FOOTBALL Live

16:00 Finally, Colchester United, Scunthorpe, and Ian Holloway's Leicester City will drop to the third tier of English football.

16:00 Hull City, Bristol City, Crystal Palace and Watford have grabbed the four playoff spots.

16:00 So, to sum up: West Bromwich Albion are promoted as champions, and Stoke City go up with them.

QPR-WBA

90+5’ The party has begun at Loftus Road, WBA are champions.

Stoke-Leicester

90+5’ There's the final whistle at the Britannia!!!! Stoke are in the Premiership next season, and poor Leicester are down!

Blackpool-Watford

90+4’ Watford look to have grabbed the final playoff spot!!! They have drawn with Blackpool!

Southampton-Sheff Utd

90+4’ Southampton have done it!!! They have won!!! 3-2 over Sheffield United!!! They are staying up by the looks of things!!!

Southampton-Sheff Utd

90+4’ There's been a pitch invasion at Stoke City!!!! But the game hasn't finished yet! Mayhem!! Absolute mayhem!

Stoke-Leicester

90+3’ Time is running out for Leicester - they look doomed!

Wolves-Plymouth

90+2’ Wolves have scored!!! It's Olofinjana with the goal!!! That will set pulses racing around Watford fans, as one more goal for Wolves this afternooon would see them snatch the final playoff spot, at the expense of Watford!

Stoke-Leicester

90’ Chris Powell scores for Charlton! They are 4-1 up!

Stoke-Leicester

86’ Leicester are increasingly desperate. They are raining balls in on the Stoke area, but the home side are looking solid enough.

Sheff Wed-Norwich

84’ Sheffield Wednesday have their fourth, and they know they're safe. Jubilation at Hillsborough. Leon Clarjke got the goal.

Stoke-Leicester

82’ Leicester are absolutely laying siege to the Stoke goal! They know a draw is no longer enough.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

82’ Stern John is off! Southampton are down to ten men! His second yellow fo the afternoon.

Stoke-Leicester

79’ Huge shouts for a penalty at the Britannia Stadium as goes down in the box...but referee Mike Dean blows for a free-kick right on the edge of the area, and Stearman shoots over!

Ipswich-Hull

70’ The Stoke fans are celebrating!!! Their side haven't scored, but Ipswich have, and that means that Hull's blows of nicking the final automatic promotion spot have taken a hammer blow! Alan Lee with the goal there.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

68’ SOUTHAMPTON HAVE THE LEAD AGAIN!! Unbelieveable!!! An absolutely cracking finish from Stern John!! His 19th goal of the seaon! Suddenly the Saints are out of the relegation zone again, and Leicester are back in it.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

65’ GOAL! FOR SHEFFIELD UNITED!!! JON STEAD! He was on as a subtitute just a few minutes ago, and he's amde the difference! The Saints are back into the drop zone.

65’ An absolute flurry of activity around the country in the last few miuntes. I have a cup of tea next to me that is getting cold.

Blackpool-Watford

64’ They may be down to ten men, but Watford have found an equaliser!!! Tommy Smith with the goal!!!

Cardiff-Barnsley

64’ Cardiff 3-0 up thanks to Joe Ledley.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

64’ Saganowski misses a sitter a St. Mary's!!! He hesitated for too long and allowed the defender to get back and nick the ball away.

Crystal Palace-Burnley

63’ Crystal Palace have their fourth. Scott Sinclair with the goal.

Blackpool-Watford

62’ Henderson is off!! Watford are now down to 10 men! It was his second booking.

Stoke-Leicester

61’ Leicester have just hit the post!!!!! McCauley rose like the proverbial salmon in the area, and both Southampton and Stoke can breather an almighty sigh of relief! Agony for the Foxes though.

QPR-WBA

54’ Do-Heon Kim puts West Brom 1-0 up in their game at ten-man QPR, and the relegation battle can begin!

