Scott Murray meanwhile is girding his loins ahead of Arsenal v Bournemouth:
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Bradford pip Walsall to the third promotion place in League Two, thanks to a late, deflected, single goal. Walsall are pipped at the very post, and if their morale had anywhere further to sink after the way their season unravelled, it’s just been booted down there.
Every game is now over except for the one at Bradford, which is about to briefly restart before the home side’s dramatic promotion is confirmed. Here are the final (except that one) scores:
Premier League
League One
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Blackpool 4-1 Bristol Rovers
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Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Stevenage
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Cambridge United 1-2 Birmingham City
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Charlton Athletic 3-1 Burton Albion
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Huddersfield Town 1-4 Leyton Orient
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Lincoln City 0-2 Wrexham
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Mansfield Town 3-0 Exeter City
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Northampton Town 1-1 Wigan Athletic
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Reading 2-4 Barnsley
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Rotherham United 2-1 Peterborough United
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Shrewsbury Town 1-2 Crawley Town
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Wycombe Wanderers 1-3 Stockport County
League Two
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Accrington Stanley 0-1 Chesterfield
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Bradford City 1-0 Fleetwood Town
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Bromley 3-0 Cheltenham Town
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Carlisle United 2-2 Salford City
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Colchester United 0-0 Barrow
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Crewe Alexandra 0-1 Walsall
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Grimsby Town 0-1 AFC Wimbledon
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Morecambe 1-2 Harrogate Town
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Newport County 1-4 Tranmere Rovers
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Notts County 1-2 Doncaster Rovers
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Port Vale 0-1 Gillingham
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Swindon Town 0-0 Milton Keynes Dons
Reading score in stoppage time but lose 4-2, and Orient secure a sixth successive win, beating Huddersfield 4-1! They’ll play Stockport County in the playoff semi-finals after the Hatters beat Wycombe in what was essentially a third-place play-off. Given Orient’s form perhaps losing that wasn’t a disaster.
The Foxes have banked three points in the Crapico, Everton’s penultimate game at Goodison saw them give away a two-goal lead, but the real excitement this afternoon is elsewhere…
The Bradford game has been paused, and the players taken down the tunnel, because fans are on the pitch engaged in a little premature celebration. They’ll eventually come back out to play the last moments of stoppage time.
They needed a win and they have got one, thanks to Robert Street’s first-half double at Notts County! County scored in the fifth minute of stoppage time to make the final moments a little nervy, but it’s finished 2-1 there, and that’ll do!
Chesterfield are in the League Two playoffs thanks to their win at Accrington, while Salford were held to a 2-2 draw by Carlisle!
Antoni Sarcevic’s deflected shot dribbles past a wrong-footed Fleetwood Town keeper to put them 1-0 up in the sixth minute of stoppage time, and it looks like they’re going to pip Walsall to the last automatic promotion place from League Two!
Birmingham have beaten Cambridge United 2-1, and they end the season with a ludicrous, astonishing, remarkable, record points total of 111!
In Harry Kane news, Bayern could potentially win the league as soon as tomorrow, if Leverkusen fail to win at fourth-placed Freiburg, who have won their last three.
Thanks to Leyton Orient’s result it hasn’t made a difference, but on the day their sale was confirmed, and with a playoff place on the line (potentially), Reading have fallen apart: Davis Keillor-Dunn has just put Barnsley 4-1 up!
Here’s some team news from the Emirates Stadium:
Jurrien Timber is nursing a minor knock – the one that forced him off in the first-leg of Arsenal’s Champions League semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday – and so Mikel Arteta has left him of the squad for today’s visit of Bournemouth. In comes Ben White. But the Arsenal manager has made only one other change: Thomas Partey in, Mikel Merino down to the bench. Partey missed out against PSG because of suspension and he was missed. Arteta is plainly in the mood to ignite some momentum ahead of Wednesday’s second-leg in Paris.
Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly, Odegaard, Partey, Rice, Saka, Trossard, Martinelli. Subs: Setford, Tierney, Zinchenko, Merino, Sterling, Butler-Oyedeji, Gower, Nwaneri, Clarke.
Bournemouth: Arrizabalaga, Araujo, Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Kerkez, Cook, Adams, Tavernier, Kluivert, Ouattara, Evanilson. Subs: Dennis, Senesi, Brooks, Scott, Smith, Soler, Jebbison, Hill, Semenyo.
Referee: Jarred Gillett.
Ipswich have recovered from two goals down, George Hirst heading in to bring them level at Goodison!
