Championship latest, Wrexham return to EFL and more: Saturday clockwatch – live - 6 minutes read




Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMatch report and roundupRight, hectic first day in the EFL. I was a bit rusty, have to admit, but thanks for following along with me.Scottish Premiership full-time scoresDundee 1-1 MotherwellLivingston 0-0 AberdeenSt Johnstone 0-2 HeartsLeague Two full-time scoresAccrington Stanley 3-0 NewportCrawley 1-0 BradfordCrewe 2-2 Mansfield TownDoncaster Rovers 0-1 HarrogateForest Green 0-2 SalfordGrimsby 0-0 AFC WimbledonMorecambe 2-1 WalsallStockport 0-1 GillinghamSutton 5-1 Notts CountyTranmere 1-2 BarrowWrexham 3-5 MK DonsLeague One full-time scoresBarnsley 7-0 Port ValeBlackpool 2-0 BurtonBolton 3-0 LincolnCambridge 2-0 OxfordCarlisle 1-1 Fleetwood TownCharlton 1-0 Leyton OrientDerby 1-2 WiganNorthampton 0-1 StevenagePortsmouth 1-1 Bristol RoversReading 0-1 PeterboroughShrewsbury 1-0 CheltenhamWycombe 0-3 Exeter CityChampionship full-time scoresBlackburn 2-1 West BromwBristol City 1-1 PrestonMiddlesbrough 0-1 MillwallNorwich City 2-1 HullPlymouth Argyle 3-1 HuddersfieldStoke City 4-1 RotherhamSwansea 1-1 BirminghamWatford 4-0 QPRGoal! Stoke 4-1 Rotherham (Brown 90)Jacob Brown punishes ten-man Rotherham.Goal! Norwich 2-1 Hull (Idah 90+6)Deep into one of those extended periods of added time we have some drama. Hull were 1-0 up in this game, but now look like they are heading home with a defeat thanks to Adam Idah’s late goal.Goal! Wrexham 3-5 MK Dons (Forde 90+6)I’m sorry, Hugh.Goal! Wrexham 2-5 MK Dons (Harvie 90)Fightback over. I’m blaming Jackman, don’t let Wolverine ever come back to the Racecourse.Goal! Stockport 0-1 Gillingham 1 (McKenzie 86)Robbie McKenzie pounces after a scramble in the Stockport box.Robbie McKenzie fires home a late opening goal for Stockport. Photograph: Phil Oldham/ShutterstockUpdated at 17.08 BSTGoal! Bristol City 1-1 Preston (Keane 86)Will Keane might have saved a point at Ashton Gate.Preston North End's Will Keane celebrates scoring his side’s equaliser late in the game against Bristol City. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PAUpdated at 17.11 BSTGoal! Wrexham 2-4 MK Dons (Davies 80)Back in it? Jordan Davies gives Wrexham some hope.Notts County are now 5-1 down, with Harry Smith getting Sutton’s latest goal.How long are these games going to run? We’re into the last ten minutes but we’ve been told that referees will be a lot less lenient with time wasting and those lengthy periods of added time seen at the last two World Cups will be in force.Middlesbrough 0-1 Millwall (Esse 79)Romain Esse, who is 18, has put Millwall ahead at the Riverside. After that playoff defeat, you feel it is important for Millwall to bounce back and a win at Boro would be a decent start.Elsewhere in the Championship, Plymouth Argyle now lead 3-1 against Huddersfield.Ryan Hardie makes it 3-1 to Plymouth at Home Park. Photograph: Graham Hunt/ProSports/ShutterstockUpdated at 17.00 BSTSome things will never look right on a vidiprinter: ‘Red card, Cafu (Rotherham 69), second bookable offence’. Is one of them.Swansea 1-1 Birmingham (Yates 76)Liam Cullen rolls the ball across goal for Jerry Yates 76 to level.Goal! Plymouth 2-1 Huddersfield (Mumba 73)Bali Mumba, great name, great goal.Classic celebration. Photograph: Kieran McManus/ShutterstockUpdated at 16.46 BSTThings are moving fast in League One, Barnsley are now beating Port Vale 6-0 and Wigan are back in front at Derby, where the visitors lead 2-1.Some League Two goals and neither are good for the promoted sides. Wrexham are now 1-4 down, Jonathan Leko getting his second for MK Dons, and Sutton lead 4-0 against ten-man Notts County.Fitba!