22 February 13, 2022The Sunday Times 2GS
Football Results
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
BARNSLEY 1 QPR 0
Quina 74
HT: 0-0. Att: 12,476
BIRMINGHAM 3 LUTON 0
Bacuna 25, Taylor 46
Hernandez 69
HT: 1-0
BLACKPOOL 1 BOURNEMOUTH 2
Bowler 37 Lowe 86
Dembélé 90+5
HT: 1-0. Att: 11,141
HUDDERSFIELD 0 SHEFFIELD UTD 0
HT: 0-0. Att: 17,523
HULL 0 FULHAM 1
Mitrovic 57
HT: 0-0. Att: 13,022
MIDDLESBROUGH 4 DERBY 1
Buchanan (og) 16 Bird 39
Connolly 44, Crooks 45+3
Watmore 89
HT: 3-1. Att: 26,266
MILLWALL 2 CARDIFF 1
Wallace 73, Bennett 82 Bagan 90+2
HT: 0-0. Att: 12,710
NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2 STOKE 2
Johnson 56 Maja 68
Yates 90+2 Baker 88 (pen)
HT: 0-0. Att: 28,990
Sent off: Samba (Nottingham Forest) 85
PETERBOROUGH 0 PRESTON 1
Archer 80
HT: 0-0. Att: 9,072
Sent off: Hoilett (Reading) 63
READING 2 COVENTRY 3
Lucas João 23 Hyam 45+2, Rose 47
Yiadom 55 Maatsen 65
HT: 1-1. Att: 13,022City. They are just
two points behind
third-placed
Northampton
Town, who were
held 0-0 away to
Port Vale, after a
fifth win in six
matches. Kieran
Phillips, on-loan
from Huddersfield,
struck just before
half-time for the
visitors.
Mansfield Town
made it 11 matches
without defeat by
drawing 0-0 away
to Bristol Rovers.
Oldham Athletic
were denied two
vital points in their
fight against
relegation as
Mickey Demetriou
fired in an 89th-
minute equaliser
for Newport
County in a 3-3
draw. Oldham had
Dylan Bahamboula
sent off in the 69th
minute.
Bottom side
Scunthorpe
United lost 3-0
away to Swindon
Town.The last time
Sutton United
hosted Forest
Green Rovers at
Gander Green
Lane both sides
were in the
National League
and 1,446
spectators
watched the
visitors win 2-1 in
their promotion
season. There was
more than double
that number in the
ground yesterday
for a 1-1 draw
between two sides
who are battling to
enter the third tier
for the first time
and are two of the
division’s form
teams.
Sutton, who
went in front
through Kenny
Davis’s free kick,
extended their
unbeaten run to
ten league games,
while it is 19
undefeated for
leaders Forest
Green. Kane
Wilson equalised
in the 60th minute.The draw
extended Forest
Green’s lead at the
top to 11 points
after Tranmere
Rovers lost 1-0 at
struggling Walsall.
Walsall sacked
head coach Matt
Taylor last week
after seven
straight defeats.
But interim
manager Neil
McDonald
stopped the rot,
with Conor
Wilkinson scoring
an 85th-minute
penalty.
There are no
such problems for
the Matt Taylor in
charge at ExeterPhillips scored
Exeter’s winnerPWDLF AGDPts
1 Forest Green 30 19 9 2 61 24 37 66
2 Tranmere 31 16 7 8 33 21 1255
3 Northampton30 15 7 8 35 25 1052
4 Exeter 29 13 11 5 41 27 1450
5 Sutton Utd 30 14 8 8 45 35 1050
6 Mansfield 29 14 7 8 39 32 749
7 Newport Co 31 13 9 9 49 41 848
8 Swindon 30 12 10 8 46 38 846
9 Port Vale 28 12 8 8 41 29 1244
10 Salford 31 12 8 11 35 29 644
11 Bradford City 31 9 13 9 36 36 040
