League Two play-off final updates from the 3pm BST kick-offThe Merseyside spotlight is on Tranmere, says MellonAnd you can email Ben here or tweet him here 2.55pm BST The teams trudge out on to the sun-drenched Wembley turf! We are just the pre-match formalities – including the English and Welsh national anthems, sang by soprano Emily Haig – away from kick-off. Newport and Tranmere were allocated 16,500 tickets apiece, so around 30,000 fans are busy making a racket. 2.51pm BST A couple of stats to get stuck into before the off at Wembley: this is Newport’s 62nd game of the season – only Chelsea, who take on Arsenal in Baku in the Europa League final, will end up playing more; four players in the Tranmere starting lineup, including talisman James Norwood, featured in their previous two trips to Wembley; the team finishing seventh in League Two has gone on to win the play-off final in four of the last seven campaigns. Newport squeezed into seventh on the final day … Continue reading…
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