Championship League – Worldwide Sports News

October 20, 2024

Hull’s Walter reveals referee apologised for role in Sunderland winner

Hull player Mehlem appeared to be obstructed by referee
Wilson Isidor’s strike sends Black Cats back to top

Hull City’s head coach Tim Walter revealed referee Robert Madley apologised to him for his inadvertent role in Sunderland’s winner that helped the Black Cats return to the top of the Championship table.

Wilson Isidor’s third goal in four matches, in which the on-loan Zenit St Petersburg striker ran half the length of the field and lifted the ball over Ivor Pandur, sealed a 1-0 win for Sunderland at MKM Stadium.

October 19, 2024

Championship roundup: Cardiff hit five to stun Wayne Rooney and Plymouth

Interim manager Riza claims second win in three games
Burnley go top; Portsmouth beat QPR at bottom of table

Wayne Rooney bemoaned a “difficult” afternoon after watching from the stands as his Plymouth side was hammered 5-0 at Cardiff.

Michael Obafemi spurned a glorious chance for Plymouth early on, and it was all downhill for the visitors after that, with goals from Alex Robertson, Rubin Colwill, Anwar El Ghazi, Callum Robinson and Chris Willock. Ibrahim Cissoko was sent off five minutes before the break after reacting to an incident with Perry Ng.

October 5, 2024

Championship roundup: Wayne Rooney sent off in late Plymouth drama

Manager sees red before Plymouth’s injury-time winner
Sheffield United level at top after Rak-Sakyi double

Wayne Rooney was sent off in a dramatic finish at Home Park, moments before Plymouth midfielder Morgan Whittaker scored a dramatic added-time winner in a 2-1 victory over Blackburn. Whittaker nodded home Adam Randell’s header back into the goalmouth from Lewis Gibson’s deep cross as Argyle piled on the pressure in the seventh and final minute of stoppage time.

Plymouth had taken a 15th-minute lead against the run of play through on-loan Burnley striker Michael Obafemi, but Blackburn substitute Joe Rankin-Costello levelled in the 86th minute from Dominic Hyam’s cross. Rooney was dismissed for his furious reaction to the equaliser – meaning the Plymouth manager was not on the touchline to see Whittaker’s last-gasp winner.

October 4, 2024

Preston’s Milutin Osmajic given eight-match ban and £15,000 fine for biting

Montenegro striker admits biting Blackburn’s Owen Beck
Osmajic scored twice in last match against Watford

The Preston striker Milutin Osmajic has been given an eight-match ban and fined £15,000 for biting the Blackburn defender Owen Beck. The incident took place in a Championship match between the two Lancashire clubs on 22 September.

Announcing Osmajic’s punishment, a Football Association spokesperson said: “The forward admitted that he committed an act of violent conduct around the 87th minute by biting an opponent.”

October 3, 2024October 4, 2024

Leeds aim to burst Sunderland bubble as Meslier meets former mentor

Régis Le Bris’s side top the Championship but the manager’s former Lorient student will stand in his way on Friday night

Illan Meslier represents one of the reasons why Régis Le Bris is now Sunderland’s manager but on Friday night he and his Leeds teammates hope to silence a packed Stadium of Light.

As a teenage goalkeeper in a Lorient academy run by Le Bris, Meslier learned to fight under the tutelage of a professional boxing coach he now credits with having taught him “courage” during one-on-one clashes with centre-forwards.

October 2, 2024

Championship: Osmajic shrugs off FA biting charge to hit two in Preston win

Striker helps Preston punish Watford
Cannon hits four as Stoke thrash Portsmouth

The Preston manager, Paul Heckingbottom, praised Milutin Osmajic after the forward scored twice in the 3-0 win over Watford as he awaits the outcome of his charge of biting an opponent. Osmajic made his first Championship start of the season in the contest at Deepdale six days on from being charged by the Football Association over his alleged biting of Blackburn defender Owen Beck during the 0-0 draw with Rovers on 22 September.

While the Preston director, Peter Ridsdale, had said in a TalkSport interview that the Montenegro international had accepted the charge, with no further statement on the matter having come from the FA, he remained available for selection. He went on to produce finishes in the 53rd and 65th minutes, to which Ali McCann added a superb 75th-minute strike.

October 1, 2024

Championship: Sunderland hit top as West Brom and Blackburn falter

Sunderland defeat Derby 2-0 at home
Blackburn’s unbeaten run ended by Coventry

Sunderland took advantage of defeats for West Bromwich Albion and Blackburn to climb to the top of the Championship after a 2-0 win over Derby.

Goals either side of half-time from Jobe Bellingham and Wilson Isidor made it four home wins from four matches for Régis Le Bris’s side.