Blackpool boosted their Championship play-off hopes with an impressive 3-1 home win over Bristol City.Goals from CJ Hamilton, Gary Madine and Josh Bowler did the damage as the Seasiders eased to victory at Bloomfield Road.With victory Neil Critchley’s confident side stretched their recent unbeaten run to three games to leave them within five points of forcing their way into the coveted top...Full Story »

Connor Ronan eased St Mirren’s relegation worries and added to Hibernian’s woes after scoring the only goal in a narrow 1-0 cinch Premiership victory at Easter Road.The on-loan Wolves midfielder pounced on a mistake from Jake Doyle-Hayes in the 62nd minute before firing a fierce drive beyond Kevin Dabrowski.The victory moves Saints 11 points clear of bottom side Dundee and only withi...Full Story »

Preston ended Hull’s three-match winning run with a hard-fought 1-0 victory at the MKM Stadium.Cameron Archer hit the post in the first half before scoring at the start of the second to give the away side the lead following a cross by Ben Whiteman.Both teams then had chances to score in the second half, with Tom Eaves having an effort disallowed for offside for Hull, but Preston held on fo...Full Story »

Oldham gave their League Two survival hopes a much-needed boost with a 1-0 win at Scunthorpe in the battle of the bottom two.Substitute Junior Luamba got what could prove a crucial goal for the Latics seven minutes from time, forcing the ball home amid a goalmouth scramble to earn a first win for boss John Sheridan since his return to the club a fortnight earlier.Victories have proved hard to co...Full Story »

Former Tranmere midfielder Ollie Banks converted a penalty equaliser to earn Barrow a 1-1 draw with their high-flying Sky Bet League Two visitors.Bluebirds captain Banks netted his 11th goal of the season after Josh Dacres-Cogley handled Patrick Brough’s left-wing cross after 58 minutes.The goal came against the run of play as Rovers, despite playing into the teeth of driving wind and rain...Full Story »

Ten-man Bolton scored a late leveller to earn a point from a controversial 1-1 draw at the Mazuma Stadium.After a quiet first half the game came to life when Bolton skipper Ricardo Santos was sent off in the 71st minute for a handball which led to a penalty, with Cole Stockton’s effort well saved by James Trafford.Two minutes later Stockton did find the target to turn home Shane McLoughlin...Full Story »

Jermain Defoe’s second debut ended in a shock defeat for Sunderland as their automatic promotion hopes took a major dent in a 2-1 loss to Doncaster.Almost 40,000 fans had packed out the Stadium of Light to welcome Defoe back, but by the time he was introduced with just under 20 minutes to play the damage was already done.It was a quite staggering result for Rovers, who had been rooted to t...Full Story »

Dundee United edged into the top six after being forced to settle for a 0-0 Tayside derby draw with 10-man St Johnstone.A share of the spoils eased the battling Perth side a point ahead of relegation rivals Dundee in the cinch Premiership basement.But United fans voiced their frustration at being unable to penetrate a Perth side one man down for the final 36 minutes after Swedish midfielder Melk...Full Story »

Cameron Brannagan and Nathan Holland hit brilliant long-range efforts as Oxford came from behind late on to beat 10-man Portsmouth 3-2 in an incident-packed match at the Kassam Stadium.Oxford made a dream start as Luke McNally met Billy Bodin’s sixth-minute corner with a firm downward header past keeper Gavin Bazunu.Pompey were level four minutes later with Ronan Curtis skilfully flicking ...Full Story »

Stockport stayed top of the Vanarama National League with a 1-0 win over 10-man Dover.Paddy Madden broke Dover’s resistance six minutes from time to give the Hatters a 10th consecutive win in all competitions.Madden turned home his 12th goal of the season from close range after Will Collar had helped on Ollie Crankshaw’s corner.Rock-bottom Dover were reduced to 10 men when Myles Judd...Full Story »

Kabongo Tshimanga scored two penalties as Chesterfield started life after manager James Rowe with a 2-1 win over Dagenham that kept them second in the National League.Rowe, suspended last month over allegations of misconduct, left the club on Friday.The Daggers came close to breaking the deadlock at the half-hour mark when Will Wright’s free-kick clipped the post.They then found the opener...Full Story »

Jordan Cranston was sent off as Solihull drew 0-0 at Yeovil in the Vanarama National League.Solihull defender Cranston saw red in stoppage-time after picking up two yellow cards in the space of four minutes.Callum Maycock had a seventh-minute chance to open the scoring for the visitors but he was denied by an agile Grant Smith in the Yeovil goal.Ryan Boot came to Solihull’s rescue just bef...Full Story »

Barnet earned their first win in five league games with a 3-1 victory over Altrincham.Rob Hall opened the scoring for the Bees after five minutes when his cross flashed across goal and found the bottom corner.They then doubled their lead in the 16th minute when Reiss Greenidge found Sam Beard at the back post and he smashed the ball into the roof of the net.Adam Marriott added a third for the vi...Full Story »

Conor Chaplin’s second-half strike was enough to earn Ipswich maximum points from a 1-0 League One victory over relegation-threatened Gillingham.The narrow win kept The Tractor Boys’ outside chances of moving into the top six places alive, while condemning their visitors to remain second-bottom and a long way from surviving the drop to the fourth tier of English football.Ipswich goal...Full Story »

Livingston earned a hard-fought win 2-1 win over Aberdeen thanks to goals from Ayo Obileye and Alan Forrest.Centre-back Obileye has become a goalscoring machine lately and he fired the Lions ahead after getting on the end of Bruce Anderson’s effort before Forrest’s lobbed effort doubled their advantage after a quickfire start to the second half.But an improved display from the visito...Full Story »

Harrogate manager Simon Weaver celebrated a fourth straight clean sheet at home by paying tribute to goalkeeper Mark Oxley after the 2-0 win over Bradford.The 31-year-old former Southend stopper made four excellent saves to deny Bradford trio Tom Elliott, Jamie Walker and Andy Cook (twice) before Jack Diamond fired the hosts in front with only their second shot of the match just past the hour ma...Full Story »

Matty Stevens’ brace extended Forest Green’s unbeaten run to 17 games as the runaway leaders opened up a 10-point lead at the top of Sky Bet League Two.Goals in each half saw Stevens take his personal tally to 19 league goals thanks to two Kane Wilson assists.In a high-octane opening, it was Rovers who created the first opportunity – Stevens misdirecting his header from a Nicky...Full Story »

Inverness’ slide down the cinch Championship continued with a 1-0 home defeat by Morton at Caledonian Stadium.The former leaders have not won since hammering Morton 6-1 in December as the pressure increases on manager Billy Dodds.Morton, who knocked Caley Thistle out of the Scottish Cup on penalties in December, reacted to their crushing league defeat by appointing former Inverness midfiel...Full Story »

George Byers scored for the second consecutive game as Sheffield Wednesday claimed a third straight League One win with a 2-0 victory at Burton.Substitute Sylla Sow was also on target for the Owls, who moved three points off the play-off positions.Byers put Wednesday in front in the 32rd minute from close range after Burton goalkeeper Ben Garratt had turned away Nathaniel Mendez-Laing’s cr...Full Story »

Shrewsbury and Fleetwood shared the points from an entertaining League One 1-1 draw in blustery Shropshire.Fleetwood drew their third consecutive game, while Shrewsbury almost nicked it in the 90th minute when Danny Andrew hacked Dan Udoh’s shot off the line.Ryan Bowman went close early on for the hosts when his low drive was superbly saved by Fleetwood goalkeeper Alex Cairns.Fleetwood str...Full Story »