midweek round-up

So, in a week that has witnessed devastation in New Zealand, and the all together more avoidable loss of life in Libya, the relatively unimportant business of football continued.

Man Utd played out a bore draw in France with Chris Smalling displaying the sort of form that convinced Sir Alex to shell out nearly £10 million for the unproven Englishman last summer. Chelsea won at a canter in Denmark and Nicolas Anelka's goalscoring form will leave his manager with a real selection headache ahead of Man Utd's visit to Stamford Bridge on Tuesday evening. 

QPR continued their seemingly unstoppable march to the Championship title with a home victory against Ipswich, Cardiff secured a much needed win against ever improving Leicester and Nottingham Forest's fine form stuttered somewhat with a surprising home draw against bottom of the league Preston. Watford's hopes of automatic promotion took a heavy blow with a home defeat to Bristol City and Hornet's fans will now look to the play-off's as their only real hope of a return to the big league. 

Finally, it would be rude not to mention Blackpool's stunning 3-1 victory over a jaded Tottenham. A combination of poor finishing and even worse defending left Spurs ruing a missed opportunity to climb to 3rd in the Premiership and Redknapp will need to ensure such mistakes aren't repeated in their next game, another tricky away trip to relegation battlers Wolves. Oh, and Arsenal beat Stoke...