Plymouth Argyle v Preston North End
Coca-Cola Championship
Saturday 19th April, 3pm kick-off

Final Score: Plymouth 2 PNE 2 (Mackie 12, Wotton 75 pen; Mellor 77, Chaplow 90)

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1658: We're safe! Just checking all the other scores, and with Sheffield Wednesday having lost, even Leicester's win at Barnsley can't condemn us to the drop. Job done - well done to Alan Irvine, his coaching team, and all the players. We've got what we came for. Now for the seven hour journey home... Thank you for joining us this afternoon, we'll be back same time next week for a bit of a party against Ipswich. See you then!

1654: Full-time, and what a result for the mighty PNE. It looked as though we were going to get nothing, but suddenly the battling spirit gets us the point in the most dramatic of circumstances. We're just waiting for all the full-times to come through, and it looks like we're safe.

90 + 4 mins: Goal for PNE! Brilliant! Mells gets to the byline in a crowded box, turns it back to Chaplow, and he stabs it in from point blank range. 2-2

90 + 3 mins: PNE send the ball long but the ball won't drop into the right channels.

90 mins: Obligatory home fans' gasps as the board indicates a minimum of four minutes to be added.

89 mins: Substitution for Plymouth - Teale for earlier scorer Mackie.

88 mins: Substitution for PNE - Carter on for Sedgwick. Immediately, McKenna whips in a free-kick, with Mawene heading unmarked straight into McCormick's arms. A yard either side and he might have caused a bit of trouble.

87 mins: Chaos in the box! Keeper McCormick drops Whaley's cross and Hawley is only denied by his last-ditch covering block.

86 mins: Yellow card - Mellor catches Easter in full flow and earns a caution for the late challenge. The home fans whinge that they don't like the colour of the card.

85 mins: We've got the abacus out, trying to work out who's safe and who isn't, with all the results suddenly going against us. With Leicester ahead, we're still not secure, but luckily our defence is more solid - Davidson blocking Mackie's run as he led a two-on-two break from a cleared North End corner.

81 mins: Substitution for Plymouth - Halmosi departs, with Lilian Nalis his replacement. A bit of confusion down at pitchside, as the fourth official originally held up Fallon's number.

77 mins: Goal for PNE! A long ball into the box straight from a Lonergan free-kick is held up well by Hawley, and he lays it off to Mellor, who makes no mistake, running onto the chance at pace around 10 yards out. 1-2

76 mins: Substitution for PNE - Lewis Neal is replaced by Whaley, while we also witness a bit of showboating from Lonners, turning Easter inside out before launching it forward.

75 mins: Goal for Plymouth! Paul Wotton with a perfect penalty, blasted right into the top right hand corner, giving Lonners no chance. 0-2

74 mins: Yellow card and penalty - Youl Mawene is penalised for what seems to be a push inside the box.

68 mins: PNE win possession fortuitously when the ball clips the referee's ankle as the hosts try to spray it forward, but Sedgwick's ball can't quite find Hawley to take full advantage of the situation.

65 mins: Billy Jones wins the ball well, threading it through to Chaplow. He in turns gives it to Mellor on the edge of the area, who comes close but not quite close enough - the ball just clearing the bar.

64 mins: We had pigeon trouble at Deepdale a few weeks ago - he appears to have followed us south and is currently swooping down towards the surface.

63 mins: Substitution for Plymouth - MacLean off, Jermaine Easter on.

62 mins: Further along, there's an awful fluorescent yellow and orange billboard that has been distracting me all afternoon, promoting a taxi company. Well done to them for creating such an eye-catching ad, guaranteeing people pay attention!

61 mins: I've just noticed an advert on the far side for 'Pirate FM'. Surely pirate stations shouldn't be highlighting their existance?

59 mins: The stewards are back amongst the PNE faithful. Maybe they want to join in all the chanting?

58 mins: Mackie requires treatment after coming off second best in a challenge with Davidson.

55 mins: Corner for PNE after a nippy break instigated by Lonergan, sending Mellor, Davidson and Lewis Neal flying clear. The quickly taken set piece doesn't come to anything after some rough treatment forces Mellor out from under the cross, but his penalty shout was perhaps a little expectant.

52 mins: The home 'end' to my left tries to intimidate Lonergan as he lines up a goal kick, but I don't think a few dozen schoolchildren poking fun at his weight will put the stopper off his stride.

49 mins: Billy Jones, I've just noticed, has re-emerged for the second half with another new shirt - this one coming complete with his name and number.

