Championship final day - live! 13 mins: ... and another one ... looks like they're quite keen on a short corner. Anyway, Baker's just sliced wide from an optimistic angle, when he should have crossed. 13 mins: Coventry continue to push forwards at St Mary's. I mean, why not? They've just won another corner... 11 mins: Today's first goal: Tommy Smith puts Ipswich one up at Doncaster. 10 mins: "Your pre-match comments look like you've done your best to jinx Saints. I hope it doesn't work," writes Ben Hendy. Just tellin' it how I see it, Ben. From what I've seen and heard, even the West Ham fans wouldn't be that happy with them getting promotion. Don't you have a colleague who's practically disowned them? Well indeed. If the final promotion place were to be decided by a popular vote, I don't think it would be very close. 8 mins: Chance for Coventry! And then a super save from Kelvin Davis to keep McSheffrey out! 6 mins: West Ham are flinging themselves and the ball into Hull's penalty area as if it were the last few minutes, not the first. Their quest to rack up a few goals hasn't exactly been helped by Vaz Te's profligacy. Southampton looking much less hurried. 4 mins: Terrible miss! West Ham cross from the left wing, and Vaz Te meets it with his head at the back post. It was a very easy chance, but he put it wide. 3 mins: Southampton have started on the front foot, already in control. At Upton Park, Winston Reid has taken an arm in the face and is receiving treatment. 1 min: And the game at Upton Park starts 35 seconds later. 1 min: They've kicked off at St Mary's! 12.29pm: Philippa Booth wants to know which of the big games she should watch. For me, Southampton without a doubt. Should be a big party, and certain to be relevant. Neither will probably be true of West Ham's match. Coventry have a 17-year-old debutant at centre-half. 12.26pm: At St Mary's and at Upton Park the players are in the tunnel. It's happening. 12.25pm: If fans' body language is anything to go by, it's all decided - it looks like the party's already begun at Southampton, while Upton Park seems to be preparing for a wake. 12.12pm: I don't see much cause for optimism for West Ham, really. Southampton might not be in brilliant form, but they're still pretty good, and Coventry are pretty bad. Any nervous Saints fans out there? The key promotion-chasing line-ups, then: Southampton: Davis, Butterfield, Fonte, Hooiveld, Fox, Guly, Schneiderlin, Hammond, Lallana, Sharp, Lambert. Subs: Bialkowski, Harding, Cork, De Ridder, Puncheon. Coventry: Murphy, Hussey, Willis, Cranie, Clarke, Baker, Bigirimana, Norwood, Thomas, McSheffrey, McDonald. Subs: Platt, Dunn, Jeffers, Roberts, Henderson. Referee: A Taylor (Lancashire). West Ham: Green, Demel, Reid, Tomkins, Taylor, O'Neil, Noble, Nolan, Lansbury, Cole, Vaz Te. Subs: McCartney, Baldock, Maynard, Collison, Faubert. Hull: Mannone, Rosenior, Chester, Cooper, Dawson, Cairney, McKenna, Evans, Garcia, Fryatt, King. Subs: Oxley, Stewart, Brady, Bradley, Cullen. Referee: Nigel Miller (Durham). So, no beating about the bush: let's get things straight. The fixtures Barnsley v Brighton Birmingham v Reading Burnley v Bristol City Crystal Palace v Cardiff Derby v Peterborough Doncaster v Ipswich Leeds United v Leicester Millwall v Blackpool Nottm Forest v Portsmouth Southampton v Coventry Watford v Middlesbrough West Ham v Hull Promotion Reading are promoted as champions. Southampton, who face already-relegated Coventry at home, will take the second automatic promotion spot if they win, or if they equal West Ham's result. West Ham, who host Hull, will steal second place off them if they win and Southampton lose, or if they win by four goals and Southampton draw. Where it might get complicated If West Ham win 3-0 and Southampton draw 1-1, both teams will be on 86 points. Both will have a goal difference of +35. Both will have scored 82 goals, and conceded 47. So what would separate the clubs next, I hear you ask? Well, this is what the Football League's regulations state: If two or more Clubs have the same number of points, goal difference and goals scored the highest placed Club shall be determined by the respective League records against each other, taking into account in order of precedence, points gained, goal difference and goals scored Right then. Well, the last time the teams met, in February, they drew 1-1. But when they met at St Mary's in October Southampton won 1-0. If Mark Noble's deflected cross that night had hit the back of the net rather than the post (and Southampton had made up those two dropped points with draws elsewhere), then the teams could conceivably be heading for a promotion play-off (an outcome considered so unlikely the Football League haven't got round to thinking about how they'd organise it, stating the teams would face "a deciding League Match or Matches"). And the losers of that promotion play-off would go into the promotion play-offs. This sounds like a lot of fun to me, but sadly it can't happen. Booooooooooo! The play-offs Whichever out of West Ham or Southampton misses out on second place will be joined in the play-offs by Blackpool and Birmingham City*. Cardiff will take the final place if they beat Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. With a goal difference better by 10 than the only team who might catch them, and having scored 13 more goals, a draw will almost certainly be good enough too. But if they lose, and Middlesbrough win at Watford, Cardiff will be overtaken. Of course Cardiff's manager, Malky Mackay, walked out on Watford last summer to take up the post, though I wouldn't have thought that the Hornets are so overcome by lingering resentment that they will submit themselves to a 11-goal thrashing just to annoy him. Strictly speaking Birmingham could miss out, but there would have to be a 25-goal final-day swing between them and Middlesbrough, and Cardiff would have to get at least a point as well. You'd have to be a pretty darned pessimistic Bluenose to consider that a possibility. Relegation Nothing to play for here: Doncaster, Coventry and Portsmouth have already been relegated. Doncaster will finish 24th. The other two are stuck together on 40 points, with Portsmouth holding a comfortable but ultimately totally irrelevant goal-difference advantage. The odds Southampton are strongly favoured, with odds ranging between 10-1 on and 25-1 on against them going up. West Ham are typically about 6/4. Cardiff are 12-1 on to take the last play-off space, Middlesbrough 6-1. Coming up? Charlton have already sealed their spot in next year's Championship, as winners of League One. They will be joined by a team from Sheffield, though precisely which we won't know until later. Sheffield Wednesday need to win their 3pm kick-off at Brentford and hope that United drop points at home to Stevenage, which starts at 5.20pm. Simple as that. There's more reading with this week's Football League Weekender, if you fancy.