Long serving Evans has now had two games in charge

Last updated : 02 November 2015 By Tony Scholes

Steve Evans, who has managed big clubs in the Football League such as Boston, Crawley and Rotherham, is the latest to go through the revolving door into the manager's office at Elland Road. But wait! How long is he going to last? He's been in the job for two weeks now and still hasn't won a game.

Having said that, he and owner Massimo Cellino might just be a match made in heaven, or certain in Leeds. Cellino is currently fighting another Football League ban and Evans, of course, received a one year ban from football and a suspended jail sentence for his part in the Boston tax fraud. Yes, maybe a match made in heaven.

Heaven might have been seeing them go 2-0 down in the first six minutes last Thursday and their fans signing: "What the **** is going on?" It might have been had the opposition not been Blackburn. I can't report much else from that game; I switched off once the second goal went in, I couldn't take any more.

On the subject of managers, if Evans can loosely be described in that way, poor Sean Dyche got a came for his 3rd anniversary when he was hoping for a Rolex. I think there might be a few fake ones in Burnley Sean but I'm not so sure you'll find a real one too easily.

I reported last week that he's was the 13th longest serving in the top four English leagues and I think that sort of sums things up and how some clubs change managers far too frequently, Leeds more often than they win home games apparently.

This afternoon that's changed. He's now 12th with Richard Money having left Cambridge having been there since 4th October 2010 which had seen him reach 10th place

Those 11 long serving managers who have now been in their current roles longer than Dyche has been at Burnley are as follows, preceded by the dates they took on the jobs.

30/09/96: Arsène Wenger (ARSENAL)
26/06/06: Paul Tisdale (EXETER)
10/05/10: Karl Robinson (MK FRANCHISE)
04/01/11: Dean Smith (WALSALL)
13/05/11: Jim Bentley (MORECAMBE)
29/08/11: Phil Parkinson (BRADFORD CITY)
10/11/11: Steve Davis (CREWE)
08/06/12: Steve Bruce (HULL)
24/09/12: Gareth Ainsworth (WYCOMBE)
10/10/12: Neal Ardley (WIMBLEDON)
13/10/12: Eddie Howe (BOURNEMOUTH)

Going back to the Championship and it's Bolton and Charlton in the bottom three now with Rotherham. Bristol City and MK are just ahead of that with Preston and Leeds next. At the other end, the top five all won and there's a three point gap now between Derby in fifth place and Birmingham who are one place lower.

I know different seasons are just that and they shouldn't be compared but for some reason I can't resist looking at the 2013/14 season. Interestingly, after 14 games in that season, QPR were third with more points than current leaders Brighton now have and we were already eleven points clear of Watford who were in seventh place. Down at the bottom is was just about the same.

It means nothing; Blackpool were fifth two years ago and ended the season escaping relegation on the last day.

All the weekend results and stats are below with the goalscorers, red and yellow card counts highest and lowest attendances and tomorrow's fixtures when all 24 clubs play.

The Results
Thursday 29th October
LEEDS 0 BLACKBURN 2  
Friday 30th October
BRENTFORD 1 QPR 0  
Saturday 31st October
BIRMINGHAM 0 WOLVES 2 MIDDLESBROUGH 3 CHARLTON 0
BRISTOL CITY 1 FULHAM 4 MK 0 HULL 2
BURNLEY 2 HUDDERSFIELD 1 PRESTON 0 BOLTON 0
DERBY 3 ROTHERHAM 0 READING 1 BRIGHTON 1
IPSWICH 0 CARDIFF 0 SHEFF WED 1 NOTT'M FOREST 0

 

The Stats
Biggest Win DERBY 3-0 v ROTHERHAM (home)
FULHAM 4-1 v BRISTOL CITY (away)
MIDDLESBROUGH 3-0 v CHARLTON (home)
Total Goals Scored 24 (12 home - 12 away)
Player Scoring Most Goals 2 - MOUSSA DEMBELE, FULHAM (v BRISTOL CITY)
ANDRE GRAY, BURNLEY (v HUDDERSFIELD)
Highest Attendance 30,172 - DERBY v ROTHERHAM
Lowest Attendance 12,037 - BRENTFORD v QPR
Total Yellow Cards 45
Total Red Cards 0
Most Cards in a Game IPSWICH v CARDIFF (8Y) Ref: DAVID COOTE

 

Leading Goalscorers (League Only)
9 NICK BLACKMAN (READING) - includes 2 penalties
8 ANDRE GRAY (BURNLEY) - includes 1 penalty, 2 goals for BRENTFORD
CHRIS MARTIN (DERBY)
JORDAN RHODES (BLACKBURN) - includes 2 penalties
7 MOUSSA DEMBELE (FULHAM)
ABEL HERNANDEZ (HULL)
JONATHAN KODJIA (BRISTOL CITY)
ROSS McCORMACK (FULHAM) - inc
ludes 1 penalty
6 BENIK AFOBE (WOLVES) - includes 1 penalty
CHARLIE AUSTIN (QPR) - includes 1 penalty
ALAN JUDGE (BRENTFORD)
5 TOMER HEMED (BRIGHTON) - includes 1 penalty
DANIEL JOHNSON (PRESTON)
JOE MASON (CARDIFF)
ORLANDO SA (READING)
CHRIS WOOD (LEEDS) - includes 2 penalties
4 MIRCO ANTENUCCI (LEEDS) - includes 2 penalties
TJARONN CHERY (QPR)
MARCO DJURICIN (BRENTFORD)

