Ashton pipped to award

Steve Coppell's runaway Championship leaders Reading scooped another award today when striker Dave Kitson followed team mate Ibrahima Sonko in being named the division's player of the month.

Kitson returned from injury to hit five goals in the month, and pipped the likes of coveted City star Dean Ashton, Burnley's James O'Connor and Watford hitman Marlon King to the award.