Buzzin Championship Football

The Coca-Cola Championship play-off will be a tale of two cities.
Bristol City will play Hull City at Wembley on Saturday 24th May.  The winners will receive a place at the head table of English football as they will start the 2008/09 season in the Premier League.  The losers will be the weakest link and leave [...]

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Watford v Hull City - play-off semi-final, first leg
After Bristol City’s rather surprising 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace in the first leg of the other semi-final play-off game yesaterday at Selhurst Park, today it is the turn of Watford and Hull.
As with yesterday’s game Hull City, like Crystal Palace go into the play-offs as [...]

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Barnsley made amends for their FA Cup semi final exit on Sunday by thrashing a very poor Watford side yesterday 3-0 to move up to 18th position in the Coca-Cola League Championship table, two points above the relegation zone with a game in hand.
Barnsley striker Kayode Odejayi, who’s FA Cup quarter-final goal knocked out Chelsea, [...]

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The battle for automatic promotion to the Premiership is still wide open after another weekend of missed chances and surprise results.
West Brom lost 4-1 to Leicester and with it missed a chance to leap frog Watford into third place, after Watford and Stoke drew 0-0. Even so, Stoke go to the top of the table [...]

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Bristol City were held to a 0-0 draw last night by Watford; and have their brillilant young goalkeeper Adriano Basso to thank for saving a point, and in the process, remaining at the top of the league.
After Michael McIndoe tripped Watford’s Tommy Smith from behind in the penalty box, Basso made a terrific save from [...]

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