The most crucial weekend of Easter football in years starts today with almost every team in the EFL in action on Good Friday.
The action begins at 12:30pm with a crucial battle at the City Ground as Sheffield United's fading automatic promotion hopes will surely be dead if they lose to Nottingham Forest, whose own slim chances of promotion will be over with victory for the Blades.
League 1 then takes centre stage with League Cup semi-finalists Burton Albion hosting Football League Trophy holders Portsmouth; Pompey can go back into the automatic places for the first time since January if they win and Barnsley lose at home to midtable Shrewsbury Town. Should neither of those two win, it puts Sunderland back in prime position to go back into second with a win at the Stadium of Light against Doncaster Rovers.
The first promotion out of the EFL will be confirmed tonight if Sheffield United lose and Championship leaders Norwich City win at Carrow Road against another side with slim play-off dreams in Sheffield Wednesday. Like last Saturday, Blades fans will have to do the unthinkable and hope their city rivals can do them a favour... which they probably won't.
All games in pic related are at 3:00pm unless stated. All televised games will be on Sky Sports Football, with Birmingham City v Derby County, Leeds United v Wigan Athletic and Queens Park Rangers v Blackburn Rovers on the red button.
>moved to Leeds >go to the skip because I've still got loads of stuff from moving house >road rage incident starts in front of me >instead of the usual fingers and horns, a woman gets out of her car in front of her kids and walks over screaming and pointing at a man in another car >he gets out with a claw hammer and tells her that he will fuck her up in front of her kids >she speeds off >he then gets to work throwing a load of knackered televisions and pub equipment into the garden waste container
This isn't a very politically correct place and I don't think certain people are going to enjoy having them in the Premier League.
Elijah Edwards
Sounds like any other norf town
Adam Green
based britbongs playing on good friday meanwhile, literally no professional sports event is allowed to take place on good friday
John Lopez
Well that's good because no one playing today is remotely professional and still think it's 1985 at best, with a lot of lower league teams being from places that haven't advanced in any way for fifty years.
>FIFA on the TV >Sky sports on the iPad >Team most likely to secure top 6 today
I'm pretty comfy lads, ngl
Brandon Taylor
Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday
What's the difference really?
Zachary Rivera
damn and you bongs say our humour is shit
Brandon Thompson
I personally find Germans and Austrians very funny
Then again I do have autism so make of that what you will
Bentley Smith
Come on Blades ;_;
Kevin Parker
Wish it would’ve been sheff utd and Leeds automatic but since Norwich appear to be the arse cancer that keeps coming back I have to root for Leeds only instead soz lads
Jackson Young
They've done a Huddersfield. Expect them to get relegated in 2 years.
Luis Sanchez
is any of this dross worth watching?
there's no proper football today, just the Championship
why can't they go away? No history, boring shitter club, a pain for fans to travel to
Cooper Harris
Gonna lose to Bristol city in the semi final 2bh
Isaiah Davis
No, none of it, fuck off.
Colton Russell
Villa should blow Bolton the fuck out
But Bolton aren't letting sky show it
Brandon Jenkins
It's all so tiresome.
Jeremiah Long
BASTE QPR finna boutta DAB on bl*ckburn lmfao
Austin Harris
based and hooppilled
Luke Myers
other than the german influence they aren't similar at all.
Isaiah Campbell
>the german influence That's what I meant.
Adam Ortiz
what team do you support, annons
Leo Sullivan
Villa
Matthew Parker
mill
Noah Ortiz
very different managers despite both being german, very different styles of play, one team closed their academy and the other rely heavily on it. similarities are fairly superficial.
Wyatt Williams
Sheff Utd
Liam Long
>colback gets his 15th yellow card and a 3 match ban, meaning his loan spell is now over
What a dolt
Carson Thomas
gets off on his summer holidays a month early though.
This, it's not like Forest are going to be doing anything worthwhile in those last three games
Bentley Howard
*loses to Birmingham*
Ryder Gomez
how fucked are you when they sell bowen in the summer?
Liam Brooks
Brighton or "Shitting ourselves at the concept of facing villa in the playoffs FC"?
