Follow live coverage as Plymouth Argyle face Burnley in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season.

Burnley move up to third in the Championship as they demolish bottom-of-the-table Plymouth Argyle 5-0 at Home Park.

The bottom-of-the-table Pilgrims conceded all five goals in an embarrassingly one-sided first half of the Championship match at Home Park

Reports elsewhere suggest the Teessiders have offered £5million to Argyle, half of the Cornwall side’s asking price. Argyle face off against Whittaker’s other suitors, Burnley, on Wednesday night at Home Park – perhaps a chance to give both new boss Miron Muslic and Scott Parker some food for thought.

Plymouth Argyle have lost just one of their past eight home EFL games against Burnley (W4 D3), though that defeat did come in the most recent such meeting in March 2009 (1-2). Burnley have won each of their past two league games against Plymouth Argyle and will be looking to win three successive such games for the first time since October 1937.