Tranmere secure League One promotion

Tranmere Rovers needed extra time seal their second straight league promotion, defeating 10-man Newport County 1-0 in the League Two playoff final.
POS | TEAM | W | D | L | PTS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
11 | Cambridge | 7 | 7 | 7 | 28 |
12 | Newport | 7 | 7 | 5 | 28 |
13 | Scunthorpe | 6 | 7 | 8 | 25 |
Tranmere Rovers needed extra time seal their second straight league promotion, defeating 10-man Newport County 1-0 in the League Two playoff final.
NEWPORT, South Wales -- As Newport's players soaked in the applause at full-time, Pep Guardiola circulated the Rodney Parade pitch until he had shaken hands with each and every one. He had an extra word or two for Padraig Amond -- the striker who had, for a tantalising minute or so, given the League Two side a vision of the impossible. In the end Guardiola could afford to be generous with his sentiments and Manchester City, with the most fiendish of banana skins avoided, retain their dream of a...
Manchester City endured some anxious moments but escaped from fourth-tier Newport County with their FA Cup hopes intact as Phil Foden scored twice in a 4-1 fifth-round victory on Saturday.
Newport, 82 rungs below City on the English football ladder, rattled Pep Guardiola's aristocrats in the first half and Tyreeq Bakinson almost gave them a dream lead.
But City's class showed in the second half and once Leroy Sane's powerful shot from a tight angle put them in front after 51 minutes the chances...
Manchester City were given a scare by League Two side Newport County but second-half goals from Leroy Sane, Phil Foden (2) and Riyad Mahrez set up a 4-1 win and a place in the FA Cup quarterfinals.
Newport almost took a shock lead in the 14th minute when a long throw into the box was flicked on and Tyreeq Bakinson looked certainly to score, only for Ederson to superbly get across his goal and palm the header away.
Six minutes later City got another scare, again from a long throw, as Joss Labadie...
MANCHESTER, England -- Pep Guardiola has said Manchester City cannot use the pitch as an excuse when they face League Two Newport County in the FA Cup fifth round. (Saturday, 12:30 p.m. ET; ESPN+)
The surface at Newport's Rodney Parade stadium, also used by two rugby union clubs, has bare and muddy patches in some areas.
"We have to adapt," Guardiola told a news conference. "It is what it is, and we have to accept that challenge.
"We played in the Premier League against Tottenham when, days...