GOAL! Portsmouth 1-2 Oxford (Lankshear 81) A big goal at Fratton Park. Will Lankshear, on loan from Spurs has put Oxford ahead with a flying far-post header. That goal would move Oxford out of the relegation places and above Portsmouth.

GOAL! Millwall 1-0 Norwich (Ivanovic 56) The substitute Milan Ivanovic has put Millwall in front!

Ipswich v Birmingham team news

Ipswich Walton, Furlong, O’Shea, Greaves, Johnson, Matusiwa, Neil, McAteer, Nunez, Clarke, Hirst.

Subs: Palmer, Kipre, Walle, Philogene-Bidace, Cajuste, Taylor, Baggott, Akpom, Mehmeti.

Birmingham Beadle, Neumann, Klarer, Panzo, Samuel, Vicente, Paik, Solis, Gray, Priske, Stansfield.

Subs: Allsop, Laird, Robinson, Doyle, Roberts, Osman, Iwata, Fujimoto, Ducksch.

Referee Adam Herczeg (County Durham)

37 min Signe Gaupset, Spurs’ brilliant Norwegian midfielder, lashes a deflected shot from 20 yards that is pushed away by Hannah Hampton.

48 min: Millwall 0-0 Norwich City They’re back under way at the Den. Millwall, who were second best in the first half, have brought on Mihailo Ivanovic for Luke Cundle. Norwich have also made a half-time change: Mohamed Toure for Mathias Kvistgaarden.

Blackburn v West Brom team news

Blackburn Toth, McLoughlin, Wharton, Atcheson, Alebiosu, Forshaw, Baradji, Pickering, Morishita, Cantwell, Ohashi.

Subs: Pears, Yuri Ribeiro, Gardner-Hickman, Tavares, De Neve, Afolayan, Redmond, Jorgensen, Montgomery.

West Brom O’Leary, Imray, Campbell, Phillips, Styles, Taylor, Diakite, Molumby, Price, Heggebo, Maja.

Subs: Griffiths, Dike, Gilchrist, Jimoh, Mustapha, Mowatt, Whitwell, Bostock, Sule.

Referee Robert Jones (Merseyside)

Sheff Wed v Leicester team news

Sheff Wed Charles, Iorfa, Otegbayo, Palmer, Adaramola, Chalobah, Ingelsson, Max Lowe, Heskey, Yates, Jamal Lowe.

Subs: Stretch, Fusire, McNeill, Kobacki, McGhee, Grainger, Thornton, Moses, Silcott-Duberry.

Leicester Stolarczyk, Ricardo Pereira, Okoli, Lascelles, Luke Thomas, Skipp, Winks, Fatawu, Mukasa, Mavididi, Daka.

Subs: Begovic, Nelson, Ayew, Richards, De Cordova-Reid, Choudhury, Aribo, Vestergaard, Monga.

Referee Leigh Doughty.

31 min: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham Spurs almost take the lead out of nothing, but Niamh Charles makes a superb block to deny her former teammate Bethany England.

30 min: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham Chelsea have dominated the first half hour – 66% possession, five attempts at goal to none – but Lize Kop has only had that one save to make from James’ cross.

66 min: Portsmouth 1-1 Oxford There’s fury at Fratton Park when the referee declines to show a second yellow card to Brodie Spencer for a foul. It looked fair enough to me – the Portsmouth player cut across Spencer, so although it was a free-kick it wasn’t necessaily worthy of a second yellow card.

Moments later, Marlon Pack is booked for flattening Spencer. Pompey’s players rage about that too.

Serie A result: Udinese 0-0 Como In the early game, fourth-placed Como were held to a goalless draw by mid-table Udinese. That’s good news for Juventus, who can close the gap to a point if they win at home to Genoa later today. Despite a miserable Champions League campaign for Serie A’s finest, the top four will qualify for next season’s competition.

18 min: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham Lauren James has a shot well blocked by Amanda Nilden. Names, unsurprisingly, looks the likeliest source of a goal at the moment.

Half time: Millwall 0-0 Norwich

“Yes,” says Jeremy Boyce, “in-form Norwich seem to playing well against...er...in-form Millwall, currently occupying an automatc promotion spot. No surprise to see the Canaries doing well, despite Delia Smith no longer being on the board they have clearly got their recipe right.

