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Grimsby won 4-1 at Gillingham for their first away win of the season, Accrington won 5-0 at Rochdale, and Chesterfield led Crewe 5-0 at half-time on the way to a 5-1 win. Eleven of the round's twelve games…

Luton Town beat Leicester City 2-1 with a goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time, and Huddersfield Town beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 to finish the round top of League One. All twelve games on the archived…

Middlesbrough won by five goals to one at Bolton Wanderers on Friday night and finished the round top of the Championship, and Queens Park Rangers beat Swansea City 5-0 on Saturday. All twelve games listed for…

Shrewsbury beat Bristol Rovers 1-0 and finished with nine men, Salford stayed top, and Grimsby lost 2-0 at home to Northampton for a fourth league defeat in a row. All twelve games on the archived listing for…

Bradford went top of League One with a 2-0 win over Stevenage, while Plymouth lost 2-0 at home to Huddersfield and dropped from first to fourth. All twelve fixtures on the archived listing for 15 to 17 October…

West Ham beat Swansea 1-0 to go second, a point behind the leaders, West Brom came from two goals down to beat Blackburn, and Burnley lost at home to Wolves for a 21st home league game without a win. All…

West Ham scored six at Lincoln against nine men, Swansea won at Millwall with a goal in the 90th minute on a night when police began investigating a report of racial abuse, and Neto Borges scored at both ends…

Salford are still top of League Two after a 2-0 win at ten-man Cheltenham, and Grimsby were beaten 1-0 at Port Vale for their third league defeat in a row. All twelve games on the archived listing for 10…

Plymouth are still top of League One after Xavier Amaechi's stoppage-time winner against AFC Wimbledon. All twelve fixtures on the archived listing for 10 October were played, so all 24 clubs were in action, a…

Burnley won a league game at last, Southampton beat Portsmouth with ten men, and a twenty-one-year-old goalkeeper on loan from Manchester City stopped West Ham going top of the Championship. The league came…

Salford are top of League Two after a 1-0 win over Fleetwood, and Grimsby were beaten 2-1 at Blundell Park by a Shrewsbury side that had not won away all season. Eight of the eleven listed games were played.…

Plymouth are top of League One after a win at Leyton Orient, and only three games were played. The round fell in the international break, and six of the nine fixtures on the BBC's results listing were…

Barnet did not kick a ball on Saturday and are still top of League Two. Their trip to Crawley and Port Vale's home game against Northampton were both postponed, so matchday eight was ten games rather than…

Only four League One games were played on Saturday, and Stockport used theirs to climb from ninth to third. Eight fixtures appear on the BBC's results listing for the day and half of them were postponed:…

Five of the fourteen games finished 2-2, and Millwall were 2-0 up in two of them. That is the round in one line: a division where almost nobody could hold on to anything, and where Swansea City went back to…

League Two's seventh matchday was played in full on Saturday 19 September: twelve games, all reviewed here, from Barnet going two points clear at the top with ten men to a Greater Manchester derby that lifted…

Bradford City went top of League One at Kenilworth Road, a ground where their previous win came in April 1968, and Huddersfield's unbeaten start ended at Bromley, a club that had lost three of the previous…

Brighton's 125th anniversary celebration comes with Arsenal in town, but the party sits on top of a decade the club nearly didn't survive. This piece explains how a ground sale, a forced ground-share 70 miles…

Thirty-seven goals, six different scorers in one game on the Friday night, and three clubs finishing the weekend on the same number of points.

League Two's sixth matchday was played in full on Saturday 12 September: twelve games, all reviewed here, from York City's four-goal afternoon to a six-goal draw in Rotherham that could not settle on a winner.

Seven goals at Edgeley Park, a manager sent off at Stevenage, and a division that still cannot separate itself.

League Two's third matchday was played in full on Saturday 29 August: twelve games, all reviewed here, from the end of the division's last two perfect records to a 90th-minute winner that felt like a film…

League One's third matchday ran across Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 August: eleven games, all reviewed here. Reading and Oxford United, who have each played only twice, were the division's absentees from the…

The Championship's third round was played across Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August: twelve games, all reviewed here, from Lincoln City's first win in the second tier since April 1961 to the only perfect record…

Round two of the League One season ran from Thursday night at Hillsborough to a full card on Saturday 22 August. All twelve games are reviewed here, along with what the table looks like now that every club has…

Matchweek two of the Championship ran across Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August. All twelve games are reviewed here, along with a table that already contains one club sitting in the relegation places with a…

League Two's second matchday was played in full on Saturday 22 August: twelve games, all reviewed here, from an eight-goal Severnside derby settled in the ninth minute of added time to the two clubs still…

League Two opened the 2026-27 season with a full Saturday card on 15 August: twelve games, all reviewed here, from a three-red-card afternoon at Crawley to York City's first EFL fixture since May 2016.

League One opened its season with a full card on Saturday 15 August: twelve games, all twelve reviewed here, from Leicester City's first afternoon in their new surroundings to a seven-goal argument at Reading…

This round-up was first published on 16 August, when nine of the opening round's twelve games had been played. It was updated on 18 August with the three that remained: Watford 2-1 Southampton, Burnley 2-2…

Can football remove the little delays that irritate supporters without turning every restart into a disciplinary ceremony? This explains how the new English laws put time pressure on players and why their real…

Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle all have appealing Carabao Cup second-round ties on paper, but a quieter question looms over the round: what happens when two Premier League clubs are drawn at home on the same…

Goalkeepers going down injured just before a team talk has become a familiar, and increasingly resented, sight in English football. This article explains the trial designed to end that trick, how the new rule…

Southampton's Spygate fallout has reached its most critical juncture yet, with owner Dragan Solak going on record to defend the man at the centre of the storm. This piece examines what his public backing of…

William Salt is the Southampton performance analyst named in the Middlesbrough training spy scandal. Here is what is known about him and what comes next.

Less than three years after lifting European silverware, West Ham have dropped out of the Premier League. This piece looks beyond the result and into the structural, financial and personal questions that will…

A timeline of Southampton's spygate scandal: the three admitted incidents, the EFL hearing, and the ruling that cost the club its Championship play-off final.

With four days to go until the Championship play-off final at Wembley, Southampton's place in it is anything but guaranteed. An EFL disciplinary commission convened on Tuesday morning to rule on allegations…

This piece examines the most significant disciplinary ruling in English football's second tier in recent memory, looking beyond the bare facts of the verdict to assess what the conduct actually involved, why…

The 2026 Championship play-off final is caught in a genuine institutional crisis, not mere pre-match intrigue. This piece examines what the EFL's own language tells us about the likelihood of 23 May going…

This piece goes beyond the charge sheet to examine what the EFL's disciplinary commission can actually do, how the Southampton case compares to past spying scandals in football, and why the timing of this…

Championship clubs have firmly closed the door on video review technology for the 2025-26 season, rejecting a proposal to introduce Football Video Support (FVS) despite calls from several managers. This…

West Bromwich Albion are staring down a truly unprecedented scenario: a points deduction that could send them into League One, potentially imposed after the Championship season has already finished. This piece…