Four Potential Surprise Packages in the Championship next season

Given the unpredictable nature of the championship these days some might argue that there is no such thing as a dark horse in English football’s second tier. Nevertheless ,here are a few sides who aren’t amongst the most prominent with the bookies – yet could well find themselves battling for a place in the promised land come the close of the season.

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Taylor Latest of the Luckless.

Ryan Taylor’s hopes of a return this season, and probably the next one, took a killer blow this week when he suffered a recurrence of his cruciate knee ligament injury. The Newcastle full-back joins the unfortunate list of injury-prone Premier League stars, of which there have been many.

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The Championship relegation scrap

Ipswich Town continued their push towards safety with a 1-0 victory at Portman Road on Saturday afternoon. With the teams below them also winning, this was a vital three points for a side that are edging ever closer to safety.

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Reo Coker continues his downward spiral (Video)

Rewind back to February 2006 and Alan Pardew’s newly-promoted West Ham side have just beaten Arsenal, who would eventually reach the Champions League final that season, a team that contained messrs Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Dennis Bergkamp, Robin Van Persie and Freddie Ljungberg, 3-2 at Highbury.

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Ipswich Town- Season Preview

Following Coventry City’s relegation into League 1 last season, Ipswich Town are now the Championship’s longest-serving side. This will be their 11th consecutive season in England’s second tier.

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Deadline day has passed - What a relief!

EVERY football fan longs for the transfer window to open. The fact is, despite the excitement and entertainment deadline day brings, most are quietly disappointed when it reaches its climax.

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Teenage star to Ipswich Town, really?

East Anglian local media have cropped up with reports that the teenage star that Paul Jewell has made a bid for in the last few days is Crewe’s 17 year old attacking wonder-kid, Nick Powell.

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Jewell survives again to make bids for Swindon duo

Slowly attracting the name of “the cat” in football managerial circles, not because he’s quick and agile (far from it in fact), but because Ipswich manager Paul Jewell is seemingly the man of many lives as he survives in the hot-seat at Portman Road.

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Clubs fight it out for Leicester’s Shaun St Ledger

Ipswich Town have become the latest club interested in signing defender Sean St Ledger from Leicester City after the defender had been put on the transfer list following a Boxing Day fall-out with manager Nigel Pearson.

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Has Jewell Lost His Sparkle?

The long and winding Npower Championship season is almost half-way through and Ipswich Town, backed by many as potential play-off contenders before the season started, are hovering just above the relegation zone.

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Striking the club to glory

Ted Phillips was one of the main reasons for this success, he formed an inseparable strike partnership with Ray Crawford and these two strikers’ goals played a major role in these two successive titles. In the 82 games they played together during these two seasons they netted a combined 131 league goals, an incredible record.

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Friday evening round up @ Chelsea & Madrid in for starlet, United line up £40m midfielder, Brighton line up Newcastle ace

Manchester United have made Benfica midfielder Nicolas Gaitan a target for the January transfer window but will have to meet a £40m release clause to capture the Argentine international.

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Flop or not: Francis Jeffers...

Francis Jeffers, an incredible talent, or was it just that he was young in-form and English and brought media attention to him that led to a big money move to Highbury?

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Bargains So Far

You never know if a transfer will come off. There have been so many flops and so many bargains every single season. So, here is my attempt at picking out some of the best buys so far.

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Shrimpers Summer Update

So Sunny Sarfend jetted off to Scotland on Thursday for their pre-season summer training camp at Stirling University and to take part in a mini tournament involving Dundee, Raith Rovers and East Fife.

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