Coventry City are Championship champions. A 5-1 victory over Portsmouth, reported by the Guardian, sealed the title and confirmed their return to the top flight of English football.
Haji Wright opened the scoring before Ephron Mason-Clark, who finished with two goals on the day, capitalised on an error from goalkeeper Nicolas Schmid shortly after the interval. Regan Poole then turned the ball into his own net three minutes later, the sequence of second-half goals effectively ending any contest the fixture still held. Mason-Clark's brace and the broader 5-1 margin gave the occasion the emphatic quality a title-winning afternoon demands.
Coventry's promotion ends a period of considerable turbulence for a club that spent much of the past decade in the third tier and has, at various points in recent years, played home fixtures away from their own city. To win the Championship outright, rather than via the play-offs, carries a particular weight for supporters who have endured those years of instability.
Elsewhere in the day's results, the Guardian reports that Millwall moved above Ipswich in the Championship table, while Southampton were unable to take advantage of their position — described as fluffing their lines — in what remains a congested section of the division.
In League One, Lincoln City wrapped up the title, according to the Guardian, confirming their own promotion and adding another piece of silverware to what has been an increasingly eventful lower-league season. The specifics of Lincoln's clinching result were not detailed in the available reporting, but their place at the summit of the third tier is now secure.
Both clubs will compete at higher levels next season — Coventry in the Premier League, Lincoln in the Championship. For Coventry in particular, the scale of the step up is considerable, though arriving as champions rather than through the play-off route gives their preparations a degree of certainty that other promoted sides will not enjoy.