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Owls Crash Out Of Championship After Draw

Sheffield Wednesday crashed out of the English football Championship after there disappointing draw with relegation rivals Crystal Palace at Hillsborough earlier this afternoon. The Owls were desperately seeking the victory that would have relegated their opposition but fell short of the mark in front of some a passionate home crowd. It lays the final nail...

Wednesday And Palace Set For Big Relegation Showdown – A Must See

Football can be cruel some times and that will be all the more apparent this Sunday when one of the biggest and most important last day games in English football history takes place as, Sheffield Wednesday take on Crystal Palace with both teams needing to gain some form of points to stay in the Championship....

Recap of Saturday’s Action in the EPL

Jermain Defoe puts Tottenham ahead With only three weeks to go until the final Saturday of competition the key races in the Premier League are heating up. Two key derbys, one in Manchester and the other in London, threw the races for first and fourth place back into uncertainty as Burnley and Hull City seem unwilling...

Magpies seal promotion

Finally, the wait is over at St. James’ Park as Newcastle United has officially confirmed a return to the top flight with six games to go in the current Championship season. Monday night’s encounter against Sheffield United was supposed to be a cracker of a contest as the promotion hopes of the Tyneside outfit were...

Dowie looks forward to getting off the slopes

New Hull City boss Iain Dowie has revealed that he can’t wait to get off the downhill slopes – both in skiing and in the Premier League. The former Newcastle assistant has been out of football for months now, and in the meantime has taken up skiing lessons, but admits he’s more than happy to...

Hull City will go down

That headline is hardly the most shocking of statements given their perilous position at the foot of the table, but after their performance at Goodison this weekend it’s more certain than ever that Hull will remain in the Premier League relegation zone. Their second-half capitulation against David Moyes’ men carried all the hallmarks of a side...

Piquionne brace sends Pompey to Wembley

When Birmingham City walked into Fratton Park this afternoon, many felt that in a matter of 90 minutes, they would officially end Portsmouth’s season by eliminating the hosts from the FA Cup. However, based solely on Pompey’s form in the competition, which they won a little less than two years ago, an upset was always...

Point deductions: Adding insult to injury

It was well known that Portsmouth were going to have a hard time staying in the Premier League, and it would have taken a Redknapp-esque comeback for them to keep their citizenship to one of the best leagues in the world.  However, now that they have entered administration and are likely to be deducted nine...

The Damned (Scunny) United: Clough On Watch, But Why?

In a weekend hit by weather misery here in the UK thanks to the government’s clear lack of contingency, Derby did manage to get their game against Scunthorpe United kicked off but in hindsight would rather they’d followed the lead of many of the other English clubs decision. The Irons battered Derby 4-1 at Pride Park...

January Transfer Window: What Will Happen?

I remember when the January transfer window first came to football. Forgive me if I can’t remember the exact year but I remember FIFA decided that it was a good idea to help all the small clubs hold onto their top players for larger parts of a season. Nobody could have predicted the level of...