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Arsenal v Fulham: Premier League – live | Premier League
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64 min: Triple substitution for Fulham Tom Cairney, Josh King and Oscar Bobb replace Reed, Chukwueze and Wilson.
62 min Fulham’s passing has been better in the second half, helped no doubt by Arsenal sitting deeper and playing on the break.
60 min “Seeing this reminds me of something,” writes DAvid Howell. “Specifically, the Climate Clubs campaign a few years ago that reimagined various club badges to make a point about climate change (and raise money for relevant charities). One of those was the Fulham badge being changed to read FFS – something I’m sure fans of Manchester City would sympathise with right now.”
Arsenal’s next home game is against Burnley, which could be a test of Manchester City fans’ joie de vivre.
59 min Trossard slices a shot from the edge of the area that is easily saved by Leno.
56 min: Big chance for Gyokeres!
Viktor Gyokeres comes tantalisingly close to his first Arsenal hat-trick. He made a perfectly timed run onto a deft through pass from Trossard, but Leno was quickly off his line to narrow the angle and block Gyokeres’s shot. Good goalkeeping.
54 min It’s not easy for Arsenal to balance the Atletico Madrid game, which begins in 73 hours, and the need to score as many as possible. We’ll have a better idea after Monday night, when Manchester City go to Everton, but there’s every chance both teams will win all their remaining league games. If so, the title will be decided on goal difference.
51 min Eze controls Madueke’s pass on the stretch and is shaping to shoot when Bassey makes a vital challenge.
49 min Smith Rowe’s near-post corner is headed across goal by Castagne, with no Fulham player able to poke it into the net.
49 min Robinson’s cross is sliced over his own bar by Saliba. Fulham have started the second half pretty well.
48 min Jimeneze has a pop from 25 yards. It’s a good effort that fades a few yards wide of the goal with Raya at full stretch.
47 min I missed a half-time substitution for Arsenal: Noni Madueke has replaced Bukayo Saka, presumably to rest the main man ahead of Atletico Madrid on Tuesday.
46 min Arsenal get the second half under way.
‘Press release’ is the subject of Charles Antaki’s email.
(Reads from piece of paper): On behalf of a significant fraction of Arsenal fans, I am prepared to consider revising my opinion of Victor Gyökeres, subject to further developments.
Half-time reading
“Rob,” writes Sean Orlowicz, “you said fighting for a title was supposed to be miserable. “I’m having a blast!!!
“(I’ve been miserable since January.)”
Arf. That first half reminds me of the title-winning sides under Wenger, who had – for a Manchester United fan – a sickening habit of being 3-0 up after 20 minutes in April and May.
Half time: Arsenal 3-0 Fulham
Bukayo Saka’s return to the starting XI inspired a joyous first-half performance from Arsenal, who now have the chance to massage their goal difference in the second half. Saka made the first for Viktor Gyokeres, who returned the favour and then scored his second with a fine header.
Here’s the Premier League table as things stand.
Trossard led an Arsenal break with a surge through the inside-left channel. He beat his man in the area and stood up an inviting cross towards the far post. It was slightly behind Gyokeres, who showed his finishing expertise by straining his neck muscles to loop a header over Leno. He took that beautifully.
GOAL! Arsenal 3-0 Fulham (Gyokeres 45+4)
Another terrific goal clinches victory for Arsenal, already.
45+2 min I think this is the first time Saka has scored and created a goal all season, since 2024 in fact. If so, he’s picked a very good time to signal a return to form. The Emirates is a totally different place to the Newcastle game a week ago.
45 min Three minutes of added time. Arsenal are hunting a third before the break, which would then allow them to concentrate on goal difference in the second half. It’s an awkward thing to manage but they should be mindful of it as it may well decide the title.
44 min A delicious cross from Saliba just evades the stretching Gabriel at the far post. This is Arsenal’s most relaxed attacking performance in ages, probably since they walloped Spurs 4-1 in February.
