Summary

  • Leicester out of bottom three after win

  • Newcastle suffer seventh straight loss

  • Hull earn crucial win at Crystal Palace

  • Liverpool held to draw by West Brom

  • Watford promoted to Premier League

  1. Postpublished at 15:05 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Loftus Road is a rare ground to still be bathed in sun this afternoon, as West Ham make the early running.

    You can follow minute-by-minute updates of that game in a separate page - click here to follow action from Loftus Road.

  2. Postpublished at 15:04 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    If Alan Shearer's going to keep on giving away tickets for children in Newcastle, he'll need an assistant. Thousands of empty seats at St James' Park today. The hosts have made a decent start though. Are they a club in limbo?

  3. GOALpublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Asmir Begovic won't want to see that video nasty again.

    The Stoke goalkeeper allows Billy Jones's cross to spill out of his grasp and it rolls straight onto the instep of Connor Wickham who duly dispatches low and hard.

    Sunderland began the day one point off the drop. They are now four clear as it stands.

    You can follow minute-by-minute updates of that game in a separate page - click here to follow action from the Britannia.

    Connor Wickham scores for SunderlandImage source, Getty Images
  4. Postpublished at 15:01 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    The biggest game at Turf Moor since last April or May. Danny Ings has an early shot blocked by Wes Morgan as Burnley come out swinging.

  5. Join the debate at #bbcfootballpublished at 15:01 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Jonny Young: Hull are down. Tactics and team selection have been terrible for about 18 months, six points minimum to stay up. Bruce is rubbish

    Dave Payn: Maybe the PM should now be known as David 'Hammer'on?

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  6. KICK-OFFpublished at 15:00 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    And we are under way in our six Premier League matches.

  7. Bottom of the tablepublished at 14:58 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Bottom of the table

    It is tight as piano wire at the bottom.

    With Burnley facing Leicester, Hull will definitely slip into the bottom three with a defeat away to Palace.

  8. Postpublished at 14:58 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Here we go then. Teams are out across the land.

  9. Follow your teampublished at 14:55 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    As always, we will bring you all the goals, action and reaction from across the Premier League and Football League right here.

    But today, for the first time, we will also have individual live text commentaries for every Premier League game. So if you only want to follow your team's game, you can do exactly that. Coverage for each one will kick in 30 minutes before kick-off. Here's where you can follow them:

    Burnley v Leicester

    Crystal Palace v Hull

    Newcastle v Swansea

    QPR v West Ham

    Stoke v Sunderland

    West Brom v Liverpool

    Man City v Aston Villa - from 17:00 BST

  10. Postpublished at 14:52 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    I know kick-off is still 10 minutes away but my word, St James' Park is empty. There is nobody there. A handful of fans. All is not well.

  11. Go West Ham! Up the Villa, er...published at 14:50 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    David Cameron has been feeling the wrath of Twitter after saying in a speech that he supported West Ham when he is an Aston Villa fan.

    Shadow chancellor Ed Balls was among political rivals to seize on the slip-up, as the hashtag "villagate" started trending on Twitter.

    The PM blamed "brain fade", adding "these things sometimes happen when you are on the stump". They don't though, do they?

    The Conservatives said the reference was not in the PM's prepared speech.

    David CameronImage source, PA
    Image caption,

    David Cameron loves the Villa, honestly. No he does. He really does.

    Mr Cameron's apparently off-the-cuff remark came during a speech about his plan to increase opportunities for ethnic minority Britons - in which he said Britain was "a shining example of a country where multiple identities work".

    "Where you can be Welsh and Hindu and British, Northern Irish and Jewish and British, where you can wear a kilt and a turban, where you can wear a hijab covered in poppies.

    "Where you can support Man Utd, the Windies and Team GB all at the same time. Of course, I'd rather you supported West Ham."

    D'oh!

  12. Top of the tablepublished at 14:48 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Premier League table

    That draw at St Mary's moves both Tottenham and Southampton above Liverpool, but the Merseysiders are lurking very close behind on 57 points and a goal difference of +11.

  13. Postpublished at 14:46 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Conor McNamara
    BBC commentator

    Conor McNamaraImage source, Conor McNamara

    "Half an hour to kick-off in the football at Turf Moor. Next door the cricket is already up & running."

  14. Postpublished at 14:46 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Gomis tweetImage source, @BafGomis

    No Bafetimbi Gomis for Swansea against Newcastle today - the striker is still out with a hamstring injury - but he's sending his love regardless.

  15. Ups & Downs - League Twopublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    The bottom two teams - two of Hartlepool, Cheltenham and Tranmere - will be relegated to the Conference Premier (or the National League as it will be called next season).

    Bottom club Tranmere will be relegated after 94 years in the Football League if they lose at Plymouth and Cheltenham defeat visiting Shrewsbury, or if they fail to beat Plymouth and Hartlepool, who are at home, beat Exeter.

    Cheltenham will go down if they lose and Hartlepool win.

  16. Ups & Downs - League Twopublished at 14:40 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Burton are already promoted and will be crowned champions if they beat Northampton and second-placed Shrewsbury fail to overcome Cheltenham.

    The other two automatic places are between the Shrews, Wycombe, Southend and Bury, who are all assured of at least a play-off place.

    Shrewsbury can be promoted if they beat Cheltenham, or if Wycombe and Southend both fail to defeat Morecambe and Luton respectively.

    Wycombe's goal difference means they will on the brink of League One if they win, Southend lose and Bury fail to beat Wimbledon.

    Stevenage will seal a play-off place if they beat Carlisle, or match the result of either Plymouth - at home to Tranmere - or Luton.

  17. FULL-TIMEpublished at 14:40 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

  18. CLOSE!published at 14:40 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    Jose Fonte! Nope, his header is just over the top...

  19. Sterling injury?published at 14:38 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    He's not been far out of the headlines for the last few weeks and Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling has now rolled his ankle in the warm-up. He needs some treatment but is soon back up on his feet, gingerly.

    Will he be fit to start?

  20. Postpublished at 14:37 British Summer Time 25 April 2015

    And now it is Southampton turning the screw!

    Hugo Lloris smothers Toby Alderweireld's header, but he might well have more work to do before this game is done.