Buzzin Championship Football

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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This week the weather isn’t the biggest challenge to Championship football. With just over two weeks left until Christmas, the dual threat of shopping and television schedules almost ensures that the two televised games will probably only be watched by hardcore fans wanting to escape from the manufactured drama of talent shows and soap opera [...]

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With a number of games already postponed and several more under threat at time of writing (Friday lunchtime), any further postponements in the next couple of weeks could have a dramatic impact on the various aspirations of clubs in the nPower Championship. We’re already approaching the busy Christmas and New Year period and so any [...]

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