Buzzin Championship Football

Although there’s a week or so to go before the clocks go back, a change is in the air. Anyone who went to a game on Tuesday night couldn’t have failed to notice how the evenings are getting darker and the weather is getting colder: there are also some signs that the climate in the [...]

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News of Wayne Rooney’s decision to leave Manchester United, the court ruling that Liverpool Football Club could be sold from beneath the feet of its owners and Gordon Strachan walking out on Middlesbrough reminded me of that often used Jimmy Greave’s expression ‘It’s a funny old game.’
Perhaps we football fans take it all far [...]

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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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Another international ‘break’ is over: the somewhat double edged reward for a Saturday off for Championship teams is three games in a week. This weekend the action starts at noon on Saturday with two derbies and won’t finish until around 7pm when it’s full time in the televised game between Middlesbrough and Leeds (5.20pm Sky [...]

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Given Scotland’s appalling display against the Czech Republic, particularly in the attacking department, Castrol Performance data shows that they could do far worse that including Blackpool’s Charlie Adams in the starting line up to face Spain tonight.
While you would expect Scotland to be under the cosh from the persistent Spanish team, Charlie Adams possesses the [...]

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