Buzzin Championship Football

It’s a bit of an odd weekend in the nPower Championship: there are only four league games, six clubs are involved in cup ties and ten sides have the weekend off, which might be an advantage considering there’s a full programme next Tuesday.
Three of the four games will affect both ends of the table – [...]

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It’s not even the end of January, but after the four cup replays this week only six nPower Championship clubs remain in the FA Cup: so take a bow Swansea, Watford, Coventry, Reading, Nottingham Forest and Burnley.
Burnley also made the news this week with the appointment of Eddie Howe as manager – the former Bournemouth [...]

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Following some shock results last weekend, fourteen nPower Championship teams will be concentrating on the league for the rest of the season. Another four clubs face replays, all of which means a total of six clubs will be taking part in the fourth round at the end of the month.
To be fair, seven clubs were [...]

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After just 20 months as manager at Ipswich Town, Roy Keane has been sacked following a run of nine games in which his team have lost seven.
The final straw for Keane appears to have been Monday’s 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest which has left the Suffolk club in 19th position in the Championship table.
This season [...]

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Half way through the hectic holiday period and another two managers are jobless. The Darren Ferguson era at Preston ended after a 1-3 home defeat by Middlesbrough but Brian Laws’ departure from Burnley was more of a surprise. The Clarets form hasn’t been too bad recently but losing at home to Scunthorpe seems to have [...]

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