With just four games left in the Championship there are three teams outside of the final play off spot battling it out to try and usurp Leeds in sixth. The reward for a late end of season run for Nottingham Forest, Hull, Burnley could be a ticket to the play off rollercoaster ride. After looking […]

Assuming that Queens Park Rangers secure the points for promotion this leaves Norwich, Swansea, Cardiff and Reading battling it out for the final guaranteed place in the Premier League next season.  With only three points separating 2nd and 4th place the final four games could shift the balance dramatically game by game, if all these […]

The 2011 PFA Championship team of the year is as follows Paddy Kenny (Queen’s Park Rangers) Kyle Naughton (Leicester City) Ian Harte (Reading) Ashley Williams (Swansea City) Wes Morgan (Nottingham Forest) Adel Taarabt (Queens Park Rangers) Scott Sinclair (Swansea City) Andy King (Leicester City) Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) Danny Graham (Watford) Grant Holt (Norwich City) […]

Last week was a pivotal week in the battle to remain in the Championship, as Preston and Scunthorpe to closed the gap between themselves and the last team with a Championship life raft, Crystal Palace to just three points. Despite appointing a manager with an unfortunate surname, Alan Knill’s Scunthorpe side must be brimming with […]

I recommend you watch this video with the sound off, however this is the most bizarre goal I have seen in the Championship since the ghost goal shambles. This goal was in the early stages of a vital game in the race to the Premier League between Norwich and Nottingham Forest on Friday 15th April […]

Today has to be one of the most entertaining days in the history of the second tier of English football with the day’s games producing 44 goals at a staggering average of over 3.5 goals per game. This included a great day’s work for the Welsh clubs in the Championship as victories for Swansea and […]

Wow, what a afternoon of Championship football, we have had 41 goals in 11 games so far and a televised match between two sides chasing promotion to come. The action has included a seven goal thriller between Nottingham Forest and Reading and the humbling of Queens Park Rangers by a rampant relegation threatened Scunthorpe. I […]

The two match ban handed to Wayne Rooney for swearing into the camera in celebration after scoring a hat-trick was upheld yesterday. Cue talk show host, news channels, comedians and general busy bodies to incessantly talk about an excited football player uttering a barely audible smattering of obscenities, which prove that the world is going […]

A full demonstration of the tempermental QPR strikers talents for anyone in doubt.

Queens Park Rangers are on the brink of promotion to the Premier League with an almost unassailable 13 point chasm between themselves and third place.   However in a bitter twist of irony for boss Neil Warnock a legal cloud resulting from a third party player ownership dispute is threatening to undo a seasons hard work. […]

 Preston North End seem doomed to play League One football next season, having been rooted to the bottom of the table since the early stages of the season, they have changed manager once and entered March more with little to cheer and a hopeless league position.   Preston have however enjoyed a spring surge winning their […]

With the world of football now once again enthralled in the banality of the European Championship qualifiers it seems a good juncture to look at the fights at both the top and bottom of the Championship. Today I am going to focus on the bottom of the Championship and look at the teams fighting what […]

Last week Adel Taarabt won the Championship Player of the Year at The Football League Awards underlining the remarkable change in fortunes for the player, who left Tottenham in the summer. The young striker arrived at Loftus Road with a damaged reputation as a talented yet temperamental character with buckets of unfulfilled potential. This lead […]

Last week saw The Football League Awards 2011 take place in London celebrating the achievements both on and off the pitch of the 72 clubs that comprise the football league. The headline winners of the evening from the evening where Adel Taarabt and Conor Wickham with the later winning two awards highlighting just how quickly […]

Last night Norwich City beat Bristol City with another late show, to march forwards as the promotion race enters the final stretch. With just nine games left in the season the Canaries find themselves in the automatic promotion places three points clear of the chasing pack. The real story of tonight and the Canaries season […]