Championship: Derby, Middlesbrough and Bristol City's play-off battle – live!

The champions-elect are on one, Vrancic finding Hernandez, who crosses low to the near post; Phuki gets across his marker to snap home.

“May I please nominate ‘Pride and Prejudice Park?’, tweets Adam Kline-Schoder. “Not as good as ‘Pride and Passion Park’ for a football stadium, but significantly more literary.”

I think Mansfield have missed a great opportunity.

The New York Stadium, known as the AESSEAL New York Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. And there, they kicked off three minutes late; the plot thickens.

Nice from Derby. Wilson finds Holmes charging down the right, but his low cross is behind all his mates and Bartley kicks clear.

The players are out at Pride Park. I wonder if anyone regrets that name – Pride and Passion Pak would be infinitely better.

How much Lampard wanted Keogh to play is also not surprising. In Jay Rodriguez and Dwight Gayle, West Brom have one of the league’s most dangerous strike pairings, and only Norwich have scored more than their 86 goals, five more than the next best.

It’s not especially surprising that Lampard has done well at Derby. He was someone who probably had to think quite hard about how to maximise his talent, he played for different and interesting managers, and he speaks well. Assuming they make the playoffs, it’s hard to see Derby going up, but they’re a youngish squad who’ll be better next season.

The PA kid at Derby is doing a lot of shouting. It’s extremely invigorating, I can tell you.

Frank Lampard has seen togetherness and work ethic from his players. The players get on really well of the pitch, and he mentions their celebrations as reflective of this – a classic Alex Ferguson trope. He says Keogh will play through pain, and is a risk worth taking – he’s a “throwback”.

Derby’s Richard Keogh praises the staff “who’ve managed to get myself ready for the game”. The reflexive pronoun police have been notified.

This should be a really good game, as it goes. Derby have had a fine season whatever happens next, while West Brom need to keep momentum going.

Tangentially: Keith Andrews has a luscious, luxuriant heed of hair, and is also an excellent pundit. It just goes to show, virtue is rewarded.

Pulis adds that he doesn’t worry about things he can’t affect. Like his team playing watchable football, for example.

Tony Pulis thinks Boro have to be “positive”. I am not certain the Boro fans share his understanding of the word.

So let’s go through what may or may not happen today:

• Norwich need a point at Villa to become champions. If they lose, a win for Sheffield United at Stoke will see them take the trophy.
• Leeds, West Brom and Villa are already ensconced in the playoff places. Derby will join them should they beat West Brom, but if not, Boro are there with a win at relegated Rotherham, and should both lose or draw, Bristol City can sort it out by beating Hull at the KC.

The headline team news, I guess, is Villa settling for what they’ve got and giving a rest to their two best players. That’s good news for Norwich, who will fancy themselves something fierce now.

Sheff Wed: Westwood, Palmer, lee, Pelupessy, Fletcher, Lees, Joao, Matias, Hector, Forestieri. Subs: Dawson, Thorniley, Penney, Hutchinson, Hooper, Nuhiu, Winnall.

QPR: Lumley, Furlong, Cameron, Leistner, Manning, Eze, Scowen, Luongo, Shodipo, Osayi-Samuel, Smith. Subs: Ingram, Bidwell, Hall, Freeman, Bansal-McNulty, Walker, Wells.

Reading: Martinez, Gunter, Moore, Miazga, Yiadom, Ejaria, Rinomhota, Baker, Barrett, Loader, Olise. Subs: Walker, O’Shea, Baldock, McCleary, Barrow, Ezatolahi, Howe.

Birmingham City: Camp, Colin, Harding, Roberts, Pedersen, C Gardner, Lakin, Mrabti, Jota, Adams, Vassell. Subs: Weaver, Dacres-Cogley, G Gardner, Davis, Maghoma, Mahoney, Jutkiewicz.

Wigan Athletic: Walton, Robinson, James, Pilkington, Naismith, Kipre, Dunkley, Powell, Olsson, Evans, Garner. Subs: Jones, Gibson, McManaman, Roberts, Jolley, Merrie, Perry.

Millwall: Martin, Meredith, Cooper, Williams, Gregory, Ferguson, Romeo, Pearce, Tunnicliffe, Morison, Leonard. Subs: Amos, McLaughlin, Elliott, Skala, McNamara, Mitchell, Alexander.

Nottingham Forest: Steele, Wague, Milosevic, Robinson, Byram, Yates, Cash, Osborn, Carvalho, Lolley, Grabban. Subs: Pantilimon, Figueiredo, Guedioura, Watson, Murphy, Yacob, Appiah.

Bolton Wanderers: Matthews, Taylor, Buckley, Noone, Hobbs, Connolly, O’Neil, Magennis, Grounds, Pritchard, Brockbank. Subs: Turner, Little, Oztumer, Donaldson, Earing, Johnson, Darcy.

