Birmingham stayed top of the table, Nottingham Forest stayed bottom of the table and there were more red cards for this edition of the Championship.

Barnsley 0 Bristol City 0

Birmingham 3( O’Connor 11′, 15′, Phillips 38′) Sheffield Wednesday 1 ( Easjas 14′)

Blackpool 2 ( Burgess 48′, Evatt 65′) Crystal Palace 2 ( Ifill 28′, Beattie 49′)

Charlton 1 ( Todorov 76′) Burnley 1 ( Thompson 13′)

Coventry 1 ( Morrison 90′) Derby County 1 ( Hulse 41′)

Norwich 2( Sibierski 83′, Lita 90′) Doncaster 1 ( Stock (pen) 77′)

Nottingham Forest 0 Cardiff City 1( McCormack (pen) 54′)

Plymouth 1 ( Cathcart 79′) Ipswich 3( Garvan 28′, 42′, Lisbie 48′)

Sheffield United 1( Ehiogu 50′) Preston 0

Swansea City 3( Pratley 12′, Gomez 58′, Butler 72′) Southampton 0

Watford 2 ( Rasiak 21′, O’Toole 47′) Wolves 3( Iwelumo 1′, Jones 40′, Grey 71′)

Reading 0 QPR 0

Red Cards:

Jimmy Smith (Sheffield Wednesday)

David Norris (Ipswich Town)

The top two clubs in the Championship swapped positions again, Derby County’s unbeaten streak was snapped and Nottingham Forest still sit rooted to the foot of the table. Four red cards were shown on Tuesday along with goals galore.

Barnsley 2 (Hume 4′, Campbell-Ryce (pen) 61′) Sheffield Wednesday 1 (Clarke (pen) 69′)

Birmingham 1 (O’Connor 90′) Crystal Palace 0

Blackpool 3 (Gow 35′, Taylor-Fletcher 43′, Burgess 65′) Derby County 2 (Commons 58′, Sterjovski 77′)

Charlton 0 Bristol City 2 ( Trundell 27′, Williams 52′)

Coventry 1 (Ward (pen) 40′) Burnley 3 (Duff 52′, Blake 88′, Eagles 90′)

Norwich 5 (Ikeme (og) 28′, Lita 39′, 58′ 70′, Croft 75′) Wolves 2 (Collins 41′, Ebanks-Blake (pen) 67′)

Nottingham Forest 1 ( McCleary 31′) Ipswich Town 1 ( Miller (pen) 52′)

Plymouth 1 ( Fallon 18′) Preston 0

Sheffield United 0 Southampton 0

Swansea City 0 QPR 0

Watford 2 ( O’Toole 2′, Hoskins 24′) Carfdiff City 2 (Bothroyd 72′,75′)

Reading 2 ( Bikey 18, Doyle 76′) Doncaster 1 ( Nieustadt 74′)

Red Cards:

Tony McMahon (Sheffield Wednesday)

Oliver Lancashire ( Southampton)

Tamas Priskin (Watford)

Richard Stearman ( Wolves)

Bristol City 1 (McCombe 71′) Norwich 0

Burnley 1 (McCann 25′) Birmingham 1 (Jerome 77′)Watford 3

Cardiff City 2 (McCormack 18′, 52′) Charlton 0

Derby County 2 ( Hulse 45′, Green 52′) Plymouth 1 (Gallagher 8′)

Doncaster 0 Blackpool 0

Ipswich Town 2 (Counago 43′, 82′) Swansea City 2 (Boddie 49′, Gomez 69′)

Preston 2 (Ingimarsson (og) 55′, Elliot 81) Reading 1 (Hunt (pen) 27′)

QPR 2 (Balanta 48′, Buzsaky 60′) Nottingham Forest 1 (McGugan 84′)

Southampton 0 Watford 3 (Priskin 10′, 41′, Eustace 30′, )

Wolves 2 (Knightly 42′, Ebanks-Blake 59′) Coventry City 1 (Mifsud 6′)

Crystal Palace 3 ( Watson (pen) 25′, 60′, Kugi 82′) Barnsley 0

Sheffield Wednesday 1 (Watson 35′) Sheffield United 0

Red Cards:

Killgallon (Sheff Utd)

Johnson (Sheff Wed)

Semedo (Charlton)

Hudson (Charlton)

Wolves and Birmingham kept up their push for the two automatic promotion spots to the Premier League,  Derby County finally got their first league win in 361 days making this writer a very happy girl. Here are all the scores from this weekends action, the Championship resumes this Tuesday with a full slate of matches.

