Buzzin Championship Football

Wolverhampton Wanderers boss Mick McCarthy has admitted that his team are ‘desperate’ to win promotion to the Premier League, something which could actually be hindering their progress.

The Championship leaders have only won once in their last nine games and their lead at the top of the table was cut to four points after last week’s defeat at Burnley, and Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Cardiff City.

It is perhaps more worrying though that they are only five points ahead of Reading in 3rd place.  Furthermore, both Reading and Birmingham, who are currently in second place, both have games in hand over Wolves.  This means that automatic promotion – which looked a definite only a few weeks ago – is now far from certain.

Speaking about the situation, Mick McCarthy has said that his team are ‘striving to get there’ and may go back to picking up points on a ‘match-by-match basis’ in order to rediscover their best form.

Something else Mick McCarthy has done in a bid to turn around the team’s fortunes is to take the squad to Spain for some warm weather training. The former Ireland boss believes that it will be beneficial for the players to ‘spend a bit of time with each other’.

The final third of the Coca-Cola Championship will once again be an exciting one, with as Wolves, Reading and Birmingham look as though they will be battling it out right until the last few weeks’ of the Championship season to see who will win automatic promotion to the Premiership.

My pre-season bet to be Championship winners were Birmingham, but now I believe Reading are looking favourites for a good gamble.