One of the dubious benefits of having a self imposed Friday evening deadline is that occasionally a big story will break – having more or less finished the first draft of today’s post, I had a quick fact check around the internet only to discover that the Steve Kean era at Blackburn was over. Cue [...]
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I’ll have to be honest and say I genuinely don’t know how many full international players there are in this season’s nPower Championship, but it seems pointless having a break for the World Cup qualifiers. England played on Friday and Tuesday, so it would have been possible to fit one round of Championship games into [...]
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After the usual mixed bag of first round results, the second round of the newly christened Capital One Cup takes place this week with sixteen of the 24 Championship clubs involved.
Although the draw ensured there’d be no guaranteed third round places, there might be a few surprises. A couple of seasons ago Bolton were in [...]
Tags: Barnsley · Bristol City · Capital One Cup · Crystal Palace · Derby · Hull City · Nottm Forest · Peterborough United · Sheffield Wednesday · Wolves
I know we’re only two games into the season, by Blackpool are only team to have won both games so far in the Championship. After two games last season, five teams – including Blackpool – had won both of their matches and three of them finished in the top six: Southampton are playing in the [...]
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First of all, congratulations to Sheffield Wednesday – their 2-0 win over Wyconbe Wanderers combined with Sheffield United failing to win at Exeter City meant that Dave Jones, Milan Mandaric et al return to the Championship in 2011/12. I’m not going to dwell on the League 1 playoffs for too long, but with two of [...]
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