16:38
Goal! Norwich 1-1 Blackburn (Gallagher, 77)
Sam Gallagher heads in at the back post to peg back the league leaders. It had been coming for Blackburn.
16:36
Jordan Rhodes scoring twice for Sheffield Wednesday is described by a Dan Brewin as “a miracle”.
16:35
Goals in the Championship, where Stoke lead Wayne Rooney’s Derby County 1-0 through a goal from Jacob Brown. Richard Wood’s goal has made it 2-0 to Rotherham at Bristol City. There could be a relegation battle after all.
16:32
Bad news for Sunderland, as Lincoln equalise. The double pepperoni celebration from last week must be weighing heavy.
16:29
At Watford, there’s a plane flypast going. “Dong must go,” it says. That’s a reference to Birmingham’s owners who are very unpopular in Small Heath.
16:28
Bundesliga final scores
Werder 1-2 Wolfsburg
Köln 2-2 Dortmund
Bayern 4-0 Stuttgart
Eintracht Frankfurt 5-2 Union Berlin
16:23
Queen’s Park are now 3-0 up on Stranraer, who are down to ten men. Seeing off Hampden in style.
16:22
Dortmund equalise against Köln, and their goal to make it 2-2 was scored by Erling Haaland. Who else? It’s a tap in from yards out though it might have come off the Köln defender.
16:19
Reading, another of the Championship promotion chasers, have equalised at QPR, through Yakou Méïté.
16:17
Sheffield Wednesday now 2-0 up on Barnsley, and with Rotherham leading Bristol City, Birmingham might be looking back over their shoulders. Big job for Lee Bowyer at Blues. Big job.
16:15
Goal! Watford 2-0 Birmingham (Chalobah, 55)
A corner comes across and Chalobah nods in from the far post. Watford really stepping up after Brentford’s slip.
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16:13
Goal! Norwich 1-0 Blackburn (McLean, 53)
Pukki has a shot saved and then McLean plays a one-two, and scores. Norwich had been poor in the first half, but that was much better from them.
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16:09
In Germany, Köln are beating Dortmund 2-1, and if they lose that they look set to lose ground on Eintracht Frankfurt, who are beating Union Berlin 4-2, and Wolfsburg, who are winning 2-1 at Werder Bremen. The race for the top four is hotting up as Dortmund go cold.
16:05
Goal! Celta Vigo 1-2 Real Madrid (Santi Mina, 40)
Just when Real looked so dominant, they conceded a goal, and they go in at half-time leading only 2-1.
15:58
Tributes pouring in to Lewa:
Charles Antaki: “Lewandoswski is quite the phenomenon – scoring gazillions while looking like a 62 yr old (albeit a 62 yr old PT instructor in some tough army regiment). Is what he takes available over the counter?
Carl Whinder: “Just watched Lewandowski get his hat-trick. Now I’m no Bayern fan but this is ridiculous. Since going down to 10 men they have absolutely smashed Stuttgart. Some of their play has been sublime.”
15:57
Scotland update from Simon McMahon: “Goalless at Tannadice between Dundee United and Aberdeen at half time, John. Kilmarnock and Motherwell swapped early goals and Livingston and Hibs are also level at 1-1. St Mirren lead Hamilton by the only goal. Queens Park are saying farewell to Hampden in style as they lead Stranraer 2-0.”
