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Ashley

So The Championship 09-10 Starts Here.

By Ashley, in General Football and Sport

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tartanowl

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Just short of 33,000 tickets sold for the derby on Sunday with a few days left. Looks like it will be a sell out. It's a massive game for us. Lose and we are probably down.

Ultra

Ultra

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I see Charlie Adam picked up his 15th booking of the season yesterday, ruling him out of Blackpool's next three games. Will be interesting to see how they get on without him.

shen

shen

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I wouldn't want to be cardiff after the way sheff weds played in the derby though.

With the playoff place secured, why wouldn't you want to be them... ?

AjcW

AjcW

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With the playoff place secured, why wouldn't you want to be them... ?

Just refering to DavieG's thing about who has the tough fixtures, im talking about final play off position standings. :thumbup:

C-man

C-man

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I wouldn't want to be cardiff after the way sheff weds played in the derby though.

What? Wednesday were poor yesterday. Very flat for the derby. Other than the goal and 5 mins either side of, it reminded me of our relegation season.

Ford Super Sunday

Ford Super Sunday

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I cannot believe the Plymouth PA is playing 'We are the champions' and 'tubthumping' over the speakers for the Newcastle fans

Especially on the day night their relegation is confirmed

What hearty respect they're showing to their own supporters there.

Shrenchel

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I cannot believe the Plymouth PA is playing 'We are the champions' and 'tubthumping' over the speakers for the Newcastle fans

Especially on the day night their relegation is confirmed

What hearty respect they're showing to their own supporters there.

Insurance advert solidarity. It's the 21st century's answer to football rivalries.

Fox You Forest

Fox You Forest

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What hearty respect they're showing to their own supporters there.

Them two lads in the Plymouth end that the camera panned too didn't seem too bothered they were singing along to it. :laugh:

Tommeh

Tommeh

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Horrible that from Plymouth, truely fvcking hideous thing to do.

Would ditch home games altogether if that ever happened down Leicester.

Did the Derby on Sunday, not confident of Wednesday staying up at all really, United were there for the taking and celebrated like they'd won at the end. Incredible atmsophere in the build up though, proper inner city hatred in a packed rustic traditional ground.

The Doctor

The Doctor

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Plymouth relegated, Toon champions.

Glad Plymouth have gone, to be honest.

Pitch invasion by the Geordies.

are they really?

I've just looked at the table and they're 6 points off survival with 6 left to play for so surely they can just about survive?

StanSP

StanSP

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are they really?

I've just looked at the table and they're 6 points off survival with 6 left to play for so surely they can just about survive?

But Sheff Weds and Palace still have to play each other.

Even if there is a draw in the above game, and Plymouth still win, they will be 4 points behind 21st place.

iBleedLeicesterColours

iBleedLeicesterColours

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Horrible that from Plymouth, truely fvcking hideous thing to do.

Would ditch home games altogether if that ever happened down Leicester.

Did the Derby on Sunday, not confident of Wednesday staying up at all really, United were there for the taking and celebrated like they'd won at the end. Incredible atmsophere in the build up though, proper inner city hatred in a packed rustic traditional ground.

What end were you in and who do you prefer ?

Tommeh

Tommeh

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What end were you in and who do you prefer ?

Was on the Kop, So home end.

Much prefer Wednesday as most my mates up here support them. Can't stand United.

Guest Bilo

Guest Bilo

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Bugger off Plymouth.

Their mongtacular behaviour regarding our relegation two years ago means I've no sympathy for them. Enjoy Rochdale away.

Another story that caught my interest in the Guardian today.

Celtic will consider Billy Davies as a candidate to become their new manager after it emerged that he would in principle be agreeable to leaving Nottingham Forest to return to his native Glasgow.

Davies has enjoyed success at the City Ground, guiding Forest into this season's play-offs for a place in the Premier League. However, he has made clear his frustrations regarding the club's complex transfer policy, most recently last month. The former Preston North End and Derby County manager was a candidate to replace Gary Megson at Bolton Wanderers before Owen Coyle took that job in January.

