Buzzin Championship Football

It’s a bit of an odd weekend in the nPower Championship: there are only four league games, six clubs are involved in cup ties and ten sides have the weekend off, which might be an advantage considering there’s a full programme next Tuesday.
Three of the four games will affect both ends of the table – [...]

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It’s not even the end of January, but after the four cup replays this week only six nPower Championship clubs remain in the FA Cup: so take a bow Swansea, Watford, Coventry, Reading, Nottingham Forest and Burnley.
Burnley also made the news this week with the appointment of Eddie Howe as manager – the former Bournemouth [...]

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Following some shock results last weekend, fourteen nPower Championship teams will be concentrating on the league for the rest of the season. Another four clubs face replays, all of which means a total of six clubs will be taking part in the fourth round at the end of the month.
To be fair, seven clubs were [...]

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The current vogue for getting rid of managers in the Championship continued this week with another two positions becoming vacant: somewhat surprisingly considering his appointment in June and the feeling that Crystal Palace would have been skating on thin ice this season even if Jose Mourinho was in charge at Selhurst Park, George Burley was [...]

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Half way through the hectic holiday period and another two managers are jobless. The Darren Ferguson era at Preston ended after a 1-3 home defeat by Middlesbrough but Brian Laws’ departure from Burnley was more of a surprise. The Clarets form hasn’t been too bad recently but losing at home to Scunthorpe seems to have [...]

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