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New Championship youngsters hoping to hit the middle ground running

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New Championship youngsters hoping to hit the middle ground running There’s less than a week until the big kick-off in the Championship and clubs are busy attempting to finalise their squads ahead of the upcoming transfer deadline.Some notable deals have already been made, however, and we look at three young midfielders to England’s second tier that will...

Why next weekend’s remarkable Championship climax is most intense ever

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Why next weekend’s remarkable Championship climax is most intense ever Even if you don’t follow the Championship, the results from this weekend have set up a nail biting finish that you simply don’t want to miss.Victories for Burton and Barnsley ensured that as many as five different sides could still join relegated Sunderland heading into the final game of...

Hot Streak: McClaren and Ince reunion inspiring dramatic Derby revival

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Hot Streak: McClaren and Ince reunion inspiring dramatic Derby revival When Steve McClaren returned to Derby County back in October, it’s fair to say he had some making up to do. Having made his desire to take the Newcastle job plainly obvious, the former England boss left the club in disappointing circumstances.It all served to mask what was an impressive record...

Team Focus: Middlesbrough's Promotion Push Built on Solid Defence

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Team Focus: Middlesbrough's Promotion Push Built on Solid Defence It had to end at some point, but the manner was terribly cruel. Middlesbrough must have felt awfully sore to concede that injury-time goal to managerless Bristol City last weekend, which left them seconds from breaking an 88-year-old record for 10 consecutive clean sheets. There is plenty of consola...

League Focus: Premier League Core has Helped Hull to Championship Summit

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League Focus: Premier League Core has Helped Hull to Championship Summit For all the Championship's promise of the unpredictable, the expected names are sitting near the top of the table and those predicted to suffer are finding things difficult. The pair of financially-stable teams relegated from last season's Premier League occupy two of the top three places, but Brigh...

League Focus: Reading the Championship's Surprise Package So Far

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League Focus: Reading the Championship's Surprise Package So Far Embryonic stages these may still be, but if there is a major surprise package this season; then Reading appear the most likely. They have won five of their last six games and Steve Clarke, courtesy of 13 summer signings, has brought the Berkshire side from mid-table obscurity last campaign to a genu...

League Focus: Brighton Lead Way in Typically Unpredictable Championship Start

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League Focus: Brighton Lead Way in Typically Unpredictable Championship Start Five games in and already the Championship has shown its inherent dislike for predictors and tipsters, vainly attempting to figure out the most unpredictable division of all. Everybody laughed on 3 August when Brighton tweeted that vine of Bobby Zamora saying “I’m back” while clutc...

Manager Focus: Can Newcastle fans dare to dream under McClaren?

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Manager Focus: Can Newcastle fans dare to dream under McClaren? The passion, euphoria and ambition that once engulfed Newcastle United around the turn of the Millennium has become a thing of the distant past on Tyneside under the harrowing ownership of Mike Ashley. However, with Premier League clubs set to benefit from the windfall of the new £5.1bn televi...

League Focus: Watford and Bournemouth Seal Promotion But Who Will Join Them?

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League Focus: Watford and Bournemouth Seal Promotion But Who Will Join Them? After a season that had captured the imagination like no other, the Championship’s final day is going to be something of an anticlimax. Only the final playoff place and, possibly depending on Rotherham’s result against Reading tonight, the last relegation spot will be left to play for. T...

League Focus: Inescapable Inconsistency Set to Decide Championship Promotion Race

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League Focus: Inescapable Inconsistency Set to Decide Championship Promotion Race If those in power at the Championship's promotion-chasing clubs needed any more reason to motivate their players as the season approaches its final quarter, a £5.1bn television deal will have whetted their appetites for the big time sufficiently. And yet, it seems the players chasing the top s...