The second tier of English football, The Championship, is a league that has always produced good players, excellent entertainment and tremendous moments. Several excellent teams have gotten promoted to the Premier League and there is always a lot of excitement around games involving promoted clubs. As they are often unknown entities and might carry a … Read more
It has been a frenzied weekend of sackings in the Championship. Firstly Barnsley removed David Flitcroft, then Sheffield Wednesday sacked David Jones before on Monday, Wigan chose to dismiss Owen Coyle. It was another spasm of football’s knee-jerk culture where clubs lose patience with managers at the first sight of trouble. Life expectancy in the … Read more
It is rather impossible to review Southampton’s outstanding start to the Premier League season without mentioning Nigel Adkins, their former manager who was harshly removed in favour of Mauricio Pochettino back in January. Adkins had led the Saints from the lower regions of League One to the top tier with back to back promotions and … Read more
It seems longer than five years since Derby County were relegated from the Premier League with the record lowest points tally of 11. Since then it has been a period of transition and consolidation under Nigel Clough, appointed as recently as 2009 but already up to fifth on the table of longest serving managers in … Read more
Many of the plaudits for Crystal Palace’s promotion to the Premier League may have gone to Wilfried Zaha and his extraordinary season in which he was capped by England and earned a £15 million move to Manchester United. Zaha is however, just one of a series of youngsters to graduate from Crystal Palace’s production line, … Read more