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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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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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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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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