With news coming through that Billy Sharp's goal had won it for Doncaster, a win would have taken West Ham to the top for the first time this season and displacing Southampton who have held that top spot for all but two weeks since mid-August.
It wasn't to be and with both clubs losing it has allowed those just below to close the gap and the next three, Cardiff City, Middlesbrough and Leeds United all did that. Leicester, meanwhile, started Saturday in sixth place but went down to Hull City on Nigel Pearson's return to the KC just a couple of weeks or so after he walked out to take on Leicester.
The fixture list often throws up these games very quickly. It happened to Steve Cotterill at Portsmouth recently and Pearson got just what Cotterill got there, absolutely nothing with Robert Koren scoring a late goal for the home side.
The game of the day just had to be at Peterborough. The one thing you can expect to see at London Road is goals and there were an abundance of them with a quarter of the 28 Championship goals this weekend coming in this one game.
The visitors were Barnsley and they looked to be strolling it when they went 3-0 up ten minutes into the second half. They did win it, eventually, but not until they'd got a fourth after Peterborough came storming back with three goals in six minutes to draw level.
That Doncaster win has now seen Coventry dumped onto the bottom of the league. It's going to be a massive battle for them this season to stay up. They are now the Championship's longest serving club. It's their 11th consecutive season at this level since losing their Premier League place but you wouldn't bet against them playing League One football next season. They haven't played at that level since winning the old Third Division in 1963/64 season.
Overall, the league is looking so much better than it's done for some time. For the first time this season we need to look in the top half of the table to find Burnley and long may that last.
Source: FOOTYMAD