12 Crawley 30 11 7 12 37 41 -4 40
13 Harrogate 29 10 8 11 44 44 038
14 Bristol Rovers28 10 8 10 36 39-3 38
15 Hartlepool 29 10 7 12 29 38-9 37
16 Leyton Orient 29 7 12 10 38 29 933
17 Stevenage 32 7 12 13 30 46 -16 33
18 Walsall 30 8 8 14 31 39-8 32
19 Rochdale 28 6 13 9 35 38 -3 31
20 Barrow 31 7 10 14 30 39-9 31
21 Colchester 30 7 10 13 28 41 -13 31
22 Carlisle 30 6 10 14 23 42 -19 28
23 Oldham 29 6 8 15 28 46 -18 26
24 Scunthorpe 31 4 10 17 22 53 -31 22LEAGUE TWO
BARROW 0 STEVENAGE 0
HT: 0-0. Att: 3,001
Sent off: Amadi-Holloway (Barrow) 55;
Prosser (Stevenage) 90+7
BRADFORD CITY 0 EXETER 1
HT: 0-1 Phillips 44
BRISTOL ROVERS 0 MANSFIELD 0
HT: 0-0
COLCHESTER 2 CARLISLE 2
Smith 69, Wright 74 Patrick 51, Sho-Silva 86
HT: 0-0. Att: 2,664
CRAWLEY TOWN 0 HARTLEPOOL 1
Bogle 40
HT: 0-1. Att: 2,228
LEYTON ORIENT 0 SALFORD 2
Shephard 50, Vassell 60
HT: 0-0. Att: 4,427
NEWPORT COUNTY 3 OLDHAM 3
Haynes 14, Telford 40 Keillor-Dunn 28
Demetriou 89 Fondop-Talom 49, 82
HT: 2-1. Att: 3,901. Sent off: Bahamboula (Oldham) 69
PORT VALE 0 NORTHAMPTON 0
HT: 0-0. Att: 5,979
ROCHDALE 3 HARROGATE TOWN 3
Clark 18, Odoh 61 Pattison 3, 24 (pen)
Campbell 87 Diamond 47
HT: 1-2. Att: 2,264
SUTTON UTD 1 FOREST GREEN 1
Davis 37 Wilson 60
HT: 1-0. Att: 3,314
SWINDON 3 SCUNTHORPE 0
McKirdy 58, Davison 71, 85 (pen)
HT: 0-0. Att: 9,012
WALSALL 1 TRANMERE 0
Wilkinson 85 (pen). HT: 0-0. Att: 5,440Lincoln City thanks
to Chris Forino’s
85th-minute
header, but they
had Josh Scowen
sent off in
stoppage time.
Conor Grant’s
goal was enough
for Plymouth
Argyle to beat
Shrewsbury Town
1-0 and return to
the play-off
positions at the
expense of Oxford
United, who lost
3-2 at home to
Bolton Wanderers,
after twice going
in front. It was
Bolton’s sixth win
in seven games.
The bottom two,
Doncaster Rovers
and Crewe
Alexandra,
suffered emphatic
away defeats.
Crewe lost 4-1 to
Accrington
Stanley, while
Doncaster were
beaten 4-0 by
Portsmouth. It
was the bottom
club’s ninth loss in
11 games.LEAGUE ONE
4
Cheltenham Town
beat Fleetwood
Town 2-0 to
record their
fourth game
without defeatAlex Neil achieved
his first task as
Sunderland’s new
head coach:
stopping their run
of defeats, which
stood at three
(Peter Wilson
writes). They drew
1-1 away to AFC
Wimbledon. The
hosts, though,
have gone 12
league games
without a win and
played out the last
few minutes with
ten men, so he
may have hoped
for more.
The Dons went
in front through
Luke McCormick’s
20th-minute
penalty. Alex
Pritchard curled in
a free kick to
equalise 15
minutes later.
McCormick was
sent off in the 90th
minute.
The draw leaves
Sunderland four
points adrift of the
automatic
promotion places.
Second-placedWigan Athletic
came from behind
to beat Charlton
Athletic 2-1. With
table-toppers
Rotherham United
away to Sheffield
Wednesday today,
Wigan cut the lead
at the summit to
six points, but
with two games
in hand.
MK Dons, in
third, were held
0-0 at home by
Ipswich Town.
