The relegation fight is also intriguing as five sides try and avoid three places in League Two that are still to be determined.
Oxford United are all but safe – they would need to see an 18-goal swing for them to go down and they host fellow strugglers Accrington, who themselves need a 16-goal swing and see the three sides above them all lose if they are to survive.
“We’ve used the biggest budget we’ve ever had this season and I haven’t used it at all wisely,” is Accrington manager John Coleman’s honest assessment of his side’s plight.
“Some of it was my own doing, some of it wasn’t my own doing. The truth is I tried to sign players and I couldn’t and we maybe have to look at altering our wage structure next season, keeping it within the parameters but altering what we do.
“I ended up having too many players that weren’t good enough, or consistently good enough. You could see in flashes why we signed them, but in the main, they haven’t been good enough.”
Realistically Morecambe, Milton Keynes Dons and Cambridge United are fighting it out over two relegation places.
The three sides are split by one point, with Cambridge hosting relegated Forest Green Rovers while Morecambe and MK Dons travel to mid-table sides Exeter City and and Burton Albion respectively.
“We’ve been on a very good run, the players are in hungry mode,” says Morecambe boss Derek Adams, whose team have won their past three games to give them a sniff of survival.
“The result at Burton helped us because it gave us a little bit more clarity on the situation. It allows us to really focus on winning the game and then we can look at the Burton v MK Dons game.
“If that goes our way, then we’ll have enough points to stay in the division. We’ve already got more points than we did last season but we’ve taken it to the last day of the season again.”
