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Foxes, Forest and Hammers aim to match Leeds United’s spark
For Leicester City, Nottingham Forest and West Ham United supporters, expectations were high this summer. All three clubs are spending decent money on the employment of high-profile managers and all three were expected to challenge at the right end of the table this season. This is certainly not to say that they won’t fulfil those lofty expectations but neither have they had things all their own way so far.
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Championship league ladder: Middlesbrough up, Leeds United down
The Seventy Two’s Championship league ladder concludes with the thoughts of Chris Walker.
In brief, the idea will be that the table begins in the order that the Championship finished at the end of the 2010/11 season and a series of bloggers and journalists will each re-position one team further up and one team further down based on their thoughts over the summer. By the end, we will have …
Leicester City, the Twitter transfer and the Lunar landings
At around 4.30pm yesterday afternoon, a photograph of a man holding up a blue shirt appeared on a website. This may not seem like an important event, and in the grand scheme of things it clearly isn’t, but, in its own small way, it felt a little bit like the Moon landings.
Confirmation of Lee Peltier’s arrival at Leicester City will not go down in history, of course. Neither was …
Home from a loan: the Championship’s best temporary moves
Alistair Hendrie gives his opinion on the five best loan players in the Championship last season.
1. Wayne Routledge (Queen’s Park Rangers, on loan from Newcastle United)
Wayne Routledge, who has played for six different Premier League clubs without ever really finding his feet, was bench warming for Newcastle before Neil Warnock brought him to Loftus Road on loan – a move that saw him return to a former club. …