Weekend Notes: Derby wobble, Stockport return to form
A reduced slate in League One and League Two still found room for a 96th-minute equaliser, a promotion duel ending 5-0, and a new team in the play-off places...
The season’s final international break was a belter – in the Football League.
League One’s been the forgotten middle child again this season, thanks in part to Big Teams in the Championship and League Two, and here it had only three fixtures with which to capture our attention. So it did. We had a shock in the automatic promotion fight, a 96th-minute equaliser in the top-six royal rumble, and a massive result in the custard wrestle of a relegation scrap. That right there is how to cram in narrative with the efficiency of an Aaron Sorkin script, only with less self-indulgence.
Yet League Two continues to bring the drama, too. We have somebody new propping up the table as well as a gatecrasher in the play-off places, while for one set of viewers, 2nd v 4th live on Sky turned into a pre-watershed horror film.
The EFL’s imminent Easter double-header has us salivating more than any hollow chocolate oval could. But first…
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