Stephen O'brien

Norwich City In: Sammy Clingan (Nottingham Forest, free), Wes Hoolahan (Blackpool, undisclosed), Ryan Bertrand (Chelsea, loan) Out: Mark Gilks (Blackpool, undisclosed), Andrew Cave-Brown (Leyton Orient, free) Darren Huckerby (San Jose Earthquakes) Released: Juan Velasco,Matthew Halliday, Rossi Jarvis, Steven Arnold, Ryan Jarvis, Patrick Bexfield, Bally Smart Nottingham Forest In: Robert Earnshaw (Derby County, 2.65M), Andrew Cole […]

Barnsley In: Luke Steele (West Brom, Free), Ian Hume (Leicester City, 1.2M), Mounir El Haimour (NE Xamax, undisclosed), Darren Moore (Derby, Free) Out: Paul Reid (Colchester, Free) Birmingham City In: Lee Carsley (Everton, Free), Kevin Phillips (West Brom, Free) Out: Mikael Forssell (Hannover 96, free) Rafael Schmitz ( Lille, end of loan), Patrice Muamba ( […]

I know it's been a few days since the home kit for Derby County has been released but here it is for your viewing pleasure. If any of you readers out there have pictures of your respective teams home kits please email them to me at lilshak@comcast.net and I'll be glad to post them here. […]

Here are the final fixtures for the teams in the CCC for the pre-season. Sheffield United 14 July Ferecvaros (A, Hungary) 16 July KRC Genk (A, Belgium) 19 July Helmond Sport (A, Holland) 26 July Scunthorpe United (A) 29 July Bury (A) 2 August Huddersfield Town (A) Sheffield Wednesday 15 July HFC Harrlem (A) 17 […]

Derby County 16 July Burton Albion (A) 19 July Rotherham (A) 23 July Oldham Athletic (A) 26 July Mansfield Town (A) 29 July Rushden & Diamonds 2 August FC Utrecht (H) Doncaster 19 July Scunthorpe (H) 29 July Port Vale (A) 1 August Bolton (H) Ipswich Town Could not find any information on the clubs […]

Here are the pre-season schedules for most of the CCC clubs. Barnsley 11 July Buxton (A) 12 July Glossip (A) 19 July Yeovil Town (A) 22 July York City (A) 26 July Rotherham (A) 29 July Wigan (H) 2 August Chengdu Blades (H) Birmingham City They will be on a tour of Austria from 13-22 […]

Here are the fixtures for the second weekend of the CCC season, to be played on August 16th. Barnsley v Coventry City Bristol City v Derby County Burnley v Ipswich Town Doncaster v Cardiff City Norwich v Blackpool Preston NE v Crystal Palace Reading v Plymouth Sheffield United v QPR Southampton v Birmingham City Swansea […]

The Football League released the footballing fixtures today. The final schedule for teams won't be out for another two weeks due to TV coverage beign chosen for matches and fixtures being re-arranged for other reasons but the opening day fixtures are out and here they are for your viewing pleasure. They will be played on Saturday […]

Preston North End v Chesterfield (Lg 2) Sheffield United v Port Vale (Lg2) Crewe (Lg1) v Barnsley Derby County v Lincoln City (Lg 2) Notts County (Lg 1) v Doncaster Rovers Sheffield Wednesday v Rotherham (Lg2) Wolves v Accrington Stanley (Lg2) Bury (Lg2) v Burnley Nottingham Forest v Morcambe (Lg 2) Maccelsfield Town (Lg 2) […]

After extensive research ie a quick visit to Wikipedia I found that 3 players who ply thier trade in the Coca-Cola Championship are on a countries roster for Euro 2008. For the Czech Republic are Midfielder Marek Matejovsky who players for Reading and Midfielder Rudolf Skacel who plays for Southamption. Poland has Forward Marek Saganowski […]

While officially the transfer window isn't open yet clubs are making signings that will become official on July 1st. It might be a free transfer of a player who is out of contract or a transfer involving money or just plain rumors involving players and clubs, the silly season has begun for Championship teams. The […]

Here is who will be playing next season in the CCC: Barnsley Birmingham City Blackpool Bristol City Burnely Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Doncaster Rovers Ipswich Town Norwich City Nottingham Forest Plymouth Argyle Preston North End Queens Park Rangers Reading Sheffield United Sheffield Wednesday Southampton Swansea City Watford Wolves

The playoffs are almost done and only two more teams will be vying for promotion to League One, Rochdale and Stockport. What is known after today are what teams will be leaving and coming into the Championship for next season. Gaining promotion to the EPL along with the riches and glory are West Bromwich Albion as […]

First off let me congratulate Manchester United on winning the UEFA Champions League on the 50th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster. Now onto the Championship Playoff Final between Bristol City and Hull City. Tomorrow these two surprise teams will battle at Wembley for the right to be the third club to be promoted to […]

I went to the local pub intent on watching the UEFA Cup final between Rangers and Zenit St. Petersburg but that was dashed when I was informed they did not have Fox Soccer Channel, so I asked if they had Setanta and sure enough they did, so Hull v Watford it was! The first half […]