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  Chris Dunlavy: Slow start has put Preston in great peril

  Chris Dunlavy examines Preston North End’s worrying start to the Championship season and asks whether their commitment to sustainability is finally becoming incompatible with life in the second tier.

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  Simon Grayson: It can be so tough to shake Premier League relegation hangover

  West Ham and Burnley have both struggled to hit top form on their return to the Championship. The Hammers’ 4-2 win over Wolves last Tuesday evening was their first three-point haul of the season.

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  LIONS SHOW THEY CAN DO IT WITHOUT AZEEZ

  Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL TALISMAN: Femi Azeez THE most impressive aspect of Millwall’s flying start to the season isn’t the six points from two games, the away day stroll at Bristol City or the demolition of a highly-fancied Norwich City side. It’s the fact they’d done it...

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  CANNY NORTH END IN SMART MOVE TO CUT TIES

  Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL OUT: Milutin Osmajic PRESTON have played an absolute blinder convincing Genoa to pay £2.5m for walking liability Milutin Osmajic. Whether it was biting Blackburn’s Owen Beck, racially abusing Burnley’s Hannibal Mejbri or headbutting Hull’s John Lundstram, the 27-year-old Montenegren was rarely far from...