Coventry are wobbling, who can take advantage?
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The Times
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It is not a blip anymore, Coventry are now in full wobble, Middlesborough have joined them at the top but there are other, unfancied teams waiting in the wings - who if any can come from the pack - Millwall, Hull, Wrexham or Derby?
Hull have done some impressive transfer business with with so many players over performing their XG is it sustainable?
At the bottom, is there any light at the end of the tunnel for disgruntled Blackburn fans?
And who is in most danger of being sucked into the relegation zone?
In League One Tom is panicking, are Lincoln City really going to do it? Gregor thinks so.
In League Two Cambridge United are on one of the best runs in their history and Ian Holloway is absolutely furious!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:08.6 | This is our EFL extra show every fortnight with me, Tom Clark and a former football league defender Gregor Robertson discussing the best and worst of the championship league one and league two. |
| 0:19.7 | Gregor, there's loads to discuss. We're recording |
| 0:21.6 | this show on Monday, early evening. Still a little bit of time left in that transfer window. |
| 0:27.3 | And there's four big midweek games on Tuesday night. So even by our usual standards, |
| 0:32.9 | I reckon we might say some things on today's show, which are completely out of date and |
| 0:36.9 | overtaken by the time that listeners get to this podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | But hey, we'll do our best. |
| 0:41.4 | And there's still plenty of news and action from the past couple of weeks to get stuck into. |
| 0:47.2 | So let's start as ever in the championship and the thrilling title race that is now underway. |
| 0:57.0 | Mind the gap. There is no gap at the top of the table. Coventry, a second defeat in two weeks for them losing to QPR following that defeat against Norwich, |
| 1:03.0 | means that Middlesbrough, who've won five games on the spin, are now joint top with 58 points. |
| 1:09.0 | Coventry still in that top spot on goal difference. Gregor, we said it |
| 1:13.1 | a couple of times over this New Year festive period. Coventry got two wins, two defeats now. |
| 1:18.6 | We've got a title rate on our hand. We definitely do Tom, yeah. I mean, this is too long a run to call |
| 1:24.4 | a blip or a wobble, I think think now it's 15 points from the last 12 games |
| 1:28.8 | eight winless games away from home in a row like this is this is a major stumble now and |
| 1:36.7 | so all of a sudden you've got frank Lampard trying to sort of exude positivity and talk about |
| 1:43.4 | you know confidence, you know, confidence and, you know, remembering all the things that put them in this position in the first place. |
| 1:52.5 | And we should remember what that position was. There were 10 points clear in November. |
| 1:56.8 | First team in the half a century to score 50 goals after 18 games. |
| 2:01.3 | It was just, you know, it was 7-1 against QPR in August. |
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