Who Is For Promotion?

It seemed a couple of weeks ago that Manchester City and Wolves were finally set to take the top two spots and win the automatic promotion places but all of a sudden there has been a stutter and third placed West Brom are back in there with a shout. It is very unlikely that any other side could break into the top two.

Less than a couple of weeks ago I thought that the only club currently below the play off positions with any real hope of getting into them was Birmingham but I never took into account that Millwall, Coventry and ourselves would do all we could to help them by dropping points all too regularly.

In fact Millwall have now lost all their last four league games just as they looked to be almost certainties for a top six finish. It has all left the door open for the likes of Preston, Norwich and Crystal Palace. Whatever happens there is no doubt that Coventry and Palace will have major parts to play. Coventry still have to play West Brom, Preston, Millwall and the Clarets and Palace have games against Norwich, Birmingham, Preston and West Brom.

I do still think that the top six will come from the current top seven clubs and I will now hedge my best and suggest the two automatic places will be taken by two of the top three. In fact if we, and we are fourth, won all our remaining games I don't think it would win us an automatic spot.

The remaining games for each of the top ten clubs are listed below:

Manchester City
30^th March	Nottingham Forest	h
1^st April	Wolverhampton Wanderers	a
6^th April	Barnsley	h
13^th April	Gillingham	a
21^st April	Portsmouth	h
Wolverhampton Wanderers
30^th March	Burnley	a
1^st April	Manchester City	h
5^th April	Millwall	a
13^th April	Wimbledon	h
21^st April	Sheffield Wednesday	a
West Bromwich Albion
26^th March	Crewe Alexandra	h
30^th March	Barnsley	h
1^st April	Coventry City	a
7^th April	Rotherham United	h
13^th April	Bradford City	a
21^st April	Crystal Palace	h
Burnley
30^th March	Wolverhampton Wanderers	h
1^st April	Portsmouth	a
6^th April	Gillingham	h
13^th April	Grimsby Town	a
21^st April	Coventry City	h
Coventry City
29^th March	Sheffield Wednesday	a
1^st April	West Bromwich Albion	h
6^th April	Preston North End	a
13^th April	Millwall	h
21^st April	Burnley	a
Millwall
30^th March	Stockport County	h
1^st April	Rotherham United	a
5^th April	Wolverhampton Wanderers	h
13^th April	Coventry City	a
21^st April	Grimsby Town	h
Birmingham City
30^th March	Grimsby Town	h
1^st April	Crystal Palace	a
7^th April	Portsmouth	h
10^th April	Crewe Alexandra	h
13^th April	Rotherham United	a
21^st April	Sheffield United	h
Preston North End
30^th March	Portsmouth	h
1^st April	Barnsley	a
6^th April	Coventry City	h
13^th April	Crystal Palace	a
21^st April	Nottingham Forest	h
Norwich City
30^th March	Crystal Palace	h
1^st April	Bradford City	a
6^th April	Grimsby Town	h
13^th April	Barnsley	a
21^st April	Stockport County	h
Crystal Palace
30^th March	Norwich City	a
1^st April	Birmingham City	h
7^th April	Crewe Alexandra	a
13^th April	Preston North End	h
21^st April	West Bromwich Albion	a

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