“The goal was a bit like pinball,” he said, “but it should have been in row Z before it got into the penalty area and we’ve been punished. The Ipswich manager said: “It happened very quickly so I can’t really tell you much about it, but Darren is claiming the goal.”For Wimbledon, manager Stuart Murdoch was more concerned with the build-up to the winner as his side slipped to their third successive 1-0 defeat in the league. But, after rounding Davis, his shot rebounded back off the post and the follow-up was thrashed into the side-netting.Burley’s side found the net in injury time through Ambrose. We won’t change our philosophy.”The reasons behind Ipswich’s lowly league position had been made perfectly evident in a game where the London sun shone brighter than any of the players on show.Marcus Bent was the guilty party on two occasions, the first falling on 11 minutes when he latched onto a throughball from Finidi George. In football you’ve got to take opportunities and we haven’t been doing that, but I knew that if we worked hard results would come.

“I was very pleased for them and I think that justice was done in the end. George Burley, the Ipswich Town manager, expressed his relief after his side recorded their first league win since August with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Wimbledon at Selhurst Park, but was left baffled by the circumstances surrounding Darren Ambrose’s winner.
Substitute Ambrose seemingly wasted the chance in injury time after being fed by Tommy Miller, but defender Peter Hawkins’ clearance at the second attempt deflected off the legs of the teenage winger and into the net.”All credit to my players,” Burley said. “It is important to get a good start in qualification,” he added While England are in Slovakia, Turkey visit Macedonia. With automatic qualification likely to be between them and England, Eriksson will be seeking six points from these games.

They are playing well and deserve to be included.”Turkey, the seeds, currently lead Group Seven after defeating Slovakia 3-0 in their opening game. This season his partnership with Gareth Southgate, who is likely to partner Sol Campbell in the England defence in Ferdinand’s absence, has helped carry Middlesbrough into the Premiership’s top three.Eriksson said: “Losing Rio is obviously a blow, but we do have other very good defenders who are in form It will be a chance for them to show what they can do Ugo and Frank have made very good starts to the season. The 29-year-old has not featured on the international scene since withdrawing from the squad in April after being injured in an FA Cup semi-final Prior to that he had won four caps spanning six years. Though the FA insisted “we don’t see this as a snub” the incident does underline the impression that United have a one-eyed view of the world.None of which will worry Ehiogu. That said, someone at United should have spotted the possibilities for embarrassment. As for his failure to speak to Eriksson over Ferdinand, Ferguson was not to know Eriksson was addressing the media on Saturday.

Without suggesting Ferguson felt he could not trust Eriksson, he may have decided the fewer people who knew Scholes would play against Middlesbrough the better. In addition, the match Scholes played was against Middlesbrough, who are managed by Steve McClaren, Eriksson’s England coach. The more so given the current dispute between leading Premiership clubs, notably United, and the FA over the commercial exploitation of England players.However, as Scholes did have a knee operation he clearly had a problem As does Ferdinand. Then, as now, Eriksson was caught unawares.Given the widespread belief that Eriksson was tapped up for Ferguson’s job, before the United manager decided to continue, and that he resents his players going off to international duty, it is not hard to build a case for the prosecution. He promptly played a Premiership match, in front of Eriksson, the following night. Scholes was omitted from the squad for last month’s friendly with Portugal after Ferguson told Eriksson he was injured.