Buzzin Championship Football

Before I go any further, Saturday’s results confirmed that this season’s potential victims of The Curse Of Fourth Place are QPR. Rangers will play the first leg of their game against whoever finishes fifth on Friday 9th May, but having lost five of their seven away games against the teams that have either been promoted [...]

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Leicester won the Championship on Tuesday night thanks to a win at Bolton. With two games still to play, the Foxes have already won more points than eight of the last ten winners and although they can’t overtake the 106 points Reading earned in 2005/06, they could still equal the 102 point haul Newcastle managed [...]

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First of all, apologies for not posting yesterday – I got back far later than I’d anticipated.
After a dramatic afternoon in the Championship, it’s congratulations to Burnley, who won promotion to the Premier League after four seasons in the second tier. First half goals from Ashley Barnes and Michael Kightly ensured a win over Wigan.
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So it’s been almost two weeks since I last posted and this is a ‘catch up’ for me as much as anything else.
Regular readers know that I don’t get hysterical about how important Easter is: Leicester were one of my picks to win the Championship in August, just as Burnley were one of my picks [...]

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Congratulations to Leicester City on winning promotion to the Premier League this afternoon: having beaten Sheffield Wednesday last night, QPR needed to win at Bournemouth today – and a goal from Louis Grabban after an hour at Dean Court meant that Rangers lost by the odd goal in three.

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