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Field Notes: The birth of the playoffs, English football’s biggest weekend

The concept of an end-of-season tournament to determine the final promotions was borne of trial and error

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Goodison Park: Farewell to the Grand Old Lady

Just shy of its 133rd birthday, Goodison Park hosts its final Everton match – English football's last link to a bygone era will go with it…

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Brownhill edges Burnley towards promotion with win at nine-man Watford

Josh Brownhill scored the winner in Burnley’s 2-1 Championship victory at nine-man Watford to move his team close to promotion to the Premier League

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Burnley close on promotion with win at Watford: football – as it happened

Burnley fought back to win 2-1 and close on a Premier League return on a day of drama in the Championship and beyond

The Guardian - UK

Are Ipswich, Leicester and Saints on course to be worst ever bottom three?

Plus: surnames that begin with the same letter, Gil Scott-Heron’s dad and Bradford Park Avenue’s unwanted record

The Guardian - UK

Wycombe Wanderers forward Richard Kone named as our League One player of the season: ‘Even as I was signing the contract to join the club, I was like “I’m going to wake up soon!”’

Chairboys striker wins our fan vote, as we unveil FourFourTwo's best 50 players in the Football League during 2024-25

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Norwich City’s Borja Sainz voted best player in EFL in FourFourTwo’s annual fan poll – Wycombe Wanderers striker Richard Kone wins League One award, Dan Crowley of MK Dons named best in League Two

Trio take the honours as we unveil our list of the best 50 footballers in the Football League this season

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Preston and Burnley’s FA Cup clash evokes memories of a golden age

Two founder Football League members reconvene in the fifth round on Saturday, adding to a long history of Cup rivalry

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‘Someone said it was like driving a Ferrari, and halfway through the drive I’d pull the wheel. As a manager, would I have wanted me sitting behind me? No’: Robbie Savage reveals how first forray into management is going

Robbie Savage offers a glimpse into life as a manager of Step Three side Macclesfield FC

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'Let’s find Woody Allen and do the draw in black and white – or Robert De Niro': Donald Trump was only third choice to do the Rumbelows Cup draw in 1991/92

Donald Trump conducted the 1991/92 Rumbelows Cup, but organisers actually wanted two other names beforehand

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Leeds 1-1 Blackburn, Burnley 0-0 Stoke, and more: Football League – as it happened

Leeds and Burnley held, Windass scores a worldie for Wednesday, managerless Plymouth scramble a late draw, WBA demolish Preston and more …

The Guardian - UK

Former Football League clubs

A look at some of the sides who once played in the top four tiers of English football

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MK Dons: Has the franchise worked?

Twenty years after moving to Milton Keynes, the club slipped into League Two in 2023 amid dwindling crowds at the giant Stadium MK. With the stigma of their controversial move still hanging over them, FFT assesses their first two decades outside of London

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Morecambe avoid FA Cup upset but Worthing eye future rematch

Despite a 2-0 victory for League Two’s bottom side, Worthing showed enough to suggest that promotion to the National League is a realistic target

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James Belshaw: the goalkeeper with two degrees and a second world war thesis

Harrogate player says he might have gone to medical school but for football and took a 50% pay cut to pursue his dream

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The worst starts to a season ever

It's fair to say these teams did not get off to a flyer...

The Guardian - UK

From the Euro 2024 final to the big kick-off in League Two?

In today’s Football Daily: Harrogate Town and the former England manager

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Who is playing in the Community Shield and how is it decided?

The season's traditional curtain-raiser will take place on Saturday, August 10

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Famous football clubs that play in stripes

This list is stripier than a herd of zebras being chased by a swarm of bees

Evening Standard

Bromley stand on the brink of the Football League as Andy Woodman chases more Wembley success

Gruelling 46-game season ends at country’s national stadium

The Guardian - UK

What is the biggest cumulative football attendance for a cup tie?

Plus: Championship stalwarts who never played in the top flight, top-scoring in the same division for longest streak and more

Evening Standard

Sutton United aim to be pitch-perfect... even if relegated back to National League

There will be no return of the 3G pitch, ripped up three years ago, should the back drop out of the EFL

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Classic Football Shirts and Jameson collaborate to celebrate 5 iconic Football League away shirts

Five teams from the Football League have had away kits from their past branded on a Jameson Whiskey bottle

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Ranked! The top 50 Football League players 2023/24

As the season’s run-in approaches, it can only mean one thing: with help from our readers, it’s time for FFT’s annual list of the finest stars outside the top flight

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Chelsea, Mauricio Pochettino and a chance of silverware at Wembley

In today’s Football Daily: Chelsea, Charlton and more

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