Buzzin Championship Football

Congratulations to Reading, who reached the quarter finals of the FA Cup following a surprise 1-0 win at Everton on Tuesday night. Having beaten West Brom and Stevenage in the earlier rounds, the Royals will travel to Eastlands on Sunday March 13th to play Manchester City.
It would be extremely foolish to write Brian McDermott’s side [...]

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When the nPower Championship is over this season, anyone looking back at how the 2010/11 season unfolded will be struck by a recurring theme: the inability of QPR’s nearest rivals to catch them despite the multiple opportunities Neil Warnock’s side seem to have given them.
This situation happened again last weekend. The game of the week [...]

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After last weekend’s FA Cup ties, only two clubs from the nPower Championship are left in the competition. Burnley and Reading succeeded where Middlesbrough and Newcastle failed when they defeated Burton and Stevenage respectively: Coventry and Nottingham Forest put up decent performances against Premier League opposition, but Swansea and Watford both lost to League 1 [...]

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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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It’s not even the end of January, but after the four cup replays this week only six nPower Championship clubs remain in the FA Cup: so take a bow Swansea, Watford, Coventry, Reading, Nottingham Forest and Burnley.
Burnley also made the news this week with the appointment of Eddie Howe as manager – the former Bournemouth [...]

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