43 min The return of Bukayo Saka has made Arsenal smile again.
In his first start for six weeks, a rejuventated Bukayo Saka has made one and scored one. Eze swept a nice pass down the right for the ever-willing Gyokeres, who held the ball up until Saka made a sudden dart infield. Gyokeres played him in with a nice reverse pass, and Saka rifled a low drive past Leno at the near post. That’s a lovely goal.
GOAL! Arsenal 2-0 Fulham (Saka 40)
Bukayo Saka’s back, baby!
40 min Trossard chops away from a defender on the edge of the area and sweeps a daisycutter that is comfortably saved by Leno.
38 min Sounds odd to say, but Fulham might be the happier team if it’s still 1-0 at half-time. Arsenal have been much the better team and will be keen to put the game to bed before we reach the jitterzone.
37 min Wilson’s corner is cleared by Saliba, but then White loses his balance and is robbed by Lukic. His defensive mates get him out of trouble by clearing Lukic’s cross.
36 min Fulham are having a decent little spell. Calafiori gives Raya problem with a short backpass in a crowded area; Raya’s clearance hits Gabriel and ricochets behind for a Fulham corner.
35 min “I’ve never understood the criticism of Gyokeres, I have to say,” have to says Joshua Keeling. “I think he’s a very good player. Not in the absolute top rank of strikers (Haaland et al), but very few are. He’s a good finisher and gives Arsenal something different.”
I can understand it – he is a relatively limited player – but like everything it has been way over the top.
32 min Chukwueze and then Robinson have long-range shots blocked.
The King concludes his visit to the British overseas territory after landing from the US on Thursday.
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Asked if he wanted tougher policing of language used during marches, or if he wanted to stop some protests altogether, Sir Keir Starmer told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think certainly the first, and I think there are instances for the latter.”
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Brentford v West Ham, Newcastle v Brighton: Premier League and EFL – football live | Premier League
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Goal! Brentford 3-0 West Ham (Damsgaard, 82)
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Goal! Newcastle 2-1 Brighton (Hinshelwood, 61)
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Goal! Wolves 1-1 Sunderland (Santiago Bueno, 54)
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Goal! Brentford 2-0 West Ham (Igor Thiago, 54 pen)
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Penalty to Brentford!?
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Half-times in those key EFL games
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Red card! Sunderland’s Dan Ballard sent off at Wolves
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Goal! Newcastle 2-0 Brighton (Burn, 24)
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Goal! Wolves 0-1 Sunderland (Mukiele, 17)
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Goal! Brentford 1-0 West Ham (Mavropanos og, 15)
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Goal! Newcastle 1-0 Brighton (Osula, 12)
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To the Premier League
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Championship 2025-26 final table
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Championship final day final scores
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Full-time: Derby 1-2 Sheffield United
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Hull go into the playoffs
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Ipswich promoted!
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Final score: Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
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Goal! Ipswich 3-0 QPR (McAteer, 86)
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Goal! Hull 2-1 Norwich (McBurnie, 67)
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Goal! Derby 1-2 Sheffield United (Peck, 69)
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Goal! Derby 1-1 Sheffield United (Cannon, 62)
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Goal! Preston 1-2 Southampton (Dobbin, 60)
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Goal! Millwall 2-0 Oxford (Azeez, 48)
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Back underway for the second halves
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Championship half-time scores
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Goal! Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough (Strelec, 43)
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Goal! Wrexham 2-1 Middlesbrough (Smith, 41)
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Goal! Millwall 1-0 Oxford (Azeez, 35)
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Goal! Hull 1-1 Norwich (McBurnie, 28 pen)
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Goal! Hull 0-1 Norwich (Toure, 26)
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Goal! Wrexham 1-1 Middlesbrough (Windass, 28)
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Goal! Preston 0-1 Southampton (Harwood-Bellis, 12)
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Goal! Ipswich 2-0 QPR (Philogene, 9)
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Sheffield Wednesday takeover completed
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Goal! Derby 1-0 Sheffield United (Szmodics, 5)
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Goal! Wrexham 0-1 Middlesbrough (Conway, 4)
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Goal! Ipswich 1-0 QPR (Hirst, 3)
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Away we go on the final day of the Championship
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Preamble
Newcastle 2-1 Brighton
Ooof! Yankuba Minteh has missed a sitter, laid on for him for Georginio Rutter. Newcastle clinging on.
