Buzzin Championship Football

The first thing that struck me when looking at tonight’s game is how it’s a carbon copy of the second leg of the recent Champions League semi final between Barcelona and Chelsea. Blackpool don’t have to win but as long as they don’t lose by two clear goals or more then The Tangerines will be [...]

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First of all, congratulations to Sheffield Wednesday – their 2-0 win over Wyconbe Wanderers combined with Sheffield United failing to win at Exeter City meant that Dave Jones, Milan Mandaric et al return to the Championship in 2011/12. I’m not going to dwell on the League 1 playoffs for too long, but with two of [...]

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The playoffs are very unusual this season: all three clubs that were relegated from the Premier League last season are involved as well as Cardiff City, who have been unsuccessful at this stage in the last three seasons. Although it’s been a long time since a relegated club was promoted via the playoffs (the last [...]

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Congratulations to Southampton for their promotion to the Premier League.
The Saints made fairly short work of Coventry City on Saturday lunchtime: after Billy Sharp and Jose Fonte had given them a two goal lead after 19 minutes at St. Mary’s, the situation looked beyond West Ham no matter how many goals they scored against Hull. [...]

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Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of ‘if, then, else’ which features the four crucial games on tonight’s programme. Once again, it’s hardly worth commenting on the various scenarios that have been better outlined elsewhere see the relevant Betfair football betting odds for the Championship scramble as I have a feeling very little will be resolved tonight.
However, [...]

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