(Belated) update from the Scottish Premiership:Dundee 0-1 MotherwellLivingston 0-0 AberdeenSt Johnstone 0-0 HeartsThere haven’t been any goals since half time, to be fair.Simon McMahon’s email at half-time said we should be looking at the Morton v Ayr game in the Scottish Championship, there’s been eight -EIGHT – bookings so far, current score 1-1.Updated at 16.32 BSTGoal! Bolton 2-0 Lincoln City (Adeboyejo 59)I told you Bolton would be good.Bolton Wanderers forward Victor Adeboyejo (right) heads home to put the home side two goals ahead against Lincoln City. Photograph: John Bradley/ProSports/ShutterstockUpdated at 16.40 BSTQuick League Two update, Notts County are 0-3 down against Sutton and Salford have taken a 1-0 against Forest Green.Goals in League One, Devante Cole has a hat-trick and Barnsley are 4-0 up against Port Vale. Cole has two since half-time. Elsewhere, Derby are back level against Wigan, it is 1-1 at whatever they’re calling Pride Park these days.Goal! Stoke 3-1 Rotherham (Peltier 46)Andy Brady will wish I was still forgeting about Stoke v Rotherham now.Goal! Wrexham 1-3 MK Dons 3 (Leko 51)Hugh Jackman’s trip to north Wales isn’t going well.Jonathan Leko (third right) is congratulated by his teammates after putting MK Dons 3-1 at Wrexham. Photograph: Paul Greenwood/ShutterstockUpdated at 16.38 BSTGoal! Blackburn 2-1 West Brom (Phillips 50)Matt Phillips has given West Brom a sniff at Ewood Park, wonderful curled effort from just inside the box.Goal! Bristol City 1-0 Preston North End (Bell 47)We are back underway in the Championship and Sam Bell has put City ahead. Harry Cornick’s long throw is flicked on and when Nakhi Wells’ shot rebounds off the post Bell is on hand to put the ball into an empty net.Joy at Ashton Gate after Sam Bell (left) gives Bristol City the lead. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PAUpdated at 16.26 BSTSiriki Dembele gets a shoutout from Tom Brady on Twitter X. A sentence I never thought I’d write:This one goes out to Andy Brady, who might be a Stoke fan, well done to the Potters for leading 3-0 at half-time against Rotherham. Huge. I failed to mention any of those goals in the first half, but Ki-Jana Hoever got the first and new man Andre Vidigal has two on debut. Maybe I should pay more attention to what’s going on at the Bet365 Stadium.League Two half-time scoresAccrington Stanley 1-0 NewportCrawley 1-0 Bradford CityCrewe 1-2 Mansfield TownDoncaster 0-0 HarrogateForest Green 0-0 SalfordGrimsby 0-0 AFC WimbledonMorecambe 1-1 WalsallStockport County 0-0 GillinghamSutton United 2-0 Notts CountyTranmere Rovers 0-1 BarrowWrexham 1-2 MK DonsLeague One half-time scoresBarnsley 2-0 Port ValeBlackpool 2-0 Burton AlbionBolton 1-0 Lincoln CityCambridge 2-0 OxfordCarlisle 1-1 FleetwoodCharlton 1-0 Leyton OrientDerby 0-1 Wigan AthleticNorthampton 0-0 StevenagePortsmouth 0-1 Bristol RoversReading 0-1 PeterboroughShrewsbury 0-0 CheltenhamWycombe 0-2 ExeterChampionship half-time scoresBlackburn Rovers 2-0 West BromBristol City 0-0 Preston North EndMiddlesbrough 0-0 MillwallNorwich City 1-1 Hull CityPlymouth Argyle 1-1 HuddersfieldStoke City 3-0 Rotherham UnitedSwansea 0-1 Birmingham CityWatford 4-0 QPRJeremy Boyce has emailed in to point out that I had forgotten about MK Dons second goal. It is, of course, Wrexham 1-2 MK Dons at the Racecourse. Forgive me, Dons fans.Mary Waltz sounds concerned in her email:Tom, early doors and all that, but are QPR that bad, are they looking at relegation?Ask me in January, Mary.


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