English football continues to be a big hit with football fans all over the world.
Coca-Cola Championship has retained its place as the fourth most watched league in Europe with a total audience of more than 9.9m fans. Crowds grew by 0.3% this season and averaged 17,949.
Only Germany’s Bundesliga (13.1m), the Premier League (12.9m) and [...]
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Tags: Championship · Football League
A second half hat trick from Blackpool striker D J Campbell stunned Nottingham Forest in last night’s second leg Championship play-off at the City Ground.
Twice coming from behind, Blackpool’s counter attacking game proved decisive as Forest’s unbeaten home run of 20 games disappeared along with their chance of a place in the Premier League.
The writing [...]
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Tags: Blackpool · Championship · Nottm Forest
Having just watched another 90 minutes of entertaining play-off football between Leicester City and Cardiff City I find myself once again angered by the tone of the coverage from Sky Sports.
Why they feel the need to constantly remind us that the teams on show are not as good as the top Premier League ones is [...]
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Tags: Cardiff · Championship · Football on TV · Leicester
Coventry City have parted company with manager Chris Coleman following this weekend’s 4-0 home defeat against Watford, although the club stress that the decision is not based merely on that result but on Coleman’s achievements overall since taking charge in February 2008.
Coleman’s appointment helped to keep Coventry in the Championship in 2008 and they finished [...]
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Tags: Championship · Coventry · Watford
