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Barnsley 1 Hull 1: Tigers roar back for a point with Kilbane leveller

Veteran Kevin Kilbane scored his first league goal of the season to earn Hull a deserved point from their npower Championship clash at Oakwell.

Scunthorpe 1 Leeds 4: Jonny Howson's second half treble sinks Scunny

Jonny Howson produced the ultimate captain's knock as his second-half, 15-minute hat-trick helped Leeds United cruise to a 4-1 win at Scunthorpe.

Leicester 1 Preston 0: Paul Gallagher keeps the Sven Goran Eriksson bandwagon rolling

Sven Goran Eriksson's Leicester claimed a narrow victory over fellow strugglers Preston in a forgettable npower Championship clash at the Walkers Stadium.

Ipswich 2 Millwall 0: Tractor Boys sewing seeds for playoff spot

A goal apiece from Jason Scotland and Grant Leadbitter earned Roy Keane's Ipswich side a comfortable home win over Millwall in the npower Championship.

On Song: Cardiff City's Jay Bothroyd

With the help of a fan the Observer looks at an in-form Football League playerThe lowdownAt 28, the Islington-born Bothroyd has had eight clubs in a nomadic career. Highly rated at Arsenal, he was sold aged 18 to Coventry after throwing his shirt at the bench following his substitution in a youth...

Spireites on steep rise to the top

The club crest may sit above the main entrance but when visiting teams arrive at Chesterfield these days they find that seeing is one thing, believing quite another. Saltergate, at 139 years the oldest venue in the Football League until the Spireites moved out in June, was used to film The Damned...

League round-up: Alexander spot on as Rangers draw the wrong conclusion

A fourth consecutive draw, 1-1 at home to Burnley, cost Queens Park Rangers top spot in the Championship on a day that saw Coventry City move up to a heady fourth, Reading come back to win 4-3 and gatecrash the top six, and five teams line up outside the play-offs, all level on 21 points.

Allen's authority leaves Palace a poor second best

Never mind Gavin Henson. In the Championship it is two other Welsh sporting institutions, Cardiff and Swansea, who are leading their rivals a merry dance. The principality's big two meet in Cardiff in seven days' time and at this rate third-placed Swansea will fancy their chances of cutting the...