{"id":537923,"date":"2026-04-18T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537923\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:00:10","slug":"championship-live-build-up-team-news-score-live-text-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537923\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship LIVE: Build-up, team news, score &#038; live text updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things keep looking up for Hodgson&#8217;s Robinspublished at 15:58 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:58 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Championship table and Roy Hodgson\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7b805d07-0a7a-41d4-870e-02f5405a714f.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1224\" height=\"1530\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Opta\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southampton&#8217;s storming run at the top six is hitting the buffers as it stands as they trail 1-0 at Swansea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixth-placed Hull City lead Birmingham 1-0, which is just as well as seventh-placed Wrexham are 2-0 up and in total control at home to injury-hit Stoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roy Hodgson&#8217;s excellent spell as Bristol City boss is continuing as his Robins lead the Canaries of Norwich 1-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the bottom, West Brom, who could yet have a points deduction, are on course to move five points clear of the relegation zone as they lead Preston 1-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things keep looking up for Hodgson&#8217;s Robinspublished at 15:58 BST 15:58 BST Image source, Opta\/Getty Images Southampton&#8217;s storming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-537923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}