Charles Ramirez
that's his newcastle career over then
Connor Thomas
Leeds United Football Club
Blake Howard
Quite. The Allams are implementing a £10k/week wage cap too, so players like Grosicki and Fraizer Campbell will likely be off also, unless they fancy a pay cut.
We'll try to rely on promoting kids from the academy and bargain bin signings again, but I don't think we'll strike lucky. Adkins might even go, he hasn't signed the contract they've finally offered him.
Good, the last thing anyone wants is hull back in the PL
Julian Sanchez
The latter. Actually Villa are the only probable playoff contender that we have a decent record against this season, although momentum is obviously on their side now. I'm not really optimistic about our chances, but I said from the start of the season that I thought we'd be down here for a couple of seasons at least. It's not so bad though, the games are actually a lot more enjoyable than when we're in the PL
Luis Hill
what's happened to dicko & toral? did they both die?
ridgewell is probably the worst defender in recent years to have worn a tigers shirt
Gabriel Cruz
Guys, I think I jinxed Bristol by putting money on them to go up Who should I bet on next to fuck them up?
Isaiah Harris
that's rough. looked ready to kick on and have a real go at making the playoffs next season in the games i've seen them this season.
Anthony Parker
Leeds and Norwich please
Carter Bell
leeds obviously
Joshua Scott
Ridgewell getting released by a MLS team should have been warning enough, complete liability.
Toral is a sicknote and Dicko just seems the forgotten man while Chris Martin lumbers around the pitch.
Brandon Ortiz
>tfw relegated already Guess I want Leeds to cuck Norwich out of the title. But honestly I don't care much, promotion is promotion at the end of the day. See you whenever we're back, champbros.
Owen Murphy
big dick Millwall with the goal
Brandon Sullivan
Oh look, we're going to finish third and in shit form for the play-offs and without our full squad. Not seen that before!
My gf went out with her mates to a black club last night dressed like this because she apparently likes the music I’m secretly fuming and a bit upset but What am I supposed to say
Black kids are weird, like you go to Malia or somewhere and instead of going and getting battered on the strip all week like most people, they spend the week renting Quad bikes and sitting near the beach chatting and playing music off their phones. Kind of like how Muslims sit in their 56 plate BMWs outside halal takeaways.
>Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson is demanding an English Football League investigation into the financial conduct of three Championship rivals.
>Gibson wants the EFL to scrutinise Derby County, Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday over what he believes to be breaches of financial regulations, in a move which could trigger a bitter dispute between the clubs.
>The 61-year-old is insisting the three clubs are attempting to bypass the new profitability and sustainability rules by unfair means, and he has arranged a special meeting of all Championship clubs for a week on Wednesday.
>Gibson is understood to be “furious” that Middlesbrough have sold over £40million worth of players, including Adama Traore, Ben Gibson and Patrick Bamford, to balance the books, while in his view other clubs are manipulating the rules by allocating some costs to stay in line.
Ian Richardson
he's right
Zachary Williams
needs better (accountants)
Jaxon Brooks
He's not though, Aston villas cheif executive had insisted all year that they are operating within the regulations of financial fair play
And he should know, since he practically invented it
Jacob Smith
Sheff Utd play some great overlaps.
Lincoln King
kekking at andy hinchcliffe trying to find some humour in the length of the prince's name
thats a 5 hour cultural sensitivity course for him
Bentley Rodriguez
Leeds United Football Organisation to overtake Canary homos for top spot cap it
I was "lol, no"ing at you thinking Norwich will lose those two games
Jayden Brown
post the stream
Xavier Nguyen
Blyth Spartans v Guiesley of course.
Camden Reyes
yeah fair enough my bad, I would just be happy for second place to be honest for Leeds.
Jaxson Ortiz
We won't lose to Stoke because Stoke are shite and Buendia will be back but I could see slipping to Wednesday if Farke continues to leave Leitner and Vrancic on the bench.
John Barnes
COME ON MILLWALL SCORE SOME FACKIN GOLS
Anthony Wilson
RIP Bradford
Jonathan Roberts
Won't see a better left back than based Enda Stevens desu
Henry Edwards
FUCK I thought ifollow would be available today because it's not a Saturday, but fuck me right?
None of the prima donna regulars are willing to work on Good Friday That's why you have this par of twats and the dullest man on the planet Phill Brown
James Gutierrez
Play up Pompey Bywater played off
John Fisher
>Bywater How old is he now?
