Two quick goals from Scott Sinclair and a third before half time from Stephen Dobbie meant that club from South Wales took a 3-0 lead into the break, but an unlikely Reading comeback looked on the cards following an own goal from Joe Allen and a Matt Mills header just before the hour. However, Sinclair’s second penalty of the [...]
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Forget lucky dressing rooms, carrying a rabbit’s foot, not walking under ladders or stepping on cracks in the pavement. Don’t worry about avoiding the number thirteen, not crossing your fingers or letting a black cat cross your path.
There’s only one thing that your club has to do if you want to be promoted via the Championship play [...]
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With a number of games already postponed and several more under threat at time of writing (Friday lunchtime), any further postponements in the next couple of weeks could have a dramatic impact on the various aspirations of clubs in the nPower Championship. We’re already approaching the busy Christmas and New Year period and so any [...]
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One game left in the Championship programme this weekend: Barcelona v Real Madrid will be overshadowed by the East Midlands’ version of El Clasico when Nottingham Forest travel to Leicester (Sky Sports 2, 7:45pm). Both clubs got off to sluggish starts following the trauma of failing in the playoffs last season, but they are more [...]
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Less than one year as manager of Middlesbrough Football Club, Gordon Strachan offered his resignation to chairman Steve Gibson yesterday. Once accepted Strachan then tore up his contract to forfeit any due compensation.
“He sought no compensation and walked away from the club with empty hands and it’s a measure of the man.” Gibson told the [...]
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