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Saturday, July 18, 2020
Day 129
They got the dates for NFL camp reporting: Rookies next Tuesday, quarterbacks and injured players Thursday, a week from Tuesday for everybody else. Oh, this isn't going to end badly.
The Wigan Athletic saga has hit the second-to-final round of the Championship.
To review:
As of the beginning of this round, three teams were competing for one safety spot in the second-tier Championship: Luton Town and Hull City are both naturally on 45 points.
Wigan Athletic, however, face a 12-point penalty for what is probably an intentional administration by their new owners to attempt to get them relegated, if not eventually destroyed! This also places them on 45 points, but they have a significant goal difference advantage over the other two teams for the one safety spot.
Wigan Athletic drew Charlton Athletic 2-2.
Luton Town and Hull City played today, and Luton Town won 1-0, and now THEY are a safe team at 48 points.
So here is the current relegation situation in the Championship, with three teams to be relegated:
Barnsley play Nottingham Forest tomorrow, and must win to have any chance of staying up.
The five teams in the relegation zone for three drops are:
Barnsley (43 points, last on the table, game in hand, -22 goal differential), who must not only get a win home to Nottingham Forest tomorrow, but then must get at a win against a Brentford side who need at least a draw Wednesday night to have a chance at automatic promotion. The line is now at 48 points, so they need all six (and a Wigan loss Wednesday night -- a draw puts Wigan Athletic ahead on GD tiebreaker).
Hull City (45 points, -27 goal differential) are in trouble. They need a win and a Wigan draw or loss and that Barnsley does not win twice. Otherwise, they go down. And they have to win at Cardiff City, who need at least a draw to make the third-promotion 3-6 playoff.
Wigan Athletic (46 points with the penalty, +1 goal differential). OUT at this point with the two 48s. Home to Fulham, who has faint aspirations of automatic promotion. Must beat Fulham (which would put them ahead of Barnsley to begin with) and then one of Charlton and Luton must lose.
Luton Town and Charlton Athletic (both 48 points, Charlton -11 GD, Luton Town -29). A Barnsley draw or loss to Nottingham Forest makes both safe, but if Barnsley wins, then an unlikely second win against Brentford would endanger both if Wigan also win to get to 49. Then Luton Town must win or are relegated, Charlton Town would only need a draw -- a loss would relegate them.
Onward, starting with some big MLB news which might scuttle the 2020 season:
The Canadian government, according to AP, has DENIED all requests that the Toronto Blue Jays play in Toronto this year. (The provincial government had approved it.) If the Blue Jays play this season, it will have to be elsewhere (word is now Dundedin, Florida (!!!!) with Buffalo now ruled out), with the first "home game" on the 29th!
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