Championship
Chris Dunlavy: Championship play-off expansion keeps the promotion dream alive
With Tony Mowbray backing the move, Chris Dunlavy argues that extending the Championship play-offs gives more clubs something meaningful to fight for and supporters a reason...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 4 months agoChris Dunlavy: Dreadful Leicester City go from bad to worst
Ten years after Jamie Vardy and a team of overachieving grafters went down in history as the greatest Leicester City side of all time, the class of 2025-26 will almost certainly be remembered as the...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 4 months agoChris Dunlavy: Coventry City fans deserve return to heaven
To hell and back. Now, after 25 years of humiliation and despair, Coventry are heading back to the Premier League.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 4 months agoChris Dunlavy: Southampton’s good timing is so vital – just ask Will Still
Will Still could have been forgiven for putting his foot through the TV as he watched Southampton annihilate Wrexham on Tuesday evening.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 4 months agoChris Dunlavy: EFL must battle to avoid VAR misery
Marcelo Bielsa, who returned to England with Uruguay last weekend, was always a man of the people.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 4 months agoChris Dunlavy: Yousef Salech makes big difference
By Chris Dunlavy Quite how fit Yousef Salech will be after more than two months out with neck injury is open to debate, but there’s no doubt Cardiff have missed him. It is no coincidence...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Stoke City have got to change the culture
Speaking in the aftermath of last weekend’s 3-1 defeat at Preston, Robins criticised his players for making “stupid decisions” and blasted a “totally unacceptable” performance.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Sad all Dover, but now Lincoln City feel on top of the world
Ten years ago last weekend, 743 people watched Lincoln City get annihilated 4-1 by Dover Athletic in a National League game at the Crabble.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Jordan James can hold his head high at Leicester City
Leicester City have been awful this season, and their dressing room must take the lion’s share of the blame.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Sad Blacburn Rovers’ misery is years in making
Next weekend, Michael O’Neill will leave Blackburn’s relegation struggles behind and jet off to oversee Northern Ireland’s World Cup play-off against Italy in Bergamo.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoAT LEAST CHANSIRI WILL BE OUT OF POCKET!
Chris Dunlavy COST: Dejphon Chansiri SHEFFIELD Wednesday’s annus horribilis plumbed new depths this week with news that the Owls are likely to be docked 15 points next season. Arise, a group led by US investors...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Southampton must take care with Ross Stewart
Strange though it may sound, Southampton’s hopes of promotion could hinge on a player who has started just eight Championship games this season.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Neil Warnock could’ve got West Brom bouncing
Neil Warnock shelved the gardening gloves, mothballed the golf clubs and dusted down his tracksuit to take charge of Torquay United this week.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Leo Scienza shines amid the ups and downs at Southampton
Southampton's rollercoaster form means their players are unlikely to feature when the end-of-season awards are doled out next month.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Kalvin Phillips needs to be quiet man again at Sheffield United
The tears streaming down Kalvin Phillips’ face as he trudged off the Bramall Lane pitch said it all.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney can rightly take a bow
It’s easy to sneer at Wrexham, isn’t it? At the hype and the hullabaloo. At the schmaltzy documentary and celebrity entourage. At the silly American owners with their gleaming grins, wry wisecracks and ostentatious humility.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Hayden Hackney is a class apart in the Championship
Don Goodman reckons Hayden Hackney is the best player in the Championship – and he’s probably right.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Jamaal Lascelles could prove incredibly important to struggling Leicester City
Jamaal Lascelles’ deadline-day loan to Leicester was hardly the most sexy signing of the window. But it could be one of the most important.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Sorry Watford have lost their heart and soul
Javi felt he no longer had the motivation and was not the right man to continue coaching this exciting group of young players
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 7 months agoChris Dunlavy: Marti Cifuentes should have let Leicester City run free
Marti Cifuentes did not help his cause - or his team - by sticking rigidly to a style of play that prioritised shape and possession over creative freedom.
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