The gap between first and fourth has suddenly blown up to fourteen points as contenders fell off the pace, and fourth and ninth are separated by three points after today...and that's more separation than there was the day prior, and one of the more threatening clubs of late (before that 7-3 loss) is still lurking behind them.
Then you have Leicester, whose millions have bought them a neck-and-neck race for thirteenth with Watford; Forest, the pre-season automatic promotion contenders who only found their way out of the bottom three with ten games remaining, and Palace, the penniless bunch that everyone expected to bring up the rear, now undefeated in ten and making a late push for the playoffs.
Everything about the Championship is demented.