Source: FOOTYMAD
FA's impeccable timing on last day
Everything had, sort of, been done and dusted in the Championship before the last games. QPR and Norwich were up, Presto Scunthorpe and Sheffield United were down. Cardiff, Swansea and Reading were in the play offs and Nottingham Forest were all but there. The only hope on the horizon for some clubs was the potential for QPR to be docked points over the Alejandro Faurlin affair. Even we might have benefited although it was the longest of long shots. Were QPR to be docked a massive 25 points, as some were suggesting and had they gone on to beat Leeds then a win against Cardiff would have taken us into the play offs, provided Millwall didn't win.Leeds and Millwall still would have had hopes of the play offs whilst Cardiff could have been looking at an automatic slot, as could Swansea.It was all boiling up nicely when the FA said the decision would be delayed, having been expected on the Friday, but no one could have believed even these incompetents would have announced it just around an hour before kick off.As expected, it was all bottled. They were found guilty of just two of the seven charges. For one they were fined £800,000 and for the other the fine was £75,000. That will really have hurt the club won't it given they have the likes of Mittal, Ecclestone and Briatore.It left the last day games just about meaningless and even though Leeds won at QPR, coming back from 1-0 behind, it changed nothing for Leeds with Nottingham Forest winning at Crystal Palace.The only change saw the two Welsh sides swap places. Swansea are now third and thus will face Forest in the play offs whilst Cardiff have a date with Reading. For the other 20 clubs the season is now over.Well done to Danny Graham who has ended the season as the Championship's leading goalscorer. Jay Rodriguez is 12th in the list and, if you remove penalties, only seven players have scored more goals than him.Portsmouth, Preston and Leeds are the only clubs with more yellow cards than us. That makes a change from last season when we were chasing a fair play place in Europe. We certainly couldn't compete with Sheffield United, Crystal Palace and Portsmouth with the red cards though.We've also included the average attendances of each club, and we've dropped three places since we last published them with QPR, Swansea and Crystal Palace all going above us, leaving us in 17th place.The last results and stats are below along with the goalscorers and disciplinary records of each club. The Weekend ResultsSaturday 7th MayBarnsley 1 Millwall 0Norwich 2 Coventry 2Bristol City 3 Hull 0Preston 3 Watford 1Burnley 1 Cardiff 1QPR 1 Leeds 2Crystal Palace 0 Nottingham Forest 3Reading 2 Derby 1Leicester 4 Ipswich 2Scunthorpe 1 Portsmouth 1Middlesbrough 3 Doncaster 0Swansea 4 Sheffield United 0The Weekend StatsBiggest winSwansea 4-0 v Sheffield United (home)Total goals scored38 (25 home - 13 away)Player scoring most goalsStephen Dobbie (Swansea)Highest Attendance26,268 - Norwich v CoventryLowest Attendance5,142 - Scunthorpe v PortsmouthTotal Yellow Cards28Total Red Cards2Most cards in a gameLeicester v Ipswich (6Y) - Carl BoyesonThe leading scorers (league only)23Danny Graham (Watford) - includes 1 penalty21Grant Holt (Norwich) - includes 3 penaltiesShane Long (Reading) - includes 5 penalties19Luciano Becchio (Leeds)Adel Taarabt (QPR) - includes 6 penalties18Jay Bothroyd (Cardiff) - includes 1 penaltyMax Gradel (Leeds) - includes 2 penaltiesScott Sinclair (Swansea) - includes 7 penalties15Andy King (Leicester)Bill Sharp (Doncaster) - includes 4 penaltiesSteve Morison (Millwall) - includes 1 penalty14Jay Rodriguez (Burnley)13Kris Commons (Derby) - includes 2 penaltiesHeidar Helguson (QPR) - includes 5 penaltiesSimeon Jackson (Norwich)Lewis McGugan (Nottingham Forest) - includes 3 penaltiesDavid Nugent (Portsmouth)Brett Pitman (Bristol City) - includes 4 penalties12Kris Boyd (Nottingham Forest) - includes 2 penalties and 6 for MiddlesbroughIain Hume (Preston) - includes 1 penaltyMarlon King (Coventry) - includes 3 penaltiesLeroy Lita (Middlesbrough) - includes 2 penaltiesScott McDonald (Middlesbrough)Marvin Sordell (Watford)Hat Tricks (league only)11th Sep3 - Chris Iwelumo - BURNLEY v Preston14th Sep3 - James Coppinger - DONCASTER v Norwich14th Sep3 - James Vaughan - CRYSTAL PALACE v Portsmouth28th Sep3 - Jon Parkin - Leeds v PRESTON30th Oct3 - Jonny Howson - Scunthorpe v LEEDS13th Nov3 - Luciano Becchio - LEEDS v Bristol City27th Nov3 - Grant Holt - NORWICH v Leeds28th Dec3 - Wes Hoolahan - NORWICH v Sheffield United1st Jan3 - Jason Puncheon - MILLWALL v Crystal Palace5th Feb3 - Matt Fryatt - Scunthorpe v HULL15th Feb3 - Connor Wickham - Doncaster v IPSWICH2nd Apr3 - Grant Holt - NORWICH v Scunthorpe2nd Apr3 - Simeon Jackson - NORWICH v Scunthorpe2nd Apr3 - Yakubu - Middlesbrough v LEICESTER23rd Apr3 - Scott McDonald - Hull v MIDDLESBROUGH25th Apr3 - Simeon Jackson - NORWICH v DerbyDisciplinary Record (all domestic games)ClubYRClubYRBarnsley733Middlesbrough671Bristol City603Millwall656Burnley885Norwich713Cardiff621Nottingham Forest724Coventry675Portsmouth919Crystal Palace8310Preston895Derby803QPR656Doncaster523Reading694Hull762Scunthorpe584Ipswich725Sheffield United7712Leeds904Swansea652Leicester593Watford532Average Attendances (league only)AvgeClubHighLow27,299Leeds33,62220,74726,022Derby33,01023,15925,386Norwich26,53223,85223,665Leicester30,91919,61123,274Nottingham Forest29,49019,41123,193Cardiff26,05820,57321,168Hull24,11019,71420,632Sheffield United23,72817,49619,614Ipswich29,25816,72817,681Reading23,67714,02916,309Coventry28,18412,29216,268Middlesbrough23,55013,71215,707Portsmouth20,04013,13215,635QPR18,23412,04615,507Swansea19,30912,41115,351Crystal Palace20,14212,35314,930Burnley20,45313,65514,604Bristol City18,30813,37613,151Watford15,53810,62012,438Millwall16,7248,93711,855Barnsley20,30910,25011,767Preston18,4178,99410,258Doncaster14,3127,9215,547Scunthorpe8,1224,190
