West Brom 2 - 0 QPR FULL TIME That's the end to a wild season at Loftus Road. We'll finish 14th in the table. Lots of hope for the future in W12 for the first time in a long time.
West Brom are champions. Stoke are going up. Hull has lost 0-1 at Ipswich. That's final. West Bromwich Albion and Stoke City are now Premier League clubs. Congratulations.
Watford 1 - 1 Blackpool -- final. So, unless Wolves score a couple more, Watford is in the playoffs on goal difference.
Stoke 0 - 0 Leicester FULL TIME Leicester City is down, joining Scunthorpe and Colchester as the Championship's contribution to next year's League One.
Wolves 1-0 Plymouth. Full time. So, Wolves come up just short of the playoffs. A two-goal better goal difference sees Watford make the playoffs in 6th. They will face 3rd place Hull in the play-off semifinal while 4th place Bristol City will face 5th place Crystal Palace.
Today's final scores: Blackpool 1 : 1 Watford Bristol City 3 : 0 Preston Cardiff 3 : 0 Barnsley Charlton 4 : 1 Coventry Crystal Palace 5 : 0 Burnley Ipswich 1 : 0 Hull QPR 0 : 2 West Brom Scunthorpe 3 : 3 Colchester Sheff Wed 4 : 1 Norwich Southampton 3 : 2 Sheff Utd Stoke 0 : 0 Leicester Wolverhampton 1 : 0 Plymouth
According to the commentator, despite several promotions, this is West Brom's first title of any sort since 1920. The final Championship table: The Coca-Cola Football League Championship Table Pos Team P GD PTS 1 West Brom 46 33 81 2 Stoke 46 14 79 ------ 3 Hull 46 18 75 4 Bristol City 46 1 74 5 Crystal Palace 46 16 71 6 Watford 46 6 70 ------ 7 Wolverhampton 46 5 70 8 Ipswich 46 9 69 9 Sheff Utd 46 5 66 10 Plymouth 46 10 64 11 Charlton 46 5 64 12 Cardiff 46 4 64 13 Burnley 46 -7 62 14 QPR 46 -6 58 15 Preston 46 -6 56 16 Sheff Wed 46 -1 55 17 Norwich 46 -10 55 18 Barnsley 46 -13 55 19 Blackpool 46 -5 54 20 Southampton 46 -16 54 21 Coventry 46 -12 53 ------ 22 Leicester 46 -3 52 23 Scunthorpe 46 -23 46 24 Colchester 46 -24 38
Congrats to West Brom and Stoke for getting out of this tough division. Commiserations to Olly for doing the same, but the wrong way
Swansea are champions of League One and Forest jumped into the second auto-promotion spot on the final day. Doncaster, Carlisle, Leeds, and Southend are in the playoffs. Leeds' appeal against their 15-point deduction was unsuccessful so they'll be in the playoffs. Without the 15-point deduction, Leeds would have beaten Forest (by 9 points) for the second spot, but they'd still have fallen short of Swansea (by one point) for the title. Crewe barely escaped relegation (by 2 points). Luton was relegated for the second season in a row as was recent Championship club Gillingham along with Port Vale and Bournemouth. Coca-Cola Football League One Table Pos Team P GD PTS 1 Swansea 46 40 92 2 Nottm Forest 46 32 82 ------ 3 Doncaster 46 24 80 4 Carlisle 46 18 80 5 Leeds 46 34 76 6 Southend 46 15 76 ------ 7 Brighton 46 8 69 8 Oldham 46 12 67 9 Northampton 46 5 66 10 Huddersfield 46 -12 66 11 Tranmere 46 5 65 12 Walsall 46 6 64 13 Swindon 46 7 61 14 Leyton Orient 46 -14 60 15 Hartlepool 46 -3 54 16 Bristol Rovers 46 -8 53 17 Millwall 46 -15 52 18 Yeovil 46 -21 52 19 Cheltenham 46 -22 51 20 Crewe 46 -18 50 ------ 21 Bournemouth 46 -10 48 22 Gillingham 46 -29 46 23 Port Vale 46 -34 38 24 Luton 46 -20 33
Wow. Not only has Luton been relegated twice in two seasons, but they may start life in League Two next season with 15-point deduction. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/luton_town/7401548.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/14/lutontown.leaguetwofootball
So an exciting tie saw Bristol City through to the Playoff Final Now Hull look set to join them, 2 up at home v Watford... or do they? This is a crazy division, anything can happen. Watford will have to do it without big Dan Shittu - out with a hamstring injury. Replaced by their club captain and US international Jay DeMerit.
Half-time at the KC Stadium Interesting notes on Hull - the club have never played at Wembley Stadium - and Hull is the largest city never to have a club in the top flight of English football.
Hull City will be playing at Wembley for the first time in their history - for a chance at the Premier League (for the first time in their history)... Goal - Hull 2 (Caleb Folan 70) Watford 1
Hull City or Bristol City will be in the Premier League next year. Wow. I never would have guessed that. And they'll be joining Stoke, who looked to be a team that, at best, would sneak into the playoffs, not an auto-promotion spot. Crazy, crazy league.
Hull just scored a 5th on aggregate and there are fans all over the pitch... Goal - Hull 3 (Richard Garcia 88) Watford 1
Goal - Hull 4 (Nathan Doyle 90) Watford 1 More fans on the pitch. They might want to save some goals for Wembley!
This is what makes English football great... Nationwide Division 3 2003 Final Table --------------------------- 10 York City 11 Kidderminster Harriers 12 Cambridge United 13 Hull City 14 Darlington 15 Boston United
im not the first to post this by any means but its crazy crazy to think that Hull/Bristol City, Fulham, Wigan, and Stoke will all be in the prem next season. who wins THAT lottery by staying up? crazy era in english football. WBA has to like the odds of their staying up this time around.
A 90th minute goal sent Leeds to the League One Playoff Final. What a shame for Carlisle, who were 2 up in the first leg at Leeds. Nearly made it from the Conference to the Championship in 4 years.
Could there be 3 sets of hoops in the Championship next season? Goal - Doncaster 1 (Brian Stock Pen 11) Southend 0 Big goal for Rovers in their attempt to join Leeds at Wembley