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How the relegated trio are preparing for the Championship

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How the relegated trio are preparing for the Championship For Newcastle, Norwich and Aston Villa relegation from the Premier League last season came at the worst possible time. Next season marks the start of the £5.1bn television rights deal where each club is guaranteed at least £100m in prize money – the same sum Leicester earned this y...

Forestieri Primed to Fire Wednesday Back to the Premier League

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Forestieri Primed to Fire Wednesday Back to the Premier League The Championship Play-off Final this season has been dubbed the £170m game. Given what is at stake for both Sheffield Wednesday and Hull City in Saturday’s crunch match at Wembley, both teams will go all out to secure victory. Not only is there a place in the Premier League up for grabs,...

Stage Set For Tightest Ever Championship Title Race

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Stage Set For Tightest Ever Championship Title Race With just 180 minutes of the regular Championship season remaining, things could not be tighter at the top of England’s second tier. Just three goals separate Burnley, Middlesbrough and Brighton, with the Clarets favourites to secure glory once more. Michael Keane’s 92nd minute equaliser...

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...

Player Focus: Interest Set to Mount in Fit Again Charlie Austin

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Player Focus: Interest Set to Mount in Fit Again Charlie Austin As the hectic festive period approaches, any team would happily welcome one of their star players back to the fold, be it from injury or suspension. For QPR, the return of Charlie Austin has been well-timed. The striker suffered a hamstring problem earlier in the season, ruling him out for quite som...

Team Focus: Patience Needed For New QPR Boss Hasselbaink

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Team Focus: Patience Needed For New QPR Boss Hasselbaink When Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was unveiled as news Queens Park Rangers manager on Monday, there was plenty of talk about change. A certain degree is inevitable when a new coach takes over, but the scale in which the Dutchman, after a successful start in management at Burton Albion, is planning on ove...

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...

Player Focus: Austin Deserving of a Second Chance in the Premier League

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Player Focus: Austin Deserving of a Second Chance in the Premier League Of all the players relegated from the Premier League last term, many would have expected Charlie Austin to have remained in England’s top tier beyond the end of the campaign. The Englishman was one of the surprise packages in his debut season in England’s top division, netting a notewort...

Player Focus: Pint-sized Pritchard Central to Brentford's Promotion Push

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Player Focus: Pint-sized Pritchard Central to Brentford's Promotion Push Back in December 2013, Mark Warburton was handed the opportunity to succeed Uwe Rösler as Brentford boss after the German took over at Wigan Athletic. Despite being offered the chance to follow Rösler to the DW Stadium, Warburton opted to remain at Griffin Park, with the decision, in hinds...