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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Sheffield United keeper Paddy Kenny has had his appeal against a nine month doping ban turned down by the Football Association. The player had been handed the ban for taking an over the counter cold & flu remedy that contained the banned substance ephedrine and the goalie had appealed on the grounds that the ban [...]

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Barnsley sprung the surprise of the last night’s Championship games by beating West Bromwich Albion 3-1 and denying Roberto di Matteo’s team the chance to go back to the top of the table.
It is the second defeat on the trot in the Championship and third in a week including the Carling Cup loss at Arsenal [...]

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Sheffield United goalie Paddy Kenny has been banned from football for nine months after the player admitted to the drugs charge brought against him by the Football Association.
Kenny was originally suspended by Sheffield United after a urine sample he had given after the Championship play off game against Preston in May proved positive for the [...]

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Sheffield United have moved quickly to find cover for goalkeeper Paddy Kenny, who is awaiting the outcome of a failed drugs test. The Blades have signed Blackburn Rovers Mark Bunn on one months loan.
Kenny has been suspended by United after a urine sample that he provided after the play off semi final game against Preston [...]

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