Buzzin Championship Football

Congratulations to Southampton for their promotion to the Premier League.
The Saints made fairly short work of Coventry City on Saturday lunchtime: after Billy Sharp and Jose Fonte had given them a two goal lead after 19 minutes at St. Mary’s, the situation looked beyond West Ham no matter how many goals they scored against Hull. [...]

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Eight months have come and gone and by 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon the season will be over for 20 of the clubs in the nPower Championship. The only remaining issues are the last promotion place and the last play off place, but there may not be that much last day drama.
We’ll start with the last playoff [...]

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Southampton’s defeat at Middlesbrough on Saturday evening meant that the 2-2 draw at the Majeski Stadium earlier in the day was enough for Reading to clinch the Championship title. The ‘race for second’ will be between West Ham & Southampton on Saturday: the Hammers won 2-1 at Leicester last night to keep their hopes for [...]

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In the key games at the bottom of the table, Bristol City beat Barnsley 2-0 while both Portsmouth and Coventry lost at home. The results mean that the latter pair are relegated to League 1 with Doncaster.
Southampton are currently winning at Middlesbrough. More later.

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This weekend is a really good example of the competitive nature of the Championship: with two games left,  the title is still up for grabs, there’s one automatic promotion left, two relegation places to be decided and three clubs competing for the final playoff spot.
However by the time ‘El Clasico’ kicks off in Barcelona some [...]

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