The early drama came at Barrow as they went behind and then back level with MK Dons inside 10 minutes. Scott Hogan and Kian Spence trading the goals.

Alex Pattison's long-range howitzer livened up the middle of the halves to give Bradford the lead on Accrington.

And then Plough Lane became a showstopper. Jamie Knight-Lebel was sent off, Matty Stevens converted the penalty before Jake Reeves put Wimbledon 2-0 up on promotion rivals Crewe.

Goalless between Newport County and Carlisle, and Tranmere and Fleetwood.

Taylor Perry goes down on the edge of the box twice in a matter of 30 seconds for Shrewsbury but doesn't get either decision... a chorus of boos from the away end as Perry throws his arms up in disbelief.

Sums up the half for Salop so far, really.

All the goals seem to have come at the Gaughan Group Stadium in our other League One games tonight.

Leyton Orient are 3-0 up against Mansfield at the break and on course to resume their play-off charge.

Blackpool v Rotherham, Bristol Rovers v Stockport and Crawley v Stevenage are all goalless at the halfway stage.

Lewis Wing has a pop from distance for Reading but it flies well over the top.

That opener for the Royals has very much taken the wind out of the Salop sails.

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Posh began brightly but in-form Charlton have grown into the game, Luke Berry thumping the upright and seeing another chance off-target while Matt Godden has been denied by Jed Steer, who also thwarted Tyreece Campbell when clean through.

The only surprise is that it's 0-0 at the break.

Game over.

Blues are just too good. They have enjoyed 80% of the possession and I'm not sure keeper Ryan Allsop since his clearance kick after the initial kick-off three seconds in.

Jay Stansfield's penalty, Liam Bennett's impossible-to-avoid own-goal and Kieran Dowell's sublime third just seconds later, barely reflect the dominance the leaders have enjoyed in the opening 45 minutes.

Two shots a piece with negligable expected goals and pretty much level on the possession stats.

Neither side have got control.

Charlton's head of steam seems to have blown out for now, though the game was paused for a while for treatment for Gustav Lindgren, who has gone off with a shoulder problem, replaced by Malik Mothersille.

Wimbledon have gone bang-bang before half-time.

Jake Reeves finds the bottom corner as the Dons have gone two-up in six minutes, and have an extra man.

Games at Newport, Tranmere and Barrow have gone to half-time level.

It was so nearly four as Alex Cochrane's cross from the left of the box took a deflection, was headed away by a defender but only to Kieran Dowell, whose first-time header clipped the crossbar.

There's the length of one division between these sides at present - and you'd not bet against there being two between them come August. It certainly looks like it at present.

Joseph Gbode gets absolutely no power on his header after meeting Romaeo Hutton's delivery from the right. Easy pickings for Tommy Simkin.

This match, between two out of form teams, hasn't seen a great deal of attacking quality.

Jamie Knight-Lebel gets hold of Omar Bugiel and won't let go. The pair go to ground and the referee points to the spot and sends Crewe's Knight-Lebel off.

Matty Stevens converts from the spot to send Wimbledon up to fifth as it stands. Crewe will have to get through 50 minutes a man light.

Darren Carter
Ex-Birmingham midfielder on BBC Radio WM

That was a brilliant team goal. It's a goal of the season contender because it involved about five players and it was finished exquisitely.

Darren Carter
Ex-Birmingham midfielder on BBC Radio WM

Keshi Anderson put it into a perfect area where the keeper couldn't come and the defender had to deal with it.

It was a peach of a cross. A moment of real quality.

Shrewsbury are well on top in this, unperturbed by the earlier missed penalty.

Taylor Perry is allowed to drive into space towards the edge of the box for the visitors and fires a powerful drive at goal.

Reading keeper Joel Pereira fumbles it before thwarting John Marquis from the rebound who was adjudged to have been offside anyway.

It's all Salop so far.

Peter Lloyd
BBC Radio Kent

We must feel encouraged by the opening half an hour.

Gillingham are never going to play them off the park but it has been solid enough, especially defensively.

Although, I don't know how much of it is Walsall not being themselves over the last few weeks.

Five corners in a row for Walsall - you don't see that every day!

The first four are aimed towards the near post, two of which were sliced very close to his own goal by Joseph Gbode.

The fifth is to the far post and wins a throw....which brings ANOTHER corner.