Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough

News has reached the Racecourse, and the atmosphere is buoyant. Tom Cannon’s name is being heard in the stands, via transistor radio and 5g.

Ellis Simms has made it a hat-trick for Coventry at Watford. The champions of the Championship are cruising.

Ipswich 2-0 QPR

Jaden Philogene almost finished it off, only to be denied by Joe Walsh. Life’s been good to Ipswich so far, though.

Hull 1-1 Norwich

A fine save from Kovacevic in the Norwich goal, after a McBurnie header.

Millwall 2-0 Oxford

Millwall are all over Oxford at the moment. All they can do is keep up the pressure and await good tidings from Suffolk.

Southampton now lead 2-0 at Preston, with Ross Stewart on the scoresheet.

Ipswich appear to be taking their time coming back on. That could delay the conclusion being reached.

As it stands: automatic promotion

As it stands: playoffs

Ipswich 2-0 QPR

Rangers have come back into this one, having rained the last six shots. Have Ipswich blown themselves out? We’re into time added on of the first halves.

Coventry score a second, as does Ellis Simms, at Watford, their 95th goal of the season.

Sheffield Wednesday are 2-0 up on West Brom, Liam Palmer scores and they will climb to zero points and win a first home game of the season it stays this way.

Jamie Cowper gets in touch: “The Oxford away end at Millwall is a sell out, we’ve been put in the upper stand, plenty of us here cheering the team on as they’ve put up a fight to try and keep us in the division, “We’re going to Bromley, you’re going to Spurs.”

Safe home, Jamie.

Sheffield Wednesday, for whom there was already good news of a takeover, have taken the lead against West Brom; Nathaniel Chalobah scored in the 36th minute at a packed Hillsborough.

Ipswich 2-0 QPR

George Hirst, who didn’t start at Southampton, has been full of zest and almost lays up Darrell Furlong.

Ipswich 2-0 QPR

QPR have been toyed with at Portman Road. Ashley Young, who retires after this game, is watching from the sidelines.

Preston 0-1 Southampton

Daniel Peretz, outstanding in Tuesday’s draw with Ipswich, has just made a fine save from Preston’s Alfie Devine.

For champions Frank Lampard’s Coventry, Ellis Simms has scored at Watford, 1-0 at Vicarage Road.

Birmingham have equalised at Portsmouth through August Priske. It’s 1-1.

Wrexham 0-1 Middlesbrough

Wrexham need to win this game but also to stay calm. Derby have the place they have been aiming for. There’s a bit of frustration at the Racecourse Ground.

Millwall 0-0 Oxford

A series of corners being forced by the home team at an away end that’s very empty.

AS IT STANDS: Ipswich promoted, Derby in the playoffs, Hull and Wrexham have to find a way back.

Ipswich 2-0 QPR

Party atmosphere at Portman Road, where they’re singing about going to Arsenal, and QPR facing Spurs.

Portsmouth are 1-0 up on Birmingham, Adrian Segecic opening the scoring.

Ipswich 1-0 QPR

Ipswich have been rampant, Philogene is flying, they want to get the job done, four shot have rained down on the QPR goal.

Goal! Bristol City 1-0 Stoke (Burgzorg, 1 )

Roy Hodgson’s team get the goals started, after a horror error by the Stoke goalie.

Across the Championship, teams are making their way to the field. At Ipswich, it’s a sea of blue, and the pyro is out. Kick-off is but moments away.

Bill Preston gets in touch: “I think Wednesday beating West Brom and finishing on zero points, the same as they began the season with*, would be fitting. It would reflect a new start to the club, a fresh page, a story yet to be written.

“Although, one can’t help but feel I’ll be writing the same email again this time next year albeit into the League One finale if they get the expected fourteen points deduction post takeover and slide again.”

Derby v Sheff Utd teams

Derby: Zetterstrom, Ward, Langas, Clarke, Forsyth, Ozoh, Travis, Brereton Diaz, Szmodics, Banel, Morris. Subs: Vickers, Batth, Salvesen, Johnston, Sanderson, Fraulo, Eames, Clark, Allen.

