DOYLE: IT IS NO GREAT SWINDLE

Doyle: We’ll be worthy of title

EOIN DOYLE claims Swindon Town will be deserving League Two champions – despite the fine margins.

The Robins are likely to be crowned without another ball being kicked.

They sit second in the table with 10 games to play – but a weighted points-per-game system would see them leapfrog Crewe to determine the final standings.

Dubliner Doyle, who has 25 goals for the season, said: “Usually it would be champagne being sprayed around the place.

“It’s a bit strange and unique, but it’s a unique time. I had a few drinks in the house on Saturday night and had a few Zoom calls with the lads.”

But it’s not a done deal yet.

Six League Two clubs are in opposition – Peterborough United, Oxford United, Sunderland, Fleetwood, Portsmouth and Ipswich Town – and are meeting again today.

But Doyle insisted: “I believe it’s more or less done.

“All the clubs voted on it together and as far I know it’s just a matter of the EFL and the FA signing it off.

“When you look at the points per game, I think we win it by a fraction of a point, which is a bit weird.

“But if you look overall and at our run-in – which would have been the more favourable compared to teams around us – I think we will be deserving winners.”

The 32-year-old was at the centre of a tug of war between Bradford and Swindon this season.

Lee Bowyer, Bradford’s manager at the time, met Doyle in December and wanted him to return. But Doyle refused, arguing that Bradford had let him go on loan for the season – and his contract was up in the summer.

“I just didn’t want to go back and felt there was no point,” he explained. “If he said a colour was blue, I’d say the colour was green. “It was constant arguments.” This will be Doyle’s third League Two success, but the one that got away – the 2012 LOI title with Sligo Rovers – remains a big regret.

“It’s one thing that still haunts me, that I haven’t won the league at home. I’d love to be able to come back to Ireland one day and do that.”

››EOIN DOYLE was promoting the Sligo Rovers Virtual Match event.