All happy down at the Valley.CHARLTON regained top spot in Coca-Cola League One thanks to a 2-1 win over Huddersfield at The Valley. Sam Sodje Samuel Okeremute Sodje (born 25 May 1979 in Greenwich, England) is a Nigerian centre half currently playing his football with Charlton Athletic whilst on loan from Premier League side Reading for the duration of the 2007-08 season. put Charlton in front after five minutes, with Anthony Pilkington Anthony Pilkington (born 6 june, 1988 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English football player. He plays for Stockport County, and plays on either wing or up front. He helped Stockport's push for the playoffs by scoring five goals in his first 20 games of being a professional replying for the visitors on 38 minutes, before forward Izale McLeod Izale Michael McLeod (born October 15, 1984, Birmingham, England) is a striker for English Championship team Charlton Athletic. Club career McLeod began his career at Derby County on August 1st, 2002 scoring 4 goals in 41 appearances. grabbed the winner early in the second half. Charlton are a now a point ahead of Leeds, who have two games in hand, starting with Norwich's visit to Elland Road Elland Road is the home stadium of the football team Leeds United. It is currently the 11th largest football stadium in England and the largest stadium in Yorkshire. It is also the largest English stadium outside of the Premiership, and the largest in League 1. on Monday. MK Dons moved up to third, courtesy of a 2-0 win at home to Gillingham. Jermaine Easter Jermaine Maurice Easter (born January 15 1982 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh professional footballer currently playing for League Two side Wycombe Wanderers. He plays as a striker for the club, and wears the number 9 shirt. gave the Dons a 61st-minute lead and Aaron Wilbraham made sure of the points with a lastminute clincher. Colchester missed the chance to go second when they were held 1-1 at Wycombe, who salvaged a draw though an 87th-minute goal from Jon-Paul Pittman. Despite their point, Wycombe drop to the bottom after Southampton gained a 3-1 win at Oldham. Dean Hammond, Richard Lambert and David Connolly got the goals for Saints, who began the season on minus ten points. Neil Harris scored a hattrick in Millwall's 4-0 win at Stockport that lifted them to ninth in the table and Swindon missed a chance to climb into the play-off places when they lost 2-0 at home to Hartlepool. Tranmere gained a 2-1 win over Brighton, Leyton Orient beat Brentford by the same score and Southend beat fifthplaced Bristol Rovers 2-1 Ryan Mason, on loan from Tottenham, got two goals in Yeovil's 3-1 win over Carlisle. Bournemouth stayed top of Coca-Cola League Two thanks to victory at Accrington, where captain Danny Hollands headed the only goal of the game after 76 minutes. Dagenham and Redbridge are just a point behind the leaders after Paul Benson and Abu Ogogo scored the goals in a 2-1 win over Bradford, for whom Michael Flynn had earlier equalised. Rochdale climbed to third place thanks to a 2-0 win at Grimsby, who have now lost four successive matches, courtesy of an early goal from Adam Rundle and the clincher from Chris O'Grady five minutes from the end. Rotherham dropped out of the top three after being held to a 0-0 draw by Notts County. The Millers also had Nick Fenton sent off for a second bookable offence. Bury gained a 3-2 win over Aldershot thanks to Efe Sodje's 76th-minute winner, while Steve Guinan got the only goal to help Northampton beat Lincoln 1-0. Torquay drew 2-2 with Morecambe. |
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