CLAYTON DONALDSON (BIRMINGHAM) - includes 1 penalty
DAVE EDWARDS (WOLVES)

DIEGO FABBRINI (MIDDLESBROUGH)
FERNANDO FORESTIERI (SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY)

EMYR HUWS (HUDDERSFIELD)
DAVID NUGENT (MIDDLESBROUGH)

MATT PHILLIPS (QPR)

FREDDIE SEARS (IPSWICH)
LASSE VIBE (BRENTFORD)

AARON WILBRAHAM (BRISTOL CITY)

 

Hat Tricks
 Date Player & Game
11/09/15 3: ORLANDO SA - READING v IPSWICH (home)
12/09/15 3: CLAYTON DONALDSON - BIRMINGHAM v BRISTOL CITY (home)

 

Disciplinary Record (League and Cup)
Club Y R Y R Club Y R Y R
  League   Total   League  Total 
BIRMINGHAM 23 0 26 0 HULL 23 0 30 0
BLACKBURN 30 1 31 1 IPSWICH 27 0 32 0
BOLTON 26 4 27 4 LEEDS 24 0 24 1
BRENTFORD 31 1 31 1 MIDDLESBROUGH 33 0 36 0
BRIGHTON 30 1 34 1 MK 31 1 35 1
BRISTOL CITY 24 1 24 1 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 29 2 31 2
BURNLEY 14 0 17 0 PRESTON 32 3 36 3
CARDIFF 31 1 33 1 QPR 22 1 24 1
CHARLTON 25 1 30 2 READING 22 1 29 1
DERBY 19 0 20 0 ROTHERHAM 27 0 29 0
FULHAM 23 1 26 1 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 29 1 38 1
HUDDERSFIELD 27 1 29 1 WOLVES 20 1 23 1

 

Highest and Lowest Attendances
Highest Lowest
Att Fixture Att Fixture
30,855 DERBY v MIDDLESBROUGH (18/08) 8,839 ROTHERHAM v FULHAM (29/08)
30,172 DERBY v ROTHERHAM (31/10) 8,935 ROTHERHAM v CARDIFF (19/09)
29,467 DERBY v BRENTFORD (03/10) 9,071 ROTHERHAM v READING (20/10)
29,386 DERBY v LEEDS (15/08) 9,078 ROTHERHAM v PRESTON (18/08)
29,063 DERBY v WOLVES (18/10) 9,463 BRENTFORD v PRESTON (19/09)
29,045 DERBY v CHARLTON (15/08) 9,528 BRENTFORD v BIRMINGHAM (29/09)
27,694 MIDDLESBROUGH v LEEDS (27/09) 9,752 ROTHERHAM v BURNLEY (02/10)
27,672 LEEDS v BURNLEY (08/08) 9,756 BRENTFORD v SHEFFIELD WED (26/09)
26,834 DERBY v BURNLEY (21/09) 9,869 ROTHERHAM v MK (08/08)
26,399 BRIGHTON v CARDIFF (03/10) 9,963 PRESTON v BRISTOL CITY (15/09)

 

The Next Fixtures
Saturday 31st October
BIRMINGHAM v BLACKBURN LEEDS v CARDIFF
BRENTFORD v HULL MIDDLESBROUGH v ROTHERHAM
BRISTOL CITY v WOLVES MK v CHARLTON
BURNLEY v FULHAM PRESTON v NOTTINGHAM FOREST
DERBY v QPR READING v HUDDERSFIELD (20:00)
IPSWICH v BOLTON SHEFF WED v BRIGHTON

 

CURRENT LEAGUE TABLE

pos Team pld w d l f a gd pts
 
1 BRIGHTON 14 8 6 0 19 11 8 30
2 HULL 14 8 4 2 21 8 13 28
3 BURNLEY 14 8 4 2 20 13 7 28
4 MIDDLESBROUGH 14 8 3 3 23 9 14 27
5 DERBY 14 7 6 1 21 10 11 27
6 BIRMINGHAM 14 7 3 4 19 15 4 24
7 READING 14 6 5 3 21 13 8 23
8 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 14 6 5 3 19 16 3 23
9 CARDIFF 14 5 7 2 15 11 4 22
10 FULHAM 14 5 5 4 26 20 6 20
11 BRENTFORD 14 6 2 6 20 20 0 20
12 QPR 14 5 4 5 22 23 -1 19
13 WOLVES 14 5 3 6 20 20 0 18
14 IPSWICH 14 4 6 4 16 21 -5 18
15 BLACKBURN 14 3 6 5 14 14 0 15
16 HUDDERSFIELD 14 3 5 6 14 18 -4 14
17 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 14 3 5 6 11 15 -4 14
18 PRESTON 14 2 7 5 10 13 -3 13
19 LEEDS 14 2 7 5 12 19 -7 13
20 MK FRANCHISE 14 3 2 9 12 21 -9 11
21 BRISTOL CITY 14 2 5 7 16 26 -10 11
22 BOLTON 14 1 7 6 10 20 -10 10
23 CHARLTON 14 2 4 8 11 24 -13 10
24 ROTHERHAM 14 2 3 9 15 27 -12 9