Competitive, unpredictable and entertaining. Three words which often sum up games and results in League Two, but last night, that was far from the case.
During Gillingham's clash against Leyton Orient, a floodlight failure at the ground resulted in a break of play between the sides.
At the time of the delay, relegation threatened Gillingham Town were leading promotion hungry Leyton Orient 2-0.
While the game was stopped, scores from elsewhere in League 2 circulated around the ground before Orient players eventually found out that despite losing on the night, they had in fact secured promotion to League One.
Bizarre scenes in League Two clash
Bradford's defeat to Swindon Town resulted in these scenes at Priestfield Stadium.
Leyton Orient found out they’d been promoted whilst their game against Gillingham was still going on, after hearing other results had gone their way. The players and staff wasted no time to start celebrations…
The Gillingham players were fuming… 🤣pic.twitter.com/chF4qUMHTq
— Football Away Days (@FBAwayDays) April 19, 2023
Despite Gillingham players looking rather upset with the celebrations, news then broke around their squad that they had in fact escaped the drop out of League Two.
Hartlepool's 2-0 defeat to Salford City guaranteed Gillingham's safety and made for a rather bizarre and boring end to the game.
With neither side needing anything else from the remainder of the match, Leyton Orient happily stepped off the Gillingham players and allowed them to simply pass the ball around the back for the final ten minutes of action.
These were the last ten minutes of the game between Gillingham and Leyton Orient.
The game restarted after a floodlight failure at Priestfield Stadium. As a result of other league results concluding, both teams knew their fate for the season.
Leyton Orient - Promoted… pic.twitter.com/zmdqpQBre4
— German Gills 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🏳️🌈 💙 (@Deutsch_Gills) April 18, 2023
The delay to the game certainly did the EFL no favours, with uncompetitive football being far from the look English Football want to portray.
Despite this, it's easy to see why both sets of players opted to do this when both side's fate had been settled already.
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