Buzzin Championship Football

One of the dubious benefits of having a self imposed Friday evening deadline is that occasionally a big story will break – having more or less finished the first draft of today’s post, I had a quick fact check around the internet only to discover that the Steve Kean era at Blackburn was over. Cue [...]

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On paper, this evening’s match looks like a good one – the Tangerines have started well and already look like genuine promotion candidates and while none of the clubs promoted from League 1 look as if they’re going to emulate Norwich and Southampton this season,  Huddersfield look as if they’re the best prepared for the [...]

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It looks very likely that there will be new leaders in the nPower Championship before the game between Birmingham and Barnsley today (Sky Sports 2, 5:20pm) – last night Lukas Jutkiewicz scored twice at Ewood Park to ensure that Middlesbrough became the first team to beat Blackburn this season.
There are multiple twists though – Brighton [...]

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The 5-3 victory at Ashton Gate on Saturday – which featured two goals from new signing Jordan Rhodes – gave Blackburn one point lead over four clubs on eight points, although at this point in time the only club that can’t make significant strides up the table with a win this evening is Peterborough…but more [...]

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I’ll have to be honest and say I genuinely don’t know how many full international players there are in this season’s nPower Championship, but it seems pointless having a break for the World Cup qualifiers. England played on Friday and Tuesday, so it would have been possible to fit one round of Championship games into [...]

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