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Championship Preview

LFW's looks ahead to the forthcoming weekends action in the Coca Cola Championship.

A slightly reduced fixture list this weekend due to an incredible 3 Championship sides being in FA Cup Semi Final action. West Brom, Barnsley and Cardiff will all be visiting Wembley Stadium over the weekend and one at the very least, will be returning in May - Good Luck to all of them!!

Moving on and with Stoke not playing on Saturday, Bristol City have a great chance to go 4 points clear at the top. The Robins travel to St Marys to take on Southampton, who after a quite dreadful run, now find themselves in the bottom three. Stoke take on Crystal Palace at The Brittania on Monday night.

Staying at the top end and Watford have a home game with Coventry and could move ever closer to the automatic positions. Hovering just outside the play off positions are Ispwich, who travel to Layer Road and could actually relegate near neighbours, Colchester in the A12 derby.

Just above Colchester are Scunthorpe, who have a home game against Sheffield Wednesday which is simply a MASSIVE game for both clubs. Tuesday and Wednesday next week also see four games taking place as clubs have to catch up with their games in hand. The full list of Championship fixtures is as follows;

Saturday, 5 April, 2008

Colchester United v Ipswich Town
Norwich City v Burnley
Plymouth Argyle v Charlton Athletic
Queens Park Rangers v Preston North End
Scunthorpe United v Sheffield Wednesday (12:00)
Sheffield United v Leicester City
Southampton v Bristol City
Watford v Coventry City

Monday, 7 April, 2008

Stoke City v Crystal Palace - 20:00

Tuesday, 8 April, 2008

Blackpool v West Bromwich Albion
Sheffield United v Sheffield Wednesday

Wednesday, 9 April, 2008

Ipswich Town v Cardiff City
Watford v Barnsley

LFW's Preview of QPR v Preston will be online soon...

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