Leyton Orient score a fourth, and they’re 4-1 up at Huddersfield and safely ensconced in the playoff places. It’s a great sprint down the right that ends with an inch-perfect long, dipping cross that lands on the head of Azeem Abdulai, who makes no mistake.
To be honest I thought Bayern might celebrate a bit more. I know they conceded a late goal, and the title isn’t absolutely safe, but it’s basically safe and they could at least smile a bit. Harry Kane was pitchside, ready to run on in ecstasy, when Youssuf Poulsen scored at the death, and instead he had to trudge on and soberly shake people’s hands. They play Monchengladbach at home next Saturday and will surely make it safe then.
RB Leipzig only scored an equaliser in the fourth minute of stoppage time! It’s ended 3-3, and though Bayern Munich have basically won the league (Bayer Leverkusen have three games to play and are nine points behind, with their goal difference inferior by 30), they have not officially won the league.
It’s happening! Er, maybe! A long throw bounces, it drops to George Hall, and he swivels and half-volleys it in! Walsall, who led the division for so long before completely forgetting how to play the game of association football sometime in the middle of February, are half an hour away from promotion!
The big question now is: can either Bradford (at home to Fleetwood Town) or Walsall (at Crewe) win a game of football? Both are currently drawing 0-0 – if any one of them can win, they will go up. If both win, or indeed both draw or both lose, Bradford will come third.
Aaron Rowe has given Gillingham a 1-0 lead at Port Vale, and Doncaster look set to coast to the League Two title from here.
A big goal in the League Two playoff chase. As it stands Wimbledon are fifth having vaulted Notts County, and Grimbsy drop down to ninth. Chesterfield, one up at Accrington, are in the last playoff spot at I type.
Leroy Sane has scored at the Red Bull Arena where it’s now RB Leipzig 2-3 Bayern Munich, and the visitors are just two minutes and stoppage time away from the league title.
Reading now fall behind, and it’ll take massive swings at two games for them to overtake Orient now!
And that surely is going to wrap up a playoff place! A long ball out of defence leaves Huddersfield’s defence exposed, it’s squared to Agyei and he takes a touch to bring it onto his left foot before curling inside the far post!
Bad and good news for Harry Kane: Bayern Munich have scored two in a minute, courtesy of Eric Dier and Michael Olise, and they’re now drawing 2-2 at RB Leipzig and on course to basically win the league in about 20 minutes (it was a 2.30pm BST kick-off).
So, as it stands:
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Reading, who need to better Leyton Orient’s result to steal the last League One playoff spot from them, are drawing while Orient are 2-1 up at Huddersfield.
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Doncaster are winning the League Two title by three points from Port Vale.
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Bradford are pipping Walsall to the third and final automatic promotion spot, though continuing their recent poor form neither are winning.
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AFC Wimbledon and Chesterfield are in the playoff places; Grimsby, Salford and Colchester just outside them.
“Dundee United clearly not fussed about finishing third, 2-0 down at Hibs, going on three or four,” writes occasional voluntary Scottish football correspondent Simon McMahon. “Fifth still gets a European qualifying spot, mind. St Mirren v Aberdeen is goalless, and in the bottom six it’s not looking good for St Johnstone, whose SPL jaicket is on a very shoogly peg, as they trail Kilmarnock at home.”
Half-time scores in the Scottish Premiership:
Bottom Six
Top six
Half-timely whistles have been peeping across the nation, and here are the scores as they stand (a few matches haven’t quite finished, and there’s still seven minutes to play at Leicester).
Premier League
League One
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Blackpool 1-1 Bristol Rovers
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Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Stevenage
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Cambridge United 1-1 Birmingham City
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Charlton Athletic 2-1 Burton Albion
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Huddersfield Town 1-2 Leyton Orient
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Lincoln City 0-0 Wrexham
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Mansfield Town 2-0 Exeter City
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Northampton Town 1-0 Wigan Athletic
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Reading 0-0 Barnsley
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Rotherham United 1-1 Peterborough United
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Shrewsbury Town 0-0 Crawley Town
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Wycombe Wanderers 1-0 Stockport County
League Two
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Accrington Stanley 0-1 Chesterfield
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Bradford City 0-0 Fleetwood Town
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Bromley 2-0 Cheltenham Town
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Carlisle United 2-1 Salford City
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Colchester United 0-0 Barrow
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Crewe Alexandra 0-0 Walsall
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Grimsby Town 0-0 AFC Wimbledon
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Morecambe 1-2 Harrogate Town
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Newport County 1-1 Tranmere Rovers
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Notts County 0-2 Doncaster Rovers
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Port Vale 0-0 Gillingham
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Swindon Town 0-0 Milton Keynes Dons
Source: theguardian.com
