July 7, 2024

Weekend Notes: Saints and Ipswich pursue the Foxes; Mullin scores hat-trick for Wrexham.

In the Championship, two points separate Stoke in 22nd and Plymouth in 16th | The top 5 all win in L1 | Stockport big winners without playing a game in L2

Spare a thought for those fans whose games were postponed after inclement conditions rendered pitches wet, waterlogged and unplayable. Their disappointment is not so dissimilar to the trials of those poor souls paying £40-a-pop to enter a laughably superficial Willy Wonka Immersive Experience in Glasgow, replete with bad actors, a dearth of props and an all-new Chocolate Factory Villain scaring kids from behind a mirror (definitely not canon).

The results of the matches that did go ahead — and it was most of them — threw up plenty of answers but an even greater number of questions. Will Leicester recover quickly from three defeats on the spin? Will Stoke dig themselves out of a relegation fight? Who’s best placed for the second automatic place in League One? Are Posh back? Are Mansfield nailed on for the title? Will Paul Mullin’s magic drag Wrexham to a second promotion in as many years? Can either of the pyramid’s bottom two clubs escape the fate of the trapdoor?

Well, in the words of one Glaswegian Willy Wonka revealing the heir to Slugworth:

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