Championship round up

Last updated : 24 April 2005 By Michael Morris
The victory over Reading was coupled with defeats for Crewe and Gillingham and draws for Brighton, Watford and Coventry.

Nottingham Forest's home win over Burnley still keep their survival hopes just alive but they cannot catch us anymore.

Our win took us to 50 points and moved us up to 17th in the table.

Now we can still go down, if we fail to win our two remaining games then we can get caught. It would take though an unlikely set of results for that to happen. Crewe need to win at least one of their remaining games and draw the other one with us losing both for them to catch us. Considering they have not won since Jan 1st that looks unlikey, even more unlikey when they have to go to Ipswich next week and the Tractor Boys can still get automatic promotion.

Similar with Brighton, they need at least a win and a draw providing we lose both games.

Keeping it simple City will be safe if we beat Gillingham next Saturday or if Brighton or Crewe lose.

Saturday's results

Brighton2West Ham2
Hammond 54 , 90
Reo-Coker 8
Harewood 55
Attend: 6819
Half-time: 0-1
Cardiff2Reading0
Thorne 12
Jerome 30
Attend: 14821
Half-time: 2-0
Crewe0Stoke2
Neal 79
Noel-Williams 89
Attend: 9166
Half-time: 0-0
Derby2Gillingham0
Bisgaard 33
Peschisolido 72
Attend: 27481
Half-time: 1-0
Leeds1Ipswich1
Spring 12
Kuqi 11
Attend: 29607
Half-time: 1-1
Nottm Forest1Burnley0
Commons 70
Attend: 24165
Half-time: 0-0
Plymouth1Coventry1
Capaldi 90
John 45
Attend: 18443
Half-time: 0-1
Sunderland2Leicester1
Stewart 23
Caldwell 60
Maybury 5
Attend: 34815
Half-time: 1-1
Watford0Sheff Utd0
Attend: 17138
Half-time: 0-0
Wigan0QPR0
Attend: 12007
Half-time: 0-0
Wolverhampton2Rotherham0
Miller 55 , 90
Attend: 25177
Half-time: 0-0


League table

1[P] Sunderland 44154344211237291927710734088+33
2Wigan Athletic 44125539141264361924119753383+42
3Ipswich Town 4416334825796312923129795481+25
4Preston North End 441462432175102233211112655474+11
5Derby County 43976352912363123211012665273+14
6West Ham United 44125535228592831201014635370+10
7Reading 441372321366101726191312493970+10
8Sheffield United 4497628229672729181313555167+4
9Millwall 441246332257101723171116504562+5
10Stoke City 441129221768814191710173636610
11Wolverhampton Wanderers 448113362451073032132110665660+10
12Leeds United 4479628267872124141713495059-1
13Queens Park Rangers 44976302574112231161117525659-4
14Burnley 44976241957101220141416363956-3
15Plymouth Argyle 44976312353142139141020526252-10
16Leicester City 436872120412625261020134646500
17Cardiff City 44949231931092331121418465050-4
18Watford 445107242366102634111617505749-7
19Coventry City 44778262656112843121319546949-15
20Gillingham 441057212227132141121220426348-21
21Crewe Alexandra 44589353766102843111419638047-17
22Brighton & Hove Albion 44769232855121536121121386447-26
23Nottingham Forest 4479624262713153691619396243-23
24[R] Rotherham United 44271317333613183551326356828-33