The 25 Best Players in the Championship - as voted for by you: Part 6 of 25

Birmingham City have had to endure an unusually tricky start to their Championship campaign following relegation from the Premier League, spending several weeks playing in the Europa League on Thursday nights and returning to league duty on Sundays. That they have remained competitive in both competitions has been due in part to a unusually tricky winger who made the switch from Cardiff in the summer. Joe Harrison explains.


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The 25 Best Players in the Championship - as voted for by you: Part 1 of 25

It’s December. Time to crack out the advent calendars. The Seventy Two is no different, although sadly there is no chocolate on offer here. Instead, we will be counting down to Christmas by bringing you the 25 best players in the Championship - as voted for by you. Key point - this will be in no particular order until Christmas Eve, although we will save the player with the most

Why the Bluebirds provide a blueprint for Nottingham Forest

Cardiff City and Nottingham Forest meet this weekend in the Welsh capital. It will mark a reunion for Robert Earnshaw, but also act as a reminder of where both clubs were just six months ago.


The Bluebirds are surfing the crest of a wave with four wins and two draws from their last six games and currently pose the biggest threat to Southampton and West Ham United’s automatic promotion hopes. …

Stepping Up: QPR begin to see the best of Jay Bothroyd

Seeing how Jay Bothroyd fared after leaving Cardiff City in the summer was always going to be interesting, writes Joe Harrison.


Despite the fact that from a team perspective his 3 year spell in South Wales was characterised by near misses (of the play-offs in his debut season then in them for the following two years), on a personal level they represented the best years of his career, where …

Leeds United 1 Cardiff City 1: One year and five days on

Neither Leeds United nor Cardiff City were unable to find a winner to settle a below-par game which Cardiff led at the break before a second half dominated by Leeds.


This time last year

25th October 2010. One year and five days on, some things have changed and some have stayed the same. Middlesbrough (22nd) and Crystal Palace (23rd) were level on points. Middlesbrough (4th) and Crystal Palace (3rd) are …

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