Buzzin Championship Football

In a historic week for Welsh football, Cardiff regained top place in the Championship following their emphatic 4-2 win at Scunthorpe – with October’s player of the month Jay Bothroyd scoring twice at Glanford Park and then becoming the first Bluebirds player ever to play for England: hopefully his cameo appearance at the end of [...]

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Considering the opportunities – both professional and financial – that winning the Championship could provide teams and players, the responses to the change in leadership at the beginning of the month could hardly have been more different.
Temporary leaders Cardiff lost the South Wales derby by a goal from on loan striker Marvin Emnes (who – [...]

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Although there’s a week or so to go before the clocks go back, a change is in the air. Anyone who went to a game on Tuesday night couldn’t have failed to notice how the evenings are getting darker and the weather is getting colder: there are also some signs that the climate in the [...]

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Another international ‘break’ is over: the somewhat double edged reward for a Saturday off for Championship teams is three games in a week. This weekend the action starts at noon on Saturday with two derbies and won’t finish until around 7pm when it’s full time in the televised game between Middlesbrough and Leeds (5.20pm Sky [...]

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After last weekend’s games, QPR have a six point lead over Cardiff, but significantly the gap between the leaders and the last play off spot is now ten points. Queens Park Rangers have only conceded three goals in ten games – two of them against Derby – and Crystal Palace thought they’d pinched a point [...]

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