Buzzin Championship Football

Welcome to the last post before the first international break of the season.
After last week’s results, the situation at the top has changed a little. The leading nine clubs are only separated by three points and with all the 100% records gone there could be some big changes. The current top three all seem to [...]

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A quick look at last night’s action:
Through: Burnley, Leicester, Derby, Leeds, Huddersfield, Birmingham, Watford and Nottingham Forest

Birmingham’s penalty shoot out win at Yeovil featured a controversial goal of the type that’s happened before at Huish Park; Leicester and Derby both scored five goals with wins at Carlisle and against Brentford respectively. Huddersfield twice came from [...]

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After last weekend’s games we were left with one 100% team, eight unbeaten teams, six teams without a win and one team without a point. And – backing up my theory that long term rather than short term trends are more reliable in the Championship – the teams at the top and at the bottom [...]

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It was a fun couple of weeks being in the limelight, but unless you’re actually a fan of a Championship team or have a good reason to follow the competition, it’s time to accept that the Premier League is the greatest football competition in the world and that nothing can exist outside it (except possibly [...]

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The last time these sides met in a league game was almost six years ago when they were both in the Premier League: Bolton won 3-0 at the Reebok but only finished the season a point ahead of the Royals, who were relegated. I’ll get the bad news out of the way for Reading fans: [...]

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