Barnet have scored at Harrogate, making it 2-1 to the away team and all but condemning the North Yorkshire team to the National League. At Barrow, Newport have scored, and lead 2-1. That means Barrow and Harrogate are heading down. The scenes following Bobby Kamwa’s goal for Newport were uproarious.
Kari Tulinius gets in touch: “There were two 3-3 draws this afternoon in the Bundesliga. 10-man Stuttgart got a last minute equalizer away to Hoffenheim, after coming back from 3-1. This keeps Stuttgart in the last Champions League place, at least until Leverkusen host RB Leipzig tonight. Meanwhile, Heidenheim let in a heartbreaking last minute goal, when an Olise shot hit the post and went in off the diving keeper. If they’d held on for a win, they’d have given themselves a good chance to avoid relegation.”
Goal! Brentford 3-0 West Ham (Damsgaard, 82)
The Hammers are in dire trouble while Brentford are climbing up to sixth. What a job Keith Andrews is doing by the way.
Bradford lead 2-0 at Exeter, Antoni Sarvecic getting it, and that drags them down further towards League Two.
Billy Sharp has made it three for Doncaster at Peterborough. Is he trying to sign off with 300 career goals?
Newport have equalised at Barrow, and that drags Harrogate into the bottom two of League Two.
Brentford 2-0 West Ham
Crysencio Summerville has rattled the crossbar, as West Ham, having changed formation, push for a way back.
Plymouth lead 3-2 at Northampton, and climb into sixth in League One after Brendan Sarpong-Wiredu’s goal.
Newcastle 2-1 Brighton
Eddie Howe has made three changes as Brighton push on for the equaliser. Nervy moments for the Toon Army.
Stockport lead at Barnsley in League One, and climb into third. Billy Sharp has scored again for Doncaster at Peterborough; what a way to sign off.
Bromley, with open-top bus parade planned for Monday, will do so as champions, and now lead 3-1. MK Dons, vying with them, drawing with Fleetwood as the final minutes of the second half approach.
At the bottom of League Two, a huge goal for Tranmere, Nathan Smith getting it, heading home from a corner. Barrow and Newport are heading down at the moment.
Bromley lead Walsall 2-1 in League Two, and are on course for the title. In the battle for playoffs, Chesterfield lead Swindon 2-1, and that opens up a four-point gap, as it stands.
Luton have made it 2-2 at Bolton, Hakeem Odoffin getting it for Jack Wilshere’s boys.
Goal! Newcastle 2-1 Brighton (Hinshelwood, 61)
Could Newcastle be blowing a lead again? Danny Welbeck lays up Jack Hinselwood for a smashing finish.
Leyton Orient pegged back by Burton, it’s 2-2 after Alex Hartridge’s goal. Exeter, losing at home to Bradford, are still in the League One ejector seat.
Notts County’s automatic promotion hopes in League Two have been hit by a goal from Bristol Rovers’ Ellis Harrison.
Goal! Wolves 1-1 Sunderland (Santiago Bueno, 54)
The central defender heads home, and after a brief delay for a suspected tug, it will stands.
Billy Sharp, 40, has just scored for Doncaster at Peterborough, in his final game.
Goal! Brentford 2-0 West Ham (Igor Thiago, 54 pen)
Big moment but Thiago keeps his cool to beat Hermandsen.
Leyton Orient have just scored against Burton, with Dom Ballard getting the goal. That lifts them to 18th in League One.
Penalty to Brentford!?
Ouatarra has been fouled by Diouf, and VAR is checking whether it was inside the box.
