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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Over the past few seasons the Championship has become one of the most competitive leagues in the world, with 24 teams all of relatively similar standard fighting it out in attritional game after attritional game. Managers and signings that turn out to be good, injuries, luck… all can have a strong influence. So you really can’t rule anyone out, although it is perhaps slightly fanciful to think Barnsley or Scunthorpe will win it.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Newcastle’s defeat to Aston Villa on the final day of the season ended a sixteen-year stay in the Premier League and condemned them to Championship football next season. It is fair to say that there is no way the club should have gone down, every week 50,000 fans turn up at St James’ Park and they have the status to attract decent players.
Friday, May 8th, 2009
On Monday May 11th Middlesbrough make the short journey to St James’ Park to take on Newcastle United in what should be an ethralling relegation battle. Both sides desperately need three points if they are to put together a run and make a last dash towards survival and the game should be appraoched by the players like a cup-final.
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
The supporters of Newcastle United and Sunderland may not like to compare their respective clubs, but they are united by a current theme – caretaker managers. But the two clubs have taken different approaches to their caretakers in 2008.
Monday, December 15th, 2008
As we always say, in-depth reports and stats are better found elsewhere – we usually recommend the BBC, but after the Strictly Come Dancing fiasco they can no longer be trusted… so try Times Online instead. Our mini-round up starts with the Big Four – a couple of weeks after they all failed to score, [...]
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Here is the second half of our feature on the Premiership managers, focussing on the bottom half of the table. You can read the first half here. 11. Wigan – Steve Bruce Arguably the most inconsistent team in the Premiership – blessed with talent such as Zaki, Heskey, Palacios and Valencia, Wigan blow hot and [...]
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
A wholly uninspiring set of results yesterday. You can can get full match reports and details of the tedium elsewhere, so we’ll focus on a more abstract element of each game. Stoke 1 Hull 1 A debatable 73rd minute penalty, won and converted by Ricardo Fuller, cancelled out Marlon King’s excellent strike on the stroke [...]
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Joking Here – Joe Kinnear? No? Ah well. In any case, his contract has been extended to the end of the season – his mediocrity has been rewarded. Read the full story here on Sky Sports. Spare a thought for Michael Owen. A couple of years back he was playing for Real Madrid and a [...]
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
For the first time for nearly a century all of the current big 4 – Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd, and Arsenal – failed to score on the same weekend. Arsenal were the only side to lose, 3-0 to Man City, to further compound their misery and disarray. This is the most testing period Arsene Wenger [...]
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Torres starts for Liverpool, while Lucas comes into the side for Xabi Alonso, while Fulham remain unchanged from the side that defeated Tottenham. Jermain Defoe and Lassana Diarra are both injured for Portsmouth, replaced by John Utaka and Richard Hughes. Hull are unchanged from the 2-2 draw with Man City. Lampard does indeed make it [...]
