Championship Talk

Sky Sports has announced its schedule of televised Championship matches for the first few months of the 2008/2009 season. Here’s the schedule:

Sunday, August 10: Nottingham Forest v Reading
Saturday, August 16: Bristol City v Derby County
Saturday, August 30: Watford v Ipswich
Saturday, October 4: Coventry City v Southampton
Saturday, October 25: Reading v QPR
Saturday, November 8: […]

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Derby have booked their place in the Championship play-off final after a thrilling semi-final against Southampton. Trailing 2-1 from the first leg, Southampton mounted a comeback but saw their dreams dashed as they lost in a penalty shoot-out.
A powerful header from Darren Moore put Derby up by two goals on aggregate within three minutes […]

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The first leg’s are over and I got things half right. Derby turned in a strong away performance to come away from St. Mary’s with a 2-1 lead. There should be no huge surprise as Derby’s away record was outstanding (12W-3D-8L). There is a highlights package on YouTube but be warned that the sound quality […]

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The push for the Premiership kicks off, as the first legs of the Championship semi-finals take place this weekend.
On Saturday, 6th place Southampton host 3rd place Derby County. Southampton will be without skipper Claus Lundekvam, who suffered ankle ligament damage in the win over Southend in the final game of the regular season. Pedro Pele […]

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A massive win for Birmingham on Sunday in a tough Midlands derby with Wolverhampton sent the Blues back to the top of the Championship. On-loan striker Andy Cole opened the scoring, Nicolas Bendtner powered in a header and Cameron Jerome scored late on before Colin Doyle’s late penalty save sealed the points. You can catch […]

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A great weekend of football in the Championship including a stunning 6-0 Southampton win over promotion rivals Wolverhampton. The Saints had eight first-team regular players out (Gareth Bale, Chris Baird, Claus Lundekvam, Grzegorz Rasiak, Kenwyne Jones, Djamel Belmadi, Jhon Viafara and their first-choice goalkeeper Kelvin Davis) but saw on-loan Marek Saganowski bag a hat-trick. Saganowski, […]

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A major blow for Preston’s play-off hopes as they dropped three points to struggling Leeds on Friday. Northern Ireland’s mid-week hero David Healy scored in the 90th minute to steal three valuable points and pull Leeds off the bottom of the table. Preston boss Paul Simpson was livid after the match and described his […]

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Championship leaders Birmingham dropped valuable points yesterday after suffering a 1-0 loss at Norwich. A fantastic individual effort from Darren Huckerby gave Norwich the lead in the 47th minute. Huckerby collected the ball in his own half and charged up the flank, he then slipped past two tackles before powering home a strike from about […]

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The glamour match took place today as Birmingham regained top spot in the Championship from Derby by beating their promotion rivals thanks to a goal from striker Rowan Vine. The Blues also took all three points back on October 26th, 2006 courtesy of a late Steven Clemence goal.
Saturday’s fixtures include Barnsley hosting the surging Sunderland […]

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The drama that is the Championship League just took another twist and turn Monday night as Preston North End clobbered promotion rivals Southampton 3-1 at Deepdale to move into fifth place, just a point behind and a game in hand over third-place West Bromwich Albion.
In the past few weeks, it keeps on seeming that the […]

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