EFL Final Day - It's Massive!
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The Times
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Join tom Clarke and Gregor Robertson to preview the final regular weekend of a fantastic EFL season.
What a weekend we have in store, there are so many permutations and so much riding on some many games.
Who is heading for the Premier League - Ipswich, Millwall or Southampton?
Will Wrexham keep the fairy tale alive at the expense of Hull and Derby?
In League One can Luton and Plymouth gate crash the play offs on the final day? At the bottom Exeter have it all to do and Leyton Orient are hanging on.
And in League Two the tightest battle of all one of Crawly, Harrogate, Newport and Tranmere are leaving the football league...as Gregor Robertson says; "...on the final day sometimes as a player you're just s******g yourself."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game, football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:08.2 | This is our EFL extra show with me, Tom Clark and the former Football League legend Gregor Robertson. |
| 0:13.3 | Gregor, we've made it. |
| 0:14.4 | The end of the football league season is here, but there's still absolutely loads to play for. |
| 0:19.6 | We've just finished recording the regular Monday show talking about the Premier League and how exciting it was. Also got to mention the Scottish Premiership finale as well. But the Football League, there's so many storylines, aren't there? It's almost impossible. I don't know where to start here. We were discussing it before we came on air. I was very tempted to start |
| 0:37.8 | with the bottom of league too. It's become my fascination in the last couple of weeks. But I think |
| 0:42.1 | it's only fair to start with Coventry because we've not quite given them much credit in recent |
| 0:46.8 | weeks, have we? We've praised them throughout the season. Frank Lampard side confirmed as champions |
| 0:51.3 | lifting the trophy on Sunday after a victory against |
| 0:54.5 | Rexham. This is a brilliant achievement for them as a club, isn't it? We've talked about |
| 0:59.6 | some of the other teams in League 1 and League 2 who perhaps wouldn't necessarily have been |
| 1:04.5 | expected to be near the tops of their tables. I don't think any of us would have expected |
| 1:09.5 | Coventry to finish first necessarily, maybe be in the picture, but to be up there by such a points total and under Frank Lampard, who, let's be honest, all of us, us included, basically turned our noses up when he was appointed and said, well, I'm not sure about this. On all those levels, it's a fantastic achievement. |
| 1:29.0 | Brilliant, brilliant achievement, yeah. |
| 1:32.8 | For Frank Lampard and for Coventry as a football club. |
| 1:37.5 | 25 years is a long, long time when you support any team. |
| 1:42.6 | And that's how long Coventry have been away, and there have been some, you know, huge lows in that time all the way down to League 2 and back again. And as you say, when you think about the championship landscape |
| 1:50.3 | and the advantage that all the teams with parachute payments have to be able to overcome that |
| 1:56.7 | and to be able to, as you say, win the league by such a margin. |
| 2:02.7 | You know, the 12 points ahead as it stands up, |
| 2:06.7 | which have a game in hand, but it's going to probably be a double point figure tally. Incredible achievement. And even more so when you think |
| 2:10.9 | about the wobble, which was a serious wobble they had midway through the |
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