Buzzin Championship Football

The FA Cup presents a unique set of challenges for Championship clubs: the extra revenue generated by a run in the oldest knockout competition in the world is always welcome, but as it’s been over three decades since a second tier side won the cup. The competition is also a distraction from the league but [...]

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What an eventful weekend in the nPower Championship; tonight’s midweek games in two different competitions should be just exciting and may have implications outside the competition.
If you believe the bookies then only Cardiff City of our two remaining representatives have much chance of reaching the semi finals. The last time the Bluebirds met [...]

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Another busy week in the Championship: it’s fair to say that Southampton took advantage of some of the interesting results in midweek and now have a much bigger lead than QPR did this time last season. Of course, there’s no way of telling how significant that lead might be but having pointed out before the [...]

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Where were we?
Oh yes – one club playing in the Europa League, two clubs without managers (although an official announcement from Nottingham Forest is expected over the weekend), three clubs in the top six that weren’t in the Championship this time last year and four clubs left in the Carling Cup with two guaranteed quarter [...]

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We’re at the start of October and three managers have already left their clubs; it’s almost a year since I wrote this and it’s still worth reading even though the circumstances have changed somewhat.
There are similar reasons behind the decisions at Bristol City, Doncaster Rovers and Nottingham Forest. The performance of all three clubs has [...]

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