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GOAL! Colchester United 1-0 Reading (Hopper 3)

GOAL! Barrow 1-0 Port Vale (Garner 1)

I’m now also watching Preston v Sunderland – it’s 0-0 with 90 seconds on the clock.

All our 7.45s are now kicking off, so we should soon have a ludicrous flow of goals given our 32 fixtures.

Meantime, “Watford head coach Tom Cleverley”, not words I ever supposed to type, is giving his pre-match interview in what I can only describe as a cardigan-jacket. Thoughts and prayers with anyone offended by this behaviour

There’s not loads going on at Brunton Park, but Stoke are playing in pink, which feels pleasingly off-brand.

Nothing to do with football, but dig this.

GOAL! Stockport County 0-1 Blackburn Rovers (Szmodzics 8)

Bit of retro Carlisle.

GOAL! Leyton Orient 1-0 Newport County (Agyei 1)

We’re away at Brunton Park!

Email! “Here in the US they just took all the cup (and Championship) games off of ESPN+, which I have,” says J.R. in Illinois, “and moved them to Paramount+, which I do not have so I guess I’m going to miss James McClean’s inevitable first-minute reducer on some poor unsuspecting Blades player.”

Stick with me for full details. And yeah, in general monopolies are bad for consumers, but when it comes to televised sport, it’s necessary. But of course the authorities have no interest in looking after supporters so here we are.

Wilder says he’s made all those changes out of necessity, players coming in late without time to get fit for three games in a week. But his team aren’t taking this match likely and he’s happy with the rebuild and refresh that’s under way, a couple more players close to arriving but not available in time for tonight.

And this is why:

But on Blackburn, Sammie Szmodics starts for them – though Ipswich are apparently trying to sign him.

Assuming I can make it work, I’ll watch Carlisle v Stoke in case there’s a shock.

Three of our matches kick-off at 7.30pm and these are they:

• Carlisle United v Stoke City

• Leyton Orient v Newport County AFC

• Stockport County v Blackburn Rovers

Also tonight: Rangers (1) v (1) Dynamo Kyiv in the second leg of their Champions League qualifying tie. We’ll keep you updated.

Harry Souttar, on loan from Leicester to Sheffield United, makes his debut tonight, and he should be a decent acquisition. And Blades have plenty on the bench – Chris Wilder one-ups Parkinson by making a full 11 changes.

Incidentally, every game tonight can be seen on your phone … er, if you’ve a Sky sub.

Phil Parkinson, the Wrexham manager, says there’s a bit of needle between the sides, which is lovely to hear. He also talks about what a big game it is, in front of a big crowd, which makes it slightly odd that he’s made so many changes. I get that his main objective is to stay up, but still: it’s a cuptie against a team a division above, so.

It’s all going on at Wrexham.

Teams in our main game

Tonight’s fixtures

Preamble