Southampton-Sheff Utd

53’ Southampton have the lead!!!! An absolutely massive goal for Southampton!!! Stern John smashes home. That also means Leicester drop into the 'virtual' relegation zone. If it stays like this, a draw is no longer enough for them.

Stoke-Leicester

53’ Huge shout for a penalty for Stoke at Stoke City, but it's been waved away again!!!

Sheff Wed-Norwich

50’ Ben Sahar makes it 2-1 to Sheffield Wednesday, who are looking increasingly safe from relegation!

Charlton-Coventry

48’ More bad news for Coventry. Another mistake from Schmeichel as he misses a punch clear, and Grant Basey takes advantage. Charlton are looking good now.

Scunthorpe-Colchester

49’ Cardiff double their lead at home to Barnsley. Kevin McNaughton with the goal.

Scunthorpe-Colchester

48’ Kevin McLeod gets his second of the afternoon, and Colchester's third! A really poor end to a really poor season for Scunthorpe.

Scunthorpe-Colchester

47’ The most irrelevant game of the afternoon has produced the first goal of the second half. Scott Vernon puts Colchester 2-1.

46’ The second halves are underway around the country!

45’ So in the qutomatic playoff spots at the moment are West Brom and Stoke City. Hull, Bristol City, Crystal Palace and Watford are in the playoff places, while Southampton, Scunthorpe and Colchester are in the dreaded drop zone. Of course, Scunthorpe and Colechester are long gone, but Southampton will still be desperate to save themselves.

45+1’ Half-time in all the Championship games now! Finally I can breathe. Real drama so far, and it's bound to continue in the second half.

45+1’ There's a real party atmosphere at Crystal Palace, where the half-time whistle has just gone. A rather more tense feeling around the ground at the Britannia Stadium, where Stoke and Leicester are still drawing 0-0. As it stands, both sides would still achieve their main objectives of automatic promotion and survival respectively.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

45’ Decent chance for Hulse, he's allowed too much space, and Howells just gets across to make a vital challenge.

Blackpool-Watford

44’ A real old-fashioned scrap at Blackpool. This one is not for the faint-hearted.

Cardiff-Barnsley

44’ Cardiff have the lead over their opponents from the FA Cup semi-final. Paul Parry with the strike.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

42’ Saganovski, just minutes after missing a great chance, HAS LEVELLED IT FOR SOUTHAMPTON!!!! Richard Wright had only jsut pulled off an incrediable save for the Saints as well. They're still in the bottom three, but they're a lot closer to safety now!

Blackpool-Watford

40’ It's worth stating again that, as it stands, Watford will finish OUT of the playoff positions. Sheffield United's 1-0 lead at Southampton would see them grab 6th place.

Blackpool-Watford

39’ Smith flies down the wing and stands it up for Henderson...who misses an absolute sitter!!! That more or less reflects his level of confidence right now.

Crystal Palace-Burnley

37’ Palace have it all but sewn up now! Tom Soares puts them 3-0 up and they are heading for the playoffs, no doubt about that.

QPR-WBA

37’ Martin Rowlands scythes down Jonathan Greening! He's off. It was an awful tackle. Greening is wrything in pain on the turf.

35’ So our relegation zone looks like this at the moment: Southampton p46, pts 51; Scunthorpe p46, pts 46; Colchester p46, pts 38.

Crystal Palace-Burnley

34’ Robbie Blake runs at Hudson and skips round him, but smashes his shot straight at the 'keeper!! That should serve as a reminder to Palace that they can't afford to take their foot off the gas.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

33’ Barry Hayles surges down the left flank for Leicester, lines it up on his left foot, but screws his shot badly wide of the near post!! Leicester's best moment of the game so far.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

31’ Euell gets down the left and puts a cross in for Idiakez, that's goalbound...but Naysmith gets a crucial block in! Agony for Saints fans at the moment.

Blackpool-Watford

30’ Watford are sending all the big boys forward at every opportunity, and Blackpool are sitting very deep. At the moment their two centre-backs are preserving their slender lead.

