Middlesbrough

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.

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

This piece examines the most significant disciplinary ruling in English football's second tier in recent memory, looking beyond the bare facts of the verdict to assess what the conduct actually involved, why…

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…

This piece goes beyond the charge sheet to examine what the EFL's disciplinary commission can actually do, how the Southampton case compares to past spying scandals in football, and why the timing of this…

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…

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…