The north east club have climbed to within one point of second place
He was not so pleased with the stadium scoreboard revealing that Ipswich had lost when in fact they had earned themselves a point at
The point was enough to keep Ipswich at the top with Wigan only drawing against
With Ellington and
Our local neighbours Preston have sneaked into the top six almost unnoticed with two of the recent signings Chris Sedgwick and Patrick Agyemang getting the goals in a 2-0 win at
That’s five wins and two draws in the last seven for PNE, they haven’t lost since we beat them back in early December and that has seen them climb ten places in the table.
There’s no such good fortune for
Coventry
It took a stoppage time goal to beat them, with Georges Santos hitting the winner for the visitors. It only just crossed the line and I can think of at least one assistant referee who would not have spotted it, thankfully the referee this time bailed out his hesitant flag waver and gave the goal himself.
Manager Ian Holloway is in discussions over a new deal and he had no real concern for defender Andrew Davies who took a knock on the head. Holloway said, “I told him he looks like a centre half now. He was far too pretty with all that blond hair.”
It was
Gillingham were the only losers of the three though, going down 2-0 at
Gills’ boss Stan Ternent said after the game, “The object of the exercise in a football match is, you have two forty-five minute sessions and you have to perform in both of them.
“Unfortunately by our standards we were off the pace in the first half and in the second we were OK.”
Back in mid December Ade Akinbiyi scored a winner for Stoke at
This time it was at home to Leeds although a Stoke player did at least find the net on this occasion with the
No wonder Tony Pulis is looking for a new striker to introduce into his ale house football team but as we write
Glenn Hoddle’s Wolves won again with Seol hitting a last minute winner at Millwall after a Dennis Wise penalty had cancelled out their first goal whilst poor West Ham lost at home again, and deserved to, with both
It is West Ham’s third successive defeat in the league and puts manager Alan Pardew under enormous pressure. It would be no surprise to see him leave in the very near future.
The transfer window might well be open for the Premiership but it has hardly had an impact on our clubs so far.
Leeds have taken Liverpool keeper Paul Harrison having sold Scott Carson to the Anfield club whilst Manchester United’s Chris Eagles has flown into
The only other club to bring in a player in the last couple of weeks is
It’s cup week and only
The Weekend Results | |
Saturday 22nd January | |
Brighton 0 Nott'm Forest 0 | Plymouth 0 Preston 2 |
Cardiff 2 Burnley 0 | Reading 1 Ipswich 1 |
Coventry 1 QPR 2 | Stoke 0 Leeds 1 |
Crewe 1 Rotherham 1 | Sunderland 1 Sheffield Utd 0 |
Leicester 2 Gillingham 0 | Wigan 2 Watford 2 |
Millwall 1 Wolves 2 | . |
Sunday 23rd January | |
West Ham 1 Derby 2 | . |
The Weekend Stats | |
Biggest win | Cardiff 2-0 v Burnley (home) |
Total goals scored | 25 |
Player scoring most goals | 2 - Lee McCulloch (Wigan) |
Highest Attendance | 30,347 - West Ham v Derby |
Lowest Attendance | 6,382 - Crewe v Rotherham |
Total Yellow Cards | 35 |
Total Red Cards | 0 |
Most cards in a game | Coventry v QPR (7Y) |
The leading scorers (league only) | |
18 | Dean Ashton (Crewe) - now with Norwich |
17 | Nathan Ellington (Wigan) |
15 | Darren Bent (Ipswich) |
14 | Paul Furlong (QPR) |
13 | Shefki Kuqi (Ipswich) Jason Roberts (Wigan) |
12 | Heidar Helguson (Watford) Dave Kitson (Reading) Kenny Miller (Wolves) |
11 | Richard Cresswell (Preston) Stephen Elliott (Sunderland) David Healy (Leeds) - 5 with Preston Grzegorz Rasiak (Derby) Teddy Sheringham (West Ham) |
10 | Robbie Blake (Burnley) - now Birmingham Marlon Harewood (West Ham) Lee McCulloch (Wigan) Danny Webber (Watford) |
9 | Peter Thorne (Cardiff) |
8 | Carl Cort (Wolves) Andy Gray (Sheffield Utd) Barry Hayles (Millwall) Paul Shaw (Sheffield Utd) - 2 with Rotherham Tommy Smith (Derby) Marcus Stewart (Sunderland) |
7 | Ade Akinbiyi (Stoke) Mark Rivers (Crewe) Paul Wotton (Plymouth) |
The Week's Fixtures | |
Wednesday 26th January | |
Derby v Leeds | . |
Saturday 29th January | |
Leeds v Brighton | . |
Friday 4th February | |
Wolves v Sunderland | . |
Saturday 5th February | |
Brighton v Derby | Reading v Plymouth |
Burnley v Leeds | Rotherham v Nott'm Forest |
Leicester v Crewe | Sheffield Utd v Ipswich |
Millwall v QPR | Watford v Gillingham |
Preston v Coventry | Wigan v Stoke |
Sunday 6th February | |
West Ham v Cardiff | . |