Buzzin Championship Football

The rather indifferent form of nPower Championship league teams in the first round of the Carling Cup this week – eight teams knocked out and four teams needing extra time to conquer opposition from lower divisions – was overshadowed on Thursday with the news of the first managerial casualty of the season. Steve Coppell resigned [...]

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Bristol City have confirmed that former Reading manager Steve Coppell will take over the reins at the West country club, effectively replacing Gary Johnson who left the club back in March.
Caretaker manager Keith Millen will remain in charge of the team for the final two games of the season. Millen had put himself into [...]

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Barnsley sprung the surprise of the last night’s Championship games by beating West Bromwich Albion 3-1 and denying Roberto di Matteo’s team the chance to go back to the top of the table.
It is the second defeat on the trot in the Championship and third in a week including the Carling Cup loss at Arsenal [...]

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Neil Warnock and his Crystal Palace team have received an apology from Referees’ chief Keith Hackett, after the team were denied a perfectly good goal in their game with Bristol City on Saturday.
The apology will not change the fact that Crystal Palace lost three points to City, who’won’ the game 1-0. Freddie Sears had clearly [...]

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After a successful 2007/08 season, where they were only denied a place in the Premier League by Hull in the playoff final, Bristol City find themselves struggling in the bottom half of the Championship. The championship football odds expected them to mount a promotion push, but it isn’t happening for them.
The Bristol City Manager, Gary [...]

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