Who will be next year’s DJ Campbell?

Posted by on Mar 14, 2011 in Cardiff City, Championship, QPR, Reading, Swansea City, The Seventy Two | 7 Comments

Which current Championship attacker will make the grade next year in the Premier League? That is the question Andrew McCarten poses and he offers four names that he thinks have the best chance of lighting up the top flight in 2011/12. There is, of course, a certain player they will all be trying to emulate too.

One of the major successes of Blackpool’s firebrand first campaign in the Premier League …

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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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Five Stars: Reading’s best players in the 21st century

Posted by on Mar 2, 2011 in Championship, Reading, The Seventy Two | 3 Comments

The Five Stars series continues and who better to cover Reading than fellow Football League tub-thumper Rob Langham from the rather magnificent site The Two Unfortunates. Steve Coppell’s promotion-winning side is understandably heavily represented in Rob’s selection, while Gylfi Sigurdsson’s exit to Hoffenheim last summer means no place among his choices for the Icelandic international.

Kevin Doyle

All lower league clubs have their heroes, but how many have been …

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Which Championship managers are bound for the Premier League? Part 1

Posted by on Feb 24, 2011 in Bristol City, Burnley, Championship, Derby County, Leeds United, Leicester City, Millwall, Nottingham Forest, Reading, The Seventy Two | 8 Comments

Ultimately, the Premier League is the standard that all Championship clubs must aspire to reach. And every manager in the second tier must believe in his ability to earn a living at the highest level. So which managers are cut out for the top flight? The Seventy Two enlisted some readers to offer their views…

Steve Cotterill (Portsmouth)

by @mrnipps

Ten years ago, the answer would almost certainly have been …

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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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