Forest Green got back to winning ways as goals from Emmanuel Osadebe and Harry Cardwell sealed a 2-0 win over Maidenhead.Steve Cotterill’s men had lost ground on the National League’s top two with just two points from their last three outings, but relocated the winning formula.Osadebe hit the first in the 11th minute and turned creator in the second half. He fed substitute Cardwell, ...Full Story »

Harrogate pulled 10 points clear of the Sky Bet League Two relegation zone courtesy of a 2-1 home win over fellow strugglers Accrington.Striker Josh March registered his sixth goal of the season to decide Saturday’s contest, extending the Sulphurites’ unbeaten run at Wetherby Road to a fifth match.Harrogate centre-half Jasper Moon broke the deadlock as he found the back of the net in...Full Story »

Relegation rivals Dundee and St Johnstone had to settle for a share of the spoils in a close 1-1 draw at Dens.Makenzie Kirk opened the scoring for Saints with Simon Murray responding for the home side before the break.The hosts came closest to finding a winner in the second half with Scott Tiffoney hitting the woodwork.The result leaves Saints still bottom of the Premiership table with Dundee th...Full Story »

Barry Ferguson’s homecoming turned into a Rangers reality check as Motherwell battled to a 2-1 William Hill Premiership win over the ragged home side at Ibrox.The Light Blues came from 2-0 down to beat Kilmarnock 4-2 at Rugby Park on Wednesday night in the former Gers captain’s first game in charge as interim boss, and again they fell two behind after mistakes led to goals from Luke ...Full Story »

Ollie Pearce maintained his hot scoring streak as promotion-chasing York beat Hartlepool 1-0 in the Vanarama National League.Pearce fired home his 22nd goal of the season, and his sixth in five games, after Malachi Fagan-Walcott’s pass was deflected into his path by a home defender in the 40th minute.York, in second place and trailing leaders Barnet by six points, thought they had opened t...Full Story »

Goals from Elias Kachunga and Paul Digby lifted Cambridge off the bottom of the table after a 2-0 win at Cambridge.Both sides finished with 10 men, Crawley’s Rushian Hepburn-Murphy and the U’s James Gibbons receiving straight red cards within six minutes of each other in the second half.Cambridge, winners of both of their games since Neil Harris has returned as head coach, are now si...Full Story »

Stoke and Watford played out a drab 0-0 Championship draw at the bet365 Stadium as neither side were able to give a boost to their respective end-of-season ambitions.Mark Robins’ relegated-threatened Potters avoided a third successive defeat to remain five points above the drop zone and might have snatched a late winner but for Egil Selvik’s brace of saves.Play-off chasing Watford mi...Full Story »

Sonny Cox scored his first goal in almost a year to rescue a point for Exeter in their 1-1 League One draw with relegation rivals Northampton at St James Park.The opening quarter was cagey with neither side creating much in the way of clear-cut chances. Northampton did have a great chance five minutes before half-time, though, when Alex Hartridge was robbed of possession but Tariqe Fosu took too...Full Story »

Dan Creaney scored twice as Tamworth dealt bottom club Ebbsfleet a 3-2 home defeat.Josh Wright’s side have not won a game since September 14 and find themselves cast adrift in the National League relegation scrap, but gave themselves a fighting chance when George Moncur gave them the lead.But a quickfire double from Creaney in the run-up to half-time, netting in the 38th and 40th minutes, ...Full Story »

Colchester extended their unbeaten run in Sky Bet League Two to nine games with a 1-0 win away at MK Dons.Jack Payne sealed the points for Colchester with a late penalty against his former club before Callum Hendry was sent off in stoppage time for the hosts.Defeat means the Dons are now winless in six, while Colchester picked up a first win in four after three straight draws.Colchester had the ...Full Story »

Luton manager Matt Bloomfield finally picked up a first long-awaited win at the ninth attempt as the Hatters climbed off the bottom of the Championship table by beating Portsmouth 1-0 at Kenilworth Road.The hosts, who were without a victory in their last 12 second-tier fixtures, came under pressure in the opening stages, Colby Bishop’s close-range prod hitting the covering Amari’i Be...Full Story »

