Buzzin Championship Football

In the aftermath of their 3-0 home defeat at Oakwell by Birmingham this afternoon, Barnsley have sacked manager David Flitcroft.
The former journeyman midfielder took over from Keith Hill in mid January and although he managed to keep the Tykes in the Championship last season, as I mentioned on Friday Barnsley have been noticeably worse this [...]

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The top three are now all seven points clear of the pack – an unprecedented situation since the second tier was renamed the Championship. Since the start of the 2004/2005 season there have been a couple of occasions where two teams have made the early running: two years ago Southampton and West Ham were six [...]

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The Sky Bet Championship returns after one of the most pointless international breaks we’ve had to tolerate since I began writing for this blog three years ago.
At one point a fortnight ago it looked as if there might be more surprises than there actually were: Burnley were six minutes away from losing their unbeaten home [...]

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Earlier today Middlesbrough appointed Aitor Karanka as their new first team manager.
Karanka’s only other managerial experience was as Spain’s under 16 boss between 2008 and 2010, although he is probably best known as being Jose Mourinho’s assistant at Real Madrid. Karanka has no managerial or playing experience in England so it’ll be interesting to see [...]

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I think it’s fair to say that both Blackpool and Leicester sent fairly clear messages to the rest of the Sky Bet Championship last weekend. Although The Tangerines are five points away from second place, Paul Ince’s side are undefeated in the three games they’ve played against the other promotion contenders even though they left [...]

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