Buzzin Championship Football

My wife and I went to France for a short holiday over half term: I bought a copy of the excellent Football League Paper to read on the plane and thought that I was up to date with what’d been happening in the Championship. A couple of days later and suddenly Sven-Goran Eriksson was no [...]

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Where were we?
Oh yes – one club playing in the Europa League, two clubs without managers (although an official announcement from Nottingham Forest is expected over the weekend), three clubs in the top six that weren’t in the Championship this time last year and four clubs left in the Carling Cup with two guaranteed quarter [...]

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And there goes the first of the terrible headlines this season…
This weekend sees the last action in the Championship for a couple of weeks due to the international break: after most clubs played two league games in the past seven days, there are some signs that this season’s competition might be much tighter than 2010/11.
At [...]

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Without sounding as if we want to disparage Doncaster Rovers or Dean Saunders, arguably it shouldn’t really have come as much of a surprise that Rovers won their first game with the former Welsh international in charge. Crystal Palace haven’t beaten Donny since a 5-1 victory at Belle View in August 1960 and the Eagles have only won two [...]

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Brighton moved a point clear at the top with a 2-0 win over Peterborough and Southampton’s defeat at Leicester was their first loss this season and featured a controversial own goal – Saints’ Ricky Lambert scored at the wrong end but appeared to have been pushed into the ball by Sol Bamba.
At the other end of [...]

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