Buzzin Championship Football

Amazingly, the ten sides left in this season’s competition actually represent an improvement on last season – even taking into consideration that both Crystal Palace and Southampton are both still a round behind in the competition due to having games postponed due to the riots at the start of the month. We pointed out last [...]

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With three games gone in this season’s competition and there are only five unbeaten teams with five teams yet to win a game.
Southampton and Brighton have carried the momentum that got them promoted into this season, although the suspicion is that the Saints haven’t really been tested yet. The same might have been said about [...]

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One league game gone and we have sixteen unbeaten teams in the Championship, although after the midweek games in the Carling Cup that figure has been reduced to nine.
The first weekend of the new season kicked off with Blackpool’s 1-0 win at Hull – Gary Taylor-Fletcher’s late strike was the first goal of the season [...]

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Some familiar names return to the nPower Championship. There’s already pressure on two of the teams relegated from the Premier League, Ian Holloway’s post match quotes return and a new era in the history of an old club dawns in Sussex. But the big question is can Peterborough keep a clean sheet this season?
Birmingham City
Last [...]

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Perhaps surprisingly, five of the last last twenty teams to have won the Championship have come from teams that finished 13th or lower the previous season: this group also has an impressive record in the playoffs, with nine promotions since 1991/92.
13. Ipswich Town
Manager: Paul Jewell (appointed January 2011)
Current odds to win the Championship: 18/1
Roy Keane [...]

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