West Brom and Southampton played out a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final at the Hawthorns.Both teams had chances to win the game as Alex Palmer denied Flynn Downes when one-on-one while Alex McCarthy made an equally crucial save at the other end to keep out Grady Diangana’s header before the break.The two goalkeepers also kept the game scoreless in the sec...Full Story »

Manchester United lifted the Women’s FA Cup for the first time in their history following a comfortable 4-0 victory over Tottenham at Wembley.Ella Toone, who started when United were narrowly beaten by Chelsea in the final a year ago, broke the deadlock with a fine finish in first-half stoppage time.Rachel Williams, appearing in her fourth FA Cup final, nodded home nine minutes after the r...Full Story »

Norwich and Leeds shared a 0-0 first-leg stalemate at Carrow Road that left their Championship play-off semi-final evenly poised.It was a clash that was short on quality in the final third as neither goalkeeper found himself overworked, although Leeds had a goal ruled out before half-time.The tie will be decided at Elland Road on Thursday night with both sets of supporters hoping for a bit more ...Full Story »

Danilo Orsi scored a hat-trick as rampant Crawley reached the League Two play-off final following a 5-1 second-leg thrashing of MK Dons that completed an emphatic 8-1 aggregate victory.Crawley will face Crewe next Sunday in what will be their first ever trip to Wembley Stadium, a remarkable turnaround for a club that narrowly avoided relegation from the Football League 12 months ago.Their 3-0 le...Full Story »

Chelsea continued their late surge for European qualification with a frantic 3-2 win at Nottingham Forest, who missed the chance to confirm their Premier League survival in style.Goals from Mykhailo Mudryk, Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Jackson made it three successive wins for Mauricio Pochettino’s side, who are now level with sixth-placed Newcastle with two games to go.Pochettino, who has ...Full Story »

John Robertson equalised as Lowland League champions East Kilbride grabbed a 2-2 draw in the first leg of their Pyramid play-off final against Stranraer.Robertson levelled with a fine strike 19 minutes from time after League Two basement side Stranraer had come from behind to lead at K-Park.Andy Stirling gave Kilby the lead after 32 minutes, but the visitors replied through Sean McIntosh on the ...Full Story »

Substitute Andrew Shinnie’s stunning added-time winner for already-relegated Livingston against St Johnstone kept profligate Saints in the cinch Premiership relegation play-off spot.Attacker Adama Sidibeh scored after eight minutes of an energetic start which should have brought more goals for the visitors.The home side eventually responded and defender Cristian Montano levelled in the 72n...Full Story »

Blair Henderson’s hat-trick helped Spartans breeze into the cinch League 1 play-off final after a 5-1 victory at Peterhead wrapped up a 7-2 aggregate success.Henderson’s late penalty gave Spartans, in their first season at senior level, the edge after the first leg in midweek and Cameron Russell put them ahead on Saturday after just three minutes, tucking home after some confusion in...Full Story »

Yoane Wissa’s dramatic stoppage-time goal handed Brentford their first ever Premier League win over Bournemouth after an incident-packed 2-1 victory at the Vitality Stadium.Dominic Solanke’s 19th goal of the season looked to have earned Bournemouth a deserved point moments after Bryan Mbuemo had put the visitors in front with his 50th Bees goal.But Wissa – who had set up Mbuemo...Full Story »

Motherwell moved into seventh place in the Scottish Premiership thanks to a 5-1 win over Ross County in Dingwall.Two first-half errors from home goalkeeper Ross Laidlaw, capitalised on by Blair Spittal and Paul McGinn either side of a Simon Murray equaliser, gave the Steelmen a narrow 2-1 advantage going into half-time.That is the way the game remained until the 82nd minute with the outcome stil...Full Story »