Buzzin Championship Football

Two second half goals from Danny Ings settled the top of the table clash on Saturday afternoon and meant that Burnley have now established a three point lead over Leicester. The Foxes beat Bournemouth 2-1, who finished with ten men after Elliott Ward was sent off following a second yellow card.
Arguably the most eventful game [...]

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An unusual weekend in so far as it’s spread over four days and there are three televised matches as well as three Yorkshire derbies.
The programme starts with the first Yorkshire derby: Doncaster’s trip to Middlesbrough (tomorrow, Sky Sports 1, 7:45pm) is Boro’s first game without Tony Mowbray being in charge for just over three years. [...]

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More on Friday, but this is hardly a surprise: Tony Mowbray left Middlesbrough earlier today after three years at the Riverside.
I mentioned in both the season preview and in the post about Nigel Clough’s dismissal at Derby that I felt that Mowbray was unlikely to last the season. Like many clubs in the Sky Bet [...]

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Having had a week off and with the headlong dash towards Christmas about to begin, I’m going to take a look back at my predictions for the season this week.
Despite being a quarter of the way through the campaign, it’s remarkable that there have only been three games between the current top six. Although QPR [...]

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An eventful midweek programme saw three clubs establish a four point lead at the top of the table whilst at the bottom there’s the merest suggestion that the strugglers may be cast adrift sooner rather than later.
In the games I looked at in the last post, Hal Robson-Kanu gave Reading the lead at Barnsley but [...]

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