My wife and I went to France for a short holiday over half term: I bought a copy of the excellent Football League Paper to read on the plane and thought that I was up to date with what’d been happening in the Championship. A couple of days later and suddenly Sven-Goran Eriksson was no [...]
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Tags: Barnsley · Bristol City · Championship · Hull City · Leicester · Middlesbrough · Sven-Goran Eriksson · West Ham
The second part of our review of last season’s Championship campaign focuses on the clubs that finished in the top half of the table but failed to reach the playoffs: clubs that finished between 7th and 12th have gone on to win five of the last 20 titles and produced seven automatic promotion winners in [...]
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Tags: Burnley · Hull City · Leeds United · Leicester · Middlesbrough · Millwall · Sven-Goran Eriksson
The forthcoming nPower Championship season looks likely to be as exciting as previous seasons with several clubs in contention for the two automatic places.
Reading, Leicester, Millwall and Ipswich all finished strongly last season, while Leeds United and Nottm Forest will both be targeting a return to their former glories with a return to the top [...]
Tags: Birmingham · Blackpool · Championship · Ipswich · League Cup · Leeds United · Leicester · Millwall · Nottm Forest · Reading · Steve McLaren · Sven-Goran Eriksson · Transfer Rumours · West Ham
Two big stories in the nPower Championship this week: QPR lost for the first time on Friday and Gary Speed left Sheffield United.
As I wrote last week, it was a case of when rather than if QPR suffered their first defeat and they were comprehensively outplayed by Watford, who were 3-0 up before the hour [...]
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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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