Midweek Championship Round-Up after tonight's game

Swansea City celebrated making the play-off positions last night while laughing at their ex-loan man Dimi a major cock up for Cardiff City. Fast forward 24 hours and they’re back out of the frame after Burnley hit back from trailing 2-0 at home to Crystal Palace in the night’s only Championship game to win 4-2. Their last 3 gopals came in the final 7 minutes as they were facing defeat, their 88^th minute clincher coming from ex-Cardiff City man Steven Thompson. Who’s laughing now then?

Thommo earned some infamy for his lack of goals at Cardiff – his tally was 17 in 106 appearances, most of those coming against Burnley, Southampton and Plymouth. Since joining Burnley in August, he’s now scored 10 for them in 37 games.

The rest of the Championship, of course, were in action last night. Cardiff fell badly at Norwich making them the only losers in the Top 10 during midweek but, amazingly, the damage was limited as the Top 3 all failed to win.

Leaders Wolves pressed at home but could not find a way past Ipswich, the game ending 0-0. Birmingham were on their way to defeat at lowly Barnsley as a Taylor defensive gaffe gifted The Tykes their score but he atoned with a late equaliser. Reading messed up at home to bottom club Charlton – they turned around a 0-1 deficit in the 2^nd half but allowed The South Londoners who are absolute certainties for the drop to level 2-2 at the death.

Cardiff dropped to 5^th but even then, Sheffield United failed to capitalise more having to settle for another 2-2, this one at home to lowly Blackpool while Preston became the 5^th side of last night’s Top 6 to draw, theirs in a home 1-1 with Sheffield Wednesday.

The winners came from below with Bristol City – Cardiff’s next opponents at Ashton Gate in a live Sky tv game this Sunday – having few difficulties brushing aside Coventry (2-0) and Swansea City requiring a dubious penalty to beat Plymouth 1-0 at The Liberty.

Ipswich clung on to forlorn hopes of making the play-offs with that 0-0 at Wolves but QPR must be hoisting the white flag – they were comfortably beaten 2-0 at Doncaster and have now taken just 4 points out of 24. Altogether, let’s all laugh at Routledge, let’s all laugh at Routledge, la la la la.

The Table after Tonight’s Games

	Team	P	GD	PTS
1	Wolverhampton	38	22	71
2	Birmingham	38	12	68
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3	Reading	36	30	64
4	Sheff Utd	37	16	60
5	Cardiff	35	17	59
6	Burnley	37	2	58
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7	Swansea	37	14	57
8	Bristol City	38	7	57
9	Preston	38	2	57
10	Ipswich	37	7	51
11	QPR	37	-2	49