Substitute Tyler Smith earned Bradford a late point in their 1-1 Yorkshire derby with Doncaster at Valley Parade.

It was a first League Two game in 17 days for the home side after successive postponements.

They took a while to get going as the visitors enjoyed the better of a feisty first half that saw seven bookings.

Hakeeb Adelakun’s free-kick set up their first chance, the ball deflecting off the wall into the Bradford penalty area where Owen Bailey set up Joe Ironside, whose goal-bound shot took a deflection wide.

Alex Gilliead created Bradford’s best chance with a low cross that Tyreik Wright jabbed past the post.

Doncaster took the lead on the stroke of half-time as Owen Bailey played Luke Molyneux through and the winger slotted the ball past Sam Walker.

Doncaster goalkeeper Thimothee Lo-Tutala saved from Wright at the start of the second half.

The visitors were close to a second when Walker tipped over a fierce effort from James Maxwell.

But Smith equalised with five minutes left, converting a cross from Harry Chapman for a share of the spoils.

Morecambe’s League Two play-off ambitions were given a huge boost by a 1-0 victory over Crawley.

Substitute Jordan Slew was the Shrimps’ goal hero as he turned in Joel Senior’s right-wing cross when he sneaked in at the far post in the 68th minute to move Ged Brannan’s side level on points with the top seven.

Crawley had the better of the game before the goal with Klaidi Lolos being denied an opener on the stroke of half-time by a superb save from home keeper Archie Mair.

The Reds wasted another glorious chance just before the hour when top scorer Danilo Orsi volleyed Kellan Gordon’s right-wing cross over from just two yards.

The visitors continued to push with Harry Forster seeing two efforts blocked by Farrend Rawson and Lolos stabbing an effort wide after a great run into the box as the Shrimps defended their lead superbly.

AFC Wimbledon’s League Two play-off push suffered a setback as they drew 0-0 with relegation-threatened Grimsby at Plough Lane.

Johnnie Jackson’s side missed the chance to capitalise on Saturday’s memorable triumph over MK Dons and record back-to-back league wins for the first time since November.

Wimbledon sit 10th in the table, three points off the play-off spots, while Grimsby are seven clear of the bottom two.

The game’s first chance fell to Harvey Rodgers, but he headed wide despite Jamie Andrews’ enticing set-piece delivery.

Jack Currie responded for the hosts, forcing a good save from Harvey Cartwright after a sublime long-range shot with the outside of his boot.

In a frantic end to the first half, Cartwright produced another excellent stop to prevent a Jake Reeves thunderbolt from finding the top corner.

Then, just three minutes later, Donovan Wilson rattled Wimbledon’s crossbar with a crisp strike from inside the box.

Armani Little became the third Wimbledon player to try his luck from distance after half-time, but his attempt went behind for a goal kick.

Ronan Curtis latched onto a long ball in the 75th minute, but he failed to bring it under his control and repeat his match-winning heroics from Saturday’s moral-boosting win.

The hosts pushed for a winner in the closing stages, but Grimsby held on.

MK Dons came from behind to strengthen their promotion push with a hard-earned 2-1 away win at Sky Bet League Two leaders Mansfield.

It was honours even at the break after an exciting first half with chances at both ends.

Mansfield drew first blood on 15 minutes after MJ Williams had handled a Stephen Quinn cross in the box.

Keeper Michael Kelly saved well from Lucas Akins’ spot-kick and did even better to keep out the former Burton forward’s follow-up, but he was helpless as Stephen Quinn buried the loose ball.

Dons were level within five minutes as Lewis Brunt’s powerful header hit the advancing Alex Gilbey and he ran on to bury a powerful 20-yard finish.

Aden Flint saw his header cleared off the line by Matthew Dennis after 38 minutes and soon after Dennis headed wide from six yards at the other end from a deflected cross.

But Dennis did put Dons ahead after 54 minutes when he cut inside from the left and his low 20 yard shot was deflected past a helpless Christy Pym.

Pym denied Dons a third in the final minute with a great save from Gilbey’s finish.

James Chester and Emile Acquah grabbed the goals as Barrow got back to winning ways with a 2-0 victory over play-off rivals Gillingham.

Pete Wild’s Bluebirds had lost three games in a row and not played in over a fortnight with games against Bradford and Crawley called off due to waterlogged pitches.

