Gareth Vincent
BBC Sport Wales at the Swansea.com Stadium

Only Fulham have taken more away points in the Championship this season than Bournemouth, who know victory tonight would put them within touching distance of a return to the Premier League.

Bournemouth have two games in hand on the nearest challengers, Huddersfield, but Nottingham Forest remain firmly in the top-two race as things stand.

A Cherries defeat coupled with a Forest victory tonight would make things very interesting.

The job for Scott Parker's team tonight is to secure away league win number 12 of 2021-22 - and they are off to the worst possible start thanks to Joel Piroe's emphatic finish.

Swansea, who are unbeaten in eight, do not look like a team who are already thinking about summer holidays.

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Seven matches across Leagues One and Two this evening and 10 out of the 14 teams with something at stake in either promotion or relegation. You have to love this stage of the season!

Nerves are bound to be jangling with everything on the line, so what have fans been doing all day (besides work) to not let the nerves get the better of them?

I'm not emotionally involved with any of them, but I can imagine the tension. So I went out and cut the back garden!

We're under way across the English Football League.

A big night under the lights across the country.

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All eyes will be on St James Park, where Exeter will go up from League Two with victory over a Barrow side who have secured their own safety.

If Exeter were to fall to a surprise defeat, already-promoted Forest Green would all-but secure the title if they win at play-off chasing Swindon.

Elsewhere, Mansfield and Sutton sit in the final two play-off spots and host Stevenage and Crawley respectively.

• Exeter v Barrow
• Mansfield v Stevenage
• Sutton v Crawley
• Swindon v Forest Green

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Just the three games in League One tonight, yet quite a bit could happen.

Wigan can win promotion with a point at Portsmouth and will win the League One title if they better Rotherham’s result against fourth-placed Sunderland.

If Fleetwood avoid defeat against play-off contenders Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster and AFC Wimbledon will be relegated without playing.

• Fleetwood v Sheff Wed
• Portsmouth v Wigan
• Sunderland v Rotherham

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A big game, this.

Fulham are already promoted and welcome play-off chasing Nottingham Forest knowing that victory could help them clinch the Championship title.

That rests on them bettering the result of Bournemouth, who travel to face Swansea.

Meanwhile, Forest will clinch their spot in the play-offs if they can come back from the capital with a point.

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It's tight at the top of the Championship and Bournemouth are so close to the finish line.

Victory against Swansea this evening would send them ever so close to a return to the Premier League.

The Cherries have two games in hand on third-placed Huddersfield so, although anything other than victory tonight wouldn't be the end of the world, they'd still get another bite of the...cherry, later this season.

I'll get my coat.

Of tonight's three Championship fixtures, this one has the least riding on it.

Barnsley are already consigned to relegation to League One, while Blackpool can neither go down or reach the play-offs.

The Tykes are currently without a head coach after Poya Asbaghi left the club last week following their relegation.

Could they claw back some glory with victory this evening?

Three Championship fixtures to get stuck into this evening:

• Fulham v Nottingham Forest
• Swansea v Bournemouth
• Barnsley v Blackpool

Meanwhile there's also a host of League One and League Two fixtures to get excited about.

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We're in the final stages of the regular 2021-22 English Football League season and we've already had the first flurries of promotions and relegations.

But there's still plenty up for grabs and lots to play for across the three divisions.

The action's about to get going. Grab a brew and we'll take you through it.