15:55
League Two results
Barrow 2-1 Crawley Town
Bolton 0-1 Walsall
Bradford 0-0 Oldham
Cambridge Utd 1-0 Forest Green
Cheltenham 2-0 Salford City
Colchester 0-1 Port Vale
Harrogate Town 0-1 Morecambe
Mansfield 1-0 Grimsby
Newport County 0-1 Leyton Orient (Result)
Scunthorpe 0-0 Southend
Stevenage 3-1 Carlisle (Result)
Tranmere 1-1 Exeter
15:53
Half-time scores in League One
AFC Wimbledon 1-2 Charlton
Accrington Stanley 2-1 Wigan
Burton Albion 0-1 Milton Keynes Dons
Fleetwood Town 0-1 Swindon
Gillingham 2-2 Doncaster
Northampton 0-0 Crewe
Oxford Utd 0-2 Blackpool
Plymouth 2-0 Bristol Rovers
Portsmouth 2-1 Ipswich (Result)
Rochdale 0-2 Peterborough
Shrewsbury 0-0 Hull
Sunderland 1-0 Lincoln City
15:52
Half-time scores in the Championship
Barnsley 0-1 Sheff Wed
Brentford 1-1 Nottm Forest (Result)
Bristol City 0-1 Rotherham
Coventry 0-0 Wycombe
Huddersfield v. AFC Bournemouth ( Postponed )
Millwall 1-0 Middlesbrough
Norwich 0-0 Blackburn
Preston North End 0-0 Luton
Reading 0-1 QPR
Stoke 0-0 Derby
Swansea v. Cardiff (KO 5.30)
Watford 1-0 Birmingham
15:46
Goal! Celta Vigo 0-2 Real Madrid (Benzema, 30)
And another goal from Benzema. The gauntlet is thrown down to Atléti and Barca. Real utterly dominant at Vigo, where the home team have only just had their first shot.
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15:43
Last week’s other Papa John’s heroes, Salford City, are 2-0 down at Cheltenham. Insert own pizza gag here.
15:41
Sunderland, Papa John’s heroes of last weekend (or one of them), are 1-0 up on Lincoln City, after a goal from Callum McFadzean.
15:40
A lifeline for Sheffield Wednesday in their almost certainly doomed battle against relegation from the Championship. They lead 1-0 at Barnsley with Jordan Rhodes the goalscorer.
15:37
Goal! Celta Vigo 0-1 Real Madrid (Benzema, 20)
Who else but Benzema, who is in such rich form at the moment?
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15:35
Queen’s Park now 2-0 up on Stranraer on this historic day for them.
15:33
Oh, and here’s a goal in the Championship, and it’s Millwall 1-0 Middlesbrough after an own-goal from Grant Hall.
15:26
Charlton, under the new management of Nigel Adkins, are 2-1 up at AFC Wimbledon. Lee who?
15:22
Just that Watford goal so far in the Championship from the 3pm kick-offs. Queen’s Park, by the way, on that last game ever at Hampden, are 1-0 up on Stranraer.
15:16
Here’s our roundup of the Championship action so far.
15:15
Robert Lewandowski has a hat-trick in 39 minutes, as ten-man Bayern lead Stuttgart 4-0. Incredible. He’s closing on Gerd Muller’s record of 40 in a season. Borussia Dortmund have just conceded so that Köln are level, and that’s the result of VAR awarded against Jude Bellingham. That’s converted by Ondrej Duda.
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15:06
Goal! Watford 1-0 Birmingham (Sema, 4)
A tap-in after a decent save from the Brum keeper and Watford look to be taking full advantage of that Brentford slip-up.
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15:03
As the 3pm kick-offs go off, some final scores from the day’s earlier games. Danny Cowley got off to a maiden win with Portsmouth in beating Ipswich 1-0 in League One. In League Two, Leyton Orient won 1-0 at Newport, while Stevenage beat ten-man Carlisle 3-1.
15:00
Our video tribute to Peter Lorimer. Farewell, Lash. He used to run a south Leeds pub in his post-football career, and was a warm and convivial host, and for a student journalist like myself in the late-1990s, was happy to talk Leeds on the phone. The Commercial Inn sounded lively down the landline.
14:55
More from the Bundesliga. Amazing scenes, where Bayern Munich are 3-0 up on Stuttgart, with two goals from Robert Lewandowski (of course) and one from Serge Gnabry. And all that’s happened with Alphonso Davies sent off for a straight-red offence.
Anything Haaland can do, Lewandowski seems to do it even better.
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14:53
Simon McMahon reports in from north of the border, for which we are most thankful.
