Buzzin Championship Football

First of all, Happy (belated) New Year – the port and mince pies were to blame for the lack of posts over the holidays, but I’m planning on two more before next weekend.
We’re now past the half way stage in this season’s nPower Championship and results over the Christmas break have set up what looks [...]

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The FA Cup presents a unique set of challenges for Championship clubs: the extra revenue generated by a run in the oldest knockout competition in the world is always welcome, but as it’s been over three decades since a second tier side won the cup. The competition is also a distraction from the league but [...]

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Well done to both Cardiff City and Crystal Palace who both reached the semi finals of the Carling Cup this week after beating Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United on consecutive evenings.
The Bluebirds reached the semi finals on Tuesday with a straightforward 2-0 win. Rovers’ manager Steve Kean seems to have confused the words ‘forfeit’ and [...]

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What an eventful weekend in the nPower Championship; tonight’s midweek games in two different competitions should be just exciting and may have implications outside the competition.
If you believe the bookies then only Cardiff City of our two remaining representatives have much chance of reaching the semi finals. The last time the Bluebirds met [...]

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Although it’s more or less a case of ‘as you were’ going into today’s games (Southampton can’t be caught by West Ham and two of the bottom three can’t escape the gravitational pull of League 1) but with two games in the space of five days there could be some changes at both the top [...]

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