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Tuesday, 29 September 2009
The Coca-Cola Football League Championship
 Sheff Utd v Ipswich, 19:45 


Sheff Utd v Ipswich live Streaming Watch Online Review Preview Football Match highlights results Scores in the The Coca-Cola Football League Championship Sheffield United's Kevin Blackwell gave a good example of how the pressures of being at the top or bottom can get to managers – certainly at this stage of the season – when he was sent to the stands by the referee for his protest against a booking for Matthew Kilgallon against Swansea at Bramall Lane. However, he was in a rather more serene mood following United's 1-0 win, and then the Birmingham's defeat at the hands of Preston that gave United fresh hope of pipping the Midlands club for the second automatic promotion spot.

In contrast, there was no ray of sunshine behind the gloom that has descended on Southampton's manager Mark Wotte, as his team's bid to get out of the Championship's bottom three, and thus avoid having to start their League One campaign next season 10 points behind everyone else, collapsed with a 2-2 home draw against Burnley. It was perhaps typical of Southampton's wretched season that they allowed Burnley to come from behind twice for their point. They missed excellent chances to increase their initial lead and when it was 2-1 David McGoldrick – the scorer of their second goal – had a penalty saved by Brian Jensen.

With third-from-bottom Norwich not in action until tomorrow, at home to Reading, Barnsley, Nottingham Forest and Plymouth were able to increase the gap between the Canaries and themselves by only one point. For Barnsley, the downside of their 1-1 draw against Wolves – a result that secured their opponents the title – was that they were ahead. It was the same for Nottingham Forest in their 1-1 draw at Blackpool. The irony of those results was that Wolves's goal came from Kyel Reid, who spent six months on loan at Barnsley (from West Ham) two seasons ago, while Blackpool's scorer was Brett Ormerod, a member of Forest's League One promotion-winning team last season, on loan from Preston.

Roy Keane's first match as Ipswich manager brought a 3-0 win at Cardiff. It was Cardiff's last regular season match at Ninian Park and if any of their players will quickly want to forget the occasion, it is surely their leading scorer Ross McCormack. Having failed to convert a penalty in the 6-0 thrashing at Preston last Saturday, he went through the experience again when Ipswich goalkeeper Richard Wright superbly kept out his spot-kick, with the score at 1-0. No one will surely have impressed Keane more than Jonathan Stead, whom Keane sold from Sunderland to Sheffield United 16 months ago. Stead, who is on loan from United, came on as a substitute and ended up with two goal-assists, and his own name on the scoresheet for Ipswich's third.