Stephen O'brien

The Carling Cup returns on Tuesday and four Championship sides are still in the mix for the Cup.Here are the fixtures for Round Four of the Carling Cup. Derby County v Leeds United – Pride Park Stadium 2:45 pm est Swansea City v Watford – Liberty Stadium 2:45 pm est Manchester United v QPR […]

Wolves kept up there winning ways with a 2-0 win over fellow promotion hopefuls Burnley at Moleniux putting pressure on Birmingham to keep pace. The Blues however could not equal Wolves win only managing a 1-1 draw with bottom of the table Nottingham Forest. The draw sees Birmingham now 6 points off first place and only […]

Watford and Aide Boothroyd parted company today as he becomes the second Championship Manager to be sacked. Watford are sitting right out of the relegation zone only thanks to goal difference and lost over the weekend to Blackpool 4-3. Watford have been struggling all year in the Championship. They started off last year after getting instantly […]

October has come and gone and another month dawns on the Championship. Here are the fixtures for the clubs battling for the three lucrative promotion slots to the BPL. I will also be giving my predictions (in bold) on these fixtures. November 1 Charlton ( D-D-L-L-W) v Barnsley ( W-D-W-L-W) – The Valley 11 am […]

Blackpool FC play their home matches at Bloomfield Road and have since 1899. It has a capacity of 9,941. It is an all seater stadium and one of the smallest in the Championship. It is slowly being expanded to a capacity of 16,000 by around 2010. The pitch is 112 x 74 yards. Bloomfield Road […]

St. Andrews is the home to Birmingham Football club since 1906. It is an all seater stadium with a capcity of 30,016 and the pitch is 155 x 75 yards. Almost three quarters of the ground has been renovated since the 1990's and was made the Tilton Road End and Spion Kop. The Railway End […]

Birmingham stayed top of the table, Nottingham Forest stayed bottom of the table and there were more red cards for this edition of the Championship. Barnsley 0 Bristol City 0 Birmingham 3( O'Connor 11', 15', Phillips 38') Sheffield Wednesday 1 ( Easjas 14') Blackpool 2 ( Burgess 48', Evatt 65') Crystal Palace 2 ( Ifill […]

Ian Dowie was sacked by QPR only 15 games into his tenure. The Rangers are sitting in 9th place in the CCC. His contract was terminated with immediate effect. The official QPR site posted that Dowie had been sacked but no reason was given. It is thought that in-fighting within the board and Dowie was […]

Oakwell are home to Barnsley Football club. It is a 23,009 all seater stadium and the pitch size is 110×75 yards. The home fans are house in the East Stand which has a capacity of 7,500 seats, part of the North stand, which opened in 1999 and is the newest addition to Oakwell with a 6,000 fan […]

The top two clubs in the Championship swapped positions again, Derby County's unbeaten streak was snapped and Nottingham Forest still sit rooted to the foot of the table. Four red cards were shown on Tuesday along with goals galore. Barnsley 2 (Hume 4', Campbell-Ryce (pen) 61') Sheffield Wednesday 1 (Clarke (pen) 69') Birmingham 1 (O'Connor […]

Wolves are back in first place, Nottingham Forest are rooted to the foot of the table, Derby County's resurgence continued this weekend, what will the mid-week fixtures bring us? Barnsley (L-W-L-D-D) v Sheffield Wednesday (W-L-W-W-D) – Oakwell Stadium 2:45 pm est Birmingham (D-W-D-W-L) v Crystal Palace (W-W-W-D-L) – St. Andrew's Stadium 2:45 pm est Blackpool (D-D-D-D-W) […]

Bristol City 1 (McCombe 71') Norwich 0 Burnley 1 (McCann 25') Birmingham 1 (Jerome 77')Watford 3 Cardiff City 2 (McCormack 18', 52') Charlton 0 Derby County 2 ( Hulse 45', Green 52') Plymouth 1 (Gallagher 8') Doncaster 0 Blackpool 0 Ipswich Town 2 (Counago 43', 82') Swansea City 2 (Boddie 49', Gomez 69') Preston 2 […]

The Football Association has begun a probe into the Norwich-Derby match after unusal betting patterns occured at haftime of the match. Derby won the match 2-1. Norwich PM Norman Lamb has asked Sporting Secretary Andy Burnham to look into the allegations. Derby County have said they will fully co-operate with the investigation. Derby Manager […]

Now that the International break is over the Championship gets back into action Saturday. Here are the fixtures for this coming weekend. Bristol City (L-D-L-W-L) v Norwich (L-L-D-W-L) – Ashton Gate 10am est Burnley (L-W-W-D-W) v Birmingham (W-D-W-L-W)- Turf Moor 10am est Cardiff City (D-W-L-D-W) v Charlton (W-L-L-D-W)- Ninan Park 10am est Derby County (W-D-W-D-D) v Plymouth […]

Blackpool v Cardiff City – Bloomfield Road 7:30 am est Birmingham v QPR – St. Andrews Stadium 7:45 am est * On Setanta in the US Barnsley v Doncaster – Oakwell Stadium 10 am est Charlton v Ipswich – The Valley 10 am est Norwich v Derby County – Carrow Road 10 am est Nottingham […]