More woe for Keane

ROY KEANE suffered yet more frustration last night as his Ipswich Town side again let a lead slip, this time in the 90th minute to end up with only a point with a 1-1 draw at home to Watford.

The Blues remain bottom of the pile after Nathan Ellington’s equaliser in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage-time for the Hornets, after Gareth McAuley’s fifth-minute effort had seemed destined to ease some of the pressure on Keane.

Elsewhere, Cardiff and Middlesbrough closed the gap on West Brom and Newcastle to a solitary point as the Coca-Cola Championship’s top two clubs both lost last night.

Cardiff’s 2-0 win at home to Coventry – after goals from Anthony Gerrard (five) and a Peter Whittingham penalty on the hour – was all the more valuable following Newcastle’s surprise 2-1 defeat at Scunthorpe and West Brom’s equally unexpected 1-0 setback at home to Swansea.

Similarly, there was good reason for Boro celebration too after Adam Johnson struck twice – with a 22nd-minute penalty and then again just before the hour – to put them within a whisker of the top.

The Magpies came unstuck at Glanford Park, where Martyn Woolford’s goals after 53 minutes and 79 minutes ruined their night and Kevin Nolan’s goal after 65 minutes did not do enough to save them.

The architect of West Brom’s downfall was painfully familiar, Swansea’s Craig Beattie scoring the only goal of the game against his old team at The Hawthorns.