Buzzin Championship Football

Some tasty looking games this weekend: Millwall entertain Reading in South London, Sheffield Wednesday play Barnsley at Hillsborough and Yeovil travel to Nottingham Forest on Sunday.
In the midweek games I mentioned, Yeovil took a two goal lead at Derby but still lost, Doncaster broke a 78 year old record when they beat Charlton and – [...]

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A quick look back at the weekend to start with: Brighton, Charlton, Sheffield Wednesday and Wigan all made it through to the next round of the FA Cup although only the holders knocked out a Premier League side. The draw for the fifth round guarantees at least one Championship team in the quarter finals as [...]

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The cliche that the Championship is unpredictable is overused but last weekend saw some interesting results to say the least. The bottom three all won without conceding a goal while Bolton conceded seven goals in a league game for the first time this century.
But were those results as surprising as they appeared?
* Barnsley hadn’t won [...]

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Back to the league: Leicester and Burnley both cracked 50 points after wins over Derby and Yeovil last weekend, so at the risk of sounding ridiculous, I think it’s fair to say that neither of them will be relegated. Leicester’s win over Derby last Friday was particularly emphatic: Nigel Pearson’s team scored all five goals [...]

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There’s no point beating around the bush this week: the overall showing in the FA Cup was pathetic.
With three games to play due to the bad weather, only five Championship teams are definitely through to the fourth round, five face replays (four of them against teams that are in League One or lower) which means [...]

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