Play Off finals – winners and losers

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The play offs are done and dusted.

For Sunderland their manager Regis Le Bris championed his team’s togetherness, it showed as they scored another last gasp winner. For Sheffield united, heart break as their woeful Wembley record continues.

In League One Charlton went through the play offs without conceding a goal, that was enough to see off Leyton Orient. Manager Nathan Jones made no apology for his teams approach.

A scrappy League Two final saw up and down Walsall face one last heart break losing to AFC Wimbledon. How do they come back from that?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.
0:08.0	This is our EFL extra show with me, Tom Clark and the former Football League legend Gregor Robertson discussing the playoff finals in the championship.
0:17.1	League one and League two.
0:19.6	It was a weekend of highs and lows, triumph and tragedy, Gregor. Over to the man who predicted wins for Sheffield United, Leighton Orient and Walsall, naught out of three, which just goes to show what a nonsense it is.
0:36.9	Find margins, Tom.
0:38.0	Five margins.
0:39.0	One goal wins in every single game.
0:42.3	Let's start with the championship.
0:43.9	That game, probably the most remarkable,
0:46.2	probably the most dramatic,
0:47.2	definitely the most dramatic of all three finals.
0:51.2	Sunderland,
0:51.8	Sunderland winning that game in the last moments.
0:55.8	They look down and out for a lot of this game.
0:58.4	Tom Watson getting the goal in the 95th minute.
1:03.0	This achievement for Sunderland, let's start with that,
1:05.9	because I think there's lots of little talking points to get into in this game.
1:08.7	But this achievement for Sunderland, this achieved for Regis Lebris, this manager who
1:12.2	everyone was like, who the hell is this guy?
1:14.2	Never heard of him.
1:15.0	Oh, what?
1:15.3	He's got a relegation on his CV in France.
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