Author Archives: Kristian Downer

After yesterday saw penalty taking dominate the headlines in international football, I stumbled across this audacious penalty from Theyab Awana of United Arab Emirates as his side romped to a 7-2 victory over Lebanon. I am sure that had Awana … Continue reading →

Having summarised the completed deals in the Championship last week, during my review of how much was being spent I found myself struggling to work out how much each club has been spending on their new players this transfer window. This … Continue reading →

Join us on FACEBOOK Last week this site featured a guest post by Connor Diggin who ignited the debate about the role of money in football, by suggesting that investment by teams such as Leicester was ruining the game. This … Continue reading →

Last week ChampionshipTalk published research on the average cost of a season ticket in the NPower Championship. Further research shows that the headline figures hide the complex ticket pricing strategies employed by clubs can mean that determining how much the person … Continue reading →

We have spent the last week or so looking at the players that have already signed for a club in the Championship. Whilst some such as Derby have already signed a gaggle of players others have yet to get going … Continue reading →

   The series looking at the completed deals thus far in the Championship is concluded in a rather quiet fashion with few of the alphabetically challenged teams that active in the transfer market thus far with more players going out … Continue reading →

Last week saw the announcement that Kevin Phillips would not be retiring as many had expected following his release from relegated Birmingham City. The 37 year old  striker has instead joined Blackpool on a one year contract continuing a career … Continue reading →

The chance to write about football is great as I get to talk about something that I have a true passion about to people that share this with me.  Sadly between watching and writing about football I am obligated to … Continue reading →

We continue our round up of the transfers that have been agreed in the Championship so far, whilst not exhaustive these are done deals and feel free to comment if you think I have missed any important transfers. Cham­pi­onshipTalk is … Continue reading →

Our summary of confirmed deals rather than speculation continues today covering Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester and Middlesbrough. Remember these are confirmed purchases rather than a rumour I heard from my mate Paul who claims to be best friends with Alex … Continue reading →

As part of our summary of some of the deals that have been made in the Championship so far here are some of the players that have bought in the Championship from Cardiff to Doncaster. Cardiff City Don Cowie (Watford) … Continue reading →

A this time of year the tabloids morph into a machine of unadulterated speculation with very little footing in reality, churning out transfer speculation in the hope of shifting a few extra copies. Suddenly every journalist has inside sources that they just … Continue reading →

This week marks the start of pre-season training at clubs across England as the wind up to the first game of the season which is now just one month away. Whilst in the Premiership this increasingly means far flung tours … Continue reading →

The old season is now well and truly behind us and as we start looking forward to the new it is time to welcome the six teams that will be playing in the Championship next season following promotion from League … Continue reading →