Entries from February 2014
Sky Bet Championship Preview 1st March 2014
Mike Roberts - Friday 28.02.14, 19:08pm
After the lineup for next weekend’s FA Cup ties were confirmed, there’s a good chance that at least one of the remaining Championship sides could reach the semi finals of the FA Cup: but Charlton will have to beat the other Sheffield team and Wigan will have to beat Manchester City again.
Assuming that Charlton have [...]
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Sky Bet Championship Preview 22nd February 2014
Mike Roberts - Friday 21.02.14, 16:23pm
Somewhat overshadowed by the Champions League, the game at the City Gound on Wednesday saw Nottingham Forest come from behind to go into a half time lead against the current leaders. When Paul Konchesky was dismissed after an hour for clattering Jamie Mackie it looked like Forest had won it, but French striker Riyad Mahrez [...]
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Forest Face Another Tough Challenge
Mike Roberts - Wednesday 19.02.14, 12:49pm
Tonight’s game between Nottingham Forest and L******r was originally scheduled for Saturday, but the timing probably couldn’t be better in terms of being something of a curtain raiser for the weekend. As promised I’ve managed not to mention the team at the top of the Championship since the start of the month and I won’t [...]
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FA Cup 5th Round Preview
Mike Roberts - Friday 14.02.14, 17:13pm
Five Championship teams still are still involved but with the big guns in the Premier League playing each other none of the games are being televised live by either BT Sport or ITV, which isn’t quite what BT Sport promise in their ads.
There’s only one guaranteed place in the next round: Sheffield Wednesday v Charlton [...]
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Foreign Ownership Is Not A Formula For Promotion
Mike Roberts - Friday 07.02.14, 12:38pm
Before I get started, let me point out that this is not an attack on Leeds United. When I was a kid, Leeds were one of the best teams in Europe and I was really surprised to find out during my research for this post that this current period is the longest Leeds have been [...]
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