Morecambe boss Derek Adams was “so proud” of his side after they reached their first ever Football League play-off final with a 3-2 aggregate victory over Tranmere.Adams has taken the Shrimps from regular Sky Bet League Two strugglers to promotion contenders in 18 months and they held their nerve to stave off a strong second-half response from Rovers and book a trip to Wembley.The Sh...Full Story »

Morecambe are one victory away from reaching the third tier for the first time after making it through to the Sky Bet League Two play-off final with a 3-2 aggregate victory over Tranmere.The Shrimps, who missed out on automatic promotion by one point on the final day of the season, took a vital lead through Aaron Wildig in only the ninth minute of the game and held on to that advantage until Jam...Full Story »

SCORES of riot police descended on Koln supporters causing carnage in their Bundesliga contest. The German side took on Schalke in their relegation D-Day decider on Saturday afternoon. Koln supporters turned out in their hundreds ahead of their relegation decider Tensions were running high amongst supporters outside with Koln appearing to be heading for the second division. That was until Se...Full Story »

THOMAS PARTEY took out an Arsenal coach with a two-footed lunge in training, much to the amusement of skipper Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The Gunners are preparing for tomorrow's final day clash with Brighton, as they aim to finish above Spurs and sneak into Europe. Thomas Partey was full-blooded in the tackle Partey, 27, has had a slightly underwhelming first season in North London, since mov...Full Story »

Swansea survived a late Barnsley surge to book a Sky Bet Championship final date with Brentford at Wembley.The Swans held on for a winner-takes-all shot at Premier League football on May 29 by drawing 1-1 at the Liberty Stadium for a 2-1 aggregate victory.Matt Grimes had doubled their first-leg lead with a superb strike before half-time, but Barnsley were given hope of turning the tie around whe...Full Story »

Lincoln boss Michael Appleton delivered a half-time rocket to his players to inspire their Sky Bet League One play-off semi-final fightback at Sunderland.The Imps saw their 2-0 first-leg lead evaporate at the Stadium of Light on Saturday before scraping their way back into the game to secure a 3-2 aggregate victory which booked them a trip to Wembley to face Blackpool next Sunday.Appleton told S...Full Story »

Callum Davidson saluted St Johnstone’s saviour Geoff Brown after the 1-0 Scottish Cup final win over Hibernian secured an extraordinary cup double.Wing-back Shaun Rooney, who scored the only goal in the Betfred Cup final win over Livingston at Hampden Park in February, was the hero again with a header in the 31st minute at the national stadium, with Hibs keeper Matt Macey’s penalty s...Full Story »

Joe Kizzi claimed a dramatic late winner as Bromley kept themselves in contention for the Vanarama National League play-offs with a thrilling 3-2 success at Aldershot.Defender Kizzi nodded home a cross from substitute Harry Forster in the fifth minute of added time to keep the Ravens behind seventh-placed Chesterfield on goal difference only.Harry Panayiotou looked like costing the visitors a pr...Full Story »

Tom Hopper headed Lincoln into the Sky Bet League One play-off final at Wembley as they survived a blitz at Sunderland to keep their dreams alive.The visitors did not lay a glove on the Black Cats in the first half and saw their 2-0 first-leg advantage wiped out by goals from Ross Stewart and Charlie Wyke in front of a raucous home crowd of 9,971.However in a much-improved second-half display, s...Full Story »

Notts County secured a play-off place in the National League with a 3-0 victory over Weymouth.The Magpies, who sit in fifth spot, dominated proceedings at Meadow Lane, with Ruben Rodrigues opening the scoring with a penalty in the 25th minute.Three minutes later they doubled their advantage in bizarre circumstances – Rodrigues’ free-kick looping up off the wall and Kyle Wootton pokin...Full Story »

Halifax kept themselves in contention for a National League play-off place with a 2-1 victory over 10-man Maidenhead.The Shaymen are among five teams separated by only two points in the race for sixth and seventh spots with only one game remaining.Maidenhead midfielder Ryan Upward was shown a second yellow card seven minutes before the break, and Halifax went in ahead after Jake Hyde headed in L...Full Story »

Wrexham boosted their play-off push with a 5-3 victory over struggling King’s Lynn at the Racecourse Ground.Luke Young fired the hosts in front from the spot after a handball in the 18th minute, but Sonny Carey levelled from a free-kick two minutes later.Jordan Davies restored the Wrexham advantage from a set-piece and it was 3-1 at half-time after Gold Omotayo beat the goalkeeper from a o...Full Story »

Brentford boss Thomas Frank ran a lap of the pitch before kick-off and enjoyed a lap of honour after his side won a breathless play-off semi-final against Bournemouth.Goals from Ivan Toney, Vitaly Janelt and Marcus Forss saw them come from two down to sink Bournemouth 3-2 on aggregate and reach the Wembley final for the second successive season.Frank, who whipped up the 4,500-strong crowd before...Full Story »

Brentford won a breathless play-off semi-final as goals from Ivan Toney, Vitaly Janelt and Marcus Forss saw them come from behind to sink Bournemouth.Already a goal down from the first leg, they trailed 2-0 on aggregate when Arnaut Danjuma fired the visitors ahead after only five minutes.But Bournemouth lost Chris Mepham to a first-half red card and Toney equalised from the penalty spot, before ...Full Story »

Morecambe are without Stephen Hendrie for their Sky Bet League Two play-off semi-final home leg against Tranmere on Sunday.The Shrimps won the first tie 2-1, but Scottish defender Hendrie suffered an ankle injury during the game and will play no further part this season.Brad Lyons could also miss out after sustaining a suspected broken nose at Prenton Park on Thursday.Liam McAlinden, who scored ...Full Story »

The Aston Villa midfielder — on loan from Chelsea — was slurring and could barely stand, one witness said. Ross Barkley is asked to leave the bar England midfielder Barkley is given a talking to at the posh hotel bar Barkley, 27, had been drinking heavily with a pal in The May Fair Hotel in central London before being shown the red card at 8pm. He flailed his arms towards a custom...Full Story »

The Portuguese coach has spent the last four years at Molineux, but will depart the Wolverhampton club following Sunday's finale to 2020-21 campaign Wolves have revealed that head coach Nuno Espirito Santo will be leaving the club this summer, with his final match in charge the home game with Manchester United on Sunday. After four years at Molineux, in which promotion was secured and a plac...Full Story »

The 33-year-old has been given permission to sit out the meeting with Eibar on Sunday Lionel Messi may have played his last game for Barcelona after it was confirmed he will miss Sunday's clash with Eibar. The Camp Nou side will finish their campaign with a trip to Eibar but have little to play for after being ruled out of the title race with a 2-1 loss to Celta Vigo last week. But they wil...Full Story »

West Ham will check on goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski ahead of the visit of Southampton.Fabianski suffered a knee injury in the warm-up at West Brom on Wednesday and boss David Moyes will make a late call.Mark Noble and Manuel Lanzini look set to miss out again.Southampton forward Che Adams will miss the final game of the Premier League campaign with a groin injury, but is expected to be fit to fea...Full Story »

Sheffield United will check on the fitness of George Baldock ahead of their final game of the season against Burnley.It is hoped the defender will be able to be involved on Sunday despite missing the midweek defeat at Newcastle because of hamstring discomfort.The Blades remain without Oli McBurnie (foot), Jack O’Connell (knee), Billy Sharp (thigh), Ethan Ampadu (hip) and Sander Berge, who ...Full Story »