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Championship player of the month: Alan Browne, Charlie Hughes, Sam Smith and Caleb Taylor nominated for January award
12 February 2026 Off

Championship player of the month: Alan Browne, Charlie Hughes, Sam Smith and Caleb Taylor nominated for January award

By Total Football News

Alan Browne, Charlie Hughes, Sam Smith and Caleb Taylor are the nominees for January’s Championship player of the month award.

Browne has come back into favour under Kim Hellberg at Middlesbrough and has been deployed at right wing-back as well as in central midfield.

The 30-year-old Republic of Ireland international helped Boro to five wins in January, scoring in the 4-0 home wins over Southampton and Preston and scoring one

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Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Wrexham: Sam Smith goal sees Red Dragons return to top six
1 February 2026 Off

Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Wrexham: Sam Smith goal sees Red Dragons return to top six

By Total Football News

Phil Parkinson had urged his side not to be complacent at bottom side Wednesday, and despite seeing his troops dominate possession from the outset, the best opening early on fell to Owls debutant Jerry Yates, who fired over after combining with Lowe.

After Nathan Broadhead failed to make full contact with a header from close range, Wrexham worked their way into an encouraging position, which ended with Callum Doyle

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Tommy Smith: Play-off winning striker against eight team proposal
24 September 2025 Off

Tommy Smith: Play-off winning striker against eight team proposal

By Total Football News

A potential move to take the Championship play-offs down to eighth place would damage the competition’s credibility, according to former Huddersfield, Stoke and Middlesbrough striker Tommy Smith.

The EFL board is set to discuss proposals to increase the number of teams in the end-of-season play-offs from four to six but Smith, who was promoted to the Premier League with Huddersfield via the play-offs in 2017 is not a fan of

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Swansea City 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday: Michael Smith scores Owls winner
13 February 2025 Off

Swansea City 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday: Michael Smith scores Owls winner

By Total Football News

Swansea head coach Luke Williams:

“It was quite a dull game. There wasn’t too much going on out there.

“Ultimately it was a bit of an error that cost us and we were nowhere clinical enough at the other end of the pitch.

“We got into a very good positions, we put balls into the box, but I think we made one first contact from a cross. It’s not enough.

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Tommy Smith: Middlesbrough defender forced to retire after injury
5 February 2025 Off

Tommy Smith: Middlesbrough defender forced to retire after injury

By Total Football News

Tommy Smith has announced his retirement from football at the age of 32.

The Middlesbrough right-back has not played since he ruptured an Achilles tendon in October 2023, and his contract at the Riverside Stadium was due to expire at the end of the season.

Smith made 353 appearances in his career, more than half of them with Huddersfield Town – who he helped to win promotion to the Premier

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Sutton’s predictions v Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith
26 September 2024 Off

Sutton’s predictions v Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith

By Total Football News

Paul is a lifelong Middlesbrough fan, who grew up in nearby Billingham and was “swept away” by the club as a nine-year-old when their team, that was largely made up of local young players, won promotion to the top flight in 1988.

Boro have not been in the Premier League since 2017, but Paul hopes Michael Carrick is given time to try to steer them back.

Carrick took charge of

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Sutton’s predictions v singer & West Ham fan James Smith
19 September 2024 Off

Sutton’s predictions v singer & West Ham fan James Smith

By Total Football News

James was born in Upton Park, close to West Ham’s former home, and is a lifelong Hammers fan.

“My dad had a market stall in Queen’s Market, right next to the ground,” he told BBC Sport. “That was where I grew up – I worked on the stall myself and used to sing to draw the customers in.

“We ended up moving to Barking, which is also a big West

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