It has happened again, another great footballer is transfer-listed by his club. Last season's best right-back in the Championship, Bristol City's Bradley Orr, didn't agree the terms of the new contract with his club and will probably look for new surroundings in January. Orr hasn't been in the first team for a longer time, and the [. Click to continue reading...

Want to keep up with all of the latest news and info on your favorite English Championship club? Want to read up on your club's opponent ahead of a big league clash? We've compiled links to the official club sites and news, squad, fixtures/results, and NewsNow sections for each Championship club so that you don't [. Click to continue reading...

Statistics and Image from SoccerPunter.com Why not have a go at predicting the result yourself. It's just for fun, there is no financial risk at all in using this system. Barnsley vs. Bristol... Dedicated to Barnsley FC and it's fans. Documenting the ramblings of a Barnsley season ticket holder - On the Ponty End. Click to continue reading...

Barnsley 0 - Bristol City 0 With Oakwell seemingly on edge at first, it would be easy to comment on the reverse story and wax-lyrical about an outstanding Reds performance, particularly in the... Dedicated to Barnsley FC and it's fans. Documenting the ramblings of a Barnsley season ticket holder - On the Ponty End. Click to continue reading...

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Telegraph/Sandy Macaskill - QPR's Iain Dowie refuses to be downhearted by defeat
Having been sacked as Coventry's manager in February, Iain Dowie will have been looking to lay a few ghosts to rest when he took his Queens Park Rangers side to the Ricoh Arena. But it turned out to be not quite the return he had wished for. Click to continue reading...

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Kilburn Times
IAIN Dowie says he has 'no regrets' about his spell in charge of Coventry as he prepares to return there with QPR this weekend.
The Rangers boss was sacked by incoming Sky Blues chairman Ray Ranson in February after almost exactly a year in charge, during which he guided them to memorable cup succeses at both Manchester United and Blackburn. Click to continue reading...

RESULTS Champions League Chelsea 4-0 Bordeaux Marseille 1-2 Liverpool AS Roma 1-2 Cluj Barcelona 3-1 Sporting Lisbon Panathainikos 0-2 Inter Milan PSV 0-3 A Madrid W Bremen 0-0 Anorthosis Basel 1-2 S Dontesk Championship Reading 6-0 Sheff Wed Burnley 2-0 Blackpool Bristol City 1-2 Birmingham Wolves 2-1 C Palace Barnsley 0-1 Cardiff Sheff Utd 1-1 Coventry Doncaster 0-1 Charlton Swansea 1-1 Derby County Watford 1-2 Plymouth Preston 2-1 Nottm Forest LEAGUE ONE Stockport 1-1 Northampton Cheltenham 2-1 Bristol Rovers Click to continue reading...

This weekend was a memorable one for Americans Abroad as two recent MLS transfers made their European club debuts, while a few other Americans found the net.

Maurice Edu (pictured) made his debut for Glasgow Rangers on Saturday in a 2-1 win over Kilmarnock while U.S. Olympic teammate Jozy Altidore impressed in his La Liga debut for Villarreal.

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Southampton heads north to London to play QPR today. Saints have a single win with 3 loses in their first 4 games. It's not an encouraging start even for Saints fans who don't have high hopes for this season.

QPR have a few knocks and we should expect a few new faces since their last game, a 1-1 tie with high flying Bristol City.

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TIME OUT - Coca-Cola Championship Queens Park Rangers v Southampton
Sun Sep 14Rangers Stadium, South Africa Rd, W12 7PA
The last time Southampton played in W12, the Saints were down to ten men and Rangers scraped a 3-2 victory thanks to goals from Patrick Agyemang and Martin Rowlands. Click to continue reading...

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Yann Tear/Ealing Gazette - Cerny -I'm confident I will win over Rangers fansSep 5 2008

AS DEBUTS go, it was not the most encouraging.

Barely had Radek Cerny touched the ball in the first game of the season against Barnsley than the fans were chanting the name of Lee

Camp, the player he has replaced in the team. Click to continue reading...

