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Leicester City 1-2 West Ham United | Championship match report

West Ham United's supporters are accustomed to the agony that is the extension of faint hope, so perhaps they will find the time leading up to Saturday's lunchtime kick-offs endurable. Needing to win to keep alive an outside chance of automatic promoti...

QPR’s Hughes looks to returning Cissé for help

• French striker poised to return after four-match ban• Hodgson says Albion's league prospects depend on investmentContrary to what might have been expected, given that this was a victory which in effect confirmed West Bromwich Albion's Premier Lea...

West Bromwich Albion 1-0 Queens Park Rangers | Premier League match report

Queens Park Rangers, it seems, may have to rely on their form at Loftus Road, where they have won three of their past four games, if they are to avoid relegation. Unfortunate as they arguably were not to at least draw this match, the fact is that Mark ...

Stoke’s manager champions Peter Crouch after his winner against Wolves

• He's playing as well as he's ever played, says Tony Pulis• Gary Megson watches game, putting pressure on Terry ConnorHaving admitted he had been deliberately damping down talk about Peter Crouch's chances of being selected for England's Euro 2012...

Stoke City 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers | Premier League match report

The presence in the crowd of Gary Megson, that regular port of call for desperate chairmen, may or may not mean that Terry Connor has overseen his last game as manager of bottom-of-the-table Wolverhampton Wanderers.This game was Connor's seventh in ch...

Terry Connor: If Wolves play like that and go down that’s our fate

• Wolves manager: penalty was dubious to say the least• Players showed character, says Bolton managerMany of those who have worked with Terry Connor have attested in recent weeks that the Wolves manager is a first-rate coach. Self-evidently a man o...

Wolves 2-3 Bolton

So, surely, farewell to the Wolves. A fifth consecutive defeat, together with wins for Queens Park Rangers and Wigan, leaves Terry Connor's team six points adrift of 17th with seven games remaining and in need of something close to a miracle – which ...

Hatem Ben Arfa’s first-half magic for Newcastle crushes West Bromwich

Papiss Cissé believes language difficulties make it hard for him to communicate with his Newcastle team-mates, so it seems reasonable to speculate just how prolific he will be once he makes English the fifth language he has mastered. Particularly if ...

Norwich’s Grant Holt shows deft touch worthy of an England striker

• Norwich forward shows he is more than just a target man• Terry Connor stays upbeat but Wolves look beyond repairIt is unlikely – all right, highly unlikely – that England's attack for the first two games of the European Championship in June w...

Norwich’s Grant Holt shows deft touch worthy of an England striker

• Norwich forward shows he is more than just a target man• Terry Connor stays upbeat but Wolves look beyond repairIt is unlikely – all right, highly unlikely – that England's attack for the first two games of the European Championship in June w...

Norwich’s Grant Holt shows deft touch worthy of an England striker

• Norwich forward shows he is more than just a target man• Terry Connor stays upbeat but Wolves look beyond repairIt is unlikely – all right, highly unlikely – that England's attack for the first two games of the European Championship in June w...

Norwich City 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers | Premier League match report

If hope, as some pessimists maintain, is ultimately more painful than despair, perhaps Wolves did their long-suffering supporters a favour at Carrow Road.Having gone ahead midway through the first half through Matt Jarvis, their prospects of taking thr...