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Championship league ladder: Derby County up, Millwall down
The Seventy Two’s Championship league ladder continues with the thoughts of Adam Bate.
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 …
An alternative Championship team of the year
As the dust settles on another PFA Team of the Year, the recriminations begin. Fans up and down the country make their cases for the inclusion of their own favourite players rather than those selected from other sides. Quite how you can judge so many players you barely see with any accuracy is beyond me. Nevertheless, let’s jump on the bandwagon with an alternative Championship team of the year…
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Wales 0 England 2: In Defence of the Championship
Anticipation. Excitement. Demoralising disappointment. Eventually, resigned acceptance. Not just the emotions of Welsh football supporters on a thoroughly miserable afternoon at the Millennium Stadium, but the feelings of one supporter of a Championship club upon watching events unfold in the principality. Premier League fans queued up to pour scorn on the Wales performance and Championship players were widely criticised.
The Welsh lineup read much like a Championship representative side, with …