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Leicester v Southampton, Everton v Ipswich, and more: football updates – live | Football Key events GOAL! Carlisle 2-0 Salford!Salford are just outside the League Two playoffs, Carlisle are already relegated, but this has started very, very badly for the Ammies – Carlisle have just scored two goals in as many minutes with their first two shots on target! GOAL! Notts County 0-1 Doncaster!Three points would guarantee Doncaster the League Two title and they are on course, Rob Street tapping into an empty net from a yard after the ball breaks to him. GOAL! Leicester have scored a home goal! Leicester 1-0 SouthamptonJamie Vardy scores his 199th Leicester goal, lurking on the edge of the six-yard box for a cut-back and then smashing it with his left foot into the roof of the net at the near post, an absolutely phenomenal finish! Leyton Orient hit the bar! They are in the mood today. “Hi Simon,” writes Simon McMahon. Hi Simon! “Scotland’s game of the day is at Easter Road, with Dundee United the visitors to face a Hibs side who lost for the first time in 18 league games last week at Aberdeen [Ed’s note: It’s already 1-0 to Hibs there, Martin Boyle with the goal in the third minute]. United are three points behind both Hibs and Aberdeen in fifth, and really need to win today if they want to have a chance of third, but a point wouldn’t be a disaster, with Aberdeen away to St Mirren and still to come to Tannadice on the last day. It’s all to play for, Bert Fill responds to Chris Whiting’s contribution to our Crapico chat: “Chris is spot on about how rubbish the Premier League now is, but completely wrong to say relegation to League One was better than this,” he writes. “It really, really wasn’t! GOAL! Huddersfield 0-1 Leyton Orient!GOAL! Leyton Orient, who need to win today to secure a playoff place in League One, are already 1-0 up at Huddersfield! It’s a dreadful, dreadful back-pass that gives Orient a two-on-one break from the halfway line, and they make no mistake as Daniel Agyei is teed up to thrash into the roof of the net! We’ve got a load of sweet, sweet content about today’s football flooding through already. Here’s Ben Fisher on Bristol City and Preston both getting what they needed from the final day of the Championship: And here’s Paul MacInnes on Coventry’s playoff-clinching 2-0 home win over Middlesbrough: Leicester and Southampton fans discuss ‘El Crapico’ (part three)Will you bounce straight back next season? Will they? SG: “We should be there or thereabouts, so long as the managerial appointment is a sound one. The one appointment the owners got right since buying the club was done via the previously-mentioned Wilcox, so hopefully his replacement, Johannes Spors, can repeat that trick this summer. As for Leicester, I get the unhappiness that fills the air there at the moment, but barring any significant EFL penalties, they’ll be title favourites again.” Anything you envy about your opponents? SG: “I’d envy their recent history, I guess. We’re very similar clubs in so many ways – they basically have a blue St Mary’s, after all – and yet their fans have seen their team win League Cups, the FA Cup, the actual League, and have deep runs in Europe.” So will you miss the Premier League? SG: “Agree with that. We had a run of good performances in the autumn that were all spoiled by increasingly-nonsensical refereeing and VAR decisions and pretty much killed any outside hope we had of being competitive, and that’s without the PSR advantage the stable PL clubs already have built-in. Both ourselves and Leicester were allowed *less* leeway than the other 17 on PSR because of our year in the Championship, with a £20m tighter noose placed around our necks. And people wonder why the promoted clubs aren’t able to compete?!” Leicester and Southampton fans discuss ‘El Crapico’ (part two)What’s been your side’s biggest problem this season? Who is most to blame? SG: “Like handing Jannik Vestergaard a new three-year deal?” CW: “Yes, like that. Honestly, Steve, if Vestergaard isn’t perfectly emblematic of the farcical decision-making here since Vichai’s passing then I don’t know what is. We beat you 9-0 in 2019, then two years later signed two of your back four - what other club would do that?! Fans have sort of given up on the idea that change is even possible - many are voting with their feet. It used to make me itch the thought of missing a Leicester game, but I had a ticket for the game at Molineux last Saturday and decided to go and watch Dulwich Hamlet instead. I’m only going on Saturday to say goodbye to Jamie Vardy. I couldn’t care less about the rest of them.” SG: “For us it’s been about recruitment and PSR restrictions. We had to spend the thick end of £40m just to keep most of our promoted team together. We’ve been generally competitive in games (a ridiculous 28 points dropped from winning positions), but we have no depth beyond the starting XI and nearly every substitution makes us weaker. The blame for that ultimately lies with the board who believed that we didn’t need to replace director of football Jason Wilcox when he went to United, then appointed a manager who was the polar opposite to Russell Martin. It showed they hadn’t learned a thing from our last (more avoidable) relegation. Swap Ivan Juric for Nathan Jones and you basically have two guys cut from the same rubbish cloth.” Good news for suspended Harry Kane – he might not miss out on Bayern winning the league after all! Needing a point to wrap things up they’ve just gone 1-0 down at RB Leipzig. Hell of a finish from Benjamin Sesko, from distance with the outside of his right foot. Leicester and Southampton fans discuss ‘El Crapico’ (part one)Leicester: Chris Whiting, 29 Southampton: Steve Grant, 41 People have been calling this match ‘El Crapico’ – unfair, or about right? In the early Premier League game Youri Tielemans’ goal was enough to earn Aston Villa a maximal point return from their home game against Fulham, which they won 1-0. Leeds United win the ChampionshipThe final whistle blows at Plymouth, where Leeds have secured three points and thereby pipped Burnley to the title on goal difference. Below them there’s a pitch invasion at Bristol City, where the home side came back from two down to draw 2-2 with Preston, and with neither Blackburn (who drew 1-1 at Sheffield United) or Millwall (who lost 3-1 at Burnley) getting three points, they join Coventry, Sunderland and Sheffield United in the playoffs! Luton Town relegated to League OneLuton, needing at least a point, playing a West Brom side with one win in nine and nothing but pride to play for, have lost 5-3. Hull City got a point at Portsmouth to send them spinning through ye olde relegatione trapdoor. Just minutes left in the Championship season, and Rob Smyth is watching things play out: Premier League teamsThe line-ups for the two 3pm Premier League games have been announced, and here they are: Everton v Ipswich Leicester v Southampton Hello world!Welcome to a massive afternoon of springtimely football, with questions to be answered including:
Here are the 3pm fixtures from the Football League: Premier LeagueLeague One
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