Does the Championship deserve more respect?

With the Championship season kicking off on the same weekend as the Premier League and La Liga it was inevitably going to receive less coverage than the two biggest leagues in European football. However there is no doubt that the league deserves more respect as it is arguably one of the greatest leagues in the world, the slogan more commonly used to describe it's bigger brother.

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Diary of a Sky Sports Reporter

In recent weeks, I've been fortunate enough to cover matches involving some of the most in-form strikers in the country. I saw Jordan Rhodes notch one of his 27 goals for Huddersfield this season and also witnessed Millwall frontman Darius Henderson bag his second hat-trick in the space of a few days, and third of the campaign.

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Forest not up for the transfer window

People like the transfer window right? It’s exciting, club X are trying to sign player Y, that in-form forward might be arriving at your club, or that terrifying defender who had your star-striker in his back pocket earlier in the season may be coming to your club.

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Hughes' arrival at QPR has clubs on red-alert

“One clubs’ dead-wood is another clubs gold”, as the saying goes.

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Christmas Cheer For Steve Kean

Lets get one thing out of the way at the start. Blackburn fans I feel your pain

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There’s no such thing as a sleeping giant

The 'big' teams submerged in their golden era, and can't relinquish their past in the lower tiers.

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Sven Gone-Again-Sson

So after just 13 league games and 1,170 minutes into the new league season Leicester City have parted company with manager Sven Goran Erikkson.

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Luke Vorm Liverpool draw a blank

Good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are and welcome to another edition of The Green Room where we discuss everything Liverpool, The Premiership and the beautiful game.  A week into the official wintertime and Liverpool are already looking “Vorm out”.

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Firing frenzy hits football

Are football clubs chairman becoming too trigger-happy in their hiring and firing approach to club management?

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Saturday morning round up @ Chelsea ay record fee for 14-year old, Arsenal ponder French ace and City target wants move

Chelsea have paid £2million to MK Dons for 14-year-old midfielder Oluwaseyi Ojo, a record fee for someone his age.

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Saturday morning gossip round up

Manchester City will demand a 20% sell-on clause if Carlos Tevez is sold for a cut-price fee in January.

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The Rise And Fall Of The Wally With A Brolly

It’s a chilly and wet November evening in northwest London, the rain is hammering down onto an already saturated playing surface.

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Schteve McClaren's Managerial Rollercoaster

Steve McClaren became the latest manager this weekend to admit defeat in his attempts to revive Nottingham Forest into a footballing force to be reckoned with. Nigel Doughty, who himself handed in his notice amid the chaos, described the decision to appoint the ex-England manager as "very poor". We must ask ourselves why this is the case? Surely, being able to attract a manager of McClaren's calibre deserves some credit, despite the poor results that followed?

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Diary Of A Sky Sports Soccer Saturday Reporter

Over the years I've learned not to turn Sky Sports down whenever they offer me work. But there are rare occasions when I've just had to say 'Sorry, No, I can't do it'.

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Referees need to bite back

All of those decisions are excellent examples of the approach referees should take to acts of dissent: zero tolerance. But officials are still given too much space for leniency, too much leeway to decide to 'let the game flow', or, as Howard Webb would have it, 'not wanting to spoil the game'.

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