Buzzin Championship Football

The top two clubs in the nPower Championship reached the magic 70 point mark last weekend: the Saints had to come from behind to win at the New Den with Rickie Lambert scoring a hat trick as Southampton players scored four of the five goals against Millwall. Reading recorded yet another win ‘to nil’ as [...]

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Cardiff City lost last Sunday’s Carling Cup Final but – as I mentioned last week – it was a close game. The Bluebirds took the lead with a goal from Joe Mason and then Ben Turner managed to force home a dramatic short range equaliser with two minutes left in injury time. Unfortunately Anthony Gerrard [...]

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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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