City go 6th but automatic promotion in back in their hands

For the 7th time in 10 club football Saturdays, Cardiff City fans had to wait and watch other results and they won't be feeling too bad at how they worked out.


At the top, Wolves grabbed another 3 points, this time a late Michael Kightley goal grabbing them victory at Nottingham Forest in a tight, dull affair but it's the time of season where only results matter. The Fat Lady isn't quite singing yet but it looks as certain as can be that they will grab oone of the automatic spots and prbably be Champions as they're 5 points clear of 2nd and 9 points ahead of 3rd with just 6 games to go.


The Molineux Men extended their lead as Birmingham slipped at home in the afternoon while Reading failed to take advantage of that in an evening game.


Birmingham have been playing awful for some time but grabbed a couple of recent results and must have been confident going into a home encounter with relegation-threatened Norwich. They found themselves outplayed first half but took the lead through ex-Bluebird Cameron Jerome after The Canaries keeper dropped a cross. However even then, they couldn't hold on as Clingon smashed home an early 2nd half free-kick ... much to my delight!


Reading had a 5:20pm kick-off at Crystal Palace for Setanta tv but produced a timid 0-0. They were annoyed not to be awarded a first half penalty after loan man Dave Kitson appeared to be fouled but, in the end, were grateful for their draw after losing a couple of men to injury and then playing the final 20 minutes with 10 men after Liam Rosenior was dismissed for a second yellow card.

Burnley leap-frogged City with a 2-1 victory at lowly Plymouth, Robbie Blake grabbing a late winner as the sides swapped goals in the opening 20 minutes. The Clarets are the form side of the front runners having now taken 13 of the last 15 points on offer to them.

However, those of the Bluebird faith, will be pleased seeing that none of the sides tring to get into the play-offs won today. 7th placed Preston could only draw 0-0 at bottom club Charlton, Swansea rose to 8th with a timid 0-0 at Sheffield Wednesday meaning they've only won 1 of their last 7 while I'm thrilled to see The Wurzles go down again, this time by 2-1 at QPR.

It would need a disaster for Cardiff to miss making the play-offs now but beat Sheffield United tomorrow and we may yet be chasing down an automatic spot. Game On!

		P	GD	PTS
1	Wolverhampton	40	24	77
2	Birmingham	40	14	72
3	Reading	39	30	68
4	Burnley	40	8	65
5	Sheff Utd	38	18	63
6	CARDIFF CITY	37	18	63
7	Preston	40	3	61
8	Swansea	40	11	58
9	Bristol City	40	6	58
10	Ipswich	40	8	56
11	QPR	40	0	56
12	Crystal Palace	39	1	51
13	Sheff Wed	40	-9	51
14	Coventry	38	-4	50
15	Doncaster	40	-14	49
16	Watford	39	-5	47
17	Derby	38	-5	47
18	Blackpool	40	-12	47
19	Barnsley	38	-11	44
20	Norwich	40	-8	43
21	Plymouth	40	-14	43
22	Nottm Forest	40	-19	41
23	Southampton	39	-16	40
24	Charlton	39	-24	29