The hosts were wasteful with their chances in the first half at Holker Street.

Cole Stockton, Acquah, Kian Spence and Elliot Newby all had efforts and failed to test Glenn Morris in the visitors’ goal.

But the deadlock was broken five minutes before the break as former Wales international Chester volleyed home George Ray’s flick-on from Robbie Gotts’ delivery.

After the interval, Spence forced Morris into a low save after he was found by Dean Campbell.

Acquah and Stockton combined well as the latter blasted wide.

But Acquah ended his drought as he scored his first league goal in almost five months as he slipped past two defenders and unleashed a stunning 20-yard strike in the 55th minute.

Paul Farman made an easy save from Remeao Hutton late on before punching away the danger from a Shadrach Ogie header in stoppage time.

The EFL has secured a record 188million-dollar (£147.7m) minimum revenue guarantee for its international television rights for the next four seasons, the PA news agency understands.

The deal through to 2027-28 represents a 40 per cent uplift in revenue compared to the previous cycle.

The EFL has signed up with a specialist partner agency, American firm Relevent, for the sale of its rights in North, Central and South America at a time when Wrexham’s ownership by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney is driving up overseas interest in the league.

The international rights sale follows the announcement last year of a five-year, £935million deal with Sky Sports for the EFL’s domestic rights starting from next season.

Pitch International, which has been working with the EFL for the last 15 years, will continue to distribute the league’s rights in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and ‘rest of the world’.

For rights in the Americas, the EFL said Relevent would “work with the EFL to build member clubs’ profile in this key region via a dedicated marketing partnership”.

Pitch will distribute 155 exclusive Championship matches and 38 matches from Leagues One and Two, plus all play-off matches, all EFL Cup ties and three matches in the EFL Trophy.

The 155 Championship matches will be made up of 118 that are part of the domestic linear TV feed plus an additional 37 3pm kick-offs.

Relevent can sell all EFL matches in the Americas, plus all play-off matches, all EFL Cup ties and three matches in the EFL Trophy. Relevent also holds all betting rights in the United States.

Clubs can stream matches direct to fans overseas in all the international regions with the exception of the 155 Championship matches ringfenced as exclusive.

EFL chief executive Trevor Birch said: “These new agreements represent not only guaranteed levels of revenue but also present the league and our 72 clubs with a fantastic opportunity to establish further the EFL as a premium football brand in markets across the world.

“In Pitch and Relevent we have two partners with an in-depth understanding of the global TV rights markets and that knowledge, coupled with the enthusiasm of their teams, will hopefully ensure we achieve our objective of delivering value to clubs alongside taking EFL football to as wide an audience as possible outside the UK.”

Tranmere boss Nigel Adkins was clearly relieved after his side secured a 1-0 win over Sutton thanks to Rob Apter’s late strike.

Apter delighted the Prenton Park faithful following a run of four defeats in Rovers’ previous five matches.

Adkins said: “It’s the right result and it’s an important result, even if it did take us a long time to get there.

“Great credit to the players, though. We’ve had two really long journeys this week and you could see how the opposition are.

“They’ve got some big players and the goalkeeper likes to kick the ball the full length of the pitch.

“We have to compete, but we did that and we’ve got the result. Maybe I’d have liked the players to pass the ball a bit better and be better in possession, but again huge credit to the players because they’ve ground this one out.

“The application and the character shown by the players really pleased me overall. Sometimes it is fine margins – that’s the reality of it in this division.

“There are a lot of good things that we’ve done of late, and we have to make sure we keep plugging away because we’re not far away at all.”

After a largely uneventful first period, there was drama shortly after the restart when Rovers fluffed a penalty chance.

After Ryan Jackson had brought down Harvey Saunders in the box, Sutton keeper Steve Arnold turned hero as he brilliantly saved Connor Jennings’ spot-kick.

Both sides then went on to trade numerous chances, before Apter fired home the dramatic winner with time running out.

Sutton boss Steve Morison has won just one game since taking over the reins at the start of the year and his side remain six points from safety.

Morison said: “I’m just gutted for the players and the fans that travelled up here.

“We gave a decent account of ourselves I thought, and carried out our game-plan pretty well.

