nPower Championship Preview: 29th/30th March
With two games in the space of five days, Easter is often looked upon as the business end of the season. Regular readers know that I don’t agree with that at all. Due to time constraints, I’m going to...
View ArticlenPower Championship Preview 5th April 2013
I think we should just assume that every weekend until the end of the season is a big one. Tomorrow we’ve got four of the bottom six playing each other and the game of the week could have massive...
View ArticlenPower Championship Preview 16th April
I don’t write ‘op ed’ pieces that often for this blog (the last one was about the attack on Chris Kirkland last autumn), but after what happened at Wembley last Saturday evening I don’t think I’ve got...
View ArticlenPower Championship Preview 26th/27th April 2013
Well, well, well. Two big games this weekend and Sky Sports are showing them both. I’ve mentioned their rather bizarre scheduling before but it’s funny how they manage to pick the big games at the end...
View ArticleSome Familiar Names Rejoin The Championship
QPR and Reading will be playing in the nPower Championship next season after a goalless draw at Loftus Road earlier this afternoon meant that both clubs were relegated. Rangers had lasted two seasons...
View ArticlePlenty Of Potential Drama On The Last Day
The end of another season for most of the clubs in the nPower Championship – the last nine months seem to have flown by. With so many crucial games today, it’s hard to know where to start, so in case...
View ArticlenPower Championship Play Off Semi Finals 1st Leg Preview
One of the most interesting aspects of this season’s Championship playoffs is that at least one of the four sides involved have reached this stage in nine of the last twenty seasons and there’s a...
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Watford Reach Wembley, Will Know Opponents This Evening
It’s amazing isn’t it. 24 clubs have played 46 regular season games and four teams have played three playoff games, yet two of the biggest outcomes at the top of the table have been settled when one...
View ArticlenPower Championship Play Off Final: Will The Hornets Sting The Eagles?
The old clichés about the ‘richest game in the world’ will abound on Monday afternoon when Crystal Palace and Watford face each other in the nPower Championship playoff final. I’m going to start by...
View ArticleCapital One Cup First Round Draw
Although the fixtures for the new season aren’t released later, the Carling Cup draw was made earlier this week. Remarkably, none of the Championship teams have to play each other. Seven teams were...
View ArticleGus Poyet Sacked
Breaking news this afternoon: after just over three and a half years in the role, Gus Poyet has been sacked as manager of Brighton & Hove Albion. It’s unclear if this decision has anything to do...
View ArticleSky Bet Championship Season Preview Part 2
Second part of our season preview, which follows the format of the first part: the prices below were the best prices for each outcome and were sourced from the Oddschecker website on 9th July 2013. The...
View ArticleCapital One Cup Round Up
The numbers first: 16 clubs through to the second round, six knocked out and both Reading and Wigan excused from the first round – a 72% qualification rate isn’t that bad. However, as usual it’s the...
View ArticleSky Bet Championship Preview 16th/17th August 2013
It was a fun couple of weeks being in the limelight, but unless you’re actually a fan of a Championship team or have a good reason to follow the competition, it’s time to accept that the Premier League...
View ArticleSky Bet Championship Game Of The Week: AFC Bournemouth v Blackpool
As Terry pointed out earlier in the week, most of the attention will be focussed at the top of the Championship this weekend, so this week I’ll take a quick look at the foot of the table. The only mild...
View ArticleSky Bet Championship Game Of The Week: Charlton v Millwall
QPR went back at the top of the Championship for the first time since May 2011 after goalless draw against Brighton on Wednesday – previous leaders Blackpool lost 1-3 at Millwall the night before....
View ArticleSky Bet Championship Preview 1st October
It’s one of those midweek programmes in the Championship that might give us some clues to the long term prospects: with the exception of QPR (week off due to the Europa League) all of the top six are...
View ArticleBurnley v QPR: Winner Goes Up?
An unusual weekend in so far as it’s spread over four days and there are three televised matches as well as three Yorkshire derbies. The programme starts with the first Yorkshire derby: Doncaster’s...
View ArticleWill Burnley Lose Any More Ground?
An away defeat at a team that you’ve not lost to for over 50 years followed by a point against one of last season’s playoff teams might not sound like a cause for concern but that’s exactly what has...
View ArticleBlackpool See Red. Again.
Two talking points in the football world this week: the allegations of match fixing and Blackpool and their dreadful disciplinary record. The allegations made against one of their former players are...
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