An error by West Brom goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith gifted Sunderland a 1-0 win at The Hawthorns to strengthen their Sky Bet Championship play-off bid and dent the hosts’ top-six ambitions.Wildsmith got a hand to Trai Hume’s 36th-minute free-kick but should have prevented the left-back scoring the winner for a second successive match.Sunderland’s ninth away win of the season consolida

York secured a third straight victory to move within eight points of the top of the Vanarama National League table – at least temporarily – as they beat Fylde 3-1.The visitors to Mill Farm were given the chance to take the lead on the stroke of half-time as they were awarded a penalty and Ollie Pearce made no mistake slotting home to give York the advantage at the interval.York strengt

Walsall were knocked off the top of League Two for the first time in four months as Port Vale leapfrogged them with a 3-2 victory at the Bescot Stadium.All five goals came in the first half as Vale claimed a fifth win in six and extended Walsall’s winless run to nine games.Walsall had a goal disallowed inside 12 seconds, Jamille Matt’s header from Liam Gordon’s cross ruled out fo

Burnley moved to the top of the Sky Bet Championship after Jaidon Anthony’s brace secured a 2-1 victory at Coventry.Haji Wright controversially opened the scoring early on before Anthony struck either side of half-time to extend Burnley’s unbeaten league run to 27 matches.Burnley’s victory also handed Coventry back-to-back league defeats for the first time since Frank Lampard too

Wycombe’s hopes of claiming an automatic promotion place in League One suffered a major setback as they lost 1-0 at Reading.With second-placed Wrexham beating relegation-threatened Burton, also in an early kick-off, Wanderers now trail the Welsh side by six points, albeit with a game in hand.Wycombe dominated a spiky first half but it was Reading who made the breakthrough through a Harvey Kn

Jamie Sterry and Rob Street scored a late goal apiece as promotion-chasing Doncaster sealed a 2-0 League Two win at 10-man Cheltenham.Right-back Sterry applied the perfect touch and strike past Joe Day in the 89th minute after good work from Luke Molyneux on the left.And substitute Street – a former Cheltenham striker – finished neatly in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage-time a

Sarina Wiegman praised her England team after they “kept it simple” in a 5-0 rout of Nations League opponents Belgium at Ashton Gate.First-half goals from Lucy Bronze and Millie Bright underlined England’s control of the contest, and it could have been more but Alessia Russo twice hit the post.Substitute Aggie Beever-Jones scored her maiden Lionesses goal after 67 minutes, with n

Valerien Ismael insisted he was the man to turn around Blackburn’s fortunes after a 2-0 home defeat to Middlesbrough played out on a night of sustained fan protests against the club’s ownership and his own management.Boro moved into the play-off places with a fifth win in seven as they make a late promotion charge, but it is a very different story for Blackburn who have dropped out of

Middlesbrough climbed up to fifth in the Championship with a 2-0 win over beleaguered Blackburn that piled pressure on Valerien Ismael and the club’s hierarchy at a febrile Ewood Park.Against a backdrop of angry fan protests against the Venky’s Group that has owned Rovers since 2010, Boro struck twice in the opening eight minutes to take control.Tommy Conway needed less than 90 seconds

England comfortably preserved their unbeaten record in this season’s Nations League after a dominant display saw them brush aside Belgium 5-0 at Ashton Gate.First-half goals from Lucy Bronze and Millie Bright underlined England’s control of the contest, and it could have been more but Alessia Russo twice hit the post.Substitute Aggie Beever-Jones scored her first Lionesses goal after 6