{"id":8908,"date":"2019-05-07T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:47:21","slug":"league-one-luton-town-return-to-the-second-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/league-one-luton-town-return-to-the-second-tier\/league-one\/","title":{"rendered":"League One Luton Town Return to the Second Tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luton Town clinched the League One title thanks to a 3-1 win over Oxford United at the weekend. This is quite a feat considering they were playing in the Non-League five seasons ago, however, it is worth noting that they were in the past a frequent visitor to the top tier of English football, and were last in the top flight back in the 1991-2 season. Barnsley who were relegated last season managed to bounce back up and had a chance of the title going into the last game but lost 2-1 at Bristol Rovers. Still commendable achievements by both given that Sunderland were strong preseason favourites and Portsmouth and Charlton also finished behind them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Luton-Oxford-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Luton-Oxford-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Luton-Oxford-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Luton-Oxford-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Luton-Oxford-35x50.jpg 35w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Luton-Oxford-18x25.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Luton-Oxford.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The playoffs will be contended by Charlton who finished third by virtue of having a goal difference of one better than Portsmouth while Sunderland in fifth and Doncaster Rovers sixth complete the lineup. The unlucky team was Peterborough who ended up 7th a point behind Rovers.\u00a0 Sunderland &amp; Charlton have some playoff history and they met in the classic 1998 playoff which ended 4-4 with Charlton winning eventually 7-6 on penalties. The neutral won&#8217;t be disappointed if history repeats its self here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland-768x1045.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland-73x100.jpg 73w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland-37x50.jpg 37w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland-18x25.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland-750x1021.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/05\/Charlton-v-Sunderland.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The relegation spots literally went down to the wire and Southend had the great escape beating Sunderland 2-1 with an 87th-minute goal. Plymouth ended up going down on goal difference despite looking like they had escaped thanks to a 3-2 win over fellow relegation side Scunthorpe. Bradford City &amp; Walsall will be playing in League Two next season also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luton Town clinched the League One title thanks to a 3-1 win over Oxford United at the weekend. This is quite a feat considering they were playing in the Non-League five seasons ago, however, it is worth noting that they were in the past a frequent visitor to the top tier of English football, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-one"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8912,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions\/8912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}