Championship: Despite failing to properly get his head to a free-kick aimed towards the far post, Jack Robinson somehow manages to take advantage of some slapstick defending to bundle the ball over the line anyway and equalise for Birmingham City against 10-man Derby County. It’s as scruffy a goal as you’ll ever see but the home fans at St Andrew’s won’t care.
Millwall 0-0 Ipswich Town: It’s half-time at the Den, where the deadlock between Millwall and Ipswich remains resolutely unbroken.
Afcon: In today’s early match, Knowledge Musona scored for Zimbabwe in the sixth minute of time added on at the end of the first half to cancel out Gelson Dala’s opener for Angola. It’s 1-1 in Marrakesh.
Birmingham 0-1 Derby County: The second half is well under way at St Andrew’s, where Birmingham City trail 1-0 and have just had an excellent shout for a penalty inexplicably turned down. With both his arms wrapped around Marvin Ducksch, Derby defender Matt Clarke fell backwards in his own penalty area, clearly dragging the Birmingham striker to ground with him. He gets away with it.
There will have been no shortage of glasses raised in Nottingham, Scotland and beyond yesterday in memory of John Robertson, following news of his death at the age of 72. The winger was a hugely important member of Brian Clough’s great Forest team that rose from the second tier of English football to win multiple major honours, most famously back-to-back European Cups.
