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Minute-by-minute coverage of the 3pm BST game at Wembley
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2.00pm BST
The in-form Ellis Simms isn’t in the Blackpool squad, presumably because of injury. That’s a real blow.
Today's side to take on @LincolnCity_FC, in association with @smithshire: Yates up top as Simms misses out Mitchell and Anderson out wide CJ HAMILTON returns for a place on the bench! #UTMP pic.twitter.com/5isSKB0Syd
@JoeWalsh92 and @McGrandlesConor start
1.41pm BST
There are umpteen things that make the play-offs so compelling, even for the neutral. They provide agony and ecstasy, to use the most popular cliché, but also drama, controversy, desperation and occasionally the highest farce. Most of all, they give us brilliant, sometimes legendary stories. And in today’s League One play-off final at Wembley, we are guaranteed a feelgood belter of a tale.
In the black corner, we have Lincoln City. If they are promoted, they will play in the second tier for the first time since 1961, and continue the spectacular rise of a club that was in the National League as recently as 2017. In the tangerine corner, we have Blackpool FC. They are recovering from 32 years of ever increasing misery under the revolting ownership of Owen Oyston. He was finally removed a cojple of years ago, and Blackpool’s storming run into the play-offs - they were 15th at the end of January - has enhanced the feeling of a club reborn. Continue reading...