In League Two, Barrow have missed a penalty, in that vital game at the bottom. Barrow are still bottom as it stands.
Read Barney Ronay’s report from The New Den.
Half-times in those key EFL games
League One
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Barnsley 0-1 Stockport
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Bolton 2-1 Luton
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Exeter 0-1 Bradford
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Leyton Orient 1-1 Burton
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Northampton 2-2 Plymouth
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Stevenage 0-0 Wigan
League Two
John Brewin
OK, back underway for those second halves. I’m back in the chair.
James Humphries gets in touch: “One for the Knowledge, maybe, but is that gap between Leicester and the owls the biggest points differential between bottom and second bottom? You’d have to go some to beat a 46-point gap, surely, even allowing for deductions.”
Louise Taylor
In the week that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund finally pulled the plug on LIV golf Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Newcastle’s chair headed a 25 PIF delegation conducting an annual club review at Matfen Hall Hotel in Northumberland.
Al-Rumayyan and co rounded their trip off with a visit to St James’ Park to watch Eddie Howe’s team take on Brighton this afternoon. But the chair – who arrived complete with an expensive set of clubs – is understood to have enjoyed a round of golf at the excellent course adjacent to Matfen Hall yesterday/Friday.
Half-time whistles are blowing. In Leagues One and Two, lots of permutations are being tapped into calculators.
Another twist in League One. Luton’s playoff hopes take a knock as they fall 2-1 behind at third-placed Bolton. They’re now eighth in the live table.
In League One, Plymouth have now made it 2-2 at Northampton after being 2-0 down. One more goal and from looking down and out they’d move up into the playoff spots. That’s presuming everything else stays the same and, of course, it won’t!
Brentford 1-0 West Ham
The Hammers are doing everything to equalise. Mavropanos had a ‘goal’ ruled out while Castellanos has hit both posts. That said, Brentford have just had a huge chance to double their lead via Lewis-Potter but somehow it stays out.
Are Bromley going to snatch title glory in League Two? That’s how it stands right now as Ben Thompson puts them ahead against Walsall. They’re currently two… hang on, make that one point ahead of MK Dons, who have just equalised at Fleetwood.
Leyton Orient have conceded an equaliser to Burton in League One. They still look safe for now though with Exeter losing at home to Bradford.
Twists at the top in League Two. Leaders MK Dons trail Fleetwood so are in danger of being pipped to the title by Bromley. Third-placed Cambridge have missed a penalty at Crewe.
Key goal in League One. Exeter are heading to League Two after they fall 1-0 behind to playoff hopefuls Bradford. Plymouth have pulled one back at Northampton.
Red card! Sunderland’s Dan Ballard sent off at Wolves
It’s another hair pulling incident, folks. Ballard yanks Arokodare’s barnet and that’s not allowed is it. Paul Tierney jogs over to the pitchside monitor and soon after shows Ballard the red card. Sunderland still lead 1-0 but they’re down to 10 men.
Goal! Newcastle 2-0 Brighton (Burn, 24)
Brighton had made the better start but suddenly they’re 2-0 down to Newcastle as Big Dan Burn heads home at the near-post to double the Magpies’ lead.
Brentford 1-0 West Ham
Mavropanos looks to have equalised but his effort is chalked off for offside. A shame. Always fun to see a player score at both ends.
Plymouth have a mountain to climb if they’re to nick a playoff spot as they’re already 2-0 down at Northampton. All happening at Bolton. Luton score a controversial penalty to go into the playoffs and then drop out of them again as Bolton equalise.
Goal! Wolves 0-1 Sunderland (Mukiele, 17)
And we have goals in all three Premier League kick-offs as Mukiele heads home Xhaka’s corner to put Sunderland in front.
Goal! Brentford 1-0 West Ham (Mavropanos og, 15)
Big goal in the London derby as a scramble in the West Ham box results in what is deemed to be a Mavropanos own goal. Brentford are in front; Spurs fans celebrating.
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