Sam Nombe scored a dramatic added-time winner to secure Rotherham a 3-2 Sky Bet League One victory over Bristol Rovers at the Memorial Stadium.Nombe, who also scored a first-half equaliser, tapped in his 10th goal this season to break Rovers hearts and deepen the West Country side’s relegation fears.Rovers began brightly and took control on five minutes when Ruel Sotiriou poked the ball in...Full Story »

Reading scored twice in the last 20 minutes as they came from 1-0 down to win 2-1 at Wigan in League One.The first half was almost all Reading, with Lewis Wing seeing a free-kick from 25 yards touched round a post by Sam Tickle, who made a stupendous save moments later to deny Andre Garcia at point-blank range.Even Tickle was helpless the next time Reading had a sight of his goal as Harvey Knibb...Full Story »

Shrewsbury striker John Marquis was sent off after 13 seconds of their 3-1 League One defeat at Peterborough, equalling the fastest red card from the start of a game in English professional football.The Shrews captain’s dismissal matches the record set by former Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Kevin Pressman in 2000 for handling outside the area.The veteran striker claimed his unwanted plac...Full Story »

Charlton snatched all three points at the death to stun Leyton Orient in a London derby featuring two League One play-off hopefuls.Trailing to a Jordan Brown wonderstrike, Macauley Gillesphey and Kayne Ramsay both scored in added time to give the visitors a 2-1 victory.Both Charlton goals came from came from corners sent in by substitute Alex Gilbert. The first, two minutes into the six of added...Full Story »

Southend scored a stoppage-time equaliser as James Golding’s superb strike gave them a dramatic 2-2 draw with Yeovil at Huish Park.The Shrimpers led after 40 seconds when Charley Kendall slid home Leon Chambers-Parillon’s cross.Yeovil turned things around as Kyrell Wilson levelled after 14 minutes and Frank Nouble quickly poked in it at the back post to score for the third consecutiv...Full Story »

Jai Rowe’s late goal helped relegation-battlers Boston come from behind to secure a 3-1 victory at Dagenham, whose winless run was extended to 10 Vanarama National League games.Josh Rees had earlier headed the Daggers into the lead after only three minutes, and soon came close to a second when his 12-yard effort struck the post.The Pilgrims were level in the 23rd minute when Jacob Hazel co...Full Story »

Eastleigh’s play-off hopes were dented after a 1-0 defeat at lowly Braintree.Marley Marshall-Miranda’s third-minute goal condemned the visitors to a first loss in five matches.John Akinde’s effort was blocked but the ball fell to Marshall-Miranda, whose first-time shot crashed in off the crossbar.Braintree finished the match with 10 men after Ryan Clampin was shown a second yel...Full Story »

Gillingham eased any potential Sky Bet League Two relegation concerns with a welcome 1-0 win over Morecambe at Priestfield.The Kent side registered their first win in 14 outings thanks to Robbie McKenzie, who got a crucial touch inside the box with 10 minutes left to divert a close-range effort beyond Harry Burgoyne.It was the hosts who commanded proceedings throughout and Morecambe were gratefu...Full Story »

Bolton boss Steven Schumacher believes a point was a fair result after a bore 0-0 draw away to Wrexham in Sky Bet League One.The Red Dragons are two points adrift of second-placed Wycombe, while the result also boosts Bolton’s hopes of making the play-offs.Wrexham had the ball in the net towards the end of the first half when Eoghan O’Connell beat Luke Southwood, but the referee sign...Full Story »

West Brom boss Tony Mowbray questioned the survival chances of any team winning Premier League promotion following his side’s battling 1-1 draw at Sky Bet Championship leaders Leeds.Darnell Furlong’s first-half header secured Mowbray’s play-off chasers a hard-earned point at Elland Road after Junior Firpo had headed Leeds into an early lead.Daniel Farke’s side sit eight p...Full Story »

Birmingham manager Chris Davies says his side are in a strong position to be promoted from League One after extending their lead at the top of the table to 12 points with a 1-0 win over second-placed Wycombe.An impressive strike from Taylor Gardner-Hickman, after 21 minutes, proved to be enough to win the game against their nearest challengers, who were reduced to 10 men before half-time when mi...Full Story »

Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner believes Millwall keeper Liam Roberts’ clash with Jean-Philippe Mateta could have been a career-ending challenge and deserved a red card.Mateta was carried off on a stretcher and taken to hospital early in the hosts’ 3-1 FA Cup fifth-round victory at Selhurst Park.He has since posted on social media that he is “doing well” and hopes t...Full Story »

Port Vale manager Darren Moore felt a point was a fair reward as his side extended their unbeaten League Two run to nine games following a 1-1 draw with Tranmere at Prenton Park.The home side took the lead after 18 minutes when a mix-up in the Vale defence allowed Kristian Dennis to fire into an empty net.Rovers almost made it two when Josh Hawkes’ rasping effort was well saved by Ben Amos...Full Story »

Paul Heckingbottom watched Milutin Osmajic play a leading role in Preston’s 3-0 FA Cup win over local rivals Burnley and then revealed he had considered leaving the Montenegrin out of the game amid an ongoing investigation into allegations of racist abuse.Osmajic was a constant thorn in Burnley’s side, scoring Preston’s second of the afternoon and threatening more as the Claret...Full Story »

Valerien Ismael said 10-man Blackburn’s 1-1 draw with Norwich in his first game in charge “felt more like a win” after they snatched a leveller deep into stoppage time.The majority of the game was even, yet well contested. But the first 85 minutes pale into insignificance in comparison to the breathless final five plus stoppage time.After substitute Emmanuel Dennis was sent off...Full Story »

Bradford boss Graham Alexander praised the togetherness of his squad after they came from a goal down to secure a dramatic late win over Salford.The Bantams trailed to Frankie Okoronkwo’s opener, but Brad Halliday equalised and Michael Mellon struck a stoppage-time winner to earn Alexander victory over his former employers.Bradford’s third straight win cemented their position in the ...Full Story »

Coventry boss Frank Lampard praised match-winner Tatsuhiro Sakamoto for his superb far-post finish in the 3-2 victory over Oxford at the Kassam Stadium.Coventry twice took the lead only to see Oxford peg it back, but Sakamoto’s drive in the 70th minute was unstoppable, and United could not find a way back for a third time.Lampard said: “It was a fantastic finish from Sakamoto. We wer...Full Story »

Promotion-chasing sides Wrexham and Bolton had to share the spoils in a goalless draw at the Racecourse Ground.Wrexham missed the chance to draw level on points with second-placed Wycombe while a point strengthened Bolton’s play-off push.The first real opportunity came just before the 25th minute when Ryan Longman whipped in a cross which Sam Smith rose highest for but his header went over...Full Story »

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto produced a glorious far-post finish to give Coventry a 3-2 victory at Oxford and boost their Sky Bet Championship play-off hopes.Frank Lampard’s side, who came into the match in fifth place, twice saw their lead wiped out before Sakamoto struck to give them a third triumph this season over Oxford, who have now gone seven games without a win.What had been a fairly mundane...Full Story »

Michael Mellon scored a last-gasp winner as SkyBet League Two promotion hopefuls Bradford came from behind to claim a dramatic 2-1 win at Salford.Second-placed Bradford were a goal behind at the break thanks to Frankie Okoronkwo’s opener for Salford, but Bradley Halliday levelled to set up a grandstand finish before Mellon struck the winner four minutes into added time.The Bantams looked t...Full Story »

Port Vale remain unbeaten in League Two in 2025 following a hard-fought 1-1 draw with Tranmere at Prenton Park.A Ronan Curtis strike cancelled out Kristian Dennis’ opener as Darren Moore’s side extended their unbeaten run to nine games, while Rovers are now without a win in 11.The home side opened the scoring in the 18th minute when Dennis pounced on a defensive error to steer the ba...Full Story »

Andreas Weimann struck in the sixth minute of stoppage time as 10-man Blackburn drew 1-1 with Norwich after a dramatic finish in Valerien Ismael’s first game in charge.There was nothing in the first 84 minutes to hint at the way the game would end, as both sides cancelled each other out in a cagey affair.But Emmanuel Dennis received was dismissed in the 85th minute after receiving a second...Full Story »