The large man fiddles with his awkward, tilted claret and blue rosette. As he does so, he mutters to himself and even his whispers boom out like an announcement at a county fair. He cuts a strange figure, his face somehow as big as his head and his constant chattering providing a soundtrack to his every move. “It wasn’t meant to be this way”, he says with a glance up at the wall. Of course, he tries not to look at the two pictures hanging there. They provide no inspiration, instead merely reminding him of what he could have been….
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How many points are needed to reach the Championship play-offs?
It offers you hope. It plunges you into despair. The strength of its grip increases the longer the sun stays in the sky each evening. Until the dreaded mathematical impossibility comes into play. Then it’s all over. It’s PO the PO and it’s an obsession throughout the Football League at this time of year. If your team are currently between seventh and twelfth in their division, you probably know exactly how many points they are off the play-offs. In the Championship, the points tallies between fourth position and twelfth currently read: 59, 58, 57, 57, 56, 56, 53, 51, 49….
Who are the most important players in the Championship promotion race?
With the Championship promotion race moving into the final two months of the season, let’s take a look at the key players for each of the teams currently sitting in the top six. Rather than blandly regurgitating tired tales of Rickie Lambert’s goalscoring prowess or Peter Whittingham’s range of passing, perhaps it would be more useful to delve into some statistics to see how effective some of the best players in the division have been this term. The tables below show the individual W/D/L records of selected players in all competitions - their side’s record with them having started on…
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