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Dave McIntyre/BBC 606 - Humble Cerny out to change minds
Radek Cerny is well aware he isn't popular with a section of QPR supporters.
He couldn't fail to hear Lee Camp's name being chanted just minutes into the Czech keeper's Rangers debut on the opening day of the season. Click to continue reading...

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Damien Delaney reportedly not in the Republic of Ireland's starting lineup against Georgia...Shabbaz Baidoo is set to link up with Danny Cullip at Lewes..Jake Cole Injury


No Delaney: BBC: "Hunt and Whelan in Republic team WORLD CUP . Click to continue reading...

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There is a (boring!) break this weekend for International games and then five league games during Septembe, at the end of which, QPR fans will have a better idea of how the team may do this season.

September Games:
QPR play Southampton on (Sunday) September 14. Click to continue reading...

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Dave McIntyre/BBC606 - Buzsaky is back
Akos Buzsaky is back and hoping to feature against Southampton on Sunday week.
Buzsaky played the second half of a reserve game against Charlton on Tuesday afternoon and looked encouragingly sharp for a player who had been out since since April. Click to continue reading...

After Dimitar Berbatov's strange menage-a-trois dalliance with Mark Hughes and Sir Alex Ferguson, and Man City gazumping Chelsea, yesterday's third oddest deadline day transfer was that of John Akinde from Ebbsfleet United to Bristol City for £150,000 plus add-ons. The transfer wasn't bizarre because of the player - Akinde has long attracted interest from league clubs [. Click to continue reading...

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For better or worse, there were no deadline-day transfers (in or out) for QPR...The transfer window is now closed for the next four months. The option of signing players on loan remains (although the rumoured Frazier-Campbell from Manchester United went out the window, with his last minute signing for Spurs. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal 3-0 Newcastle -- Finally the Gunners show some championship potential. RVP with a brace and Arsenal had a 23-4 shot advantage. Dang...

Aston Villa 0-0 Liverpool -- Borefest saw Torres get hurt and Villa fans heckle the crap out of Benitez for trying to steal Gareth Barry.

Man City 3-0 Sunderland -- SWP debuted with a vengeance, netting two fairly simple attempts. Click to continue reading...

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Championship Nominations for Manager of the Month: Wolves' Mick McCarthy; Preston's Alan Irvine; Birmingham's Alex McCleish; Bristol City's Gary Johnson.


Football League - MANAGER OF THE MONTH NOMINATIONS

The nominations are in for the season's first Manager of the Month awards, which are due to be announced at 1. Click to continue reading...

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QPR Official Site - MANU TO MISS SAINTS CLASH
Emmanuel Ledesma will serve a one-match suspension, owing to the red card he received against Bristol City on Saturday.
The Argentine midfielder was given his marching orders for two bookable offences, as Rangers held out for 40 minutes with ten men to claim a deserved point at Ashton Gate. Click to continue reading...

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INDEPENDENT/By Graham Nickless - Bristol City 1 Queen's Park Ranger 1: Cerny's new freedom has security benefits for QPR
Radek Cerny is enjoying his relaxed new lifestyle and new sense of freedom at Queen's Park Rangers compared to the stressful way of living he experienced at Tottenham Hotspur. Click to continue reading...

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QPR's draw at Bristol City leaves the club in 9th place with 7 points from 10 games: Two wins, a draw, a loss (plus two Carling Cup victories). Photos from Bristol City vs QPR

QPR Official Site - IAIN DOWIE - AN IMPORTANT POINT'
Manager Iain Dowie was pleased to pick up a point at 'a difficult place to come' as QPR recorded their first draw of the season at Bristol City. Click to continue reading...

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QPR take on Bristol City today.
Today's teams: Cerny, Ramage, Stewart, Connolly, Delaney, Ledesma, Leighterwood, Mahon, Cook, Parejo, Blackstock - Subs: Camp, Agyemang, Gorkss, Rowlands, Balanta.

