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Dismal display troubles Turner Graham Turner admitted Shrewsbury had lost focus after securing promotion last week as they were beaten 3-1 at AFC Wimbledon in League Two.show enclosure (image/jpg; 0.12 MB) Source : Shrewsbury will hold an open-top bus parade on Sunday to celebrate their promotion to npower League One.show enclosure (image/jpg; 0.12 MB) Source : Shrewsbury manager Graham Turner is determined to seal promotion to League One against Dagenham on Saturday.show enclosure (image/jpg; 0.12 MB) Source : • Press refresh or hit the auto-update for the latest• Email ian.mccourt.casual@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts• Or follow Ian on Twitter, if that's your thing• Keep up with all today's live scores here 3.32pm: Walsall are looking secure.They are 1-0 up at Exeter thanks to Alex Nicholls. As it stands, Exeter are going down to League Two. 3.30pm: Dyer has gone off for Swansea and he has been replaced by Luke Moore. Over at Villa Park the news wires are saying "O'Neill was greeted with loud boos from the Villa fans as he walked to his spot in the dug-out." Didn't seem that way to me but I am willing to trust them on this. 3.29pm: William Holmden has been in touch about that Estonia kit: "Looking at that link of the Estonia shirt makes me sad - it's fantastic and joyful; the kits we have today are so bland and 'tasteful'. Should we resign ourselves to the fact that we will never again see a kit like the insanely designed Norwich strip of 1992-4?" Fantastic and joyful? Really? 3.27pm: News from Sheffield. United are a goal down to MK Dons and Wednesday are one up. Noted JJ72 fan John Ashdown will not be happy with that. 3.26pm: Yes, yes, I got the Bolton/Blackburn the wrong way around. 3.22pm: Gah! Struggling with the technology here. Newcastle are two nil up now. and I got the first goal wrong. It was Cabaye and not Ben Arfa. This latest goal comes via Cisse. My fantasy football team is looking good right now. 3.16pm: Goal! Newcastle 1-0 Stoke (Cabaye): Cabaye taps the ball in after Cisee hit the bar after a good work from Ben Arfa. Sorry about that. 3.14pm: ... Goal! Bolton 1-1 Swansea (Eagles): Chris Eagles has struck from Petrov's cross from the left to put his side back in the game. A breathless opening there. Phew! 3.12pm: Oh no! It has just got worse for Blackburn, they have been denied a penalty after a handball in the box ... but hold on ... 3.09pm: O'Neill was given a so-so reception from the fans back at Villa Park. Nothing much to report from there so far. Same goes for Newcastle and Stoke. 3.09pm: O'Neill was given a so-so reception from the fans back at Villa Park. Nothing much to report from there so far. Same goes for Newcastle and Stoke. 3.05pm: Goal! Bolton 0-1 Swansea (Sinclair) . The Blackburn defence backs off Scott Sinclair on the edge of the box and the Swansea player slams it home. That is first goal away from home in a millenium. 3.03pm: Norwich are out of the traps and on fire. There is only a few minutes gone but already they are dominating Steve Kean's men. Wigan are swaggering their way around Fulham's half but there haven't been shots to trouble Schwarzer just yet. 3.01pm: Gary Cahill reckons a draw was the right result for their match at Arsenal. "It was a good result and a good point for us," he said. "Any time you come here, it's a good result. It was an early kick-off today and we only had a couple of days to rest up after the Barca game, but we did okay today, had one or two chances and they did as well so it was a fair result. Both defences were tight and it was cagey. We had one or two chances and perhaps the final ball on both teams lacked a bit, but a point is great result." 3.00pm: Peeeeeeep! Here we go! 2.58pm: The teams are out on their respective pitches are we are just waiting for the ref to give us the go-ahead. 2.54pm: Has anyone else noticed how clubs are starting to release their kits a whole lot earlier these days? Wasn't it a whole lot better when you had to wait the entire summer just to see what the new one would be like? Unless of course it was this which is possibly the worst jersey of all time. 2.53pm: Sorry, but I am still getting over the fact that his name is Glenville. Honestly. Glenville. 2.48pm: Adam le Fondre's first name is actually Glenville. Seriously. Glenville. His dad gave it to him. He is also a Man Utd fan. 2.43pm: Charlie Nicholas is my new hero. The reason? In his team of the last 20 years, he has remembered Denis Irwin and out him in his side. What a full-back Irwin was, could play either side, took a decent peno and even chipped in with the odd free-kick and he only cost Man United about 5p too. 2.40pm: It's all over at Arsenal v Chelsea. No goals there is what looked like a pretty poor game. Arsenal remain third, a few points ahead of Spurs who play QPR later. 