Buzzin Championship Football

It’s a bit of an odd weekend in the nPower Championship: there are only four league games, six clubs are involved in cup ties and ten sides have the weekend off, which might be an advantage considering there’s a full programme next Tuesday.
Three of the four games will affect both ends of the table – [...]

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The current vogue for getting rid of managers in the Championship continued this week with another two positions becoming vacant: somewhat surprisingly considering his appointment in June and the feeling that Crystal Palace would have been skating on thin ice this season even if Jose Mourinho was in charge at Selhurst Park, George Burley was [...]

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Having reached the halfway point of the nPower Championship season, one of the recurring themes has been the inability of both of the South Wales clubs to take advantage whenever QPR have failed to win. This happened again last weekend: despite losing 2-0 at Leeds, QPR will be top at Christmas, although to be fair [...]

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Two big stories in the nPower Championship this week: QPR lost for the first time on Friday and Gary Speed left Sheffield United.
As I wrote last week, it was a case of when rather than if QPR suffered their first defeat and they were comprehensively outplayed by Watford, who were 3-0 up before the hour [...]

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This week the weather isn’t the biggest challenge to Championship football. With just over two weeks left until Christmas, the dual threat of shopping and television schedules almost ensures that the two televised games will probably only be watched by hardcore fans wanting to escape from the manufactured drama of talent shows and soap opera [...]

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