Ipswich: Bialkowski, Kenlock, Nsiala, Chambers, Bree, Chalobah, Skuse, Downes, Judge, Quaner, Dozzell. Subs: Gerken, Jackson, Harrison, Elder, Emmanuel, Mizouni, Brown.

Leeds: Casilla, Dallas, Cooper, Jansson, Ayling, Phillips, Klich, Forshaw, Harrison, Hernandez, Roofe. Subs: Peacock-Farrell, Berardi, Edmondson, Shackleton, Clarke, Gotts, Bogusz.

Good news for Leeds: Kemar Roofe is back, and he replaces the

injured
suspended Patrick Bamford.

Stoke City: Butland, Bauer, Shawcross, Batth, Martins Indi, Ince, Etebo, Allen, Woods, McClean, Vokes. Subs: Federici, Williams, Afobe, Adam, Diouf, Bojan, Verlinden.

Sheff Utd: Henderson, Baldock, Stevens, Fleck, O’Connell, Basham, Sharp, Egan, Norwood, McGoldrick, Duffy. Subs: Lundstram, Dowell, Hogan, Madine, Stearman, Moore, Cranie.

One change for t’Blades: Sharp in, Hogan out.

Rotherham: Price, Jones, Ihiekwe, Robertson, Mattock, Ajayi, Forde, Wiles, Crooks, Newell, Smith. Subs: Vyner, Wood, Palmer, Towell, Potter, Williams, Vassell

Middlesbrough: Randolph, Howson, McNair, Flint, Shotton, Saville, Mikel, Besic, Wing, Fletcher, Assombalonga. Subs: Dimi, Spence, Clayton, Downing, Tavernier, Hugill, Gestede.

Brentford: Daniels, Henry, Canos, Maupay, Watkins, DaSilva, Marcodnes, Dalsgaard, Jeanvier, Konsa, Racic. Subs: Gunnarsson, Odubajo, Ogbene, Forss, Oksanen, Zamburek, Archibald.

Preston North End: Ripley, Fisher, Davies, Robinson, Browne, Johnson, Gallagher, Storey, Rafferty, Stockely, Maguire. Subs: Rudd, Huntington, Earl, O’Reilly, Ginnelly, Moult, Nmecha.

Hull: Long, Lichaj, Burke, Stewart, Grosicki, Irvine, Batty, Bowen, Henriksen, Campbell, McKenzie. Subs: Marshall, Evandro, Dicko, Fleming, Sheaf, Martin, Ridgewell.

Bristol City: O’Leary, Dasilva, Webster, Wright, Brownhill, Diedhiou, Weimann, Paterson, Pack, Kalas, Palmer. Subs: Marinovic, Pisano, Taylor, Walsh, Watkins, Kelly, Eliasson.

Blackburn: Leutwiler, Bennet, Lenihan, Williams, Bell, Travis, Evans, Rothwell, Dack, Armstrong, Graham. Subs: Raya, Chapman, Mulgrew, Davenport, Brereton, Conway, Butterworth.

Swansea City: Nordfeldt, Roberts, Van der Hoorn, Carter-Vickers, John, Byers, Grimes, Fulton, Routledge, Baker-Richardson, McBurnie. Subs: Bendia, Dyer, Asoro, McKay, Rodon, Naughton, Dhanda

Derby County: Roos, Keogh, Wilson, Mount, Waghorn, Lawrence, Johnson, Holmes, Bogle, Malone, Tomori. Subs: Carson, Marriott, Evans, Bennett, Nugent, Macdonald, Huddlestone.

West Brom: Johnstone, Bartley, Dawson, Hegazi, Holgate, Harper, Johansen, Gibbs, Murphy, Rodriguez, Gayle. Subs: Bond, Mears, Townsend, Morrison, Field, Phillips, Robson-Kanu.

One change for Derby: Huddlestone goes out, Holmes comes in; and one for West Brom, Brunt replaced by Holmes.

Aston Villa: Steer, Hutton, Tuanzebe, Hause, Taylor, Whelan, Hourihane, Lansbury, Adomah, Green, Kodjia. Subs: Kalinic, Jedinak, Elphick, Bjarnason, Elmohamady, El Ghazi, Davis.

Norwich: Krul, Aarons, Zimmermann, Godfrey, Lewis, Vrancic, McLean, Buendia, Stiepermann, Hernandez, Pukki. Subs: McGovern, Leitner, Rhodes, Klose, Tettey, Hanley, Cantwell.

Hmmm. Villa rest their midfield two, McGinn and Grealish, who are omitted from the matchday squad; Norwich rock their classic line-up.

It’s been another vintage Championship season, featuring all manner of shirthousery and skullduggery – the greatest league in football never disappoints. The major issues are settled, it’s true, but there’s still plenty to go on this afternoon: can Sheffield United usurp Norwich City as champions? Will Marcelobielsa’s Leeds hang onto third place? Can Franklampard’sderbycounty hold off Boro and Bristol City to secure the final playoff spot?And, most importantly of all, who, if anyone, will cry for our entertainment?

This should be fun.

Kick-off: 12.30pm BST