“We knew what we were going to be up against here, and I know I might sound like a broken record saying that I thought we performed well after losing one-nil.

“The lads need to find it within themselves to get over the line in games. We were excellent on Tuesday night, so it’s really frustrating that we haven’t been able to get something here today.

“If you don’t shoot you don’t score, or if you don’t buy a lottery ticket you don’t win – I’ve said that to the lads.

“Don’t worry I’m not asking them to pass the ball around the box and then don’t shoot.

“We just need to get to those areas and be free to put the ball in the back of the net and show no fear.”

Lee Bell wants Crewe to learn from their mistakes after letting a two-goal lead slip to crash to a late 3-2 defeat to Morecambe.

Having moved into the League Two automatic-promotion places with victory at Notts County seven days previously, Crewe were in the mood to keep the pressure on their rivals and were well set when Shilow Tracey added to Elliott Nevitt’s first-half header with a thundering strike soon after the break.

But the Shrimps staged a thrilling late comeback thanks to goals from Joe Adams, Jordan Slew and Farrend Rawson, which left Bell questioning his players’ decision-making.

“We were in total control up to the 69th minute and then the game was turned on its head and they got a winner. Full credit to Morecambe for the spirit they showed, but the goals were down to individual and collective decision-making,” said Bell.

“We’ve got to take lessons from today and learn from them; we will need to go through it and analyse it. We have owned our wins this season and we’ve got to own the defeats too, take it on the chin and look to get better.

“The game was changed in five minutes and if we had done the right things and doing the basics would have got us the right result.

“The players are on the floor, but we’ve got to learn from this as we’ve got 11 games left and if we pick up in the areas we need to improve then we will be fine.

“While it’s disappointing to lose a game when you’re two up, it’s what we’re going to do now to bounce back that matters.”

Ged Garner wasted a gilt-edged chance for the visitors when he dragged an early effort past the post.

Crewe, then, turned the visitors’ counter-attacking against them with Nevitt bagging his 12th goal of the campaign before Tracey showed his unpredictable flair when cutting in to fire an unstoppable shot past Archie Mair for the second.

But Morecambe were back in the game with two goals inside five minutes, first Adams’ side-footer slipped under home keeper Harvey Davies.

Then when Davies pushed out another Adams effort, substitute Slew drove home the equaliser.

Mair kept the scores level with great saves from Lewis Leigh and Josh Austerfield before Rawson stunned Gresty Road with a back-post finish.

Morecambe boss Ged Brannan said: “We showed great character. We’d played really well in the first half and created chances – we should have been ahead early on.

“But we let Crewe into the game and they caught us on the counter for their first. It needed a great show of character and our defending in the last five minutes summed up that.

“I told the players at half-time that Crewe were no better than us and they went out and did so well. Crewe could not cope with Joe Adams in the first half with the way he was running at their defence and I am made up he scored a goal as he had a couple of chances. And no-one was stopping Farrend scoring that goal, he’d have taken their whole team into the net.

“We’re ninth now and the league is crazy. Crewe are up there, but we dominated them at times, so we’re not too far behind.”

Walsall’s wonderful form is no ‘flash in the pan’, said Saddlers boss Mat Sadler after his side beat Doncaster 3-1 to record a fifth successive win and climb to sixth in Sky Bet League Two.

Josh Gordon powered home a header from namesake Liam’s cross to give Walsall an early lead and they wasted chances to go further ahead before Kyle Hurst volleyed Doncaster level.

However, Jack Earing drilled home through a crowded area to put them back ahead before former Doncaster loanee Mo Faal rubbed salt in the wounds late on by heading home a corner.

“The lads are working really hard, they are listening to everything we are saying and taking it all on board, they love being with each other and growing together – that’s what’s special,” Sadler said.

“We just have to keep going and be relentlessly driven and focused – we don’t want to stop, we want to keep going. They are giving me everything, they are giving each other everything.

“Setbacks are going to happen, we will go behind in games because that’s football – the response and reaction from everybody is: we will get the next goal and go and win the game.

“I’ve been speaking about winning games in different ways and today it came from two set-plays, which is great. We looked a real threat from them.

“I think we’ve been good for a long time now, it’s not been a flash in the pan and I’ve known for a significant amount of time what a good team we’ve got here.”

