Key events
Leeds are champions!
Full time: Plymouth 1-2 Leeds Manor Solomon’s injury time goal has put the seal on a wonderful season for Leeds. They and Burnley both finished with 100 points – but Leeds are champions on goal difference.
GOAL! Coventry 2-0 Middlesbrough
Coventry will play Sunderland in the playoffs after winning a pulsating match against Middlesbrough.
LUTON ARE RELEGATED TO LEAGUE ONE!
Full time: Portsmouth 1-1 Hull It’s all over at Fratton Park and Hull City have survived by the skin of their gnashers.
Full time: Bristol City 2-2 Preston
All over at Ashton Gate. Bristol City will make the playoffs unless Blackburn score at Bramall Lane.
Full time: West Brom 5-3 Luton
Luton need a goal from Portsmouth or they will be playing in League One next season.
90+4 min: Sheff Utd 1-1 Blackburn the home side are down to 10 men because of injury – Chris Wilder has already used all his substitution windows.
GOAL! Burnley 3-1 Millwall (Brownhill 90+3)
Josh Brownhill’s second goal, his 18th of the season, seals victory for Burnley. They are going to finish second with 100 points.
Full time: Derby 0-0 Stoke
Both teams are safe, that’s all they’ll care about.
GOAL! Plymouth 1-2 Leeds (Solomon 90+1)
The brilliant Manor Solomon has won the Championship title for Leeds!
90 min: Sheff Utd 1-1 Blackburn Just the eight minutes of added time. A goal for Blackburn would put them into the playoffs (unless Bristol City score a winner).
GOAL! West Brom 5-3 Luton (Alli 88)
Millenic Alli’s second goal has given Luton an outside chance of an astonishing comeback from 5-1 down. But as it stands they are heading for League One.
GOAL! Coventry 2-0 Middlesbrough (Rudoni 88)
Jack Rudoni’s second goal has secured a playoff place for Coventry! What a job Frank Lampard has done there, quite outstanding.
85 min: Sunderland 0-1 QPR Sunderland are heading into the playoffs, where they could meet Coventry, on the back of five straight defeats.
The latest scores (Swansea and Cardiff have scored in the last couple of minutes)
82 min: Coventry 1-0 Middlesbrough Morgan Whittaker has hit the post for Boro with a fine effort from the edge of the area. You’ve got to love the Championship: with less than 10 minutes of the season remaining, Middlesbrough sit in in 10th place – yet they still have a realistic chance of promotion.
Right. So.
Blackburn will leapfrog Bristol City if they score a winner at Sheffield United.
Luton are going down unless Portsmouth score a winning goal at home to Hull.
80 min: Coventry 1-0 Middlesbrough “Watching an absolutely brilliant game of football,” says Espen Bommen, “where it’s attack vs attack with both teams adopting the defensive tactic known as desperate last ditch.”
80 min: Sheff Utd 1-1 Blackburn Tom Cannon has missed a glorious chance for Bristol City/Sheffield United, blasting over from eight yards.
Swansea 2-2 Oxford Joe Allen, playing his last game of professional football at the age of 35, walks off to a standing ovation.
77 min: Coventry 1-0 Middlesbrough It sounds like this game could easily be about 5-5. Middlesbrough are tenth as things stand – but two goals would move them into the playoff places.
One more time
GOAL! Bristol City 2-2 Preston (McCrorie 74)
Ross McCrorie – who the last time I checked was a left-back, not Romario II – has scored his second goal to bring Bristol City level! He made a terrific run infield, onto Jason Knight’s penetrative pass, and finished smartly on the run with his right foot.
It doesn’t actually change that much, in that a Blackburn goal would move them above City, but it increases City’s chances of winning the game. And if they do that, nobody can catch them.
The latest scores with around 20 minutes remaining
The games in bold are the ones that are likely to decide who goes down and who makes the playoffs.
72 min: Bristol City 1-2 Preston A Bristol City player – I don’t know, okay* – has just smashed a heatseeker off the crossbar.
* Jason Knight, it says here.
“Just to check, would Luton still get parachute payments in League One? It’d be bleak to see them distort two divisions at once.”
I think so, but don’t quote me at the dinner party. I’m pretty sure Sunderland received parachute payment after back-to-back relegations in 2017 and 2018.
GOAL! Bristol City 1-2 Preston (McCrorie 69)
The left-back Ross McCrorie heads Bristol City back into the game at Ashton Gate. All bets are off in that one now – especially as Preston’s players must know they will be safe even if they lose this game.
“Following this Clockwatch with you is like watching a horse race (which I might do later today), with the TV graphics showing the horse numbers constantly changing position,2 says Joe Pearson. “Very entertaining!”
Tell that to my cardiologist.
Goal! Norwich 4-1 Cardiff (Duffy 67)
The table as it stands
It’ll probably have changed by the time you see this.
GOAL! Burnley 2-1 Millwall (Anthony 65)
A superb goal from Jaidon Anthony puts Burnley top of the table. He controlled a long free-kick beautifully on the run, beating the last defender in the process, and passed the ball into the far corner. That’s very good news for Bristol City, who are clinging on to the last playoff place despite trailing Preston 2-0.