Sheff Utd: Adam Davies, Seriki, Tanganga, McGuinness, Burrows, Hamer, Peck, Arblaster, O’Hare, Bamford, Cannon. Subs: Ings, Hoever, Soumare, Chong, Sasnauskas, Riedewald, Rothwell, Betts, McGlinchey.

Speaking of Wrexham:

Wrexham AFC, the football club part-owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, used taxpayer funds to re-lay its pitch, even though initial grant documents assessing the state investment did not make reference to it.

The club has been awarded £18m in grants, with the first £3.8m tranche in February 2022. However, legally required state aid documents relating to that initial grant made no reference to the pitch works.

Wrexham v Middlesbrough teams

Wrexham: Ward, Hyam, Scarr, Doyle, Kabore, Dobson, Matty James, Rathbone, Thomason, Windass, Smith. Subs: Okonkwo, Cleworth, Keillor-Dunn, Cacace, Sheaf, Moore, O’Brien, Broadhead, Longman.

Middlesbrough: Brynn, Ayling, Fry, Malanda, Targett, Browne, Morris, Brittain, Whittaker, Strelec, Conway. Subs: Wildsmith, McGree, Gilbert, Kaly Sene, Silvera, Castledine, Edmundson, Hansen, Sarmiento.

Should Sheffield Wednesday beat West Brom today, they will climb to a total of zero points, nil point, if you will

Millwall v Oxford teams

Millwall: Patterson, Leonard, Crama, Cooper, Sturge, De Norre, Bannan, Azeez, Neghli, Ballo, Ivanovic. Subs: Crocombe, McNamara, Mitchell, Doughty, Langstaff, Watson, Cundle, Smallbone, Mazou-Sacko.

Oxford: Cumming, ter Avest, Helik, Brown, Spencer, Vaulks, Konak, Mills, Donley, Emakhu, Lankshear. Subs: Ingram, Long, Brannagan, Harris, Currie, Jeon, Makosso, McDonnell, Peart-Harris.

Hull v Norwich teams

Hull: Pandur, Coyle, Hughes, Egan, Giles, Slater, Crooks, Belloumi, Gelhardt, Millar, McBurnie. Subs: Phillips, Lundstram, Ajayi, Hirakawa, Joseph, Gyabi, Dowell, Koumas, McNair.

Norwich: Kovacevic, Stacey, McConville, Cordoba, Fisher, Mattsson, Wright, Forson, Ben Slimane, Ahmed, Toure. Subs: Grimshaw, Darling, Gibbs, Maghoma, Field, Schlupp, Kvistgaarden, Springett, Mundle-Smith.

Ipswich v QPR teams

Ipswich: Walton, Davis, O’Shea, Greaves, Furlong, Matusiwa, Taylor, Burns, Nunez, Philogene-Bidace, Hirst. Subs: Palmer, Kipre, Neil, Johnson, McAteer, Akpom, Azon, Mehmeti, Clarke.

QPR: Walsh, Mbengue, Edwards, Clarke-Salter, Norrington-Davies, Bennie, Varane, Morgan, Madsen, Vale, Chair. Subs: Salamon, Adamson, Smyth, Saito, Hayden, Esquerdinha, Smith, Alemayehu, Scarlett.

Preston v Southampton teams

Preston: Iversen, Storey, Lindsay, Hughes, Potts, Devine, Whiteman, Moran, Vukcevic, Dobbin, Jebbison. Subs: Cornell, Valentin, McCann, Brady, Thompson, Smith, Small, Osmajic, Offiah.

Southampton: Peretz, Charles, Harwood-Bellis, Wood-Gordon, Welington, Bragg, Jander, Fellows, Archer, Scienza, Stewart. Subs: Long, Quarshie, Bree, Manning, Romeu, Edozie, Azaz, Larin, Oyekunle.