Ipswich-Hull

29’ A tight game here at Portman Road. Ipswich have settled into their rhythm of passing, flowing football, but Hull are defending tightly.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

27’ Viafara puts a super ball into the box and John Hall almost puts the ball into his own net! Lucky escape for United there.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

25’ Free-kick in a great place for Southampton. Idiakez is standing over it..and Paddy Kenny pulls of a mervellous save to stop the ball from heading straight for the top corner!

Stoke-Leicester

24’ News of Quinn's goal has just filtered through to the Britannia Stadium, where the Leicester fans are celebrating. Their team is still holding out on the pitch, though it's Stoke who are enjoying the lion's share of the possession, as you might expect.

Southampton-Sheff Utd

23’ Stephen Quinn has put Sheffield United ahead at St. Mary's! That scoreline would send Southampton down and put Sheffield United into the payoff places as it sounds at the moment!!

Sheff Wed-Norwich

21’ Penalty for Sheffield Wednesday! Burton steps up...and levels the score!!!!

Charlton-Coventry

21’ Michael Mifsud pulls a goal back for Coventry! His first goal in 20 games.

Wolves-Plymouth

20’ Kightly shoots wide from just 8 yards! What a chance!

Charlton-Coventry

18’ Charlton are now two up! Andy Gray finished off a beautiful passing move. Coventry look like they'll have to rely on results elsewhere if they're to stay up.

Stoke-Leicester

17’ Stoke City are doing all the pressing at the Britannia Stadium, a header sails just wide for them.

Scunthorpe-Colchester

15’ Jonathan Forte pulls Scunthorpe level.

Charlton-Coventry

13’ The Addicks have the ball in the back of the net, but it has been disallowed, and Coventry breathe a huge sigh of relief.

Sheff Wed-Norwich

12’ Evans sets up Patterson, but Grant stretches and claws it away when it looked bound for the top corner! Norwich are running riot at Hillsborough.

Scunthorpe-Colchester

11’ Colchester have the lead in the match between the Championship's two bottom clubs. Kevin McLeod is the man with the goal.

Bristol C-Preston

8’ Lee Trundle gives playoff-destined Bristol City the elad over Preston.

Crystal Palace-Burnley

10’ Crystal Palace are heading for the playoffs in some style!!! It's all going mad at Selhurst Park. Victor Moses has the second goal and don't forget, Burnley are down to ten men! This could be a cricket score!

Sheff Wed-Norwich

9’ Darren Huckerby rifles the ball home from 20 yards and Norwich City have the lead at Hillsborough. Suddenly Leicester have real hope in the battle at the bottom!

Crystal Palace-Burnley

6’ There;s a big fight over who's going to take the penalty. Ben Watson is going to be the man though. Watson steps up, a huge moment for Palace...and he sticks it right in the corner!!!

Crystal Palace-Burnley

5’ Penalty to Crystal Palace and Clarke Carlisle is sent off! Ben Watson has the ball in his hands for the spot kick.

Charlton-Coventry

4’ Kasper Schmeichel comes for the ball and fails to claim, and Luke varney is on hand to put Charlton ahead at home to Coventry!

Blackpool-Watford

2’ Blackpool have the first goal of the day!!! Ben Burgess is on target - that's a real blow for Watford's hopes of grabbing a playoff spot.

1’ We're underway on the final day of the Championship season!

13:55 Just five minutes to go until kick-off. Tension is mounting around the grounds.

  What's at stake? At the bottom - The final relegation place will be decided. Southampton are 22nd on goal difference behind Leicester City, while Sheffield Wednesday, Coventry and Blackpool are not saved just yet.

  What's at stake? At the top - Stoke need a point to guarantee promotion. If they fail Hull can replace them in second with a win. West Brom just need to avoid losing by a cricket score. There are also playoff places up for grabs. Watford and Crystal Palace are the teams in possession, but any of Wolves, Ipswich and Sheffield United could sneak in.