Buzzin Championship Football

First of all, good luck to Cardiff City in Sunday’s Carling Cup Final against Liverpool. It’s been 11 seasons since a side from outside the top tier reached the final: strangely enough, that was when Birmingham City lost to Liverpool at the Millennium Stadium.
I’ll be taking a look at that game later on – with [...]

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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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Last weekend was quite an eventful day in the nPower Championship, even though the top and the bottom of the table stayed more or less the same.
In the early game on Saturday, West Ham temporarily increased their lead after beating Millwall despite playing with ten men for most of the game – Kevin Nolan was [...]

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Slightly later than advertised due to flat pack furniture being more complicated than I expected but here we go.
Results over the past seven days should show precisely how competitive and surprising the Championship ought to be – West Ham being walloped 5-1 at Ipswich was probably the most surprising result of the season. The leaders [...]

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