March’s wages were eventually paid in full on 7 April, with the club saying it was a “temporary issue” due to debts owed to Chansiri, whose family control the Thai Union Group, the world’s largest producer of canned tuna. The Thai businessman has been in charge of the Hillsborough side for 10 years and his...
A record number of fans packed Wembley to watch the three play-off finals, the English Football League has announced. The matches attracted an aggregate attendance of 211,858 – well above the previous record total of 197,550 that watched the play-offs at the end of the 2007-08 season. Sunderland’s 2-1 victory over Sheffield United in Saturday’s...
All three English Football League play-off finals will kick off one minute later than scheduled this weekend to raise awareness of the Every Minute Matters campaign. Saturday’s Championship final between Sunderland and Sheffield United and Monday’s League Two showpiece between AFC Wimbledon and Walsall will both kick off at 15:01 BST. Sunday’s League One decider...
“I am really proud of that [the points tally],” Parker told BBC Sport. “To think that we’re on target if we can go and win at the weekend, a 100-point tally is a huge achievement. “That, along with everything else that comes with it in terms of the unbeaten record now of 32 games, the...
BBC Sport looks at some of the key games across the EFL this weekend as the season approaches its conclusion. Read full article at source...
Torquay United goalkeeper James Hamon says a promotion for the Gulls would be the first step on their dream of returning to the English Football league. The Gulls were relegated from League Two in 2014 and almost went out of business a year ago. Torquay are second on goal difference in National League South going...
It has been an exciting race for automatic promotion from the Championship, with Leeds United, Burnley and Sheffield United swapping places in the top three for much of the season. But three defeats in succession for the Blades recently has opened up a five-point gap between themselves and the top two. Although they returned to...
Birmingham were crowned League One champions without even playing last weekend, as nearest challengers Wrexham played out a stalemate at Wigan. Blues host Crawley, seeking to continue their quest to break the EFL points record of 106, set 19 years ago in the Championship by Reading. Chris Davies’ side, who are looking to bounce back...
Leeds boss Daniel Farke, Burnley head coach Scott Parker, Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder and Sunderland counterpart Regis Le Bris make up a four-man shortlist for the Championship manager of the season. The top four managers in the Championship table will vie for an award won last season by Ipswich Town’s Kieran McKenna. This season’s...
While three sides are set to slug it out for two automatic promotion places at the top of the Championship, at the other end eight teams separated by just eight points are embroiled in a five-match mini league to avoid relegation. Four of those sides meet in two fixtures on what could prove to be...
Birmingham have dominated League One this season, and Tuesday’s 2-1 win over Peterborough at the Weston Homes Stadium secured promotion back to the Championship following relegation last May. They only need five more points to reach 100 for the campaign, but it was all very different when Fry left Southend United in 1993 to become...
The Premiership splits in half after 33 games, on the weekend of 12-13 April – with each club playing the others in their ‘half’ for a fourth and final time. Celtic, Rangers, Hibernian, Aberdeen and Dundee United will all be in the top half, with St Johnstone, Dundee, Kilmarnock and Ross County guaranteed to be...
What a set of fixtures the Championship has thrown up at 12:30 BST with a huge amount riding on them for five of the six teams in action. Automatic promotion-chasing Leeds United travel to relegation battlers Luton Town for a contest with permutations at both ends of the table. The Whites will be keen to...
With all the dramas ongoing at Reading, don’t be surprised if, in years to come, a doorstep salesman knocks on your door offering you a series of quality bound books detailing the full story which you can pay for in monthly instalments. But, whatever the outcome of the Royals’ ownership tale, neither management nor players...
When direct promotion was first offered 39 years ago only the champions went up with a second promotion place via play-offs added for the 2002-03 season. The National League is now pushing for a third spot, launching its campaign last month. “There is a blockage in the jump between the National League and EFL. Two-up,...