Seagulls can sneak win with crazy goal no shock

It's hard to see how today's Championship play-off semi-final second leg between Brighton and Crystal Palace could match the drama of yesterday's Watford-Leicester classic.

I'm sure managers Gus Poyet and Ian Holloway won't be too worried about that - with the tie level at 0-0 after the first leg, they'd happily take a deflected winner off somebody's rear end to ensure their trip to Wembley - but the Football League has been spoiling us with its entertainment in the last couple of weeks.

First there was the madcap end to the League One season with Brentford missing a penalty and Doncaster going down the other end and scoring the winner. Then, as if to mock anyone who declared that the finale at Griffin Park was a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, almost exactly the same thing happened at Watford on Sunday.

These things come in threes, so they say, and I'd make it about 9-4 that Palace have an injury-time penalty saved by an over-eager steward before a furious Holloway dribbles the ball down the other end and smashes the ball past his own keeper in frustration. Maybe I'm being a bit mean - you can have 5-2.

There's not much between the two sides and I think the second leg could be almost as tight as the goalless draw at Selhurst Park. I'm keeping faith with Brighton, though, and I reckon they could edge it 1-0. And don't say I didn't tell you if the winner comes up on Ceefax (or whatever mad technology everybody's using these days) as Holloway (o.g) 90.