Phillips: Winning strike

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Barnsley 4 Doncaster 1
Birmingham 1 QPR 0
Blackpool 1 Cardiff City 1
Charlton 2 Ipswich 1
Coventry 4 Southampton 1
Norwich 1 Derby 2
Nottm Forest 0 C.Palace 2
Plymouth 4 Sheff Weds 0
Reading 3 Burnley 1
Sheff Utd 3 Bristol City 0
Swansea City 3 Wolves 1
Watford 2 Preston NE 1

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Birmingham climbed back to the summit of the Championship with victory over QPR as Wolves were beaten at Swansea.

Reading continued their red-hot home form as they cruised past Burnley at the Madejski Stadium, while Sheffield Wednesday were well beaten at Plymouth.

Kevin Phillips scored the only goal of the game in front of the Sky Sports cameras in the lunchtime kick-off as Birmingham took all three points against out-of-form QPR.

Wolves would have gone back top with a point at Swansea, but they left Wales empty-handed with Roberto Martinez's men claiming a 3-1 victory as two goals from Jason Scotland extended their unbeaten home run.

Reading had found the net 16 times in four straight home league victories at the Madejski Stadium, and they made short work of seeing off fellow high-flyers Burnley 3-1 with brothers Noel and Stephen Hunt on target again.

Ten-man Barnsley triumphed 4-1 in their battle against fellow strugglers Doncaster at Oakwell, coming from behind to romp to victory with an astonishing comeback after Darren Moore had been dismissed early in the second half.

Rams raid Norwich

And Derby overcame the dismissal of goalkeeper Roy Carroll to take all three points with a 2-1 victory at Norwich as Nathan Ellington hit the winner five minutes from time.

Sheffield Wednesday slipped down the table after suffering a 4-0 reverse at Plymouth, with three of the goals coming in the first half of the game as Paul Sturrock enjoyed the meeting with his former club.

Blackpool snatched a point from their lunchtime home meeting against Cardiff with Alan Gow lashing home an injury-time equaliser to secure a 1-1 draw.

Sheffield United climbed into the play-off places with an impressive 3-0 victory over last season's beaten finalists Bristol City at Bramall Lane with James Beattie bagging a brace.

Watford recovered from the setback of conceding an early goal at home to Preston, with Jon Harley and Tommy Smith on target in their 2-1 win.

Nottingham Forest's woes continued as they suffered their seventh defeat in 10 Championship games, going down 2-0 at home to fellow strugglers Crystal Palace.

Moritz Volz put through his own net to hand Charlton victory as the Addicks defeated Ipswich 2-1 at The Valley to climb away from the wrong end of the table.

Coventry moved up to sixth in the table as they brought Southampton's four-game unbeaten run to an abrupt end with a 4-1 victory at the Ricoh Arena, thanks to two goals from Jay Tabb.