Madame Zaza gets it right

There's only one automatic place left: congratulations to Scunthorpe United on winning promotion.

At one point this afternoon, it looked likely that City might only have to take two points from the last three games to join them, but Forest came back from two goals down to beat Brentford, so things haven't changed much as City beat Yeovil 2-0. The winner was a penalty from Bradley Orr that Steve Mildenhall almost saved; to say there was a lack of confidence in Orr's ability to convert it would be an understatement...the blokes in front of me turned away. It hit Mildenhall and crept underneath him.

Adriano Basso also made one of the most amazing saves I've ever seen this afternoon. More later. It was so good, time seemed to be suspended as he floated in the air after the catch.

That good.

But I digress. We're four points ahead of Forest with nine points left to play for. To put it as plainly as possible, if City win at Carlisle and Forest lose at home to Bournemouth...well, what are the chances of that happening?

If the season ended today:

Scunthorpe: champions. I think that's a given now. It doesn't matter.
City: automatic promotion.

Play offs: Oldham v Forest, Yeovil v Blackpool. You want spoiler material: Carlisle are a point off the playoffs and Blackpool are on one of those great late season surges of form (four straight wins) that take teams from mid table into the division above.

Still, our destiny is still in our hands, just the way I want it to be.

Oh yeah, we're two weeks into the baseball season in the USA: more of that to come later.