Top teams can't find wins

Brighton started the weekend at the top and they are still there despite losing at home to Birmingham. They are there because none of the teams that could pass them were able to win themselves.

Huddersfield and Blackburn were the two within two points but Huddersfield, at home against bottom club Peterborough, were beaten, giving Posh their first points of the season and down at Charlton, and despite taking the lead, managerless Blackburn were held to a 1-1 draw.

Blackburn are the first Championship club to make a change of manager this season. Some, particularly those who support the club, would suggest they've been without manager for almost two years, but anyone with any common sense can see what a wonderful job Steven Kean has done there.

I can't see them getting anyone better to be honest and shabby Shebby and his crew might just regret this big decision. Shabby for Manager! That one sounds good to me. Meanwhile Eric Black, once linked with the Burnley job, is in caretaker charge.

Hats off to Peterborough. They looked an awful side at Burnley defensively but they kept Huddersfield to one goal and at the other end Emile SInclair, an unused substitute at the Turf, grabbed a hat trick.

On the subject of scoring goals; Charlie Austin is now the league's leading goalscorer. Although I can't be certain, I think Chris Iwelumo held top spot at one point two seasons ago and I'm sure Ade Akinbiyi was in pole position at a time in the 2005/06 season before his sale to Sheffield United.

Charlie has been fantastic and you wonder just where we might be without his goals. With them we are 16th with nine points. With a decent referee on Saturday we would have been in the top half of the table. Having said that, most clubs get poor decisions against them at one point or another so spare a thought for poor Bolton.

In every single game this season that they haven't won it is because of poor refereeing decisions. That's what their manager says. It comes as no surprise. Remember the day he suggested the referee was to blame for all five we conceded in the Premier League at West Ham, causing laughter on Goals on Sunday ?

Now, poor decisions are costing them because had referees been fair they would be on course for a return to the Premier League (with no reference to a High Street bank due to their being no payment for Championship managers).

Tonight and tomorrow sees a full fixture list with Burnley again at home, this time against Sheffield Wednesday. If we perform as we did in the first half on Saturday and if the referee does OK, we could move further up the table.

The results and stats from the weekend games are below along with the leading goalscorers, each club's disciplinary record, the highest and lowest attendances and the midweek fixtures.