Honest Doncaster boss Grant McCann accepted the blame for the defeat at his door as Rovers remained 20th but still 12 points clear of trouble.

McCann switched from zonal set-piece marking to man-to-man to combat Faal and that left Earing free to fire in Walsall’s crucial second goal.

“We didn’t start well and the conditions weren’t great but after we trusted ourselves and how we could play, I thought we were really good,” he said.

“Their second goal is a mistake from the staff, we’ve let the players down today.

“We’ve made a decision to mark Faal when we usually go zonal – and we’ve taken a marker away from the guy who scored.

“That’s cost us and I apologise to the players and to the fans. It’s a defeat that’s at my hands.

“We thought Faal was causing a problem in and around Timmy (keeper Thimothee Lo-Tutala) but we need to stick to the plan, stick to the process and we’ve let people down today.

“We talk about positivity and we’ve been negative in a situation and that has cost us today.

“It’s one of those days where decisions we made as a staff has hindered the result.”

Stephen Clemence was full of praise for his Gillingham side as they made it back-to-back wins and three clean sheets in a row with a gritty 2-0 victory over Salford.

Goals from Shadrach Ogie and Timothee Dieng earned three well-deserved points for the Gills, who were excellent in their defensive shape.

Gillingham head coach Clemence said: “Salford have done really well recently, they’ve got some good players and we had to really play well today to get anything. We had to bring our A-game, go and take them on.

“We had to bring the best version of ourselves and to a man they were great, the starters and the boys that came on – it meant something to them today and you could tell.

“We had to fight for every ball, we won a lot of duels and we defended fantastically well. That’s three clean sheets in a row now.

“I’m really pleased for the boys and their efforts today, and to score two goals away from home is a really good day.

“It was a good all-round performance. I could go round every single one of them and give them some praise, I thought that to a man they stood up to be counted.”

After an unbeaten run in Karl Robinson’s first eight games in charge, Salford are now winless in their last three – losing two and drawing one while conceding eight goals.

Since taking the Salford job, Robinson has been “baffled” at the level of officiating in League Two.

The Ammies head coach said: “If you look at their first goal, it was borderline offside. If VAR was here, you would have got it but I don’t think the officials are good enough at this level to give them.

“But I think the officials were good enough to give the foul that led to their second goal.

“When we get free-kicks given against us for minimal contact, and not given to us for complete contact in the build-up to that second goal, it baffles me.”

Gillingham proved to be a tough nut to crack, but Robinson feels his side still have to improve.

He added: “I felt we were sloppy in our finishing, we have to do better.

“I don’t think Gillingham came here and carved us open. I think the scoreline flatters the game a little bit – playing on a heavy pitch. We’ve played three games in seven days and they didn’t play in midweek.”

Stephen Clemence was full of praise for his Gillingham side as they made it back-to-back wins to move into the League Two play-off places with a gritty 2-0 win over Salford.

Goals from Shadrach Ogie and Timothee Dieng earned three well-deserved points for the Gills, who were excellent in their defensive shape.

Gillingham head coach Clemence said: “Salford have done really well recently, they’ve got some good players and we had to really play well today to get anything. We had to bring our A game, go and take them on.

“We had to bring the best version of ourselves and to a man they were great, the starters and the boys that came on – it meant something to them today and you could tell.

“We had to fight for every ball, we won a lot of duels and we defended fantastically well. That’s three clean sheets in a row now.

“I’m really pleased for the boys and their efforts today and to score two goals away from home is a really good day.”

Both goalscorers were excellent for Gillingham but Clemence couldn’t pick out a star man and lauded the collective display.

He said: “It was a good all-round performance. I could go round every single one of them and give them some praise, I thought that to a man they stood up to be counted.”

After an unbeaten run in Karl Robinson’s first eight games in charge, Salford are now winless in their last three – losing two and drawing one while conceding eight goals.

Since taking the Salford job, Robinson has been “baffled” at the level of officiating in League Two.

The Ammies head coach said: “I’m baffled by some of the officiating that I’m seeing this season. It’s so far off the mark.

“If you look at their first goal, it was borderline offside. If VAR was here, you would have got it but I don’t think the officials are good enough at this level to give them.

“But I think the officials were good enough to give the foul that led to their second goal.

