Championship

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Saturday May 19,
Wembley
Sky Sports 1 3pm

West Ham finished three points off the top spot and one from automatic promotion, but take on Blackpool – who finished fifth with 11 points fewer – in tomorrow’s playoff final, in a game estimated to be worth £90m to the winners…

Managers like to talk about momentum being a prerequisite to promotion. West Ham had it – they were second in early March, only one point behind the leaders, but drew five in succession – and lost it.

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GK

1 Adam Federici (Reading)

DEF

2 Nat Clyne (Crystal Palace)
3 Steven Caldwell (Birmingham)
4 Curtis Davies (Birmingham)
5 David Murphy (Birmingham)

MID

6 Robert Snodgrass (Leeds)
7 Peter Whittingham (Cardiff)
8 Adam Lallana (Southampton)
9 Matt Phillips (Blackpool)

FW

10 Rickie Lambert (Southampton)
11 Ricardo Vaz Te (West Ham)

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With the Football League tiers entering their final throes, and with most promotion and relegation questions answered, we cast our eye over the season and hand out a few well-deserved gongs. First up, it’s our pick for Team of the Season...

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Saturday April 28

Southampton v Coventry
St Mary’s Stadium, 12.30pm

West Ham v Hull
Upton Park, Sky Sports 1 12.30pm

It’s the last day of the Championship on Saturday, and while most teams have nothing left to play for, there’s still the small matter of promotion to be decided.

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Sunday March 4,
Cardiff City Stadium,
BBC One 12.45pm

By the time Charlie Adam’s Carling Cup final penalty had landed in a Neasden garden, Cardiff’s players were halfway down the M4, bitterly disappointed after falling just short of pulling off a famous victory over Liverpool.

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Saturday February 4,
St Andrew’s
Sky Sports 2 5.20pm

Birmingham City have changed divisions more times than any other club in English football, with 12 relegations and 12 promotions.

Their campaign for a 13th promotion (at the first time of asking after last year’s relegation) has been slightly disturbed by the club’s involvement in the Europa League.