Championship Final Day

[Marty]

Half an hour 'till the last round of the Championship season kicks off. An amazing 14 teams still have something to play for, only 10 are either already relegated (Colchester, S****horpe) or in mid-table nowhere.

The games today are:
Blackpool 1-1 Watford
Bristol City 3-0 Preston
Cardiff 2-0 Barnsley
Charlton 4-1 Coventry
Crystal Palace 5-0 Burnley
Ipswich 1-0 Hull
QPR 0-2 West Brom
S****horpe 3-3 Colchester
Sheff Wed 4-1 Norwich
Southampton 3-2 Sheff Utd
Stoke 0-0 Leicester
Wolves 1-0 Plymouth

AS IT STANDS
Promoted: West Brom, Stoke
Play-offs: Hull, Bristol City, Crystal Palace, Watford
Relegated: Leicester, S****horpe, Colchester

My guess is that West Brom will win it and Stoke will go up with them. Hull, Bristol City, Palace and Wolves for the play-offs, with Watford, Ipswich and Sheff Utd to miss out, and Leicester to go down saving Blackpool's, Southampton's, Coventry's and Sheff Wed's arses. So that's all 14 covered then...

And we have at least one of our own involved today. Just heard on Score that Joe Martin is starting for Blackpool today. Good luck to him in their game v Watford!

EDIT: I will update this with goals coming in.

 

[Bonjour]

S****horpe.


I love the way it does that.

 

[MrWoolley]

1-0 BLackpool already :-D

 

[Marty]

and 1-0 Charlton over Coventry.

 

[Bonjour]

What was QPR's big announcement before the game?

I take it that it wasn't Zidane to be their new manager, as reported in the media.

 

[Marty]

Penalty to Palace v Burnley, red card to the Burnley defender for a professional foul.

Converted, 1-0 to Palace, who guarantee play-offs with a win.

 

[Marty]

Sheff Wed 0-1 Norwich

Norwich guaranteed survival very recently but Sheff Wed now need either Soton or Leicester to lose.

 

[Marty]

And Palace go 2-0 up. They're against 10 men and the must have wrapped this up, surely?

 

[MrWoolley]

Yep can't see Palace losing this one.

 

[Marty]

Bristol City are also 2 up and as good as guaranteed 4th place, which means home advantage in the second leg against whoever finishes 5th.

 

[Marty]

And it's a penalty to Sheffied Wednesday.

1-1. Looking increasingly grim for Leicester and Southampton.

 

[Marty]

And Southampton go a goal down to Sheff Utd. Their poor goal difference means that a defeat here will ensure relegation no matter what Leicester do.

In the meantime, Sheff Utd are in the play-offs as it stands.

 

[Marty]

3-0 to Palace. Too easy for them this is.

QPR down to 10 men v West Brom, but West Brom only need to equal Stoke's scoreline to win the title.

 

[Marty]

Southampton equalise!

This is getting interesting here.

 

[Marty]

2-1 to Wednesday. Apparently completely against the run of play but the home fans won't mind.

And 1-0 to West Brom, who are playing against a 10-man QPR and will win the title as it stands.

 

[Marty]

2-1 to Southampton and as it stands Ian Holloway's Leicester are down!

 

[SpaggyBoy]

My wife is a major Saints fan, I hope, purely for my sake, that they stay up.

 

[Marty]

Sorry SpaggyBoy, 2-2 at St. Mary's and as it stands your wife's not going to be happy.

 

[simyid]

1-0 ipswich watford out of play offs

 

[Marty]

Ipswich 1-0 Hull, this means Stoke will go up and Ipswich's play-off hopes are still alive.