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It's QPR at Bristol City today which should let QPR fans get a chance to assess how strong a promotion challenge this team is going to make and how they do away from home. Things change: A few years back, the two teams were promotion rivals in the (old) Third Division; and this was one of QPR's primary games of the season. Click to continue reading...

The entire A-League has been handed a weekend's recess to allow the national team to concentrate on their World Cup qualifying visit to Uzbekistan on September 10, but it turns out only one side will actually be affected by national team coach Pim Verbeek's call-ups.

After finally being convinced to elongate the regular season to allow byes over FIFA-recognised match dates, Australian football authorities must now wonder why they bothered. Click to continue reading...

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Bristol City Official Site SATURDAY'S GAME WILL BE DIFFERENT
Read City captain Louis Carey's exclusive website blog, only on bcfc.co.uk.
We were gutted to lose our unbeaten run and go out of the Carling Cup at Crewe on Tuesday night.
It came on the back of such a great all-round performance at Coventry. Click to continue reading...

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QPR Official Site - EXCLUSIVE: BUZ BACK IN TRAINING
Akos Buzsaky has resumed full training and could be in line to make his comeback in Tuesday's Reserve fixture against Charlton Athletic at Loftus Road.
The Magical Magyar underwent surgery on his left ankle at the start of June, but has responded well to recent treatment and returned to First Team training earlier this week. Click to continue reading...

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Kilburn Times/Ben Kosky - Gavin Mahon - Rangers need to be nastier on the road
GAVIN Mahon believes QPR must mix it in midfield if they are to reproduce their home form at Bristol City this weekend.
Mahon has featured in all three of Rangers' home matches - all wins - to date and says a steely edge is essential to complement the skills of players such as Daniel Parejo, Lee Cook and Emmanuel Ledesma. Click to continue reading...

It's not just us who go on European Football Weekends, you're all at it! Send us your EFW photos and we'll publish them here - simple:


Motherwell fan Andy took this one of the Tartan Army in Prague.

He also followed his team to the market town of Abtenau near Salzburg, Austria for some pre-season action. Click to continue reading...

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Barry Bridges
Forty Years Ago today - August 24, 1968, QPR's new record signing, 27-year-old Barry Bridges, signed from Birmingham City for 50,000 pounds, made his debut against Joe Mercer/Malcolm Allison's First Division Champions, Manchester City. Another in a series of surreal moments for QPR that season: QPR playing the First Division Champions at Loftus Road. Click to continue reading...

Well yesterday proved an interesting day in the English football league didn't it?

Fulham v the Arse - Oops! Another furrow in Wenger's forehead. You couldn't say they were robbed though could you

Tottenham v Sunderland - I have thought for some time that Sunderland are going to offer us a few surprises this year. Click to continue reading...

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Birthdays for Lee Camp and Marcus Bignot
Lee Camp Turns 24 - Born August 22, 1984
After two periods on loan, Goalie Lee Camp joined QPR from Derby last summer. Played in 2002-2003 Promotion season. Played in our last 12 games which saw us gain promotion. Click to continue reading...

Friday

19:30 Bayern Munich v Hamburger SV, Bundesliga, Setanta Sports 1
If Bild were English they'd no doubt have used the headline "HAMBURGLED" after Real Madrid made their last minute raid on Hamburg's Rafael van der Vaart. Nevertheless, despite the Dutchman's absence this is a cracking game to kick-off the Bundesliga season and Klinsie's reign at Bayern. Click to continue reading...

Thank God the Premier League starts again this weekend, so Man U are creeping closer to Liverpool's crown of most successful English club ever but will any other records be broken?

Take a look at the records below, thanks to Wikipedia (I love you guys!)

Records in this section refer to The Football League from its founding in 1888 through to 1992, and to both the Premier League and The Football League from 1992 to the present.

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Soccerword's Championship Predictions
1. Birmingham
2. Reading
3. Sheffield United
4. Crystal Palace
5. Queens Park Rangers
6. Ipswich
7. Bristol City
8. Watford
9. Coventry City
10. Nottingham Forest
11. Charlton
12.

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