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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Nigel Pearson has been confirmed as the new Hull City manager, he will replace caretaker Iain Dowie who was hired short term by Hull but failed to keep the club in the Premier League.
Pearson arrives from Leicester City where he has led the club to the League One title and to the Championship play-offs in [...]

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Hull City beat Bristol City 1-0 yesterday at Wembley Stadium in the Coca-Cola Championship Playoff Final to gain promotion to the Premier League; the first time in their history that Hull City will play in the top division of English league football.
The game wasn’t a goal fest as I had imagined but was a very [...]

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Bank Holiday weekend will see the conclusion of the 2007/08 English football season with League 1, League 2 & the Coca-Cola Championship playoff finals. On Saturday 24th May, Bristol City and Hull City will take part in the Championship play-off final at Wembley in front of a capacity 80,000 sell-out crowd.
The stakes are [...]

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