Buzzin Championship Football

It’s highly likely that the 2010/11 nPower Championship football league will be more competitive than last season: Newcastle United became the sixth club in the last 20 seasons to win the Championship the season after being relegated from the Premiership.
Middlesbrough – another club with recent Premiership experience – are current favourites. Manager Gordon Strachan has [...]

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Paulo Sousa has left Swansea City by mutual consent and is pursuing the vacant post at Leicester City after the Welsh club granted permission for their Championship rivals to enter talks with the Portuguese manager.
Despite taking Swansea to the brink of the play-offs, Sousa has not endeared himself to the fans, players or board it [...]

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Derby County have been fined by the Football Association for a second time this season, once again they were charged with ‘failing to control their players’, on this occasion the charge refers to the Championship game against Swansea at Pride Park on February 20th.
County had denied the charge but were found guilty at a [...]

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The Championship league table is starting to take shape, a quarter of the way through the season, with last years Premiership relegated teams Newcastle and West Bromwich Albion continuing their push for an automatic return to the top tier.
Newcastle were easy winners against a Peterborough side who are struggling for form and find themselves unceremoniously [...]

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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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