2.38pm: Speaking of Di Canio, they are showing that goal for West Ham. Woof! That was some strike. That Bergkamp goal against Newcastle was even better though, wasn't it? Merse says Bergkamp did it in training all the time. 2.37pm: David Wall has pooh-poohed my own goal category idea: "Forget a category for 'Best Own Goal' of the Premier League, shouldn't there be a category for 'Best Own Goal by Frank Sinclair in the Premier League'? That would take care of the supposedly more general class at the same time as paying homage to a defender who was actually pretty decent but capable of moments of complete ridiculousness. An embodiment of the Premier League spirit." Big Richie Dunne could also have his own category 2.35pm: It's all over at Cardiff and the score ain't changed since the last update. 1-1 means Cardiff jump over Blackpool and into fifth place. 2.32pm: Alex Hanton has the first email of the day. "Speaking of unexpected seasons I think pretty much everyone thought that Paolo di Canio would last 3-4 weeks tops with the Robins. I don't know how to feel about him anymore. On one hand his political beliefs are obviously abhorrent but on the other hand I'm beginning to suspect he may be one of the last romantics left in football. Think he'll still be at Swindon next season?" I suspect he will if only because nobody else is mad enough to take a gamble on him. Any Swindon fans out there who have an opinion on this? 2.23pm: Over on Sky they are talking about the best teams/players/seasons/goals etc over the last 20 years in the Premier League. No category for the best own goal however. Any suggestions for that would be more than welcome. 2.18pm: More team news: Aston Villa v Sunderland Aston Villa: Given, Cuellar, Collins, Baker, Lichaj,Albrighton, Herd, Ireland, N'Zogbia, Agbonlahor, Weimann. Subs: Guzan, Hutton, Warnock, Heskey, Bannan, Gardner, Carruthers.Sunderland: Mignolet, O'Shea, Turner, Kilgallon, Bardsley,Larsson, Gardner, Colback, McClean, Sessegnon, Bendtner. Subs: Westwood, Bridge, Campbell, Vaughan, Ji, Meyler, Kyrgiakos.Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire) Fulham v Wigan Fulham: Schwarzer, Hughes, Senderos, Hangeland,John Arne Riise, Diarra, Murphy, Duff, Dembele, Dempsey,Pogrebnyak. Subs: Stockdale, Baird, Johnson, Kasami, Etuhu, Frei, Briggs.Wigan: Al Habsi, Boyce, Alcaraz, Caldwell, Figueroa,Beausejour, McArthur, McCarthy, Gomez, Di Santo, Moses.Subs: Pollitt, Gohouri, Ben Watson, Maloney, Sammon, Jones, Diame.Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire) Newcastle v Stoke Newcastle: Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, Santon,Ben Arfa, Cabaye, Tiote, Gutierrez, Ba, Cisse. Subs: Elliot, Perch, Gosling, Ryan Taylor, Best, Shola Ameobi, Ferguson.Stoke: Begovic, Shotton, Shawcross, Huth, Wilson, Wilkinson, Palacios, Whelan, Etherington, Walters, Crouch. Subs: Sorensen, Jones, Fuller, Pennant, Whitehead, Upson, Jerome.Referee: Andre Marriner (W Midlands) 2.13pm: Some team news: Bolton v Swansea Bolton: Bogdan, Steinsson, Ream, Wheater, Ricketts, Eagles,Mark Davies, Miyaichi, Reo-Coker, Petrov, Kevin Davies. Subs:Jaaskelainen, Alonso, Knight, Klasnic, Ngog, Sordell, Vela.Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Sigurdsson, Britton, Allen, Dyer, Graham, SinclairSubs: Tremmel, Routledge, Monk, McEachran, Lita, Moore, Bessone.Referee: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire) Blackburn v Norwich Blackburn: Robinson, Orr, Dann, Givet, Marcus Olsson, Formica,Dunn, Lowe, Pedersen, Hoilett, Yakubu. Subs: Kean, Martin Olsson, Modeste, Petrovic, Nzonzi, Rochina, Goodwillie.Norwich: Ruddy, Martin, Ryan Bennett, Ward, Drury,Elliott Bennett, Howson, Surman, Hoolahan, Vaughan, Holt. Subs: Steer, Johnson, Morison, Pilkington, Fox, Wilbraham, Naughton.Referee: Kevin Friend (Leicestershire) 2.11pm: There has been another at the Cardiff Leeds game and it has gone to the visitors. Luciano Becchio headed home his 11th of the season and in doing so has put something of a dent in Cardiff's play-off hopes. 2.08pm: Tapping my fingers on the desk, no team news yet and no emaild or tweets. Clocko can be a lonely place sometimes. Sigh. 2.04pm: Quick Championship update. In the early kick-off they are deep into the second half and Cardiff are 1-0 against Leeds. Joe Mason with the goal. 1.52pm: It's 0-0 over at the Emirates between Arsenal and Chelsea. Tom Bryant is typing his way through all the action so if you fancy joing him for a bit just click here. Tom is the most etiquette-informed chap on the desk, he has even written a book about it. 1.42pm: It's going to be a few minutes before the wires give up the team news, so let's have some music, shall we? Bowie? Oh, all all right. 