“The key ingredient was making their managerial switch early (they were in the relegation zone), then choosing the correct replacement. Philippe Clement has done a more than solid job, elevating them from relegation certainties to playoff fringes/top half of the table. You’ve got to expect the Lions will find a way to win, unless their nerve starts to fail them now the weight of expectation is on. I went to the Old Den once. Once was enough.”

53 min: Portsmouth 1-1 Oxford

This is the bottom of the Championship table as things stand. Or, to put it another way, there’s a big 40 minutes coming up at Fratton Park.

11 min: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham In the Women’s FA Cup quarter-final at Kingsmeadow, a cross from Lauren James almost sneaks into the far corner of the net. Lize Kop dives to her right to push it behind.

GOAL! Portsmouth 1-1 Oxford (Spencer 48) Nicolas Schmid doesn’t deal with Will Lankshear’s long-range shot and Brodie Spencer follows up to score a vital equaliser for Oxford, his first goal for the club.

In Germany, coaches used to say: “Follow your opponent right into the loo!” That was the call to man-mark. So defenders weren’t meant to think too deeply. This retro tactical approach has been making an unexpected comeback since Atalanta won the Europa League in 2024 using this method.

Against a team with a significantly superior individual quality, you naturally don’t stand a chance with man-marking. Atalanta had to learn that the hard way in the Champions League last 16. Bayern enjoyed absurdly vast spaces and scored 10 goals. Rarely has a knockout-stage match been so one-sided.

I hope that the right conclusions are drawn from this in Germany, because I’m now seeing man-marking more frequently in the Bundesliga again. Yet it can only be a short-term measure if you want to surprise the opponent and put them under pressure, as in handball just before the final whistle. It is not,

36 min: Millwall 0-0 Norwich The away side are playing really well at the Den and could easily be in front. They are ninth in the table but their recent form is as good as anybody in the Championship.

23 min: Millwall 0-0 Norwich No goals and few chances at the Den, where promotion-chasing Millwall are taking on an in-form Norwich side.

When the time comes for our most joyous expression – one for which many of us are still waiting – we can only take out the Tardelli, its acme, epitome, zenith, pinnacle, quintessence, apex, apogee and apotheosis. No one has experienced or communicated the feeling at greater intensity, the ecstasy of 56.7 million Italians and centuries of history channelled through one man, and to conclude this piece in any other way would be improper, for it is joy incarnate.

Half time: Portsmouth 1-0 Oxford

Loud boos at half-time, presumably because of the decision to give Connor Ogilvie a straight red card. Portsmouth are a man down but a goal up thanks to a fine goal from Keshi Anderson.

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Red card: Portsmouth 1-0 Oxford (Ogilvie) Portsmouth are a goal up and a man down: Connor Ogilvie has received a straight red card for a tackle on Stanley Mills.

GOAL! Portsmouth 1-0 Oxford (Anderson 9) Keshi Anderson, 31 today and starting his first game for Pompey, has given them an early lead in the big relegation battle at Fratton Park. It was a neatly taken goal: a dummy to lose the defender and an early shot through the hand of the diving Jamie Cumming.

Italy were too afraid to play a World Cup qualifying playoff at San Siro, hosting their semi-final against Northern Ireland in Bergamo instead. Gennaro Gattuso explained it as a choice to protect his players, noting that the nation’s biggest football stadium was home to two rival clubs – Milan and Internazionale – and suggesting this dynamic might lead fans there to turn more quickly on players who struggled.

Instead, on Sunday, it was San Siro that offered comfort to one who has become the scapegoat for yet another collective failure. Italy made it past Northern Ireland only to lose to Bosnia on penalties in Zenica. Alessandro Bastoni’s first-half red card, at a time when his country were winning 1-0, was a pivotal moment in the game and perhaps his entire career.

Championship: Millwall v Norwich team news

Millwall Patterson; Crama, Cooper, Taylor, Sturge; Cundle, De Norre Bannan; Azeez, Coburn, Neghli.

