Crewe stay in 15th

Lets start with Stoke City. Their eight league match unbeaten run came to an end with a thump this evening. Crystal Palace, revitalised under former Oldham boss Iain Dowie, stuck six past a Gerry Taggart-less Stoke City defence. It was 3-2 to Palace at half time, a first half hat-trick from Andy Johnson was helped by two first half penalties for the London club. Eustace equalised after Johnsons first goal, Clarke pulled it back to 3-2 on the stroke of half time.

Within ten minutes of the second half Michael Hughes and Neil Shipperley made it 5-2, Asaba tried to bring back some pride for the Potters with a penalty 7 minutes from time but Routledge completed the rout for Palace in the final minute making it 6-3.

Coventry, in 14th place, lost 2-0 to league leaders Norwich, who sit 5 points clear, and Cardiff, in 12th and 3 points above us, lost to second place West Brom 2-1. Last weekends opponents Walsall could have moved within a point of us as they played Nottm Forest. It was Joe Kinnears first match as Forest manager and it seemed to be going wrong for him from the 5th minute on. Andy Impey put Forest ahead but Walsall made it 3-1 by the break. Kinnear, well known for getting his teams fired up, got Forest out for the restart and by the final whistle his team had won him a point. 3-3 the final score.

We stay 15th in the league table and have 1 game in hand over the 3 teams immediately above us, Cardiff City, Stoke City & Coventry City. That game in hand, though, is against Sheffield United.

Last game played on Saturday 14th February 2004		Pld	Home					Away					Overall					Pts	GD
Last game played on Saturday 14th February 2004		Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	GD
1	Norwich City	31	12	1	2	26	11	6	7	3	23	15	18	8	5	49	26	62	+23
2	West Bromwich Albion	31	9	5	2	24	12	7	4	4	20	16	16	9	6	44	28	57	+16

3	Wigan Athletic	31	8	6	2	20	10	6	5	4	24	21	14	11	6	44	31	53	+13
4	Ipswich Town	31	9	2	5	37	26	5	6	4	21	22	14	8	9	58	48	50	+10
5	Sheffield United	30	8	4	3	27	16	6	3	6	18	20	14	7	9	45	36	49	+9
6	West Ham United	30	6	5	4	24	17	6	7	2	19	13	12	12	6	43	30	48	+13

7	Sunderland	29	8	5	1	18	7	5	4	6	20	19	13	9	7	38	26	48	+12
8	Crystal Palace	32	5	6	5	24	22	8	2	6	27	24	13	8	11	51	46	47	+5
9	Preston North End	30	9	3	3	31	17	4	4	7	15	20	13	7	10	46	37	46	+9
10	Reading	30	8	3	4	21	18	5	3	7	15	22	13	6	11	36	40	45	-4
11	Millwall	30	7	6	2	17	9	4	5	6	17	20	11	11	8	34	29	44	+5
12	Cardiff City	31	6	5	4	27	16	5	5	6	22	25	11	10	10	49	41	43	+8
13	Stoke City	31	7	5	3	24	17	5	2	9	19	27	12	7	12	43	44	43	-1
14	Coventry City	31	4	8	4	16	17	5	5	5	22	19	9	13	9	38	36	40	+2
15	Crewe Alexandra	30	9	2	4	24	15	2	5	8	15	26	11	7	12	39	41	40	-2
16	Rotherham United	30	6	5	4	21	17	3	5	7	15	25	9	10	11	36	42	37	-6
17	Walsall	31	6	6	3	22	19	3	4	9	13	23	9	10	12	35	42	37	-7
18	Gillingham	29	7	1	7	17	20	3	5	6	16	23	10	6	13	33	43	36	-10
19	Burnley	30	6	4	5	22	18	2	6	7	17	30	8	10	12	39	48	34	-9
20	Watford	31	5	7	4	20	21	3	3	9	14	23	8	10	13	34	44	34	-10
21	Derby County	31	5	4	6	22	26	2	6	8	11	25	7	10	14	33	51	31	-18

22	Nottingham Forest	30	4	5	6	22	19	3	4	8	15	22	7	9	14	37	41	30	-4
23	Bradford City	32	3	2	11	14	26	3	3	10	10	22	6	5	21	24	48	23	-24
24	Wimbledon	30	2	3	10	14	26	3	0	12	14	32	5	3	22	28	58	18	-30

COLOUR KEY:		Promotion place(s)		Transfer place(s)
COLOUR KEY:		Play-off place(s)		Relegation place(s)

Crewe stay in 15th

Last updated : 14 February 2004 By Site Staff