Birmingham 1(Jerome 46′) Doncaster 0 

Blackpool 1(Kabba 86′) Barnsley 0

Cardiff 0 Bristol City 0

Charlton 1 (Bailey 3′) Wolves 3(Ebanks-Blake (pen) 61′, Vokes 81′, 87′)

Coventry 0 Preston 0

Crystal Palace 2(Watson 28′,Carle 66′) Swansea City 0

Ipswich 2 ( Stead 63′, Walters 86′) Reading 0

Nottingham Forest 1 (Earnshaw 52′) Burnley 2 (Alexander 25, (pen) 70′)

Plymouth 1 (Gallagher 90′) Norwich 2(Lupoli 15′, Sibierski 59′)

Sheffield Wednesday 2(Tudgay 22′, Spurr 55′) Watford 0

Derby County 2( Green24′, Hulse 71′) Sheffield United 1 (Hendersen 26′) The 361 winless league streak is over!!

QPR 4(Blackstock 1′, 77′, Stewart 63′, Agyemang 90′) Southampton 1 (Lallana 53′)

Week Two in the CCC is over and here are the scores and goal scorers that led thier clubs to vital points this week.

Burnley 0 Ipswich Town 3( Trotter 34′, Lisbie 41′, Jordan 88′ (og))

Southampton 1 ( Perry 43′) Birmingham 2 ( O’Conner 49′, Phillips 77′)

Doncaster 1 ( Guy 67′) Cardiff City 1 ( McCormack 88′)

Norwich 1 ( Russell 74′) Blackpool 1 ( Burgess 55′ (pen) )

Preston NE 2( Nicholson 58′, Chaplow 90′) Crystal Palace 0

Reading 2( Sonko 13′, 50′) Plymouth 0

Sheffield United 3 ( Sharp 3′, 13′, 51′) QPR 0

Swansea City 3( Smith 9′ (og), Boddie 71, Pintado 86′) Nottingham Forest 1 ( Perch 35′) Well done Swans!

Watford 1 ( Smith 28′) Charlton 0

Wolves 4( Iwelumo 28′ 59′, Ebanks-Blake 54′ (pen), Edwards 90′) Sheffield Wednesday 1 ( Easjas 15′)

Barnsley 1 ( Howard 44′) Coventry City 2 ( Eastwood 12′, Gray 68′)

Bristol City 1 ( Maynard 23′) Derby County 1 (Green 51′)

Congratulations to Billy Sharp of Sheffield United for getting the only hat trick in this weeks matches.

On Saturday the CCC season officially started as 24 teams battle to win promotion to the English Premier League and the riches that would come with that promotion. For the three promoted teams, Swansea City, Nottingham Forest and Doncaster, they are looking to establish themselves and avoid an immediate return to League One while Reading, Birmingham and Derby County look to bounce straight back to the EPL. One thing that is known about the CCC, there is no sure thing in this division and anything can happen. Here the results from the first weekend of action.

Birmingham City 1 (Kevin Phillips 90′) Sheffield United 0

Blackpool 0 Bristol City 1(Steve Brooker 90′)

Cardiff City 2(Steven Thompson 41,Roger Johnson 90′) Southampton 1 (David McGoldrick 45′)

Charlton 2 (Mark Hudson 3′, Andy Gray 85′) Swansea City 0

Coventry City 2 (Elliot Ward,pen 48′, Leon McKenzie 86′) Norwich City 0

Crystal Palace 0 Watford 0

Derby County 0 Doncaster 1 (Lewis Guy 59′)

Ipswich 1 (Kevin Lisbie 2′) Preston NE 2(Paul McKenna 21, Simon Whaley 34)

Plymouth 2 (Rory Fallon 7′, Marcel Siep 55′) Wolves 2 (Michael Knightly 19′, Sam Vokes 78′)

QPR 2(Fritz Hall 29,31′) Barnsley 1 (Iain Hume 5′)

Sheffield Wednesday 4(Marcus Tudgay 1′,65′, Apko Sodje 4’17′) Burnely 1 (Martin Paterson 6′)

Nottingham Forest 0 Reading 0

The Carling Cup is next up for the CCC teams on Tuesday and Wednesday then back to CCC action on Saturday.