All English and Scottish football has been postponed this weekend following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. The Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two have all been postponed, as well as the start of the new Women’s Super League season, and all non-League and grassroots fixtures.
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Nottingham Forest sealed their return to the Premier League after 23 years away thanks to a 1-0 win against Huddersfield at Wembley. Levi Colwill’s own goal after 43 minutes was the difference between the sides in the Championship play-off final meaning Forest will play in the top flight for the first time since 1999.
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Blackpool’s Jake Daniels said his decision to come out as the UK’s only openly gay active male professional footballer will allow him to be “free and confident”. The Championship club forward is the first professional in the UK men’s game for more than 30 years to come out while still playing.
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Derby have been relegated to Sky Bet League One after suffering a 1-0 defeat at QPR and will play in England’s third tier for the first time since 1986. A late Luke Amos goal saw Wayne Rooney’s Rams fall to defeat, while a dramatic point for Reading, who came back from 4-1 down to draw 4-4 against Swansea, condemned them to relegation.
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Private investment firm Carlisle Capital has made a formal offer to the administrators of Derby to buy the Sky Bet Championship club. Sources close to the firm say it has made a full asking price offer in the region of £28m. The bid, which is understood to be spearheaded by the firm’s vice-president Adam Binnie, has been made fully in the knowledge that the club could face additional liabilities if one or both of the claims against Derby from Middlesbrough and Wycombe are successful.
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