EFL Extra: Promotion chasing or relegation threatened - "The games are running out"
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The Times
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Tom clarke and Gregor Robertson with all the latest from the EFL.
Lincoln are promoted! Tom was there and reflects on a remarkable day. Just how impressive is the Imps achievement ?
The play offs are still wide open in League One, the top teams have found some form but as far down as Luton in tenth still have a chance. At the bottom it looks like only one place left in the relegation fight.
In the Championship could Southampton still have a chance of second? how do Middlesborough arrest their slide and are Wrexham's hopes over?
Plus Leicester fail to launch - again and in League Two big wins for salford and swindon, a crushing run for Tranmere.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:09.0 | This is our EFL extra show back for a second show in a week after all the Easter action in the football league. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Tom Clark and joining me to discuss the latest in the championship. |
| 0:18.8 | League one and League two is the former Football League defender Gregor Robertson, |
| 0:22.6 | who, listeners, I can exclusively reveal, |
| 0:26.3 | had these charming words for me when planning this show. |
| 0:30.3 | I said, should we start with Southampton's big win in the championship against Wrexham? |
| 0:35.0 | And he replied, surely let's just get Lincoln out of the way. |
| 0:40.1 | So let's just do that. |
| 0:42.2 | Lincoln had been promoted to the championship back in the second tier for the first time in 65 years. |
| 0:47.3 | Done. |
| 0:47.7 | Great achievement. |
| 0:49.0 | Let's move on. |
| 0:50.8 | Let's move on. |
| 0:51.9 | Let's just leave it there. |
| 0:52.7 | You did that the wrong way, Tom. |
| 0:53.5 | I've just made this, you know, we have to lead with this We have to You know Show our Lincoln city with praise I have to lead with this Quite right Quite right We do So you were there You were there You were there I was there twice I was there twice So in terms of dishing praise, we should give my wife Amy some further praise. |
| 1:11.3 | We did so in the preview show. She did not only allow me to go to Friday's game, abandoning my three-year-week-old daughter, but also then when I came back and it wasn't quite done, Gregor. We needed a point from the game at Reading and I said, do you mind if I go on Monday as well? She said, are you bloody joking? And then said yes. |
| 1:27.8 | So thankfully she did because it was amazing. |
| 1:30.1 | It was incredible. |
| 1:31.1 | It was absolutely incredible. |
| 1:32.2 | The atmosphere at home for the 1-0 win against Wimbledon was brilliant. |
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