Buzzin Championship Football

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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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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On Friday morning Sean O’Driscoll became the first manager in the nPower Championship to lose his job ‘go on gardening leave’ in 2011/12: unfortunately there had been an air of inevitability about his departure move into ‘groundskeeping’. 
Despite having the apparent support of many pundits (most of whom probably couldn’t name half the teams in the Championship [...]

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A busy week for most of the clubs in the Championship – there’ll be at least one game featuring teams from the competition until next Thursday – but for those of you dreaming of life in the Premier League next season or worried about the prospect of League One, be careful what you wish for.
A quick [...]

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Amazingly, the ten sides left in this season’s competition actually represent an improvement on last season – even taking into consideration that both Crystal Palace and Southampton are both still a round behind in the competition due to having games postponed due to the riots at the start of the month. We pointed out last [...]

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