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  Chris Dunlavy: Big-hitters and rookie bosses join Championship madhouse!

  The Championship season hasn’t even kicked off yet, and already we’ve seen transfer embargoes, unpaid wages and a host of other off-field issues.

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  Chris Dunlavy: Spiky Sorba Thomas could prove big bargain

  Sorba Thomas. Good player. Bad attitude. That’s the narrative, anyway. What’s incontrovertible is that Stoke City have signed the best dead-ball specialist in the Championship.

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  Chris Dunlavy: Outdated Cardiff City need to modernise

  Vincent Tan may care about Cardiff City – he may well be upset by relegation, share the frustration of supporters and kick every ball, as he insisted in the superficially contrite statement that followed the Bluebirds’ descent into League One.

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  Chris Dunlavy: Don’t expect to see Wayne Rooney back in a Championship dugout again

  The 2024-25 season will go down in history for a variety of reasons – Burnley’s impenetrable defence, Birmingham City’s record-breaking points haul or Wrexham’s unprecedented hat-trick.