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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Paulo Sousa has left Swansea City by mutual consent and is pursuing the vacant post at Leicester City after the Welsh club granted permission for their Championship rivals to enter talks with the Portuguese manager.
Despite taking Swansea to the brink of the play-offs, Sousa has not endeared himself to the fans, players or board it [...]

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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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Having just watched another 90 minutes of entertaining play-off football between Leicester City and Cardiff City I find myself once again angered by the tone of the coverage from Sky Sports.
Why they feel the need to constantly remind us that the teams on show are not as good as the top Premier League ones is [...]

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