48 mins: Yellow card - the same fate befalls Chris Sedgwick for holding back MacLean and then delaying the free-kick.

47 mins: Yellow card - Timar goes into the book for clattering into Neil Mellor.

46 mins: A good attacking start to the half for PNE, with Billy Jones breaking into the box, but the ball skids away from him before he can line up a cross.

1604: The second half kicks off.

1603: The teams re-emerge so more strains of Monty Python.

1556: Congratulations to Plymouth's youth team who collect their league winners' medals down at pitchside from former PNE star Graham Hawkins, now an education monitor with the Football League.

1548: The half-time whistle blows after a fairly uneventful final few minutes of that half. Get your messages flooding in to the Whites World team as we'll be sharing the best of them with you during the break.

45 mins: A minimum of two added minutes, says the fourth official's board.

42 mins: Good work out wide from Hawley to hold it up and get a cross in, but it's too far behind Mellor for him to make a positive connection.

40 mins: Billy Jones strokes the ball around nicely, but his bizarre kit combination (now with shirt minus number following that earlier change) is what catches my eye. He has the look of my brother throwing on any old kit he can find before a game of five-a-side.

39 mins: Current scorelines see North End safe (Sheffield Wednesday and Coventry losing, Leicester drawing). Will be interesting to see how the second halves around the country pan out.

37 mins: That was a joke, by the way. I would never condone safe speeding.

36 mins: I've just been advised that the coach from Deepdale took the expected seven hours to get here - the same journey time that awaits the players and fans on the way home in their respective coaches. Our car journey here took a little less than that, though I won't share the precise minute count in case the people at the online mapping companies and/or traffic police are reading this.

33 mins: Halmosi sneaks in dangerously at the back stick but turns his shot narrowly wide.

32 mins: While that change was taking place, Billy Jones was undergoing a change of shirt as he'd spilt ketchup all over the other one. Or maybe shed blood. Either way, the referee was straight in there to ensure the style stakes were kept on a high. Or maybe ensure player safety. One of the two.

31 mins: Substitution for PNE - Sean St Ledger took a knock early on in the game and doesn't seem to be able to carry on. Neal Trotman replaces him for a long awaited PNE debut. Good look Neal!

30 mins: As I look around the surroundings, I don't think I've ever seen a greener stadium. Green seats, green shirted spectators, green shirted players, and of course a green pitch. Even the stantions are green.

28 mins: I'm looking forward to seeing North End convert one of these promising breaks into a netbusting strike - not least because we'll get to enjoy the rainy day sensation of all the raindrops falling from the netting in unison.

27 mins: Hawley beats Timar to a bouncing ball on the edge of the area, and his first time shot isn't far away from rippling the back of the net.

23 mins: The more I look at PNE's temporary yellow socks (which have a green stripe down the side and a similarly coloured band round the ankle) the more I'm relieved that Tamas Priskin isn't up front with his orange boots - not because I didn't rate him, but more to do with the horrendous clash of colours that would have ensued. It's bad enough that Peter Halmosi matches a green and white strip with red boots.

22 mins: Some tenacious ball-winning from Chaplow in the middle but unfortunately nothing particularly noteworthy comes of the resulting advance forward.

21 mins: Not sure what's happening in the away section, but I've never seen so many yellow jacketed stewards converge on an area at pace before. It's got both sets of fans singing anyhow.

19 mins; Hawley twists and turns around the edge of the box, creating more room for himself than he seemed to realise, and could easily have troubled the keeper more with a left footed drive had he not appeared to snatch at it.

18 mins: More trouble being created by Mellor, causing the ball to drop into Chaplow's path, but his shot is high and wide.

15 mins: Halmosi strikes, but not cleanly, meaning his shot arrived into Lonergan's arms far more slowly than he might have expected.

12 mins: Goal for Plymouth! Jamie Mackie drives at the North End defence and tries a pot shot from 25 yards. It clips Mawene en route and flies in off the underside of the crossbar. The deflection was cruel, as it caused the ball to rise and dip in freak circumstances and gave the keeper no chance. 0-1

11 mins: Mellor meets his man to produce another cross, but there's no-one waiting this time.

10 mins: Mellor redirects the ball well, hooking it into the centre from a wide left position, and though Hawley meets the cross, he met it too heavily to control and convert the chance.

7 mins: Blackpool lead Sheffield Wednesday 1-0, which is a scoreline which will disappoint some, but could very well aid our bid to confirm Championship status for 2008/09 by the end of today.

