English Championship Betting - Odds, Previews and Betting Tips

Saturday 20th August English Premier League Everton v QPR Everton’s start to the season was delayed due to the riots in London whilst QPR would have been wishing for such a circumstance as they crashed 4-0 at home to Bolton last Saturday. The two sides go head to head in the hunt for their first points of the campaign. Goodison Park has probably been the qu…
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Money, it appears, is no object to Leicester City who have been on a spending spree all summer long as they attempt to regain their top-flight status. To most Foxes’ fans, Sven-Goran Eriksson‘s multi-million pound plunges into the transfer market represent exciting times and there is no doubt that the quality offered by the likes of David Nuge…
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Two weeks ago, West Ham United were available at 7/1 to win the Championship. The bookies looked prepared to take on the Hammers, despite the appointment of Sam Allardyce as manager, with many of the squad’s most talented players set to leave Upton Park after the club’s relegation from the Premier League. However, the West Ham owners clearly don’t intend to s…
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Perennial play-off also-rans Nottingham Forest can be backed at 14/1 with Boylesports to win next year’s Championship after confirming the appointment of former England coach Steve McClaren as their new manager on a three-year contract just hours after sacking Billy Davies. McClaren was recently linked with the vacancy at Aston Villa but return…
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Swansea City v Reading Betting Tip & Odds: Truthfully, Swansea look as if they will fit better in the big occasion than Reading, and if they are not playing with nerves and get their passing game going, then they will be a handful. They have produced some impressive flowing football with their passing and movement this season, and you would expect them to c…
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Cardiff v Reading Championship Play Off Betting. With both matches of the first legs of the Championship play off semi finals ending in a 0-0 draw, it remains as everything to play for at the Cardiff City Stadium on Tuesday. Cardiff and Reading go at it again, having drawn three times now this season. Therefore the first leg result was no great surprise really,…
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Swansea v Nottingham Forest betting (aggregate 0-0) will play itself to a conclusion in the Championship Play Off Semi final. The first leg at Forest was marred in a way by a red card shown to Swansea’s Neil Taylor in the very first minute of play. What that meant was that Swansea were forced into a more defensive game, and it was up to Nottingham Forest to f…
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We usually associate the play-offs with high-scoring matches, especially in the Championship where the stakes are so high and a place in the Premier League awaits the winner. However, none of this was in evidence at the City Ground on Thursday or the Madejski Stadium on Friday, where a grand total of zero goals was scored in 180 minutes. In fairness to Swansea…
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Reading v Cardiff Championship Play Off Semi Final First Leg Friday, May 13th – 7.45 pm kick off Reading to win: 13/10 at Blue Square Draw: 12/5 at Victor Chandler Cardiff to win: 5/2 at BetFred Interesting sizing up your Reading v Cardiff betting for the Championship play offs here, as both have been pretty solid over the season. These are two of the four…
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Swansea City managed to overhaul arch-rivals Cardiff City on the final day of the regular Championship season to secure third place in the table and look worthy favourites to go on and secure promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs at a general 5/2. The play-offs are a great spectacle for the neutral at the end of a long season but are nerve-wracking f…
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