Buzzin Championship Football

After the usual mixed bag of first round results, the second round of the newly christened Capital One Cup takes place this week with sixteen of the 24 Championship clubs involved.
Although the draw ensured there’d be no guaranteed third round places, there might be a few surprises. A couple of seasons ago Bolton were in [...]

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I know we’re only two games into the season, by Blackpool are only team to have won both games so far in the Championship. After two games last season, five teams – including Blackpool – had won both of their matches and three of them finished in the top six: Southampton are playing in the [...]

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Tonight is the first of six midweek rounds before Christmas and game of the night is Leeds‘ trip to Blackpool, which is the only match between clubs that both won on Saturday. Leeds haven’t won at Bloomfield Road since March 1967, but that’s deceptive as they’ve only played three games there since and last season’s [...]

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The new teams can be divided into two distinct groups: Wolves, Charlton and Sheffield Wednesday have relatively recent experience in the Championship, but Blackburn, Bolton and Huddersfield all last played in the second tier over a decade ago.
As I mentioned this time last year, assuming that any of the sides that were relegated from the [...]

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Millwall
Manager: Kenny Jackett (November 2007 – currently the longest serving manager in the Championship)
Current price to win the Championship: 66-1
Suffered from ‘difficult second season’ syndrome as the momentum they displayed in their first season back in the Championship after winning the League 1 playoffs in 2010 apparently deserted them. However the Lions improved dramatically at [...]

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