Bentley Wood
>Swanshit
Lucas James
>prima donna
Think you mean pre-Madonna lad x
Liam Roberts
Bywater is a mad lad www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/stephen-bywater-derby-county-court-1632418.amp
Blake Campbell
nathan dyer and routledge still playing up top for swansea
Julian James
37, he's a relic
Evan Morales
Rotherham just scored which not only puts them in the safety position, but mathematically eliminates Bolton as things stand.
IMAGINE being a Boro fan and the utter despair of seeing your team score in the 2nd minute, KNOWING you've got 88 minutes of Ryan Shotton and Adam Clayton kicking the shit out of the other team while long-balls are punted hopelessly up-field for Ashley fucking Fletcher to look forward to.
I have a fear of Leeds getting to the prem lads. They have such a strong fanbase they could stay up and even become a Europa team in just a few seasons.
Why don't people want Leeds to promote? They'll have a lot of big rivalries in the prem and if you hate them they'll probably go straight down anyway and you can laugh at them.
As it stands (Mathematically only speaking of course) >Championship Bolton down (joining Ipswich) >League 1 Luton will be 99.9999999% up with victory tomorrow Bradford down >League 2 Lincoln up (already confirmed >Conference Havant and Waterlooville, Aldershot, Braintree, Maidstone all down to Division 6 (Already confirmed)
It's rather unusual for so little to be confirmed at this point. After today there's only 3 games left and after Monday there's only 2 left.
Ethan Roberts
Beat Millwall on Monday and I think top 6 is confirmed
I think 72 points is enough to get there now anyway
(Also Norwich will be promoted by the time we play them)
Jason Bennett
>losing at home to ten men wigan
they dont deserve to turn this round
Lucas Gonzalez
>Imagine fucking up year after year after year and just when it finally is your year you fuck it up at home to 10 man Wigan
I expect Norwich will be promoted and Villa will have guaranteed playoffs by the last game and we'll all be able to have a nice party with inflatable canaries and whatever villa inflate
Eli Gutierrez
For me, its Villa
Josiah Thomas
Careful now, Lelds will get a 99th minute equaliser
Samuel Brooks
>mfw lelds - derby is the neverending derby of perpetual choking and failure
Levi Walker
>inflatables
We do cabbages and dildos glued to the top of our heads m8
Daniel Miller
because they are cunts of the highest order
Anthony Clark
If Leeds want to actually be promoted and not be an eternal joke then they need to hire Alan Curbishley,
Evan Reyes
Inflatable lions I suppose
And inflatable bottles with "Albion" written on them
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Elijah Lopez
Justice
Ryder Robinson
>5 mins added on >goal in 7th min
Mason Stewart
oh no no no no
Brandon Morales
Wow
Adam Murphy
>scoring 7 minutes into injury time Is it just me, or do Norwich get 5+ minutes of injury time way more regularly than most teams?
Daniel Martinez
wew
Jose Reyes
Leeds do too
Evan Murphy
It balances it out when the teams they play against are allowed to get goals through handballs
Grayson Perry
Same with Leeds. Teams just being shithouses playing them maybe?
Austin Gonzalez
narrich were fucking awful though, gifted the ball away every single time they got it during the last 30 mins
Isaac Sanders
Absolutely jammy cunts, no way are they getting anywhere near this many late goals next season.
Oliver Allen
exactly my thoughts
if they rely on that shit next season they will be absolutely fucked in the PL
Cooper Wood
have it you cheating cunt
Colton Morgan
>jammy cunts Wednesday literally scored from Fletcher lifting the ball into the net with his arm lmao
Charles Jones
anyone got a webm of forestieri's fucking sick strike
also RIP wednesday
Noah Gonzalez
>blatant obvious dive for a free kick and score well past the given injury time How the fuck do these jokers keep getting away with this bullshit?
Ryder Ortiz
Delia has connections
Camden Phillips
been a great thread lads, see you monday
Bentley Howard
>one singular dodgy goal (I'm sure there's been others though lets be fair) >Last minute goals literally all season long
Isaac Carter
Enjoy another season of the Championship Wednesday lmao
