Buzzin Championship Football

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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Brighton moved a point clear at the top with a 2-0 win over Peterborough and Southampton’s defeat at Leicester was their first loss this season and featured a controversial own goal – Saints’ Ricky Lambert scored at the wrong end but appeared to have been pushed into the ball by Sol Bamba.
At the other end of [...]

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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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With three games gone in this season’s competition and there are only five unbeaten teams with five teams yet to win a game.
Southampton and Brighton have carried the momentum that got them promoted into this season, although the suspicion is that the Saints haven’t really been tested yet. The same might have been said about [...]

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