Championship

Since parachute payments were increased for the 2014-15 Premier League season only one out of four teams promoted as playoff winners have stayed up – Huddersfield this season. The other three have all been relegated with point totals definitively behind the magic 40 point mark. Given the relatively poor...

The 2016/2017 Championship season proved to be both highly competitive and memorable. Newcastle United and Brighton Hove Albion ran away with automatic promotion, whilst Huddersfield somehow gained promotion to the top flight for the first time in over 40 years – even though they finished the season with a...

Nottingham Forest has been owned by the Al Hasawi family for nearly five years and every year they have seen their final league position fall. In the past four seasons under the Kuwaiti’s rule, the Reds have finished 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th. With Forest’s current season looking far...

It only took four games for Gary Brazil and Jack Lester to convince Fawaz Al Hasawi that they should be given managerial duties until the end of the season – removing the ‘interim’ part from their job titles. Whether or not a confusing set of rumours involving Mark Warburton’s...

With turmoil on and off the City Ground pitch, Nottingham Forest have earned a reputation in recent years as being the wrong destination for someone looking to progress in their footballing career. Managers fail to deliver results, directors quit after a matter of months and players watch their careers...

After entering administration four times in the last three years, Championship side Bradford Bulls finally went into liquidation at the beginning of January.  Only on the last day was it decided that Andrew Chalmers and Graham Lowe’s bid to take over the club would be finalised. Pre-season talk normally...

The takeover saga at Nottingham Forest has come to a sorry end. On Friday night, chairman and owner Fawaz Al Hasawi landed the bombshell that his negotiations with American buyers, which had been ongoing for months, had collapsed. As is the case with most of the controversies of the...