Buzzin Championship Football

What an eventful weekend in the nPower Championship; tonight’s midweek games in two different competitions should be just exciting and may have implications outside the competition.
If you believe the bookies then only Cardiff City of our two remaining representatives have much chance of reaching the semi finals. The last time the Bluebirds met [...]

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Although it’s more or less a case of ‘as you were’ going into today’s games (Southampton can’t be caught by West Ham and two of the bottom three can’t escape the gravitational pull of League 1) but with two games in the space of five days there could be some changes at both the top [...]

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The three newly appointed managers suffered different fates last weekend: Nigel Pearson and Nick Barmby both oversaw victories when their new sides shut the opposition out whereas Portsmouth’s new boss Michael Appleton looked on as Watford beat Pompey 2-0.
Blackpool had to come from behind twice at Middlesbrough; Scott McDonald scored both goals for the hosts [...]

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Having finally finished the international ‘breaks’ for 2011, the league programme will not be interrupted until the FA Cup third round in January.Having finally finished the international ‘breaks’ for 2011, the league programme will not be interrupted until the FA Cup third round in January. In the space of a week, [...]

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Another busy week in the Championship: it’s fair to say that Southampton took advantage of some of the interesting results in midweek and now have a much bigger lead than QPR did this time last season. Of course, there’s no way of telling how significant that lead might be but having pointed out before the [...]

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