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This Saturday there promises to be one of the more fascinating Championship encounters this season, as Dougie Freedman returns to Selhurst Park for the first time since he made the decision to leave Crystal Palace and take charge of Bolton...read more »

The “managerial merry-go-round” is a phrase that has become extremely common in football language. Managers have come and gone and the lifespan of the gaffer seems to be getting shorter and shorter. But the events in the Championship this week...read more »

Autumnal winds of change have blown through the npower Championship, as six of the division’s sides underwent a change of management. Prompted by Owen Coyle’s sacking at Bolton at the start of October, the floodgates opened, and the managerial merry-go-round...read more »

New Crystal Palace boss Ian Holloway must be pinching himself. A week ago, he was in a stable position as manager of a Blackpool side sitting outside of the Championship play-off positions. A week later, Holloway has taken over the...read more »

I don’t tend to put much stock into transfer rumours, but given that this story is being reported by Jeremy Wilson, one of the more reliable journos out there, I’d say that it’s worth discussing. He claims that Arsene Wenger has...read more »

The last couple of weeks in the English game have highlighted the hypocrisy and contradictions in “modern football”, that pejorative term which has oft been quoted when discussing the negative aspects of the world’s most popular sport. Football is a business....read more »

Three games into the new Championship season, Crystal Palace found themselves alongside Peterborough, sitting rock bottom of the league table with zero points after three straight defeats. But after winning six of their last nine games, Palace now find themselves...read more »

Of all the young talent in the Championship, Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha must surely take the biscuit. At just 19-years-old, he has earned all kinds of plaudits and has already been earmarked for a massive future. Indeed, it’s believed that...read more »

A couple of weeks ago, Muhammad Ali celebrated his 70th birthday and numerous media outlets across the globe devoted their pages to honour the great man and his exploits that spanned an illustrious career in boxing. Such was his influence...read more »

English tabloids have kicked in to overdrive throughout the last week in an attempt to identify Kenny Dalglish’s January transfer targets. Wilfried Zaha, Jermaine Defoe, Demba Ba, Luc Castaignos, Jawad Boukabous and Scott Sinclair are all among the most talked about reported targets for the Liverpool manager. Kenny Dalglish has made...read more »