Norwich promoted as Sunderland are slain at the Palace

Sunderlands automatic promotion hopes hit a fatal snag tonight when they lost 3 - 0 at Crystal Palace. The Black Cats can still catch second placed WBA but only mathematically. Albion would have to lose their 4 remaining games and Sunderland win their 4 games. Also a goal difference of -11 as far as Sunderland is concerned means they are looking at the play offs with WBA needing just 1 more point.

That means that Norwich are promoted. Congratulations to Delia and her chefs.

Palace's win puts them level with West Ham on 67 points. West Ham are 6th, Palace are 7th.

Who would have thought that just 11 days ago we were above Palace with a home game against them. Since then they have picked up 10 points compared to our 3.

To be honest to be talking about City in such circles is a fair achievement and to think that we go into MatchDay 44 of 46 still with a mathmatical chance of a play off place means we've done bloody well this season.

Only three wins will do for City, and even then we'd need to see a set of results that would make a far eastern gambling syndicate blush, so it's Division 1 again next season.

League table after matches on April 21st.

Team	P	Home					Away					Pts	Goal Diff
		W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A
Norwich	42	17	3	2	41	13	8	7	5	30	21	85	37
West Brom	42	13	5	3	32	14	11	6	4	29	21	83	26
Sunderland	42	12	7	2	31	14	8	4	9	27	29	71	15
Ipswich	43	12	2	7	47	33	9	6	7	34	35	71	13
Wigan	43	11	6	4	28	15	7	9	6	31	28	69	16
West Ham	43	11	7	4	38	20	6	9	6	22	24	67	16
Crystal Palace	43	9	8	5	33	25	10	2	9	34	32	67	10
Millwall	43	10	8	3	27	14	7	7	8	27	31	66	9
Sheff Utd	43	11	5	6	36	24	8	4	9	24	28	66	8
Reading	43	10	6	6	28	25	8	4	9	25	31	64	-3
Cardiff	43	10	5	7	39	24	7	6	8	25	30	62	10
Stoke	42	10	6	4	31	21	6	5	11	21	31	59	0
Coventry	43	8	8	5	31	20	7	5	10	28	30	58	9
Preston	43	11	5	5	38	24	4	7	11	24	39	57	-1
Watford	43	8	8	5	29	26	6	4	12	23	36	54	-10
Crewe	43	11	3	7	30	20	3	7	12	23	39	52	-6
Nottm Forest	43	7	9	6	32	25	5	6	10	24	32	51	-1
Rotherham	43	7	8	7	28	27	5	6	10	19	30	50	-10
Burnley	43	8	6	7	35	30	4	8	10	23	42	50	-14
Derby	43	10	5	7	37	33	2	8	11	14	32	49	-14
Walsall	43	7	7	7	26	28	5	5	12	16	33	48	-19
Gillingham	43	10	1	11	26	29	3	7	11	18	32	47	-17
Bradford	43	6	3	13	23	33	4	3	14	15	31	36	-26
Wimbledon	43	2	4	15	19	38	5	0	17	19	48	25	-48