Buzzin Championship Football

Following the dismissal of Roy Keane last week, Ipswich Town have appointed Paul Jewell as their new manager.  But for some reason Paul Jewell (Plan B lookalike) decided to sit out the first two fixtures and left Roy Keane’s assistant Ian McParland to sweat it out in the dugout.  After all, it was away to [...]

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Sheffield Wednesday have predictably parted company with Brian Laws following the 3-0 defeat to high flying Leicester City, that plunged the Yorkshire club into the Championship relegation zone over the weekend.
Despite the urgency of Laws dismissal, the Owls say they are in no rush to sign a replacement manager, with the Academy boss Sean McAuley [...]

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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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Former Everton and Arsenal player Francis Jeffers currently with Sheffield Wednesday has been handed a maximum club fine and transfer listed following his sending off in the Carling cup second round defeat to Port Vale.
Jeffers appeared to head butt and punch Port Vale captain Tommy Fraser, for which he was shown a straight red card [...]

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Francis Jeffers’ career has been spiralling downhill ever since leaving Everton. The once prodigious £9 million man finds himself battling constant fitness problems to make the bench for Sheffield Wednesday.
Perhaps now it is Jeffers last chance to save a career that promised so much potential.
Francis Jeffers has never reached his ‘fox in the box’ status [...]

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