5 mins: Good, slick football from North End on a surface that suits it. McKenna skips past his man in style after regaining his feet from a challenge, and spreads it to Lewis Neal via Richard Chaplow. The winger's cross is met by Mellor on the volley, but doesn't find the net as a crowd of bodies block the route to goal.

4 mins: Callum Davidson comes out of a successful challenge with a blow to the shin and stays down injured. However, he turned down treatment and battled on in the only style you'd expect of the tough Scot.

2 mins: Goalkeeping buffs may be keen to hear that Andy Lonergan is in all-maroon today. The socks, by the way, belong to the home side's away strip, if that makes sense. Presumably we weren't contacted in advance to warn us of a likely clash.

1500: Kick-off in the rain.

1458: North End have switched into yellow socks to avoid a clash with the home side, so the kit they line up in is a very unusual combination of white shirts, navy shorts and yellow socks.

1457: Hope you enjoyed the build-up on Whites World - that's where I've been for the last 25 minutes or so. The teams are out, running onto the field to a Monty Python soundtrack. At least its not cliched.

1432: Finally some team news! The big teaser I left you with earlier is that there's no return for Chris Brown, who missed out through injury. There's a couple of changes too, with the team the same as the one that ended last Saturday's game, with Darren Carter and Simon Whaley replaced by Richard Chaplow and Lewis Neal.

PNE: Lonergan, Jones, St Ledger, Mawene, Davidson, Sedgwick, McKenna (capt), Chaplow, Lewis Neal, Mellor, Hawley. Subs: Chris Neal, Carter, Whaley, Hill, Trotman.

Pilgrims: McCormick, Connolly, Patterson, Timar, MacLean, Fallon, Wotton (capt), Halmosi, Anderson, Mackie, Abdou. Subs: Nalis, Teale, Kouo-Doumbe, Summerfield, Easter.

1427: Looks like Plymouth have sold us a kipper. The supposedly injured Gary Teale is out on the turf warming up as if nothing's wrong with him at all. Maybe his leg will fall off in a minute or something.

1426: Still no team sheets, which is a concern as we go on air very shortly with our regular matchday broadcast, PNE Live, via Whites World. Tune in to hear us announce our predicted teams in a couple of minutes' time!

1423: Both teams are out for their warm-up, with North End missing an influential figure. However, I'm staying tight-lipped on who that is until we receive official confirmation of his absense via the team sheet.

1416: Fans of nostaglic stand structures will be pleased to learn that this soon-to-be-condemned-to-being-replaced-by-an-identikit-plastic-montstrocity of a facility has been given a stay of execution thanks to none other than Meat Loaf. That's not because the Yank rocker has invested mega-bucks into the preservation of this historic structure (although in a way maybe he has). It's due to the fact that he's here in the summer for a huge open air concert at the stadium, and the necessary arrangements for installing the stage means there's no chance of the stand making way any time soon. The same thing happened last year when there was a George Michael and Elton John double header on consecutive nights, which I'm somewhat relieved to have missed.

1411: It's a bit of an 'olde-worlde' (local pronunciation) stand that we're based in, but I like that aspect that seems to be lacking in a lot of grounds these days. Only one pillar in our way, and that isn't a particularly serious obstruction. The view reminds me a lot of our vantage point from the old stand at Ipswich, with the newer stands all around us largely out of view due to the overhang of the 'retro' roof, a la Victory Park, Chorley. The only real problem is that the benches we're using were never designed with press usage in mind, so we're having to bend over at a funny angle to reach our laptops, with the back of the bench in front (that now provides the support structure for the desktop) getting in the way of the legroom. I may have a bit of a bad back by the end of the day, what with the 600-odd-mile round trip and the crouched typing position.

1404: Here's a new one for 'Yorkie Pete', the groundsman at Deepdale. It's raining, but they're watering the pitch. Madness.

1402: The home side enjoys a sponsorship deal with a well-known south western pastry producer, so just to let you know that I'm about to tuck into one of their finest cheese and onion pasties.

1400: Naughty Phil Cunliffe of Radio Lancashire has just been attended to by a rather surly stewardess. He has committed the cardinal football ground sin of bringing a canned drink into a viewing area, and has been handed a polystyrene cup to pour his drink into. There you go, another spill reference. Potentially.

1356: Welcome to the homely surroundings of Home Park, Plymouth. Homely because it's pouring down - it feels just like Lancashire. I'm Adrian Ward, and I'll be guiding you through the afternoons thrills and spills. It's more the spills at the moment while this downpour persists.