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The last part ended on an 8-match winning run that took us to the top of the league before meeting second-placed Arsenal. The match is swung by a first half sending-off for Arsenal, they lead 1-0 but after that we dominate with Lionel Morgan scoring twice from outside the box. The tables are turned at Old Trafford in the next match as Zema Abbey is shown red for elbowing Rio Ferdinand (who came blame him really), we survive the whole second half with 10 men to get a valuable point. Abbey misses the FA Cup quarter-final, we beat Arsenal 2-1, and the league meeting with Chelsea which is a tight dull contest until Seth Johnson's last minute header wins it. Another late goal and another 1-0 win, Jesper Gronkjaer helps us see off Everton to keep our second place position in the league we trail Arsenal by 1 point (plus inferior goal difference) with 8 matches to go. A home match against 19th placed Sheff Wed should be comfortable but struggle to a third successive 1-0 win to maintain the

We ended the last part with three successive defeats at the hands of the top 3, we begin re-building confidence with a narrow home win against Everton, after 3 weeks out injured Damian Francis returns to action from the bench and scores the winner. Zema Abbey returns from his own injury lay-off against Sheff Wed and that brings about our most dominant performance and result (4-0) of the season. Another victory follows with Darren Huckerby scoring after 30 seconds against Charlton before adding a second late on. The winning run is ended at St James Park, Huckerby equalises in the 88th minute only for us to concede an even later winner. A 2-2 draw with Blackburn having fired into an early lead 2-0 would normally be disappointing but battling a growing injury list, including three of our first choice midfielders, it's a decent away point. Waste a load of chances against Southampton at home before Abbey finally finds the net. I had forgotten one piece of summer business which was