Ay Karanka…
A few seasons ago there were three particularly dysfunctional clubs in the Championship, but that appeared to have changed – until last weekend. To be fair to Blackburn Rovers, Venky’s have more or...
View ArticleFA Cup Fifth Round Special
Considering that only three Championship teams reached the Fifth Round of the FA Cup last season, a 100% increase in that level combined with one guaranteed place in the Quarter Finals represents an...
View ArticleGOTW: Leeds v WBA
To start this week’s post, an announcement. Due to a major change in my professional life, for the next few weeks I’ll be posting on an ‘as and when’ basis due to being a lot busier than normal. I’m...
View ArticleGOTW: Leeds v Sheffield United
Well the last week or so was eventful. Whether Darren Moore’s departure from WBA was a shock or not seemed to depend on how closely you follow the Championship. If you don’t follow the competition...
View ArticleGOTW: Middlesbrough v Norwich
First post for a while and there’s a load to get through. The big news over the last couple of weeks was Birmingham’s nine point deduction for final irregularities last Friday, although the correct...
View ArticleGOTW: Bolton v Ipswich
Norwich beat Middlesbrough in last weekend’s game of the week: That wasn’t the end of Middlesbrough’s misery either. On Tuesday evening they also lost at home to Bristol City, a result that leaves Tony...
View ArticleGOTW: Leeds v Aston Villa
Apologies for the lack of posts recently, it’s entirely due to work commitments. I couldn’t really go another week without an update though, so although this is a quick one it contains a lot of...
View ArticleOpening Weekend 2019/20
The fixtures for the new season were released this morning, here are the opening weekend’s games: Friday August 2nd Luton v Middlesbrough (7:45 – Sky Sports Football) Saturday August 3rd Barnsley v...
View ArticleSky Bet Championship Preview 2019-20
The hard facts are as follows: If you want to win the Championship you need to earn at least 90 points and to go up without a detour via Wembley you’ll need at least 89 in the bag. Those amounts have...
View ArticleGOTW: Preston v Wigan
Just a quick one this week as we’re only one game in. Only one game ended in a draw last weekend, which just happened to be the first match of the EFL season: Going into this week, we’ve got thirteen...
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