{"id":768513,"date":"2026-09-12T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768513\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:56:13","slug":"championship-live-text-commentary-and-score-updates-from-10-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768513\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship LIVE: Text commentary and score updates from 10 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This is why football is the most beautiful sport in the world&#8217;published at 17:49 BST<\/p>\n<p>17:49 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Middlesbrough 4-3 Norwich<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4abb3211-4c03-449a-8ae1-56f3f44e8387.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Middlesbrough<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boro boss Kim Hellberg applauds supporters\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5f307d01-0be6-4da5-904b-d0c8d76c088c.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1021\" height=\"574\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesbrough came out on top in a Championship classic at the Riverside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mo Toure started the scoring for Norwich after 47 seconds but Boro importantly ended it in the closing stages with Ash Phillips securing a 4-3 win for the division&#8217;s fourth-placed team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boro head coach Kim Hellberg told BBC Radio Tees:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is why football is the most beautiful sport in the world. As a neutral, this must have been absolutely crazy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a manager, it was quite harrowing and the hair I have left will be grey, but the lads won it at the end by showing character and that is very, very strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was beautiful to see two teams going against each other that want to play football, want to be in control of the game, that believe in their own qualities. It was as good a game as you can get for the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What an absolutely beautiful football game for the neutral and for supporters, emotions everywhere, but two teams who respect each other both going at it.&#8221;     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is why football is the most beautiful sport in the world&#8217;published at 17:49 BST 17:49 BST FT:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768513","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\/768513","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=768513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}