And then there were 4, Brighton edge away from danger

City's failure to win today was capitalised on by Brighton, they beat struggling Gillingham at The Withdean Stadium. Brighton are now 5 points ahead of City thus leaving 4 teams to battle it out for the three relegation places. We need some wins to keep on the tail of Brighton, we can't afford to get left behind.

There was hope today for Rotherham, their first away win of the season means they are only 8 points away from City. Gillingham as mentioned above lost as so did Forest, they went down 3 - 2 at West Ham. The bottom half of the table looks like this

13	Preston North End	25		8	2	2	22	12		1	4	8	8	24		9	6	10	30	36		33	-6
14	Leicester City	25		3	5	5	12	13		4	6	2	15	11		7	11	7	27	24		32	+3
15	Plymouth Argyle	25		5	4	4	15	15		4	1	7	15	19		9	5	11	30	34		32	-4
16	Leeds United	25		4	4	4	16	12		3	5	5	13	15		7	9	9	29	27		30	+2
17	Wolverhampton Wanderers	25		4	5	3	20	16		3	4	6	14	18		7	9	9	34	34		30	0
18	Watford	25		2	7	3	13	11		4	4	5	16	18		6	11	8	29	29		29	0
19	Coventry City	25		5	4	4	16	14		2	4	6	14	24		7	8	10	30	38		29	-8
20	Brighton & Hove Albion	25		4	3	6	11	15		4	1	7	8	18		8	4	13	19	33		28	-14
21	Cardiff City	25		4	3	6	12	14		1	5	6	14	20		5	8	12	26	34		23	-8
22	Nottingham Forest	25		4	5	3	14	15		0	4	9	11	23		4	9	12	25	38		21	-13
23	Gillingham	25		5	1	6	11	17		1	2	10	12	28		6	3	16	23	45		21	-22
24	Rotherham United	25		1	5	6	10	17		1	4	8	7	18		2	9	14	17	35		15	-18

Results from Sunday December 26th.

Brighton	2	Gillingham	1	FT
Carpenter 79 Virgo 88		Crofts 34
Attend: 6,420		Half-time: 0-1
Cardiff	1	Wolverhampton	1	FT
Jerome 17		Miller 75
Attend: 16,699		Half-time: 1-0
Coventry	1	Sheff Utd	2	FT
John 19		Morgan 33 Gray 40
Attend: 21,146		Half-time: 1-2
Leicester	0	Rotherham	1	FT
		Barker 37
Attend: 27,014		Half-time: 0-1
Millwall	3	Ipswich	1	FT
Hayles 45 Dichio 52 Dobie 79		Kuqi 62
Attend: 14,532		Half-time: 1-0
Plymouth	2	QPR	1	FT
Wotton 13 Evans 49		Furlong 53
Attend: 19,535		Half-time: 1-0
Reading	3	Watford	0	FT
Sonko 3 Sidwell 76 Owusu 88
Attend: 18,757		Half-time: 1-0
Stoke	0	Preston	0	FT
Attend: 20,350		Half-time: 0-0
Sunderland	2	Leeds	3	FT
Lawrence pen 43 Arca 90		Lennon 30 Deane 61 Joachim 85
Attend: 43,253		Half-time: 1-1
West Ham	3	Nottm Forest	2	FT
Etherington 17 Sheringham 39 , 82		Johnson 65 , 68
Attend: 32,270		Half-time: 2-0
Wigan	1	Derby	2	FT
Roberts 27		Rasiak 64 Smith 82
Attend: 12,420		Half-time: 1-0