Buzzin Championship Football

It’s highly likely that the 2010/11 nPower Championship football league will be more competitive than last season: Newcastle United became the sixth club in the last 20 seasons to win the Championship the season after being relegated from the Premiership.
Middlesbrough – another club with recent Premiership experience – are current favourites. Manager Gordon Strachan has [...]

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Having just watched another 90 minutes of entertaining play-off football between Leicester City and Cardiff City I find myself once again angered by the tone of the coverage from Sky Sports.
Why they feel the need to constantly remind us that the teams on show are not as good as the top Premier League ones is [...]

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The Championship league table is starting to take shape, a quarter of the way through the season, with last years Premiership relegated teams Newcastle and West Bromwich Albion continuing their push for an automatic return to the top tier.
Newcastle were easy winners against a Peterborough side who are struggling for form and find themselves unceremoniously [...]

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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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Cardiff City’s record signing Michael Chopra continued to pay back the club last night with a hat trick against Plymouth Argyle, taking his goal tally to six in three league games.
Chopra struck within four minutes of kick off following good play from Jay Bothroyd and struck twice more in the last ten minutes of the [...]

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