Weekend Football

[Sutekh]

The current bottom 6 of the Championship:

19 Blackburn Rovers 32 9 8 15 30 41 -11 35
20 West Bromwich Albion 32 9 7 16 32 47 -15 34
21 Portsmouth 30 8 9 13 27 39 -12 33
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22 Leicester City 32 10 8 14 44 51 -7 32
23 Oxford United 32 6 10 16 28 44 -16 28
24 Sheffield Wednesday 32 1 8 23 19 64 -45 -7

Next Sunday will see Brammall Lane host the steel city derby. A home win will mathematically relegate Sheffield Wednesday into League One for next season.

[Sanguine]

Ian Wright, like Eze, was 27 when he joined Arsenal from Palace, fwiw.
As Sutekh said, the chance to join a club like that doesn't come along often.

[Sanguine]

Stat-watch. Middlesbrough now top of the Championship table. Manchester United, way back in 1905/06, are the only second tier club ever to have amassed Coventry's 43 points after 18 games and not be promoted. Just 16 points from their subsequent 13 matches.

Also, Celtic's late winner blows the SPL race wide open. I really want Hearts to do it. But there's an inevitability about the Old Firm.