1.35pm: "Beauty," said German genius, poet, diplomat and hardcore Eintracht Frankfurt fan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "is everywhere a welcome guest." But desperate times call for desperate measures and with but a handful of games left in this latest edition of the Premier League, beauty must be politely asked to see itself out in favour of a more welcomed guest, the identity of whom does not need a massive, gold-dusted floating finger to point it out. Most of the interesting matches being played today involve sides who have spent the season vainly fumbling about for three points like concupiscent teenagers in the back of cars. Survival in the Premier league, generally, begins at home which may give low-lying low-flying Blackburn and Bolton just the tiniest, infinitesimal, itsybitsy smidgen of hope (despite their desperately poor home records this season); they welcome Norwich and Swansea respectively. Perennial-pull-it-out-of-the-baggers Wigan face a tough trip to Clint Dempsey but with Roberto Martínez's side impressive run of late in mind (they have only lost once in their last six league jaunts and only Newcastle and Manchester United are in better form), who would bet against them winning at Craven Cottage for the first time in over 2002 days? Now, hands up who thought Newcastle's challenge to break the top four would fade like a kid after a sugar splurge? I'd be the first to put mine up only I am typing and, as with everything in life, the two handed variety is better than the single one. If Alan Pardew's men win today, and they should – Stoke are playing their 20,798th game of the season and gave up trying after their New Years Eve bashing from Manchester United – they will leapfrog Spurs in the league. Not even the most heavily tattooed and optimistic Magpies fan can have expected that position with just a few games to go.Sometime between 1pm and 3pm, Randy Lerner will be smiling hard and pretending he isn't jealous when Martin O'Neill swans back into Villa Park with his swish new love of his life on his right arm. Lerner and O'Neill split up way back in 2010 despite the Northern Irish man leading Villa to a six place finish three seasons in a row as well as the semi-final of the FA Cup and final of the League Cup in his final season not to mention, victory in the 2009 Peace Cup. The Aston Villa owner then decided, like Wooderson in Dazed and Confused, that he loved those redheads. Unlike Wooderson though, Lerner ain't have much luck with them – Villa stand six points above the relegation zone and McLeish's side have played some of the worst football to ever grace Villa Park But that's enough type about the Premier League. There is other stuff going on today don'tchaknow? Here's what can and can't happen this weekend in the lower leagues. Championship: Reading are up already, this much we know already. If Southampton beat Middlesbrough today they are guaranteed promotion, but if they can't do that, they will go up if West Ham fail draw or lose to Leicester on Monday night. Doncaster have already dearly departed the Championship and if Bristol City beat Barnsley, both Coventry and Portsmouth will join them League One: Charlton are back in Championship business after their 1-0 win over Carlisle last week and Sheffield United will be right there with them if they score more goals than MK Franchise and Sheffield Wednesday lose to Carlisle. Down south, it is not looking good for Rochdale. They play Chesterfield today knowing that they need 9 points from their last three games to hop, skip and jump out of the relegation zone. And even that might not be enough because if Walsall overcome Exeter (who also need to win their final three games) and Leyton Orient do the same at home to Yeovil Town, they will say their tear-stained goodbyes to League One. Chesterfield hit the showers if they lose to the Dale; or if they draw and Walsall and Orient both come away from their games with some form of points; or if Walsall win, Orient win and they win. Phew! League Two: Paolo Di Canio's Swindon side will be bumped up a league if they draw or beat Gillingham this afternoon. Failing that, if Crawley and Torquay both cannot muster win, they still go up; same goes for Shrewsbury. If Paolo Di Canio's Swindon side win and the Blue Shrews fail to beat Who are they? Exactly! then the Paolo Di Canio's Swindon side will be donning the League Two crown. Premier League 2011-12 Championship 2011-12 League One 2011-12 League Two 2011-12 Ian McCourt guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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