Ipswich still second
PA-Reuter London A penalty by John Wark : enabled a frustrated Ipswich ■ to beat Bristol City 1-0 in an . English Football League match on Saturday and so! cling to Liverpool’s tail at the! i top of the first division. Ipswich remains one point■ ibehind the leaders. Liverpool,! but it looked as though the, , bottom - of - the - table City; ‘would foil the home team’s title challenge until a former! Leeds defender, Norman! Hunter, brought down the] Ipswich striker, Paul Mar-! iner, in the penalty box after ! 59 minutes. ! Liverpool, which has) played two more games than; Ipswich, stayed in front with! a lucky 1-0 win away to! Middlesbrough. The veteran! defender, Emlyn Hughes,:
scored the winner in the forty-first minute after a free kick by Kevin Keegan. Division one. -Derby County 0. Birmingham City 0: Ipswich. Town 1, Bristol City 0; Leicester City 3, Coventry City 1; Man-. Chester United 1. Leeds United 0: Middlesbrough 0, Liverpool 1;. Newcastle United 5, Norwich City 1: Queens Park Rangers 2., Arsenal 1; Tottenham Hotspur 0. West Bromwich Albion 2: West Ham United 1, Manchester City 0. Division two.—Blackburn Rovers 2. Orient 2; Blackpool 1. Bolton Wanderers 0; Bristol Rovers 0. Mill wall 0; Burnley I. Sheffield United 0; Cardiff City 5 I. Chelsea 3; Luton Town 1, Ply-, mouth Argyle 1: Nottingham Forest 2, Hull City 0: Oldham A th J letic 1, Notts County 1; Wolver-: hampton Wanderers 2, Hereford! United 1. Division three.—Bury 2. Mansfield Town 0; Chesterfield 1, Gil-1 lingham 0; Crystal Palace 3,. Brighton and Hove Albion 1: Grimsby Town 1. Rotherham United 1. Portsmouth 2, Shrews-
bury Town 0; Sheffield Wednesday 1. Lincoln City 1; Wrexham ;s Northampton Town 1; York ■ City 0, Preston North End 2. Division four.—Aidershot 1,. Darlington 2: Bournemouth 1, ; Rochdale 1: Brentford 4, Bradford City 0: Halifax Town 1, '■ Watford 1: Hartlepool 3. Scum, tliorpe United 0; Huddersfield Town 1, Barnsley 0; Workington, 2. Colchester United 4; Torquay; 'United I. Newport County 0. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Scottish Cup quarter-finals.— Arbroath 1, Dundee 3; Hearts 0, East Fife 0; Rangers 2, Mother- ; well 0. Premier division. —Aberdeen 0, Dundee United 1; Kilmarnock 0. iAyr United 1. Division one.—Clydebank 4. Dumbarton 2, Hamilton Academi- . cals 0. Airdrieonians 0; Morton 3. St Mirren 0. division two. —Albion Rovers 2,. Stranraer 1: Alloa 2, Stenhousemuir I; Berwick r,angers 0. .Meadowbank Thistle 0; Brechin 'Citv 1. Forfar Athletic 2: Dumfermline Athletic 2, Cowdenbeath 0: East Stirling 0, Stirling ■ tlbion 2; Queens Park 4, Clvdei 0.
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