Crystal Palace 1 Wigan Athletic 1

Firstly I would like to congratulate myself on the prediction I made. My predictions of recent times have been very poor, as you can see by the placing of the Wiganer.net side in the BTM table.

I predicted that it would be a 1-1 draw with Jason Roberts getting the Wigan goal. It did end 1-1 but Ellington got the Wigan goal.

The game by all accounts was not a classic and if anything Wigan we're lucky to come home with anything.

The Latics took the lead through Nathan Ellington just before half time after his shot deflected off Popovic and over Vaeson.

Granville brought Palace back into the game with 11 minutes to go before Jason Roberts and Jason Jarrett we're stupidly sent off.

Jewell was very unhappy with the decisions made by the referee and may be landed in hot water for his comments.

Jewell said: "I read in the programme that this referee wants to be in the Premiership, but I'd like to see how he handles some aggressive players there. I don't think he even saw what happened between Roberts and Popovic, but the crowd made him think something had gone on."

Here's how the table stands.

Last game played on Saturday 17th April 2004		Pld		Home						Away						Overall						Pts	GD
				W	D	L	F	A		W	D	L	F	A		W	D	L	F	A
1	Norwich City	42		17	3	2	41	13		8	7	5	30	21		25	10	7	71	34		85	+37
2	West Bromwich Albion	41		13	5	3	32	14		10	6	4	28	21		23	11	7	60	35		80	+25
3	Sunderland	40		12	7	1	31	13		8	4	8	27	26		20	11	9	58	39		71	+19
4	Ipswich Town	43		12	2	7	47	33		9	6	7	34	35		21	8	14	81	68		71	+13
5	Wigan Athletic	43		11	6	4	28	15		7	9	6	31	28		18	15	10	59	43		69	+16
6	West Ham United	43		11	7	4	38	20		6	9	6	22	24		17	16	10	60	44		67	+16
7	Millwall	42		10	8	2	26	12		7	7	8	27	31		17	15	10	53	43		66	+10
8	Sheffield United	43		11	5	6	36	24		8	4	9	24	28		19	9	15	60	52		66	+8
9	Crystal Palace	42		8	8	5	30	25		10	2	9	34	32		18	10	14	64	57		64	+7
10	Reading	43		10	6	6	28	25		8	4	9	25	31		18	10	15	53	56		64	-3
11	Cardiff City	43		10	5	7	39	24		7	6	8	25	30		17	11	15	64	54		62	+10
12	Stoke City	42		10	6	4	31	21		6	5	11	21	31		16	11	15	52	52		59	0
13	Coventry City	43		8	8	5	31	20		7	5	10	28	30		15	13	15	59	50		58	+9
14	Preston North End	43		11	5	5	38	24		4	7	11	24	39		15	12	16	62	63		57	-1
15	Crewe Alexandra	43		11	3	7	30	20		3	7	12	23	39		14	10	19	53	59		52	-6
16	Nottingham Forest	43		7	9	6	32	25		5	6	10	24	32		12	15	16	56	57		51	-1
17	Watford	42		8	8	5	29	26		5	4	12	21	35		13	12	17	50	61		51	-11
18	Rotherham United	43		7	8	7	28	27		5	6	10	19	30		12	14	17	47	57		50	-10
19	Derby County	43		10	5	7	37	33		2	8	11	14	32		12	13	18	51	65		49	-14
20	Walsall	43		7	7	7	26	28		5	5	12	16	33		12	12	19	42	61		48	-19
21	Burnley	42		7	6	7	33	30		4	8	10	23	42		11	14	17	56	72		47	-16
22	Gillingham	43		10	1	11	26	29		3	7	11	18	32		13	8	22	44	61		47	-17
23	[R] Bradford City	43		6	3	13	23	33		4	3	14	15	31		10	6	27	38	64		36	-26
24	[R] Wimbledon	42		2	4	15	19	38		5	0	16	19	46		7	4	31	38	84		25	-46