - played four, lost four, scored none

I had just got home from our game against Portsmouth and switched on the television to see Barnsley already 2-0 up against an Ipswich team who were edging ever closer to their eighth successive defeat.

"Jewell will definitely go after this," I said to myself as the camera closed in on him making his way down the touchline at half time. Incredibly, four minutes into the second half they were level and went on to go 5-2 in front before a late Barnsley goal reduced the lead to 5-3 just before the end.

Suddenly, from the brink of the bottom four they are now just a point behind us with a game in hand.

Leaders Southampton had lost their run of home wins earlier in the day when Blackpool held them to a 2-2 draw, and Rickie Lambert had to score late to get the point. That left the door open for West Ham to draw level with them, but for the second week running they failed to take advantage.

Last week it was Burnley who beat them on their own manor, this week they fell to a 3-0 defeat at Reading and lost two players to red cards. There can be no argument with either card but quite how the appalling Jimmy Kebe was not carded for his part in Jack Collison's dismissal only the referee will ever know. He was micky taking and in some ways got less than he deserved from the West Ham player.

Reading's goals all came in the last 24 minutes of the game, and no surprise there when you look at their scoring record this season. They've scored a total of 26 league goals with only two coming in the first half of games, both from Simon Church.

22 of those goals have come from 64 minutes onwards and 16 of them in the last quarter of an hour. They've also scored five in stoppage time.

There are some unwanted records just now in the league. Coventry haven't won in ten games and that run has seen them hit bottom place in the league. All is definitely well at Coventry. Just a week earlier Ken Dulieu had stepped down as chairman and been appointed as Head of Football Development.

On Saturday he decided to plonk himself in the dug out and it was a decision that didn't meet with the approval of manager Andy Thorn who admitted he could do nothing about it. You wouldn't back against Coventry going down.

Another team on a poor run are Nottingham Forest. They've lost four on the trot without scoring a solitary goal. It happened once to Steve Cotterill at Burnley. In February and March 2006 we lost six successive league games and failed to score in all but the first of them.

The honeymoon is well and truly over at the City Ground and they are struggling every bit as much now as they were under Steve McClaren at the start of the season. They are in the bottom three, with Doncaster and Coventry, but somehow I think they will get out of it.

Has another honeymoon ended? Bristol City have now gone three without a win under Derek McInnes and lost at Derby having been in front, bringing an end to a difficult run for Nigel Clough's team.

Again the league is so unpredictable. Forest will probably get a bag full of goals this week and win whilst the top two will probably go and drop points again. It's certainly a league where anything can happen.

The results, stats, leading goalscorers, each club's disciplinary record, the highest and lowest attendances and the last pre-Christmas fixtures are all below.