nPower Championship – mid season review

The Championship is sometimes overlooked in England because the Premier League takes centre stage each weekend, but the second division of English football is one of the most interesting in Europe.

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Goal of the week: Wade Elliott (Video)

Birmingham City can't seem to play in anything other that five goal thrillers.

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The dangers of premature celebrations (Video)

If you have managed to successfully lob the goal keeper, a difficult skill anyway, then you are entitled to believe that you have scored a very nice goal and therefore celebrate it with your adoring fans. Right?

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All aboard the Championship merry-go-round

They’re at it again.

We’re not even into December yet but there has already been some serious managerial upheaval in the second tier of English football.

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South London's finest (Video)

Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha has been thrust into footballing fan's consciousness thanks to Palace's blistering start to the season.

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Mick McCarthy-Love machine (Video)

He’s back! Mick McCarthy is back in the management game after becoming Captain of the sinking ship HMS Ipswich Town F.C.

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Blackburn Rovers: Premier League champions (Video)

I still maintain that Blackburn Rovers winning the Premier League in 1995 is one of the single most incredible achievements in English football. They even added the extra drama of losing on the final day to Liverpool just to make it even more spectacular. You can count how many teams have won the Premier League on one hand and the fact that Blackburn are one of those is astounding.

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Neil Warnock: Leeds' Mrs Doubtfire (Video)

Throughout his managerial career Neil Warnock has been known as one of the most passionate and enigmatic coaches the game has ever seen. Wildly opinionated and never afraid to speak his mind, Warnock has proved to be a journalist's dream provided fantastic quotes on a regular basis.

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Great players don't always make great managers

If Alan Shearer is the answer then what is the question?

Certainly not “who would be the ideal candidate to take control of a struggling Championship club who have taken only 7 points this season”?

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We miss you 'arry (Video)

You are always guaranteed entertainment when Harry Redknapp is the subject of an interview. All too often managers and players churn out the same tired one liners in a post match interview, but not our 'arry.

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Transparency in Football

On Saturday I met one of Crystal Palace’s chairmen, in a pub in Leicester.

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When football doesn't matter

Last weekend Nottingham Forest’s on loan striker Billy Sharp played against Barnsley. The match marked the anniversary of the tragic passing of his son Luey, who died last year.

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All change in SE25 (Again)

It's the hope that kills you.

With Crystal Palace sitting in the lofty heights of 3rd position in the Championship and a genuine club legend in charge things were looking good after years of financial trouble and mediocre performances.

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Can Southampton avoid the drop?

Life back in the Premier League for Southampton has certainly been a strenuous one.

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One for the future - Nathan Redmond? (Video)

The desperate form of Birmingham City in the Championship so far this season under Lee Clark has perhaps ensured that one of the brightest young talents in England has slipped under the radar somewhat.

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