Sometimes a defeat is just so alarming that extracting positives is a futile and thankless task. Such must be the sentiment down Ashton Gate way after their 6-0 annihilation last midweek. And it wasn’t even a visiting Premier League side exploding with foreign fusiliers, nor even a blue touchpaper lighting Forest. No, this was a cross bridge bolt of blue, its exponents themselves experiencing embarrassing problems but able to nonetheless hand out a total hiding to an abject Bristol City eleven. How must debutant Jamal Campbell-Ryce have felt?Not since an evening at Romeo Brown’s nightclub back in 2006 has the…
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Plot strands coming together
As we have hinted at in our new series Championship Letters, the resemblance between a league season and a great work of literature is marked, and the form with which the easiest parallels can be drawn is the long, winding novel, full of unexpected developments and richly portrayed characters. Bearing this in mind, the events of Tuesday January 26 would appear to constitute the beginning of the home straight for most “readers” of the second tier – it was a day pregnant with significant happenings and telling results and one can begin to see the varying strands of a complicated…
Ten Emerging Talents in the Championship
Among the performers who have lit up this burgeoning Championship campaign are some familiar names. Michael Chopra has so far justified every last dime of his weighty fee, Kevin Nolan has buckled down and rehabilitated his reputation as an all purpose midfielder-cum-forward, and Adam Johnson’s sleek skills on the Middlesbrough wing have helped Smogheads forget the injured Stewart Downing. But who are the emerging stars of the league? Which players have burst on the scene and chalked up their greatest achievements this season? Here is a pick of those who have grasped our notice:Chris Burke (Cardiff City)Burke has that wispy,…
Another Writ on the Cards?
There has been a new twist in the Freddiegate scandal. As Crystal Palace responded to the their defeat at Ashton Gate like a hellfire preacher on heat – one can imagine the howling in the dressing room at Portman Road as Neil Warnock out-Keane-ed Keano – it emerges that the South London side may still owe their hosts from Saturday a fair chunk of money for the transfer of Nick Carle last season. Robins’ chairman Steve Lansdown claims that the blond bombshell Simon Jordan still owes him £250,000. Two injustices don’t make for equilibrium but as a neutral, I eagerly…
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