Saturday 8 May 2010

It's Swindon in the play-offs

A nail-biting final afternoon of the League One season, saw nearly every permutation take shape before Leeds recovered from an early set-back to overpower Bristol Rovers and finally gain promotion back to the Championship.
Leeds started the day in pole position. Swindon leap-frogged into second with an opening goal at the New Den. Millwall levelled in time for Charlton's opener before Leeds fell behind. That put Charlton in the driving seat although it looked very unlikely that things would stay that way for another 30 minutes and so it proved. Millwall forged ahead against Swindon and their fans were still celebrating when they got their third before hearing that Jermaine Beckford had got a second to restore the starting order.
I didn't hear much of the Charlton game after we had gone two up through Miguel Llera but the result was vital in terms of ensuring we avoid Millwall in the first round of the play-off final, although Huddersfield managed to lose their lead at Exeter in the end. We must now go one better than our two draws against Swindon in the league this season and hope that Huddersfield can rally themselves and see off the Lions. If it all bolis down to a south-east London derby at Wembley, then so be it. Who knows, an epic Charlton victory with promotion at stake might finally go some way towards addressing the historical in-balance in results between our two clubs.

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