“Afternoon John. Only one show in town in Scotland this weekend, and that’s at Tannadice where Dundee United meet Aberdeen. A place in the top six is no longer a realistic option for Micky Mellon’s men, but a win today would almost certainly secure their place in the top flight next season. So all to play for. Elsewhere, rock bottom Kilmarnock face Motherwell, Hamilton welcome St Mirren and it’s Livingston v Hibs and St Johnstone v Ross County. In the Scottish Championship leaders Hearts visit Arbroath and it’s Ayr v Raith, Dunfermline v Inverness and Morton v Queen of the South. Scottish Leagues One and Two resume today after a pause, and so Queens Park, ten times Scottish Cup winners and twice FA Cup finalists, play their last home league game at Hampden after 118 years at the home of Scottish football.”
Queens Park play Stranraer today. Thanks, Simon. Keep it coming.
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14:47
News from the Bundesliga, where Erling Haaland has already scored for Borussia Dortmund against Köln, and it was beauty too, straight through the keeper’s legs.
14:40
A sad day for football, with the death of Leeds legend Peter Lorimer announced today.
14:37
Brentford’s 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest really opens the day up for Norwich and Watford. After Ivan Toney’s early penalty, Filip Krovinović’s equaliser means more dropped points for Thomas Frank’s team who are showing signs of the wobbles that cost them last season.
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14:29
Southampton in the FA Cup semis for the first time since 2003? No, actually they reached that same stage in 2018 when Mark Hughes was manager, losing to Chelsea.
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14:24
League Two fixtures
Barrow v. Crawley Town
Bolton v. Walsall
Bradford v. Oldham
Cambridge Utd v. Forest Green
Cheltenham v. Salford City
Colchester v. Port Vale
Harrogate Town v. Morecambe
Mansfield v. Grimsby
Newport County 0-1 Leyton Orient (Latest)
Scunthorpe v. Southend
Stevenage 2-1 Carlisle (Latest)
Tranmere v. Exeter
14:20
And in League One.
AFC Wimbledon v. Charlton
Accrington Stanley v. Wigan
Burton Albion v. Milton Keynes Dons
Fleetwood Town v. Swindon
Gillingham v. Doncaster
Northampton v. Crewe
Oxford Utd v. Blackpool
Plymouth v. Bristol Rovers
Portsmouth 1-1 Ipswich (Latest)
Rochdale v. Peterborough
Shrewsbury v. Hull
Sunderland v. Lincoln City
14:18
Here’s today’s Championship fixtures.
Barnsley v. Sheff Wed
Brentford 1-1. Nottm Forest (Latest)
Bristol City v. Rotherham
Coventry v. Wycombe
Huddersfield v. AFC Bournemouth ( Postponed )
Millwall v. Middlesbrough
Norwich v. Blackburn
Preston North End v. Luton
Reading v. QPR
Stoke v. Derby
Swansea v. Cardiff (KO 5.30)
Watford v. Birmingham
14:09
In League One, Danny Cowley’s first game in charge of Portsmouth has them level at 1-1 with Ipswich under the relatively new management of Paul Cook. That was a 1pm kick-off.
14:07
In the Championship, Brentford are being held 1-1 at Nottingham Forest. If that stays the same, then Norwich can really steal a march. That’s also good news for those chasing second place, with Watford kicking off at 3pm too.
12:56
Preamble
It’s Saturday so this must be Selhurst Park and Crystal Palace playing Burnley/West Brom/Villa…What? No, the FA Cup has scuppered the space/time continuum and there is no actual Barclays at 3pm. So, this week’s Clocko turns its attentions to the EFL, where there is so much to play for, and our European friends. There’s a full round of Championship fixtures in which Norwich can maintain their lead by beating Blackburn. Watford, the closest chasers, host Birmingham, under the new management of Lee Bowyer and trying to stave off relegation. Swansea v Cardiff doesn’t kick off until later and Brentford are playing in the earlier game against Nottingham Forest. At the bottom, where Wycombe and Sheffield Wednesday are surely sunk, Rotherham, who have four games in hand on Birmingham, travel to Bristol City.
In Europe, Bayern Munich can pull four points ahead of RB Leipzig, who won yesterday, by beating Stuttgart. Real Madrid, in third, can continue their chase of Atlético, by winning at Celta Vigo.
All that and the best of the action from League One and League Two. Join me.