{"id":176197,"date":"2025-12-09T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176197\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:08:08","slug":"relieve-the-league-one-swindon-and-mk-dons-spurn-chance-to-go-top-of-league-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176197\/","title":{"rendered":"Relieve the League One &#038; Two action: Cardiff snatch late win to go four points clear; Swindon and MK Dons spurn chance to go top of League Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signing off&#8230;published at 22:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p>22:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">League One &amp; League Two<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harry Leonard celebrates for Peterborough\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bc30aa55-8d17-49b9-893c-60749b4c72c9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3013\" height=\"1695\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was eventful wasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff move four points clear at the top of League One but Lincoln join Bradford on 34 points in second place while Peterborough, Plymouth and Exeter pick up big wins at the other end of the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swindon missed the chance to go top of League Two as they were beaten at home by Cheltenham and MK Dons also spurned their chance to jump into first place as they allowed a lead to slip to defeat at Notts County while it&#8217;s now nine successive league defeats for Bristol Rovers for the first time in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Told you it was eventful!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can read all about it on our dedicated<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/league-one\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> League One<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/league-two\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">League Two<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thanks for joining us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signing off&#8230;published at 22:19 GMT 22:19 GMT League One &amp; League Two Image source, Shutterstock That was eventful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-176197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}