Buzzin Championship Football

If you’re interested in the background of the story, the nuts and bolts are here but the interesting aspect of this story is that Hull have now had four managers in the last two years, including two this season. Only four teams scored fewer goals in 2011/12 (two of them were relegated) and although The [...]

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Congratulations to Southampton for their promotion to the Premier League.
The Saints made fairly short work of Coventry City on Saturday lunchtime: after Billy Sharp and Jose Fonte had given them a two goal lead after 19 minutes at St. Mary’s, the situation looked beyond West Ham no matter how many goals they scored against Hull. [...]

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Eight months have come and gone and by 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon the season will be over for 20 of the clubs in the nPower Championship. The only remaining issues are the last promotion place and the last play off place, but there may not be that much last day drama.
We’ll start with the last playoff [...]

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Although none of the major issues were settled over the Easter period, it’s fair to say that there were some surprises.
* Bristol City and Millwall won both of their games and in doing so gave themselves a much better chance of survival. Barring disaster Millwall are probably safe, but the Robins have some work to [...]

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The Easter holiday is a moveable feast – in the last five seasons it’s been as early as the end of March and as late as the end of April – but regardless of the date there seem to be consistent trends in the Championship. I took a look back at the tables going into [...]

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