<div class="headline" id="ds-headline"><h1>Barnsley 2 Crystal Palace </h1><h1><font size="1">Barnsley manager Simon Davey insists his team have not yet beaten the threat of relegation despite moving five points clear of the drop zone.</font></h1></div><div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">Daniel Nardiello was the hero against Palace, smashing a sublime opener in the first half before hitting his sixth goal in four games with a controversial penalty after the break. The result, Barnsley's third straight win – their best sequence of results this season – takes the Tykes to within a point of safety, but Davey refused to accept the battle is over. He said: "There'll be no resting on our laurels. There's too much at stake for us to do anything like that. "We have won three games in a row, which is brilliant, but it'll only be worth something if we stay up. I won't say we are safe until it's mathematically certain." <font color="#ff0000" size="3">Davey also refused to confirm that Nardiello, whose contract expires at the end of the season, would be at the club next term. "He's doing well at the moment, but no decision has been made," he said. "Obviously he's scoring goals and doing great and you want to keep your best players. At the end of the season we will see what happens, but at the moment he is scoring goals and long may it continue." Nardiello expressed his desire to remain at Oakwell. He said: "I'd like to stay. I'm enjoying my football and it's going well. I like this club. But I don't really know what's going to happen, to be honest with you." </font> Palace manager Peter Taylor paid tribute to his opposite number, but was left fuming by Nardiello's re-taken penalty. Julian Speroni saved the first effort, but was adjudged by the linesman to have moved before the ball was hit, paving the way for Nardiello to blast home the retake. Taylor reflected: "Whether he moved too soon or not I don't know, but what I do know is there are hundreds of instances like that and nothing is done about it. This guy has ordered a retake when that never really happens. There's no consistency. "On the whole I thought the referee was superb, but his assistant was not. When the time comes for me to write my reports about referees at the end of the season, I'll do my usual thing of complaining about the assistants. "If the score had stayed at 1-0 then we had a chance, because we were creating chances, but 2-0 killed us. <font color="#990099" size="3">"But I don't want to take anything away from Barnsley. They played very well, like we knew they would, and they deserved to win."</font> Indeed, just 35 seconds had passed when Nardiello raced clear of Gary Borrowdale only to misjudge the bounce of Sam Togwell's through ball, allowing Julian Speroni to clear. It was a close call and for want of a better touch, it could have been the perfect start for the Tykes, but Nardiello was not done. First he stunned Speroni with a turning strike from the edge of the area which drifted marginally wide, and then he outfoxed him and two defenders when he created and executed the opener on 14 minutes. Collecting the ball close to the touchline inside the Palace half, he strode inside before accelerating beyond defenders and curling a deflected shot past Speroni. It was a stunning opener, but it served to jolt Palace only for Shefki Kuqi to waste a couple of chances. Anthony Kay, eyeing a new contract, turned in a super defensive performance after the break and Nardiello wrapped up the win, having won the spot-kick award. Barnsley: Colgan, Austin, P Reid, Kay, Heckingbottom, Devaney (Jones 70), Togwell, Howard, K Reid, Nardiello (Rajczi 81), Ferenczi. Unused substitutes: Lucas, McCann, Atkinson. Crystal Palace: Speroni, Lawrence, Hudson, Cort, Soares, McAnuff, Watson (Martin 58), Borrowdale, Fletcher, Kuqi (Scowcroft 72), Morrison (Grabban 77). Unused substitutes: Kiraly, Butterfield. Referee: A Marriner (W Midlands). Reds man of the match: Daniel Nardiello.</div><div class="ds-modifieddate">Last Updated: 23 April 2007</div>
RE: Could you post up their report of the Leeds game please?! nt <div class="headline" id="ds-headline"><h1>Southampton 1 Leeds United 0</h1></div><div class="viewarticlepanel"><div class="multiimageoff" id="MainMultiImage"><div id="ThumbDiv"><div class="thumb"><div class="off noprint" id="divGalleryLink"><a href="javascript:%20ViewGallery();" /></div>By Andy Sims</div></div></div></div><div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara"><font color="#3300cc" size="3">Leeds manager Dennis Wise launched into a familiar tirade against the match officials</font> after Alan Thompson was sent off during the first half of the defeat at Southampton.</div><div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">Thompson was shown a red card by referee Tony Bates in the 32nd minute after grabbing Jon Viafara round the neck, but Wise was adamant Saints defender Chris Baird was the guilty party for throwing a punch at the Leeds midfield man. The incident left Leeds with a mountain to climb, although they held out until six minutes from time when substitute Bradley Wright-Phillips hooked home a dramatic winner. "I hope everyone shows it and I hope they also show Chris Baird punching Alan Thompson in the face," said Wise. "The linesman has made the decision but he was 40 yards away. Alan Thompson has pulled Viafara away from Eddie Lewis because they were going to clash, and the officials have misunderstood the situation. "They also missed Chris Baird punching Alan Thompson. I'm waiting to go and see them but they like to get their stories straight so we have to wait and see. We will be appealing against it, hopefully they'll change it but it won't change the result. <font color="#0000cc" size="3">I'm always talking about the refs, it's all I've done since I came to Leeds.</font> But they should be penalised, this is people's living and they need to look at themselves." Saints chief George Burley took a diplomatic view of the incident, insisting: "I didn't see it, it was off the ball. But the linesman was only five or 10 yards away. I'm sure if Chris had thrown a punch he would have been sent off." <font color="#0000cc"><font size="3">Wise also took a swipe at Bolton, who recalled key centre-half Lubomir Michalik from his loan spell on Friday and came on as a first-half substitute against Reading after Nicky Hunt had to go off. "We got a phone call at 12 on Friday saying they wanted to take him back, and then they just put him on the bench," moaned Wise.</font> </font> Defeat leaves the <font color="#0000cc" size="3">once-mighty Whites</font> staring at the drop down to League One, a point from safety after fourth-bottom Hull drew with Stoke. Leeds withstood almost constant pressure on their goal, with Grzegorz Rasiak, Kenwyne Jones, Andrew Surman and Viafara all missing gilt-edged chances. But Wright-Phillips climbed off the bench to tuck away fellow substitute Djamel Belmadi's cross to shove Leeds another step closer to the drop. "We've got to rely on other teams now as well as get our results right," added Wise, whose side entertain Ipswich on Saturday before signing off at Derby. "But it can all change again next Saturday. After 84 minutes here we were fourth from bottom, it's a funny game. <font color="#cc0000" size="3">I think it's between us and Hull now." </font> The outlook is brighter for Saints, who are up to seventh and still on course to gatecrash the play-offs with remaining games against Norwich and Southend. Southampton: Bialkowski, Baird, Pele, Lundekvam, Surman, Idiakez (Belmadi 65), Guthrie, Viafara (Wright-Phillips 54), Skacel, Rasiak (Best 88), Jones. Unused substitutes: Davis, Cranie. Leeds United: Ankergren, Richardson, Heath, Rui Marques, R Elliott, Blake (Foxe 38), Kishishev, Thompson, Lewis (Kandol 85), Cresswell, Healy (Armando Sa 65). Unused substitutes: Stack, Moore. Referee: A Bates (Staffordshire). Leeds man of the match: Matt Heath.</div>
Thanks, much as I thought Winge....referee winge....linesman winge..."all I've done since I came here is complain about officials" - explains your position then! winge....Bolton having the audicity to recall their player so they had cover on the bench "We've got to rely on other teams now" - you had to do that before Saturday, and you'd have had to do that even if you had got a point. Hope they continue to blame everyone else