Marcus Bent’s move to Charlton Athletic means that they have five players who were once together at Ipswich Town: Marcus Bent, Darren Bent, Darren Ambrose, Hermann Hreidarsson and Matt Holland. Birmingham City have four former Blackburn Rovers team-mates (David Dunn, Martin Taylor, Damien Johnson and Chris Sutton) and three who were once together at Chelsea (Mario Melchiot, Mikael Forssell and Sutton).
For the second successive season, Coventry City scored six times at home to Derby County with five of their goals coming from Stern John (two), Gary McSheffrey (two, including a penalty) and Dele Adebola and Paul Peschisolido replying for Derby.
Colchester United top Coca-Cola League One yet have the division’s lowest average attendance. Their figure of 3,487 is more than 1,000 fewer than the next lowest, Hartlepool United.
Last week Arsenal signed Theo Walcott, an Englishman. Their previous 21 signings had been foreign.