The Championship run-in: a very brief overview

Posted by on Mar 4, 2011 in Barnsley, Bristol City, Burnley, Cardiff City, Championship, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Doncaster Rovers, Hull City, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Preston North End, QPR, Reading, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield United, Swansea City, The Seventy Two, Watford | 5 Comments

At this stage of the Championship season, most teams have stabilised at a position that reflects their overall quality. There are some anomalies, of course, with Portsmouth perhaps the most pressing of these - Pompey have won their last five - but, generally speaking, you can measure the task ahead by a team’s league position.

So let’s do precisely that. Listed below is the current Championship table including the average …

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The best that the Championship has to offer

Posted by on Feb 19, 2011 in Barnsley, Bristol City, Burnley, Cardiff City, Championship, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Doncaster Rovers, Hull City, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Preston North End, QPR, Reading, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield United, Swansea City, The Seventy Two, Watford | 18 Comments

It should go without saying but it seems worth re-enforcing that it would be difficult for any casual viewer to see every Football League team in action over the course of a season. Of the three divisions, the Championship certainly receives the most coverage but even this can be a devil to keep track of.

Things are made even trickier these days given the revolving door of short-term loan signings …

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Excel-lent: The Championship in graphs and charts

Posted by on Feb 2, 2011 in Championship, Derby County, Ipswich Town, Leicester City, Scunthorpe United, The Seventy Two | 2 Comments

Things can get a bit text-heavy on The Seventy Two and a change, so they say, is as good as a rest. So here, instead, are a few graphs for you showing some of the trends and quirks in the Championship so far this season. If anyone’s interested, League One and League Two will follow…

Since last home draw

The huge splodge of purple in the bottom right of this …

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Are loan players distorting the Championship?

Posted by on Dec 7, 2010 in Barnsley, Burnley, Cardiff City, Championship, Derby County, Leeds United, Leicester City, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, QPR, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield United, The Seventy Two, Watford | 5 Comments

This season, more than any other, high profile loan signings from the Premier League are a huge feature of the Championship.

Only one club in the current top ten Championship sides, Coventry City, has taken to the field in the last month without a Premier League loan signing in its starting eleven. Rich Prew investigates.

Why the expansion in loan signings in 2010?

Part of the reason is the ever-increasing …

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Iron, Lions, Zion: Morison at the double for Millwall

Posted by on Dec 4, 2010 in Championship, Millwall, Scunthorpe United, The Seventy Two | One Comment

It was a bright May day in the capital last year that Millwall previously met Scunthorpe United. That was on television, too. This weekend’s live coverage, however, came not from Wembley but from The New Den. And the Lincolnshire side may have delayed Millwall’s return to the Championship but they returned north pointless on Saturday.

Jackett’s revenge

We cannot escape the fact that a meeting between Millwall and Scunthorpe United …

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