Buzzin Championship Football

It’s only Wednesday and it’s already been another busy week in the Championship – it’s unusual to have games on consecutive days in the middle of the week but with a televised game tomorrow night, it’s worth pausing to catch breath and take a slightly more detailed look at the two big stories that have [...]

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Portsmouth went into administration for the second time on Friday morning, although at time of writing there had been no confirmation of the widely expected points deduction. Rather than making any comment about the situation right now, I’m tempted to leave it until next week when the situation should be clearer.
(Update: the ten point deduction [...]

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The big news in the nPower Championship this week is that for the second time in the last three seasons it looks as if Portsmouth will have to go into administration. Although it wasn’t abundantly clear how – or even if – the fraud charges against current owner Vladimir Antonov would affect the future of [...]

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I don’t normally go in for superlatives, but tonight’s game at St Mary’s between Southampton and Cardiff City is huge.
If Southampton win and West Ham lose at Ipswich, the Saints will go top. If Cardiff win, they’ll move into second place regardless of how West Ham do and the Bluebirds will also have a two [...]

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The 4th Round of the FA Cup was the usual mixed bag with four Championship teams definitely through to the last sixteen, a figure that could rise to six depending on next week’s replays.
Having wondered if  Birmingham might face a tricky trip to Sheffield United, it was nice to be proven completely wrong – the [...]

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