Incredible day in the Championship: Congratulations West Brom and Stoke, ta-ra Leicester

Today was a pretty exciting day in the Championship, even if the game at Hillsborough turned into a nightmare for us Canaries.

Well done West Brom on winning the title; I’d say they were definitely the best team in the division so it’s well deserved.

Well done Stoke as well. I’ve not been particularly kind to the Potters this week but it’s been a long wait so fair play to them.

Leicester are going to be playing in the third tier of English football for the first time ever, and to be honest I don’t have an awful lot of sympathy for them. Getting through three different managers in one season is hardly stability so I won’t pretend that I was particularly disappointed to see Southampton get the win they needed against Sheffield United.

Roeder named 6th worst manager

In his column in the Guardian, Will Hersey has named Glenn Roeder the sixth worst football manager thanks to his “achievements” when in charge of West Ham.

1. Graeme Souness
2. Egil Olsen
3. Hristo Stoichkov
4. Ossie Ardiles
5. David Platt
6. Glenn Roeder
7. Alan Ball
8. The England 1986 World Cup Squad
9. Claude Anelka
10. Jim Fallon

Most West Ham fans I know are less than complimentary about Roeder, but the sixth worst manager seems more than a little harsh doesn’t it?

Do QPR want Zidane as their new boss?

From today’s People:

WORLD Cup legend Zinedine Zidane is the sensational name in the frame to take over as boss of QPR.

Rangers owner Flavio Briatore has promised a major announcement before today’s final match of the season at home to

West Brom – and informed whispers insist he’ll name Zidane as Loftus Road boss.

The French superstar has no coaching experience but he has what Italian playboy Briatore covets most of all – 24- carat glamour. At a stroke his arrival would catapult Rangers into the big time.

Rangers skipper Gareth Ainsworth added to the intrigue when, in a tantalising contribution to the club’s website, he urged fans to arrive early today for ‘the dawn of a new era.’

“Sunday promises to be a day every QPR fan, old and young, remembers for the rest of their lives,” he wrote.

Netting Zidane would be the managerial coup of all time but even legends like the French World Cup winner can have their heads turned by cash – and Briatore, alongside co-owners Lakshmi Mittal and Bernie Ecclestone, have oodles of it.

Briatore wants Premier League football and a boss of Zidane’s stature, rather than current chief Luigi De Canio, would attract the players to realise that dream.

Blimey. They’re going to be pretty disappointed if this “new era” turns out to be a new pie on the menu which, let’s face it, would be what would happen at Carrow Road!

UPDATE: Well Zidane isn’t the new QPR boss yet, but the “new era” doesn’t refer to a new pie either. It’s a new badge. I always kind of liked the old one, but hey-ho.