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The reason why this Rangers midfielder has won all sibling fights for the rest of his life

Also, the Neil Warnock effect takes hold on English football

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The beginning of May can only mean one thing for a football team’s season: squeaky bum time. This weekend saw a dramatic end to the campaign for some clubs, while others know they have just a game or two left in which to define their season. Across the UK titles were decided and relegations were confirmed, but there was also plenty of action in the games that some had dismissed as unimportant.

1) O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Rangers held on to beat Hibernian 1-0 despite goalkeeper Allan McGregor’s red card for a karate-style kick which saw midfielder Ross McCrorie then having to step in between the sticks late in the game.

He kept his team’s clean sheet intact, giving him the bizarre distinction of a senior appearance in goals for Rangers ahead of his twin brother Robby, who is on the club’s books as a goalkeeper.

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2) Humble in victory

Congratulations to Joe Lolley and no one else for winning the Nottingham Forest Player of the Season award.

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3) The amazing race

We told you back in March that the relegation battle in League One was set up to be one for the ages, with more than half the teams in the division in danger of facing the drop.

With the season finally wrapping up at the weekend, we now know that AFC Wimbledon’s 27 points from their final 15 games was enough to keep them in the league on goal difference ahead of Plymouth Argyle.

Meanwhile, Scunthorpe fell all the way from 13th place in mid-February to second bottom by the end of play on Saturday, after picking up just six(!) points from their last 14 games.

4) The Neil Warnock effect

Cardiff City confirmed their relegation to the Championship with defeat by Crystal Palace on Saturday, leaving Neil Warnock to join former clubs Huddersfield, Rotherham, Plymouth and Notts County in facing the drop this season.

But it’s not just through relegation that Warnock’s former teams are on the move - Bury and Sheffield United have already secured their spots in the division above, while Leeds finished as the top play-off team in the Championship.

Of the 12 teams Warnock has coached and played in the Football League or Premier League this season, Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Oldham and Burton Albion are the only clubs certain of staying put.

If you add in his own playing career you get one more for each column, with Scunthorpe facing relegation, Barnsley getting promoted and Crewe happy to stay where they are.

But at the end of the day, it’s Neil Warnock’s world and we’re all just living in it.

5) Big behaviour

Look, we know you’re probably sick of hearing about Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium but it can be hard to fully capture the scale of their as yet unnamed new home.

The South Stand at the new ground holds 17,500 supporters and is the biggest of its kind in Europe.

To put that into context, it has more than 150% of the capacity of the Vitality Stadium, where Spurs faced Bournemouth at the weekend.

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6) Luck of the Irish

Meanwhile, Cherries fans had no problem bigging up their own achievements as they gave Republic of Ireland U21 goalkeeper Mark Travers the Wikipedia treatment after his impressive debut.

In fairness, he does have a clean sheet in 100% of his Premier League appearances.

7) End of an era

After nearly 5,000 games Notts County finally dropped out of the Football League for the first time this weekend.

While many fans are saddened to see such a historic run come to an end, Preston will be looking forward to claiming a new record in the coming months.

8) The special wean

With rumours emerging over the weekend that Celtic have approached Jose Mourinho, fans couldn’t help but wonder what it would look like if the unlikely scenario became a reality.

9) Drama of another kind

It has been 17 years but the FA still refuse to investigate one of the biggest fictional crimes in football history - the climactic scene in Bend It Like Beckham.

Just look at how the keeper stands on the side where they’ve set the wall up before flapping at the ball. There’s only one explanation...

10) 99 problems

While the 1998-99 season will forever live on as arguably Manchester United’s greatest ever achievement, you have to worry about Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s seemingly endless need to pay tribute to that season, 20 years ago.

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