There is a growing possibility Davies will seek a new club at the end of this campaign, regardless of whether Forest gain promotion, and those close to him in Scotland are adamant Celtic are a realistic option. Yet the arrival of the 45-year-old at Parkhead would be controversial, with Davies known to have been a boyhood Rangers supporter. The payment of compensation to Forest may also prove a problem to Celtic, who paid that to lure Tony Mowbray and his coaching team from West Bromwich Albion last summer before suffering the cost implications of sacking that trio.

The hopes of Neil Lennon, the interim Celtic manager, of landing the post permanently may well have been fatally ended by the embarrassing Scottish Cup defeat to Ross County, although he has overseen four successive league wins.

Mark Hughes, Paul Lambert and the Scotland manager, Craig Levein, are also in the thoughts of the Celtic board but club sources have stressed no formal contact will be made with any manager until the end of this season. Talks have taken place only with Hughes's representative, Kia Joorabchian, since Mowbray's departure.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/apr/19/billy-davies-celtic-manager-candidate

And The Times seem even more sure that Davies is on his way out.

Celtic are considering a move to make Billy Davies their next manager after the Nottingham Forest incumbent — and former Rangers player — made it known that he would be interested in returning to Scotland to work at Celtic Park.

The move would shock many observers of Scottish football, who have always viewed Davies as “a Rangers man”, but the manager himself has expressly told a number of confidants that the Celtic job would appeal to him.

Davies, whose Forest side are in third position in the Coca-Cola Championship and guaranteed a place in the play-offs, is understood to have had various disagreements with the board at the City Ground, and appears certain to leave Nottingham Forest in the summer, regardless of whether they gain promotion to the Barclays Premier League.

Jim Price, a Glasgow solicitor who acts as Davies’s adviser, confirmed to The Times yesterday that the 45-year-old Scot would welcome the chance to manage Celtic.

“I think the idea that Billy is an out-and-out Rangers man is a bit of a myth,” Price said. “I advise Billy on different football matters and my remit with him is simple: when there is any club out there who is interested in having Billy as their manager, we sit down and discuss it.

“I certainly don’t see why Billy couldn’t be a successful manager at Celtic or Rangers or wherever.”

Celtic, via at least one intermediary, have already moved to sound out Davies about the prospect of succeeding Tony Mowbray. The Glasgow club are thought to be considering a number of candidates for the role — including Neil Lennon, who is in the job in a caretaker capacity — but view Davies’s credentials as among the most impressive.

The former Rangers, St Mirren, Dunfermline Athletic and Motherwell player has had success at every club he has managed, taking Preston North End to the brink of the English Premier League via the play-offs in 2005, then taking Derby County back into the top flight in his first season in charge in 2006-07.

Davies was appointed Forest manager on January 1, 2009 and has since repeated his previous successes there. His recent months, though, have not been happy, with many believing that he will not be given the money he feels the club will need to survive in the Premier League should they get there. He is also understood to be aggrieved with the tight fiscal policy operated by Nigel Doughty, the Forest chairman.

Davies is said to be keen on the Celtic job, and other factors have recently influenced his thinking. His wife wishes to return home to Scotland, and that and other family considerations have started to shape his thinking.

If Davies was appointed as the manager of Celtic, it would be one of the most intriguing moves in Scottish football in a long time. The downside for the Celtic board is that the Forest manager is said to be a feisty, strong-willed character who is not afraid to speak his mind, and who has riled more than just one football club director in his time.

“Billy is not backward in coming forward,” another source told The Times last night. “He is a very talented football manager — his record shows that — but if Celtic went for him they would have a manager who doesn’t pussyfoot around with diplomacies.”

Lennon, meanwhile, having won four straight games in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League, is said to be a growing contender all the time for the job, despite losing to Ross County in the Active Nation Scottish Cup semifinals ten days ago.

On Sunday, Lennon aims to make that a five-game winning league sequence when Celtic face Dundee United at Tannadice — a feat not achieved by the club since November 2008.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/scotland/article7102330.ece

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