Subs: Crocombe, McNamara, Ballo, Ivanovic, Langstaff, Leonard, Watson, Bryan, Mazou-Sacko.

Norwich Kovacevic; Stacey, Darling, Cordoba, Fisher; McLean, Mattsson; Field, Ben Slimane, Ahmed; Kvistgaarden.

Subs: Grimshaw, Medic, Gibbs, Chrisene, Wright, Forson, Maghoma, Schwartau, Toure.

Referee Sam Allison (Somerset)

Thanks John, afternoon everyone. I’ll start with a very modern story from Spain.

La Liga on Monday condemned threats and intimidation by Sevilla fans aimed at their own players and directors after they fell to a third straight league defeat.

Sevilla, 17th in the Spanish top flight, lost 1-0 away at bottom side Real Oviedo on Sunday and some supporters met the team at the airport on their return to insult them, while others wearing masks were at the club training ground.

La Liga said in a statement this behaviour “unacceptably crosses the line of legitimate criticism and sporting expression”.

Earlier this season, some Sevilla fans tried to force their way into the training ground to remonstrate with the players.

La Liga said they would report the incident to Spanish authorities and continue to take action in the future against similar incidents.

“Anyone who crosses the line from criticism into threats, intimidation, or harassment stops acting as a fan and starts acting as a violent individual,” added La Liga. “And against violent individuals, La Liga acts and will act.”

Sevilla, winless in five matches, are two points above the relegation zone with eight games remaining in the season.

Right, here’s Rob Smyth to take up the cudgels for the next stint. Back later.

Portsmouth v Oxford team news

Portsmouth: Schmid, Devlin, Poole, Shaughnessy, Ogilvie, Pack, Dozzell, Anderson, Chaplin, Caballero, Bishop. Subs: Bursik, Williams, Swift, Segecic, Le Roux, Alli, Blair, Brown, Dia.

Oxford Utd: Cumming, Long, Helik, Brown, Spencer, Konak, Brannagan, Mills, Donley, Peart-Harris, Lankshear. Subs: Ingram, Vaulks, Placheta, Harris, Prelec, ter Avest, Jeon, Makosso, McDonnell.

Ahead of that huge FA Cup London derby, Suzanne Wrack’s interview with Martin Ho, the Tottenham manager.

Lincoln City’s promotion should be confirmed today. They’ve had a brilliant season.

Narional League Premier

• Brackley v. Boston Utd

• Braintree Town v. Woking

• Eastleigh v. Yeovil

• FC Halifax v. Tamworth

• Gateshead v. Scunthorpe

• Hartlepool v. Rochdale

• Morecambe v. Carlisle

• Solihull Moors v. Boreham Wood

• Sutton Utd v. Southend

• Truro City v. Forest Green

• Wealdstone v. Aldershot

• York v. Altrincham

The shootout at the top of this division is something else: York and Rochdale on 98 points. York have a goal difference of +68.

League Two fixtures

• Barrow v. Chesterfield

• Cheltenham v. Cambridge Utd

• Crawley Town v. Grimsby

• Crewe v. Salford City

• Fleetwood Town v. Barnet

• Gillingham v. Accrington Stanley

• Harrogate Town v. Bristol Rovers

• Notts County v. Newport County

• Oldham v. Milton Keynes Dons

• Swindon v. Walsall

• Tranmere v. Colchester

League One fixtures

• AFC Wimbledon v. Luton

• Barnsley v. Plymouth

• Bolton v. Stockport County

• Exeter v. Doncaster

• Leyton Orient v. Huddersfield

• Mansfield v. Burton Albion

• Northampton v. Wigan

• Peterborough v. Cardiff

• Reading v. Lincoln City

• Stevenage v. Blackpool

• Wycombe v. Bradford

Championship fixtures (3pm unless stated)

• Blackburn v. West Brom

• Bristol City v. Sheff Utd

• Derby v. Stoke

• Hull v. Coventry (KO 8.00)

• Ipswich v. Birmingham

• Millwall v. Norwich (KO 1.00)

• Portsmouth v. Oxford Utd (KO 12.30)

• Preston North End v. QPR

• Sheff Wed v. Leicester

• Swansea v. Middlesbrough (KO 5.30)

• Watford v. Charlton