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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The Football League Cup kicked off it’s fiftieth year this week in it’s current form as the Carling Cup.
To celebrate the competition’s Golden Anniversary, The Football League is asking fans to nominate their favourite League Cup moments, with 50 pairs of tickets up for grabs for this season’s Carling Cup Final. The League will reveal [...]

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To celebrate the new 2009/10 Carling Cup tournament and new official competition website www.carlingcup.com, Carling is inviting football fans to take part in the Carling Cup Predictor Challenge, which lets fans show off their football knowledge for the chance to win Carling prizes and tickets to the Carling Cup Final.
All you need to do to [...]

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For the past few seasons Arsene Wenger has used the League Cup to showcase and blood his young players, giving them a chance of glory and also to prove themselves worthy of a sought after first team place.  A couple of seasons ago they made it to the final, only to be beaten by a [...]

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