“When we get free-kicks given against us for minimal contact and not given for us for complete contact in the build-up to that second goal, it baffles me.”

Gillingham proved to be a tough nut to crack but Robinson feels his side still have to do better.

He added: “I felt we were sloppy in our finishing, we have to do better.

“I don’t think Gillingham came here and carved us open. I think the scoreline flatters the game a little bit – playing on a heavy pitch. We’ve played three games in seven days and they didn’t play in midweek.”

David Artell described his Grimsby players as “warriors” after an all-important 1-0 victory over Forest Green eased their relegation fears.

Grimsby picked up their first League Two win since late-December – with Harvey Rodgers settling the scores – to move six points clear of the danger zone.

Chances were few and far between throughout the 90 minutes at Blundell Park – certainly after the early winner from Rodgers – with neither goalkeeper tested as Rovers failed to boost their own survival hopes.

Steve Cotterill’s side are five points from safety with 11 games to play.

Artell said: “This wasn’t a game that was ever going to define our season, but we really wanted to win it.

“Saying that (it was a must-win game) is just words really, but what I would say is that we had 13 or 14 warriors out there.

“It wasn’t particularly pretty, but I can’t remember them having a chance. If you offered me a performance or result then I would have taken the result, of course, but off the ball we were outstanding to a man.

“We know that it wasn’t pretty, but the other side is it was a game we know will help us (at the end of the season).”

Grimsby settled first and went 1-0 up in the eighth minute when Rodgers looped over Vicente Reyes from the edge of the penalty area.

Chances were at a premium for the remainder of the first half with Rovers midfielder Emmanuel Osadebe dragging a half-volley narrowly wide.

Harvey Bunker took aim upon the restart as Rovers pushed and probed for a way back into what was an all-important relegation showdown.

At the other end, a wayward strike from substitute Kieran Green was as close as Grimsby came to extending their advantage, while Jamie Robson struck over with the last kick of the game for Rovers.

Rovers manager Cotterill added: “We didn’t start very well in the first 10 minutes and we made it look like it was going to be our third game in a week.

“They started fresher than us, but I thought we were miles better than them and we should never have lost that game.

“We didn’t quite play sharply enough and that’s because we couldn’t.

“I thought we were the better team by an absolute mile. We just couldn’t find that sharpness and work their goalkeeper enough.

“I feel for the boys really because that’s their third big effort in a week – we could’ve easily won the other night and we deserved to win this one.

“That’s a tough one for us to take as I don’t know what they did after 10 minutes.”

Mansfield moved three points clear at the top of the League Two table with a 1-0 win at Newport but Nigel Clough warned his side that they will have to improve to stay at the summit.

George Maris scored the only goal of the game five minutes into the second half but the visitors wasted a host of chances to make the three points secure.

Maris could have doubled the Stags’ lead, while Hiram Boateng, Davis Keillor-Dunn, Ollie Clarke and substitutes Jordan Bowery and Aaron Lewis all failed to kill off the battling hosts.

And Clough warned his side, who scored 20 goals in five matches last month, that they will have to be more clinical if they want to earn automatic promotion.

“We controlled the game but we weren’t very good in the final third – especially in the first half,” said Clough.

“We got the goal and we had chances to kill the game off. We couldn’t quite do it, so the clean sheet was by far the most important thing.

“The two centre-halves and the back four as a whole were very good and protected Christy (Pym) brilliantly – I don’t think he had a shot to save, which is some going against Newport, who put a lot of balls into the box.”

Mansfield host fifth-placed MK Dons at Field Mill on Tuesday and Clough wants to see an improvement from his team.

“We’re not getting carried away,” he added. “We’re under no illusions that if we don’t play better than that in the next few games then we’ll lose one or two.

“We’ve done enough today but I want us to be better over the next 12 games.

“We’ve got more; we can play better than that. So, it’s a good lesson, but it’s nice to get the three points while having that lesson.”

Exiles boss Graham Coughlan was convinced that referee Adam Herczeg should have awarded his team a free-kick in the build-up to the winning goal.

“It was two really good teams going head-to-head, both cancelled each other out and in these big games you are always going to get those moments,” said the Irishman.

“When it comes to big games you need people in charge who understand and know the game. Unfortunately, the game hinged on a refereeing decision.

