Ipswich Town have pulled off a major coup by signing out-of-contract midfielder Jimmy Bullard. Bullard had his lucrative contract terminated by former club Hull City last week having been suspended since July after a breach of club discipline on a pre-season trip to Slovenia. The charismatic midfielder wasn't short of offers having held talks with Premier League side QPR but the 32-year-old plumped for Portman Road, a place where he e...More

Portsmouth were one of six Championship sides to crash out to lower league opposition as the Carling Cup got off to an enthralling start. Barnsley, Coventry, Derby, Hull and Ipswich also fell by the wayside in the first round but it was Lawrie Sanchez’s men who arguably stole the headlines with a shock 1-0 win at Fratton Park. The telling blow came in the 29th minute when former Northern Ireland international Mark Hughes headed home f...More

The Welsh nation marked St David’s Day at the turn of March and there has been a real buzz about the country’s domestic footballing profile since the equivalent celebration of 2010. Ryan Giggs, still a key figure at Old Trafford at the age of 37, overtook Bobby Charlton to break the record for the most league appearances for Manchester United, another left-wing wizard in Gareth Bale has been arguably the player of the season so far, and...More

A resolute Nottingham Forest side earned a precious point at Championship leaders Queens Park Rangers on Sunday despite playing the majority of the match with ten men. Radoslaw Majewski's two-footed lunge was deemed worthy of a red card by referee Mark Clattenburg, a decision which looked set to condemn Billy Davies' men (who were trailing to a Tommy Smith goal at the time) to a rare defeat. However, the East Midlanders were not to be d...More

If ever there was a weekend defining the strength of character needed to stay in the promotion hunt, this was it. Cardiff, Norwich, and Swansea all grasped late goals to earn vital wins on Saturday, while on Sunday Nottingham Forest held leaders QPR to a 1-1 draw despite playing for 70 minutes with 10 men. Going into the weekend, Forest’s trip to Loftus Road was a clash between the top two, but by Sunday lunchtime’s kick-off the visit...More

New Sheffield United manager, Micky Adams, yesterday followed the lead of fellow manager Phil Brown, by publicly acknowledging just how difficult his post at Brammall Lane truly is: “Obviously it is worrying, it was a difficult job when I took it on and it is even more so now. Can it get much worse? I hope not. But you have got to be fearful that it could.” Adams' men are four points adrift of safety, having been beaten 3-0 by Ipswich i...More