Championship

Middlesbrough won by five goals to one at Bolton Wanderers on Friday night and finished the round top of the Championship, and Queens Park Rangers beat Swansea City 5-0 on Saturday. All twelve games listed for…

West Ham beat Swansea 1-0 to go second, a point behind the leaders, West Brom came from two goals down to beat Blackburn, and Burnley lost at home to Wolves for a 21st home league game without a win. All…

West Ham scored six at Lincoln against nine men, Swansea won at Millwall with a goal in the 90th minute on a night when police began investigating a report of racial abuse, and Neto Borges scored at both ends…

Burnley won a league game at last, Southampton beat Portsmouth with ten men, and a twenty-one-year-old goalkeeper on loan from Manchester City stopped West Ham going top of the Championship. The league came…

Five of the fourteen games finished 2-2, and Millwall were 2-0 up in two of them. That is the round in one line: a division where almost nobody could hold on to anything, and where Swansea City went back to…

Thirty-seven goals, six different scorers in one game on the Friday night, and three clubs finishing the weekend on the same number of points.

The Championship's third round was played across Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August: twelve games, all reviewed here, from Lincoln City's first win in the second tier since April 1961 to the only perfect record…

Matchweek two of the Championship ran across Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August. All twelve games are reviewed here, along with a table that already contains one club sitting in the relegation places with a…

This round-up was first published on 16 August, when nine of the opening round's twelve games had been played. It was updated on 18 August with the three that remained: Watford 2-1 Southampton, Burnley 2-2…

Wolves led their Championship opener, lost it, and only drew it thanks to a penalty decision that still splits opinion at Molineux. This article explains why the final scoreline undersells how comfortably…

Two years ago Ipswich Town spent big on an almost entirely British squad and still finished second bottom of the Premier League. This summer, under new manager Gary O'Neil, the club has signed its first-ever…

A Wolves training session was abandoned on Monday after striker Tolu Arokodare reportedly refused to leave the pitch. Read on to understand why he stopped the session, what club he wants to join, and what it…

Southampton thought Spygate had been settled with a play-off ban and a points deduction. Now the FA has charged head coach Tonda Eckert personally, and this piece explains what he's accused of, what's already…

Every relegated club has one player the whole summer hinges on, and for West Ham that player was always Jarrod Bowen. With Nuno Espirito Santo already committed to the Championship rebuild, the captain's…

West Ham's ownership story has taken a sharp turn, with serious allegations against one co-owner arriving at the same moment the club is scrambling to return to the Premier League. This piece examines what the…

The bid by Saudi government official Turki Al-Sheikh to invest in Derby County places English football's newly formed independent regulator in an extraordinarily difficult position. This piece examines what is…

Southampton's Spygate fallout has reached its most critical juncture yet, with owner Dragan Solak going on record to defend the man at the centre of the storm. This piece examines what his public backing of…

The League Arbitration Panel's written reasons have laid bare the human cost of Southampton's surveillance operation: junior staff placed under pressure, told they had no real choice, and left to carry the…

West Ham's confirmation that Nuno Espirito Santo will remain as manager raises as many questions as it answers. This piece examines whether the logic behind the decision holds up, what the club must sacrifice…

William Salt is the Southampton performance analyst named in the Middlesbrough training spy scandal. Here is what is known about him and what comes next.

Less than three years after lifting European silverware, West Ham have dropped out of the Premier League. This piece looks beyond the result and into the structural, financial and personal questions that will…

A timeline of Southampton's spygate scandal: the three admitted incidents, the EFL hearing, and the ruling that cost the club its Championship play-off final.

Sunday's final day of the Premier League season carries genuinely historic weight for two of London's biggest clubs. This piece looks beyond the permutations and into the financial wreckage, managerial…

Twelve months ago, Hull City were scrambling to stay in the Championship on the final day of the season. On Saturday they walked out of Wembley as a Premier League club. This piece traces the full arc of that…

With four days to go until the Championship play-off final at Wembley, Southampton's place in it is anything but guaranteed. An EFL disciplinary commission convened on Tuesday morning to rule on allegations…

The 2026 Championship play-off final is caught in a genuine institutional crisis, not mere pre-match intrigue. This piece examines what the EFL's own language tells us about the likelihood of 23 May going…

Hull City's journey from final-day survival last season to the Championship play-off final is one of the more improbable stories of the 2025/26 campaign. This piece examines how a sixth-placed side operating…

A first leg that produced no goals but plenty of intrigue, near-misses and a contentious late disallowed goal. We examine what the stalemate at MKM Stadium truly means for both clubs ahead of Monday's decisive…

Watford's latest managerial dismissal is less a shock than a foregone conclusion, played out in slow motion over three dispiriting months. This piece examines why Ed Still never stood a realistic chance at…

This piece looks beyond the scoreline to examine what the final day of the Championship season truly meant for two clubs with very different emotional journeys still ahead of them. We explore how Wrexham's…

What unfolds at the MKM Stadium on the final day of the Championship season is as much a story about nerve as it is about football. We look at how Oli McBurnie's composure under pressure, and the shifting…

Ipswich Town's return to the Premier League after a single season away is the story of a squad rebuilt from scratch finding its identity across nine months. This piece looks beyond the scoreline at the…

Coventry City wrapped up their final Championship season with something close to a parade — and Ellis Simms was the one holding the trophy. This piece looks at how Simms' hat-trick encapsulated everything…

Scott Parker's tenure at Burnley is over, and the numbers that defined his final season in charge make for sobering reading. This piece examines the full arc of his two-year spell at Turf Moor, from a…

Leicester City's relegation to League One is one of the most dramatic falls from grace in English football history. In this piece, Adrian Dane examines how a club that lifted the Premier League title in 2016…

Championship clubs have firmly closed the door on video review technology for the 2025-26 season, rejecting a proposal to introduce Football Video Support (FVS) despite calls from several managers. This…

Leicester City are eight points from safety with just nine available, and the arithmetic alone tells a brutal story. This piece looks at how one of English football's most celebrated clubs has arrived at the…

Ipswich Town and Middlesbrough served up one of the Championship's most gripping Sunday encounters, sharing the spoils in a 2-2 draw that has significant implications at both ends of the promotion picture. We…

Leicester City's chances of Championship survival are hanging by the thinnest of threads after a 1-0 defeat at Fratton Park left them eight points from safety with only three games remaining. Ibane Bowat's…

Coventry City are back in the Premier League for the first time since 2001, sealing promotion with a 1-1 draw at Blackburn on Friday night. This piece examines the remarkable transformation at the Sky Blues…

Sheffield Wednesday's future as a Championship club rests on a narrow three-week window in which preferred bidder David Storch must finalise a takeover before a new statutory regulator adds fresh complexity to…

Nottingham Forest find themselves in one of the most bizarre and compelling situations in English football: a Europa League semi-final against Aston Villa while simultaneously fighting to avoid the drop from…

West Bromwich Albion are staring down a truly unprecedented scenario: a points deduction that could send them into League One, potentially imposed after the Championship season has already finished. This piece…