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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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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Following the dismissal of Roy Keane last week, Ipswich Town have appointed Paul Jewell as their new manager.  But for some reason Paul Jewell (Plan B lookalike) decided to sit out the first two fixtures and left Roy Keane’s assistant Ian McParland to sweat it out in the dugout.  After all, it was away to [...]

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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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Having reached the halfway point of the nPower Championship season, one of the recurring themes has been the inability of both of the South Wales clubs to take advantage whenever QPR have failed to win. This happened again last weekend: despite losing 2-0 at Leeds, QPR will be top at Christmas, although to be fair [...]

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