Buzzin Championship Football

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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Unusually for the Championship, this weekend’s games are spread over four days and culminate with the draw for the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon.
QPR took advantage of an increasingly embattled looking Preston side and another Cardiff home defeat to reclaim top spot. Fortunately for Rangers, Cardiff’s loss of form seems to [...]

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In a historic week for Welsh football, Cardiff regained top place in the Championship following their emphatic 4-2 win at Scunthorpe – with October’s player of the month Jay Bothroyd scoring twice at Glanford Park and then becoming the first Bluebirds player ever to play for England: hopefully his cameo appearance at the end of [...]

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Considering the opportunities – both professional and financial – that winning the Championship could provide teams and players, the responses to the change in leadership at the beginning of the month could hardly have been more different.
Temporary leaders Cardiff lost the South Wales derby by a goal from on loan striker Marvin Emnes (who – [...]

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Having said a couple of weeks ago that QPR’s form was unsustainable, it shouldn’t have been that much of a surprise that following four draws that they would be overtaken by Cardiff. It looks as if Queens Park Rangers may have reverted back to the form they showed at the end of last season: a [...]

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