The final day of The Championship in pictures

Hull City after missing the chance to grab the secons automatic promotion place to the Premiership after conceding a last minute penalty to already promoted Cardiff, then had to wait 15 minutes for Watford's game at home to Leeds to finish.

A win for Watford would see them promoted but an injury to their goalkeeper meant the game had a long delay despite the Football League's efforts for games to finish at the same time.

Watford were drawing 1-1 and piling the pressure on but a breakaway goal and a mistake by Watford's 2nd reserve young 'keeper meant Leeds won the last minute.

200 miles away Hull fans celebrated as 20,000 odd fans stayed behind to wait for the whistle to blow at Vicarage Road. Steve Bruce's Hull go up whilst Watford go into the play-off's.

Anthony Knockaert scored an injury-time goal as Leicester City booked their spot in the Championship play-offs with an incredible win at Nottingham Forest. It meant both Forest and Bolton, who were held at home by Blackpool missed out.

Mile Jedinak's 89th-minute header relegated Peterborough to League One and sealed a place in the Championship play-offs for Crystal Palace. In a dramatic finish at Selhurst Park, Jedinak rose to meet a free-kick and head into the bottom corner.

A draw would have kept Posh up and they led twice through two solo goals from Lee Tomlin and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing.

Kenny Jackett resigned after 6 years as Millwall manager after they had to rely on other teams to maintain their Championship status.  

Wolverhampton Wanderers have sacked manager Dean Saunders after the club's relegation to League One. Saunders left Doncaster Rovers and took over at Molineux in January, but the West Midlands club have suffered consecutive relegations after losing their Premier League status in 2012.

Wolves have become the first team since Swindon in 1995 to suffer back-to-back relegations from the top flight.


Only 12 teams have ever been relegated to the third tier in successive seasons in the 125-year history of the Football League, but Wolves are the first team to manage the feat twice.

Four times Yorkshire rivals Huddersfield and Barnsley were in and out of the bottom three as Barnsley, who knew they were down if they lost, twice went ahead and Huddersfield, who could not breathe easily unless they at least claimed a draw, twice equalised.


When the home side drew level for the second time with eight minutes remaining through James Vaughan's deflected shot, Huddersfield were staying in the Championship and Barnsley were looking doomed.

Referee Andre Marriner, who will be in charge at the FA Cup final next weekend, signalled five minutes of added time. A lifeline for Barnsley? It might have been but, in the event, news of a goal for Crystal Palace against their rivals for relegation, Peterborough, in the last minute at Selhurst Park, persuaded both sets of players that the safest course of events was for neither team to score and they just played the ball around between them!!