Buzzin Championship Football

Congratulations to Southampton for their promotion to the Premier League.
The Saints made fairly short work of Coventry City on Saturday lunchtime: after Billy Sharp and Jose Fonte had given them a two goal lead after 19 minutes at St. Mary’s, the situation looked beyond West Ham no matter how many goals they scored against Hull. [...]

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Eight months have come and gone and by 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon the season will be over for 20 of the clubs in the nPower Championship. The only remaining issues are the last promotion place and the last play off place, but there may not be that much last day drama.
We’ll start with the last playoff [...]

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Loads of stories in the Championship after the midweek games but the events at the bottom of the table have to take precedence.
It’s worth pointing out to Nottingham Forest fans that the last side to score more than five goals against Leeds in a league game were relegated and are now in the bottom half [...]

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Portsmouth went into administration for the second time on Friday morning, although at time of writing there had been no confirmation of the widely expected points deduction. Rather than making any comment about the situation right now, I’m tempted to leave it until next week when the situation should be clearer.
(Update: the ten point deduction [...]

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Slightly later than advertised due to flat pack furniture being more complicated than I expected but here we go.
Results over the past seven days should show precisely how competitive and surprising the Championship ought to be – West Ham being walloped 5-1 at Ipswich was probably the most surprising result of the season. The leaders [...]

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