Buzzin Championship Football

We’ve not had any postponements caused by the recent outbreak of bad weather, but I’ll be even amazed if there no postponements over the next couple of months. Any potential fixture backlogs could wreak havoc with the medium term plans of Championship clubs, regardless of whether they’re going for promotion, trying to evade League 1 [...]

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It would be fair to say that the Football League Championship does not attract the same degree of media attention as the Premiership, but it remains a very exciting and fiercely contested league. Indeed it could very easily be argued that the Championship is actually a more genuinely competitive league than its more illustrious counterpart, [...]

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Two milestones over the next few weeks: over the next two days we’ve got the last midweek evening games of 2012 and with the draw for the 3rd Round of the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon, it’s fair to say we’re entering into one of the most important phases of the season.
After the weekend, it’s [...]

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First of all, apologies for the lack of a post last week, multiple household issues (ranging from an unexpected outbreak of damp to a washing machine that failed to do the job that’s implied in the title) had to take priority over arguably one of the more intriguing weekends in the Championship.
After last weekend’s games, [...]

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Blackpool filled their managerial vacancy on Thursday with the news that Michael Appleton had left Portsmouth after just under a year in charge at Fratton Park. Although Pompey were eventually relegated last season, Appleton obviously made enough of an impact on Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston, who said that Appleton was the only manager he’d [...]

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