{"id":605683,"date":"2026-04-25T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:55:17","slug":"championship-live-ipswich-draw-to-go-second-boro-thrash-watford-oxford-relegated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605683\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship LIVE: Ipswich draw to go second, Boro thrash Watford; Oxford relegated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blues and Robins in the shadepublished at 14:54 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:54 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Birmingham v Bristol City (15:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oy Hodgson, Manager of Bristol City, looks on whilst wearing sunglasses during the Championship match between Bristol City and Sheffield United\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3492d743-fc3c-418b-9130-4adf949ad1a5.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nothing to see here really other than two teams hoping a top-10 finish will bring promise of even better things to come next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both have won two of their past six games with any hint of a play-off challenge long since gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Championship is a hard league, [but] this season obviously we wanted to get promoted, that&#8217;s not going to happen now, but it&#8217;s a stepping stone in the right direction,&#8221; said Blues joint-top scorer Jay Stansfield this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He might be right given they only came back into the division at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol City will have the summer to sort out their managerial situation with former England boss Roy Hodgson keeping the seat warm for the final two games and maybe he&#8217;ll bring out some shorts and a hawaiian shirt to go with the sunglasses he sported at a game recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blues and Robins in the shadepublished at 14:54 BST 14:54 BST Birmingham v Bristol City (15:00 BST) Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-605683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}