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24/05/2016
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2016 Play-Off Finals – The Last Chance At Promotion

So this year’s season is wrapping up shortly – Leicester made the fairytale come true to win the Premier League, Burnley went straight back up with Middlesbrough returning after 7 years away, Wigan get back on the right path and head back to the Championship having only been in the top tier as recently as 2013 whereas Burton continue to surprise with automatic promotion in their first ever year in the third tier, and in League Two Northampton Town put financial worries aside to demolish the division, with Oxford United... Read More

13/05/2015

The Playoffs – We’re Halfway There

So, the chase for promotion continues – and two of our finals are set. The first of these happens this Sunday, when Bristol Rovers and Grimsby Town fight for a league position next season. Neither are strangers to league football, either – for Rovers, they spent 94 consecutive years there until their relegation last year, whereas Grimsby went 117 consecutive years there, and are only the fourth team to have competed in all top 5 divisions. Grimsby since have been oh-so-close in returning for the past few seasons – in the last... Read More