A good first half for Wimbledon and Doncaster who are both winning while everyone else around them is losing. Doncaster taking this to the last day of the season?
Utter madness that the it’s likely the top EIGHT will have 80+ points this season. Imagine finishing 8th and missing playoffs with 80 points.
It’s the fact that the points total for top two and relegation is so slow, there is usually a bigger gap between even the top sides. It’s very unusual to have a top eight teams that are all capable of beating each other without it being considered a stretch.
With Gillingham at home to Rotherham next week, they and Wimbledon will probably join Donny and Crewe in football’s fourth tier.
Unless Sutton go up, we'll have no local derbies, indeed no local matches at all!
That's what you get in this poxy division. Northern teams dominate with a few Midlands & SW teams thrown in. Look at the Championship (Fulham, QPR & Millwall) and the Premiership (Chelsea, Spurs, W Ham, Arsenal & Brentford). We will be the only London club next season with our nearest game being Ipswich, Oxford or Wycombe.
With Gillingham at home to Rotherham next week, they and Wimbledon will probably join Donny and Crewe in football’s fourth tier.
Unless Sutton go up, we'll have no local derbies, indeed no local matches at all!
That's what you get in this poxy division. Northern teams dominate with a few Midlands & SW teams thrown in. Look at the Championship (Fulham, QPR & Millwall) and the Premiership (Chelsea, Spurs, W Ham, Arsenal & Brentford). We will be the only London club next season with our nearest game being Ipswich, Oxford or Wycombe.
With Gillingham at home to Rotherham next week, they and Wimbledon will probably join Donny and Crewe in football’s fourth tier.
Unless Sutton go up, we'll have no local derbies, indeed no local matches at all!
That's what you get in this poxy division. Northern teams dominate with a few Midlands & SW teams thrown in. Look at the Championship (Fulham, QPR & Millwall) and the Premiership (Chelsea, Spurs, W Ham, Arsenal & Brentford). We will be the only London club next season with our nearest game being Ipswich, Oxford or Wycombe.
It's not just the London teams, it's also the relatively nearby southern teams like Watford, Luton and Reading who are above us, while the likes of Crawley, Stevenage and Colchester are in L2 and Southend, Barnet and Dagenham in the NL...
Crazy incident for the late Fleetwood equaliser that effectively relegates Wimbledon
A freekick to Wimbledon that their keeper either never heard, or more likely had a brain fart over, as he kicked the ball 3 times to gain a few yards and gave away a free kick to Fleetwood just outside the area which they scored from.
We are the only other team I can ever recall that’s given away a free kick due to the keeper taking too long. It’s such a ridiculous rule when it’s been enforced twice in thousands of times a keeper takes longer than 6seconds.
We are the only other team I can ever recall that’s given away a free kick due to the keeper taking too long. It’s such a ridiculous rule when it’s been enforced twice in thousands of times a keeper takes longer than 6seconds.
Don’t think he was done for time, it was their free kick, which he touched a couple of times, which you can’t do.
We are the only other team I can ever recall that’s given away a free kick due to the keeper taking too long. It’s such a ridiculous rule when it’s been enforced twice in thousands of times a keeper takes longer than 6seconds.
Don’t think he was done for time, it was their free kick, which he touched a couple of times, which you can’t do.
As I said above, it's unclear whether the keeper had a brain freeze or genuinely didn't know it was a freekick (which was what Bowen suggested afterwards)
We are the only other team I can ever recall that’s given away a free kick due to the keeper taking too long. It’s such a ridiculous rule when it’s been enforced twice in thousands of times a keeper takes longer than 6seconds.
Don’t think he was done for time, it was their free kick, which he touched a couple of times, which you can’t do.
As I said above, it's unclear whether the keeper had a brain freeze or genuinely didn't know it was a freekick (which was what Bowen suggested afterwards)
Either way, it's relegated them
Saw it on Quest and really felt for Wimbledon. What a way to basically get relegated! Ouch!
Should have had a defender on post for free kick, too
Fleetwood Town vs Sheffield Wednesday: - If Fleetwood win, they're three points beyond the relegation zone and surely safe thanks to GD - If Sheffield Wednesday win, they go into the Play-Offs with one game still to decide - If Fleetwood lose heavily tonight, they'll close the GD gap between themselves and Gillingham (Its currently a 15-goal swing)
Portsmouth vs Wigan Athletic - If Wigan draw, then their promotion to the Championship is confirmed - If Wigan win and Rotherham fail to win, they've won the League
Sunderland vs Rotherham United - If Rotherham win, they're all but promoted, as will have a superior GD over Milton Keynes - If Wigan lose then the two sides go into the last game on equal points, but Rotherham will have slightly better GD - If Sunderland win, then we go into a three way battle for 2nd on the final day of the season. - If Sunderland win 5-0 tonight for example then the table will look like:
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It’s the fact that the points total for top two and relegation is so slow, there is usually a bigger gap between even the top sides. It’s very unusual to have a top eight teams that are all capable of beating each other without it being considered a stretch.
Colchester are the other missing piece
A freekick to Wimbledon that their keeper either never heard, or more likely had a brain fart over, as he kicked the ball 3 times to gain a few yards and gave away a free kick to Fleetwood just outside the area which they scored from.
Either way, it's relegated them
Should have had a defender on post for free kick, too
Fleetwood Town vs Sheffield Wednesday:
- If Fleetwood win, they're three points beyond the relegation zone and surely safe thanks to GD
- If Sheffield Wednesday win, they go into the Play-Offs with one game still to decide
- If Fleetwood lose heavily tonight, they'll close the GD gap between themselves and Gillingham (Its currently a 15-goal swing)
Portsmouth vs Wigan Athletic
- If Wigan draw, then their promotion to the Championship is confirmed
- If Wigan win and Rotherham fail to win, they've won the League
Sunderland vs Rotherham United
- If Rotherham win, they're all but promoted, as will have a superior GD over Milton Keynes
- If Wigan lose then the two sides go into the last game on equal points, but Rotherham will have slightly better GD
- If Sunderland win, then we go into a three way battle for 2nd on the final day of the season.
- If Sunderland win 5-0 tonight for example then the table will look like:
Rotherham - 86-pts | +30 (GD)
Milton Keynes - 86-pts | +29 (GD)
Sunderland - 83-pts | +30 (GD)
Final day of the season games for those three would then be:
Gillingham vs Rotherham United
Morecambe vs Sunderland
Plymouth Argyle vs Milton Keynes