Only 4 games in the Championship this weekend
It’s a bit of an odd weekend in the nPower Championship: there are only four league games, six clubs are involved in cup ties and ten sides have the weekend off, which might be an advantage considering...
View ArticleAll Change At The Bottom of the nPower Championship League?
After last weekend’s FA Cup ties, only two clubs from the nPower Championship are left in the competition. Burnley and Reading succeeded where Middlesbrough and Newcastle failed when they defeated...
View ArticleQPR still top of the Championship as Nottm Forest & Cardiff slip up again
When the nPower Championship is over this season, anyone looking back at how the 2010/11 season unfolded will be struck by a recurring theme: the inability of QPR’s nearest rivals to catch them despite...
View ArticleAidy Boothroyd & Ian Baraclough Sacked
More managerial casualties this week: Aidy Boothroyd left Coventry City eight months after taking charge of the Sky Blues and Ian Baraclough was shown the door at Scunthorpe after six months in charge...
View ArticleQPR Guaranteed A Play Off Place
No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke: Hogan Ephraim’s winner for QPR at Doncaster before the international break may have been more significant than anyone realised. The win – combined with Norwich’s...
View ArticleDate Set For QPR Hearing
As they have been for most of the season, QPR are this week’s main story: the date of the FA disciplinary hearing concerning the signing of Alejandro Faurlin has been set and the timing is...
View ArticleBrighton Win Promotion To The Championship
All clubs were involved in two games this week with exciting games and unexpected results: significantly both Welsh sides broke the 70 point barrier and – for the time being – the Championship consists...
View ArticlePreston Relegated, QPR Almost Promoted
As soon the final whistle blew at Loftus Road on Monday, hundreds of QPR fans invaded the pitch hoping that their would be no more goals at Carrow Road and that their team had clinched promotion to the...
View ArticleFA’s Verdict On Faurlin Case Ensures Bizarre End To The Season
Despite having an unassailable lead, champions elect QPR aren’t officially promoted, second place Norwich are definitely up, Sheffield United and Scunthorpe will be joining Preston in League One next...
View ArticlenPower Championship Play Off Final Preview
This is fifth final between the clubs that finished third and fifth: three of the four previous games were won by the team that finished lower in the table - the only exception was Watford’s win over...
View Article2014/15 Sky Bet Championship Season Preview Part 3
Penultimate part of the club by club previews, today we feature three clubs that have some work to do to emulate their feats of yesteryear as well as a couple of contenders for promotion and one...
View ArticleWeekend Preview Round 5
Quite a bit to get through this week, so we’ll start with the Capital One Cup. After this week’s games, just under half of the clubs in the Championship are still in with a chance and we’ll come to...
View ArticleAugust Review
Before I go any further, it’s time to say arrivederci to Beppe Sannino, who is no longer manager of Watford. The language used in his departure sounds remarkably similar to that used by Gianfranco Zola...
View ArticleSky Bet Championship Preview 13th/14th September
Before I continue, Chris Powell has returned to Championship management, being named as new gaffer at Huddersfield Town nine days ago. I thought Powell’s dismissal from Charlton earlier this year was...
View ArticleForest & Charlton Could Extend Unbeaten Streaks
Nottingham Forest stayed on top after a 1-1 draw with Derby yesterday (Rams defender Jake Buxton got the obligatory red card), but Norwich and Wolves kept up with the pace and remain one point behind...
View ArticleWednesday Hit For Seven
The Capital One Cup was the usual mixed blessing; Bournemouth, Brighton, Derby and Fulham are the only teams left in the competition and the gulf between the top of the Premier League and the middle of...
View ArticleGarcia Steps Down, Slade Steps In
First of all, best wishes to Oscar Garcia, who has stepped down as Watford boss with immediate effect due to health issues. We didn’t get a proper chance to see how the Hornets would have performed...
View ArticleThe Real Season Starts Now (Updated)
September has come and gone, so we’re now into the period before Christmas where the difference between wheat and the chaff will become more obvious every week. Long term readers will know that it’s...
View ArticleFirst Malky McKay, Then Sean Dyche, Now Billy McKinlay…
Having lost precisely no games in his eight day period as manager of the Hornets, the Pozzo family decided that Billy McKinlay didn’t fit in with their long term plans for Watford – whatever the hell...
View ArticleGame Of The Evening: Watford v Nottingham Forest
Well, after giving Watford such a comprehensive slating last week you’d be wrong for thinking I’m going to apologise just because the Hornets are top of the Championship after winning 3-0 at Sheffield...
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