COBBLERS CLOSING IN ON PROMOTION DREAMBy John Lyons

LEADER OF THE PACK: Northampton Town manager Jon Brady PICTURE: Alamy AFTER seeing promotion cruelly snatched from their grasp last season, you can understand why no-one at Northampton Town will be counting any chickens this time around. In any normal campaign, a 3-1 victory at Barrow on the last day of the season would have wrapped up third place. However, Joey Barton’s Bristol Rovers demolished already-relegated Scunthorpe 7-0 to pip the Cobblers on goals scored. While Rovers have enjoyed clashes with the likes of Ipswi...