Fifth-placed
Wycombe
Wanderers, who
are without a win
in four games,
salvaged a 1 -1
draw away toPWDLF AGDPts
1 Fulham 30 19 7 4 78 26 52 64
2 Bournemouth30 17 7 6 49 26 23 58
3 Blackburn 31 15 8 8 45 33 1253
4 QPR 30 15 7 8 46 34 1252
5 Huddersfield32 13 11 8 40 34 650
6 Middlesbro 30 14 7 9 38 29 949
7 Nottm Forest 31 13 8 10 43 33 1047
8 Sheff Utd 29 13 7 9 39 33 646
9 West Brom 30 12 9 9 34 26 845
10 Luton 30 12 9 9 41 36 545
11 Preston 32 11 12 9 35 35 045
12 Coventry 29 12 8 9 39 34 544
13 Stoke 30 12 7 11 38 32 643
14 Blackpool 31 11 8 12 34 37-3 41
15 Millwall 30 10 10 10 31 33-2 40
16 Bristol City 31 10 7 14 41 55 -14 37
17 Birmingham 32 9 9 14 37 49 -12 36
18 Swansea 29 9 8 12 29 38-9 35
19 Hull 31 9 5 17 26 36 -10 32
20 Cardiff 30 9 5 16 36 50 -14 32
21 @Reading 30 8 4 18 36 60 -24 22
22 Peterborough 29 5 5 19 23 60 -37 20
23 *Derby 31 9 12 10 32 35-3 18
24 Barnsley 30 3 8 19 19 45 -26 17
* deducted 21pts for breaching financial rules
and for going into administration
@ deducted 6pts for breaching financial rulesA steward picks
up tennis balls
thrown on the
pitch by
Birmingham
fans in protest at
the club’s
owners during
their 3-0 win
over Luton at
St Andrew’sNATIONAL LEAGUE
PWDLF AGDPts
1 Stockport Co27 17 4 6 55 26 29 55
2 Chesterfield 27 15 10 2 50 24 26 55
3 Halifax 26 15 5 6 41 21 2050
4 Bromley 26 15 5 6 42 28 1450
5 Boreham Wood23 14 7 2 34 15 1949
6 Solihull Moors26 13 7 6 41 23 1846
7 Wrexham 26 13 7 6 42 26 1646
8 Grimsby 28 14 4 10 42 29 1346
9 Notts County25 13 6 6 47 29 1845
10 Dag & Red 27 13 3 11 49 37 1242
11 Torquay 27 12 4 11 42 41 140
12 Southend 27 11 5 11 30 37 -7 38
13 Yeovil 27 10 7 10 26 27 -1 37
14 Eastleigh 26 9 6 11 28 38 -10 33
15 Woking 27 10 2 15 42 43 -1 32
16 Wealdstone 26 8 7 11 27 37 -10 31
17 Altrincham 28 8 6 14 40 52 -12 30
18 Aldershot 28 8 6 14 32 44 -12 30
19 Barnet 27 8 6 13 32 53 -21 30
20 Maidenhead 25 7 6 12 28 47 -19 27
21 Weymouth 27 4 6 17 27 51 -24 18
22 King's Lynn 26 4 3 19 24 51 -27 15
23 *Dover 28 1 4 23 21 63 -42-5
* deducted 12pts for breaching league rulesAFC WIMBLEDON 1 SUNDERLAND 1
McCormick 20 (pen) Pritchard 35
HT: 1-1. Att: 8,381. Sent off: McCormick (AFC Wim) 90
ACCRINGTON STANLEY 4 CREWE 1
Sykes 12, 60, Leigh 51 Agyei 90+3
McConville 64
HT: 1-0. Att: 2,365
BURTON ALBION 2 CAMBRIDGE UTD 2
Ahadme 2 (pen), Kokolo 62 Knibbs 25, Smith 72
HT: 1-1. Att: 2,578
CHELTENHAM 2 FLEETWOOD TOWN 0
May 41, Raglan 45
HT: 2-0. Att: 3,517
LINCOLN 1 WYCOMBE 1
Cullen 5 Joseph 85
HT: 1-0. Att: 8,319. Sent off: Scowen (Wycombe) 90+3
MILTON KEYNES DONS 0 IPSWICH 0
HT: 0-0. Att: 15,311
MORECAMBE 1 GILLINGHAM 1
Obika 84 Jackson 73
HT: 0-0. Att: 4,499
OXFORD UTD 2 BOLTON 3
Bodin 9, 32 John 10, Fossey 38
Bakayoko 86
HT: 2-2. Att: 10,027
PLYMOUTH 1 SHREWSBURY 0
Grant 62
HT: 0-0. Att: 14,714
PORTSMOUTH 4 DONCASTER 0
Hackett-Fairchild 56, Hirst 63
O'Brien 81, Raggett 90+5
HT: 0-0. Att: 14,767
WIGAN 2 CHARLTON 1
Keane 26 (pen), Humphrys 74 Lee 7
HT: 1-1. Att: 9,657PWDLF AGDPts
1 Rotherham 30 20 5 5 55 18 3765
2 Wigan 28 18 5 5 50 27 2359
3 MK Dons 32 16 9 7 51 34 1757
4 Sunderland 32 16 7 9 56 44 1255
5 Wycombe 31 15 9 7 47 35 1254
6 Plymouth 30 15 8 7 52 36 1653
7 Oxford Utd 32 15 8 9 56 41 1553
8 Sheffield Wed30 14 10 6 42 32 1052
9 Ipswich 32 13 9 10 49 38 1148
10 Bolton 31 13 6 12 47 41 645
11 Portsmouth 30 12 8 10 38 31 744
12 Accrington 31 12 7 12 41 47-6 43
13 Burton Albion 31 11 7 13 38 40-2 40
14 Charlton 31 11 6 14 41 39 239
15 Cheltenham 31 9 12 10 38 49 -11 39
16 Cambridge Utd 31 9 11 11 40 45-5 38
