Buzzin Championship Football

And there goes the first of the terrible headlines this season…
This weekend sees the last action in the Championship for a couple of weeks due to the international break: after most clubs played two league games in the past seven days, there are some signs that this season’s competition might be much tighter than 2010/11.
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Without sounding as if we want to disparage Doncaster Rovers or Dean Saunders, arguably it shouldn’t really have come as much of a surprise that Rovers won their first game with the former Welsh international in charge. Crystal Palace haven’t beaten Donny since a 5-1 victory at Belle View in August 1960 and the Eagles have only won two [...]

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On Friday morning Sean O’Driscoll became the first manager in the nPower Championship to lose his job ‘go on gardening leave’ in 2011/12: unfortunately there had been an air of inevitability about his departure move into ‘groundskeeping’. 
Despite having the apparent support of many pundits (most of whom probably couldn’t name half the teams in the Championship [...]

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A busy week for most of the clubs in the Championship – there’ll be at least one game featuring teams from the competition until next Thursday – but for those of you dreaming of life in the Premier League next season or worried about the prospect of League One, be careful what you wish for.
A quick [...]

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Brighton moved a point clear at the top with a 2-0 win over Peterborough and Southampton’s defeat at Leicester was their first loss this season and featured a controversial own goal – Saints’ Ricky Lambert scored at the wrong end but appeared to have been pushed into the ball by Sol Bamba.
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