League One Results 8th May Part 2

Leeds United 2-1 Bristol Rovers
Ten-man Leeds beat Bristol Rovers to win promotion to the Championship – and not before time! A few months ago, they were about twelve points clear and looked certain to go up but in the end it was only clinched on the last day of the season.
Bristol Rovers have beaten a few of the top sides and might have fancied their chances against Leeds, especially once Max Gradel went mad and got sent off. Sadly for them, it wasn’t to be but they’ve still got themselves a top-half finish.
Sanchez Watt was on the bench for Leeds, coming on to celebrate promotion two minutes from the end.
Byron Anthony kept his place in Bristol Rovers’ starting line-up. Ben Swallow was dropped to the bench but manager Nick Higgs feels his progress has been one of the positives of Exeter’s season.

Norwich City 0-2 Carlisle United
This match didn’t make any different to Norwich – they were already promoted and already Champions. But I’m sure they’d still have liked to celebrate with a win. Unfortunately for them, all three points went to Carlisle, who scored both goals in the first seven minutes. Unusually, both teams substituted their goalkeepers in this match.
Jason Price might have got the assist for Carlisle’s first goal but he insists he definitely scored Carlisle’s second goal with his hair, helping a brilliant free kick from Ian Harte into the net. Jason, who is on loan from Millwall, was substituted in the 64th minute. I hope he got some nice big applause. Jason didn’t travel back to Carlisle with his team-mates. Instead, he went home to parent club Millwall, whose season isn’t yet over.
Norwich left out Owain Tudur Jones, Josh Dawkin and Rhoys Wiggins, who returned from his loan to Bournemouth last week.

Oldham Athletic 0-2 Charlton Athletic
In other circumstances, a win could have given Charlton automatic promotion but Leeds United, Millwall and Swindon refused to co-operate. Oldham finished 15th, which looks pretty good considering their recent problems but they’re actually only two points above relegated Gillingham.
The two Athletic clubs were without their Welsh under-21 internationals, Joe Jacobson (groin) and Grant Basey (ankle).

Southampton 3-1 Southend United
Relegated Southend could have finished 22nd but their defeat to Southampton and Wycombe Wanderers’ win over Gillingham meant they finished 23rd. Southampton finished 73rd. Without their points deduction, they’d have finished 5th with Huddersfield Town missing out on the play-offs.
Southampton’s Lloyd James was dropped to the bench. Is he injured or not? Ryan Doble recovered from a hip injury in time for this game but wasn’t in the squad. Neither was Anthony Pulis but that wasn’t really a surprise.