17 Lincoln City 30 9 8 13 36 40-4 35
18 Shrewsbury 32 8 10 14 28 33-5 34
19 Fleetwood 31 7 11 13 44 53-9 32
20 AFC Wimbledon 31 6 13 12 37 47 -10 31
21 Morecambe 32 7 9 16 43 61 -18 30
22 Gillingham 32 5 11 16 26 53 -27 26
23 Crewe 31 5 7 19 26 56 -30 22
24 Doncaster 32 6 4 22 22 63 -41 22BARNET 1 WEALDSTONE 3
Richards-Everton 48 Ferguson 12
Umerah 30
Mundle-Smith 51
HT: 0-2. Att: 2,248
DOVER 1 TORQUAY 3
Goodman 25 Hall 2, Lewis 78
Duke-Mckenna 90
HT: 1-1. Att: 783
EASTLEIGH 0 YEOVIL 0
HT: 0-0. Att: 2,760
GRIMSBY 3 ALDERSHOT 1
Sousa 10 Glover 90
McAtee 39, 60
HT: 2-0. Att: 5,177
KING'S LYNN TOWN 0 ALTRINCHAM 1
Colclough 45+1
HT: 0-1. Att: 905
WEYMOUTH 1 CHESTERFIELD 1
Rose 90 Whittle 70
HT: 0-0. Att: 1,299
WOKING 2 SOUTHEND UTD 3
Effiong 47, 58 (pen) Demetriou 8, Powell 11
Cardwell 76
HT: 0-2. Att: 3,819
WHY OXFORD UNITED?
I’m not from Oxford, but I worked at
Radio Oxford in the early 1980s.
Seeing how the town thrived when
the team did well was a lightbulb
moment. I’ve been hooked ever
since.EARLY MEMORIES
Taking my son Billy to the
Manor when he was tiny. I
asked if they had a crèche.
They did: a corner of the
supporters’ club bar. A
barmaid kept an eye on
him and I’d check in at
half-time. Something
must have happened to
him though, because he
caught the bug. He’s an
even bigger Oxford nut
than me now.BEST OF TIMES
The big moments.
Winning the 1986 Milk Cup
Final at Wembley;
promotion back to theFootball League in 2010; beating
Premier League big boys Swansea
City, Newcastle United and West Ham
United in the cups and the joy on Joey
Beauchamp’s face after he scored a
wonder strike against Blackpool in
1996.WORST OF TIMES
Losing 5-0 to Bristol Rovers, or
“Ruh”, in 2000. Billy was about
seven. Ruh scored their first and he
said “we’re going to equalise”. He got
upset after the second, wanted to
leave after the third and tears were
streaming down his face by the
fourth. We heard the fifth as we
walked away. We could never call
them Bristol Rovers after that, only
Bristol Ruh...MY FAVOURITE PLAYER
Our forward Dave Kitson: a stunning
author, a great pundit and a
champion for mental health in sport.
He reminded me to be nice to my
team when they do bad: they’re
always trying.MY MOST FRUSTRATING PLAYER
The wonderful, lovely giant Kevin
Francis, but only once. We’re 1-0 up
against Chelsea in the 1999 FA Cup
with five minutes to go. Kevin, all 6ft
7in of him, comes on and you can see
fear in the Chelsea faces. They don’t
know what to do and we are
delighted. However, he trips over his
own boot and brings down Gianluca
Vialli in the penalty area. They
equalise and then win the replay. But
as you can tell, I hold no grudges.DO OXFORD UNITED REALLLY NEED A
NEW STADIUM?
It can blow a gale through our three-
sided ground and new stadiums
rejuvenate the area if they’re used all
year round for local sport. What you
don’t want is an enormous stadium
that you can never fill. Sometimes,
modesty is not a bad idea.GOING UP?
You don’t follow football to win, you
follow it to hope. Automatic
promotion out of League One this
season is a long shot, but I imagine
we’ll be in the play-offs and that will
mean absolute joy. Our manager Karl
Robinson has passion, a big smile and
he gets good stuff out of his players.
He thrills us. We like what we’re
seeing.John Aizlewood
Timmy Mallett’s Utterly Brilliant! My
Life’s Journey is available now,
published by SPCK. Hardback,
paperback, audiobook and e.book.moment. I’ve
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