EFL Extra: Last day drama and play off predictions
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The final day of the regular season didn’t disappoint. Twenty four thousand turned out for Bradford v Fleetwood…in the fourth tier. Leeds and Burnley both reach one hundred points in the Championship and Leyton Orient storm into the League One playoffs on the back of five straight wins.
‘Producer Neil’ joins Gregor Robertson to review the final day and ponder who makes it to the play off finals at Wembley…?
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| 0:32.2 | Best episode yet. Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:45.6 | This is our EFL extra show with all the latest from the final day of the regular season. |
| 0:51.1 | That's right, it's all over, for most of us at least. |
| 0:53.8 | It was heartbreak for |
| 0:54.8 | Walsall and Luton, but joy for Coventry, late Norian and Bradford. So what happens next? |
| 1:00.8 | Well, we'll get into playoff predictions and look at any possible knee-jerk managerial changes |
| 1:05.3 | at the relegated sides. Now, a little bit of housekeeping. If you're thinking, who's that? |
| 1:10.4 | Well, as Tom flagged last week, |
| 1:12.2 | I'm producer Neil, standing in for one week only while Tom is off on a very well-earned break. |
| 1:17.1 | And here, as ever, to help me through is our former Marauding Football League full by Gregor |
| 1:21.0 | Robertson. Gregor, thank you for having me. And first things first, can I get away with using |
| 1:26.0 | a term like flagged in my intro |
| 1:27.5 | you can't |
| 1:29.9 | of course you can |
| 1:30.5 | should we |
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