“Other than that, there wasn’t a lot between the teams, there wasn’t a lot to get excited about to be honest.

“It’s sad after all the hard work that we have put in and you come away from the game talking about decision-making.

“We got beaten 1-0 and the game hinged on a moment that should have been a free-kick, but the referee decided to give the advantage to Mansfield.”

Manager Phil Parkinson felt Paul Mullin was on a different level as the Wrexham striker bagged a first-half hat-trick in the 4-0 thrashing of Accrington.

Mullin’s treble and Elliot Lee’s effort before half-time saw Wrexham return to League Two’s top three, with Stanley’s Lewis Shipley sent off late on.

Mullin now has 16 goals after his second hat-trick of the season and Parkinson was full of praise for the striker as Wrexham dominated proceedings to win their first game in four.

He said: “Mulls was brilliant. He was back to his sharpest.

“I felt the performance on Tuesday and the penalty, you could see he was lifted from that and he took it into today’s performance and they’re three really good goals.

“Like all goalscorers, what Mulls has done here in terms of his goal ratio is extraordinary and there’s going to be a period where it doesn’t go his way, we’ve been able to rest him a few games to keep him fresh and today he was on a different level at times.

“I’ve been saying that we’ve dominated a lot of games without really getting our rewards and we kept believing that dominance would be turned into goals because in the last few years it normally has.

“It’s probably the first time where we’ve had periods where we haven’t punished teams but today we were excellent in and around that final third which is the most important part of the football pitch.”

Accrington boss John Coleman – whose side dropped to 16th – admitted Mullin was the difference with his clinical finishing but felt the late dismissal for Shipley perhaps could have been a yellow instead.

He said: “It was clinical finishing by Paul Mullin. It was the big difference. We gifted them a couple of chances and he’s punished us.

“I’ve got to take my hat off to them. They had the bit between their teeth. They scored the goals at the right time.

“We’ve given them things to cheer about and you’re coming here wanting to stay in the game. The first two goals were totally avoidable, all goals were but the first two hurt and then it’s damage limitation.

“Second half I thought we rolled our sleeves up and didn’t get humiliated. We could have scored a couple ourselves and then the body blow is getting Lewis Shipley sent off.

“It’s disappointing. I think it could have been sold as a yellow, with a bit of empathy for the game, 92nd minute and being 4-0 down, it’s not going to influence the game being a red.”

Simon Weaver was pleased with how Harrogate responded to their midweek defeat against Newport with a 1-1 draw at Swindon.

The play-off hopefuls would have been celebrating all three points but for Charlie Austin’s late equaliser.

Harrogate boss Weaver said: “Without doubt, it was a good response from the other night (the 4-1 defeat at home to Newport on Tuesday).

“Because even though we’re a good team, we’re allowed to be ambitious and to be better and to get better but the other night was so flaky.

“It really knocked the stuffing out of me as I was really surprised by the lack of application, but today we were all fired up.

“It couldn’t get much lower than the other night to be honest but today was much better.

“We looked like a professional football club for a start and we showed all the different facets needed to do well at this level.

“But I am disappointed we didn’t put them to bed before they scored in the 85th minute.”

Harrogate took the lead seven minutes into the second half.

Anthony O’Connor stole a march from a wide free-kick and ran away from his markers to nod the ball beyond Jack Bycroft and into the far corner of the net.

Swindon almost struck back straight away as Udoka Godwin-Malife got free down the side and his cross into the area deflected back to Paul Glatzel in the area, but his low shot was cleared off the line.

With five minutes remaining, veteran Austin scored a towering header to salvage a draw after Zachary Elbouzedi had finally worked enough room to pick him out with a cross from the right.

Swindon interim boss Gavin Gunning was frustrated with the flatness of his side’s performance on the back of a midweek win over Tranmere.

He said: “The performance was not very good. It was just flat.

“Maybe Tuesday has taken a lot out of us, the pitch was very heavy, I am not making excuses but you have got to take that into consideration.

“It was poor, the ball speed was too slow, everything was just clunky and it did not work, we were just in between all the time and we were not sure what we were supposed to be doing.

“It was hard to watch at times, but then in the second half they score and we come alive and start peppering the goal.

“Chaz did well, it was a great header, there were a few more chances that he should have scored, but it wasn’t a good performance.”