With two matches to go, many. teams in the Football League can be reasonably sure of their positions at! the end of the season. Arsenal, for example, have won the champlonship for the third year in succession <a record only once before achieved. and that by! "Huddersfield Town in 1926. The teams doomed to relegation appear to be. Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City or Middlesbrough, with the odds in favour of the last-named clinging to First Division rank by virtue of a game in hand. Brentford seem to be safe for promotion from the Second Division and it is probable that West Ham United will "accompany. them, thus bringing two more London teams to senior company in ample compensation for the Spurs' downfall. Reading have to win all their' matches to equal Chariton but goal average even then would make the London team safe for the Second Division. The Northern companion. will be Doncaster Rovers, unless Chester's recent spurt develops a surprising last-minute intensity. Meanwhile Saturday's great seitlement of the respective merits of Sheffield Wednesday and West Brom~ wich Albion is eagerly awaited. The two teams are close in the Easter Monday. They promise to provide a great match. The Birm-Ingham men are credited with more brilliance and the Yorkshiremen with fea a heed Efe s er ale She coe are a onthe tore are mae Seam a Ear aticrad marae Sone beneae mate Pima rae aay Pot we coa
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