Championship tips and predictions: Owls to beat the drop at the expense of QPR
Planet Sport takes a look at the Championship relegation dogfight and weighs in with our tips for the outright relegation market.
Apart from finishing third in the 2021/22 season, and just missing out on promotion after losing the play-off final to Nottingham Forest, Huddersfield Town have spent the last few seasons battling against relegation to League 1.
"I'll remember tonight for the rest of my life," said Warnock after beating the Blades. "It's a massive achievement and I couldn't be any prouder."
In June 2023, Warnock agreed a one-year extension to stay on as Huddersfield boss for the 2023/24 season.
However, that spell didn't last as long as Warnock had expected.
The club’s new American owner Kevin Nagle wanted to make a long-term appointment as the club bid to regain Premier League status and decided Warnock should step down after a 2-2 midweek draw against Stoke on the September 20, 2023.
“We’ve actually done what we set out to do really,” Warnock told a press conference.
“Kevin has a three-year plan to reach the Premier League. I thought it would be about Christmas time but once they told me they wanted to bring someone in I think they had to move on quickly.
“I was gobsmacked really but when Jake (Edwards, chief executive) told me why I understood why.
“If you’re not wanted you want to go straight away. I don’t mean that how it maybe sounds.
“I always told him I’d do it until they were ready and then if they let me know I’d go. I’ve not fallen out with anybody.
“I think it was the right thing that I came back, I don’t think it would have helped anyone to come in in pre-season but we’ve made a lot of progress.”
Huddersfield appointed Darren Moore as their new manager following the departure of Warnock.
Former Derby and West Brom defender Moore guided Sheffield Wednesday back to the Championship via their play-off final win against Barnsley in May 2023.
But the former Doncaster boss left Hillsborough by mutual consent the following month after failing to agree a new contract with Wednesday chairman Dejphon Chansiri.
Moore began his managerial career at West Brom in 2018, initially as caretaker after Alan Pardew’s dismissal, and also spent two years in charge at Doncaster.
However, in late January 2024, Moore was sacked after just three wins from 23 matches in charge.
His last game was a 1-1 at fellow strugglers QPR, leaving the club 21st in the Championship, three points above the relegation zone.
On February 15, Huddersfield named German Andre Breitenreiter as the club’s new head coach.
Breitenreiter guided Zurich to the Swiss Super League title in 2022 and took Paderborn into the Bundesliga for the first time in the club’s history in 2014.
He also led Schalke to a fifth-placed finish and Europa League qualification.
After leaving Schalke in the summer of 2016 following just one season, Breitenreiter took over at Hannover, where he also won promotion.
American businessman Kevin M Nagle completed his takeover of Huddersfield in June 2023.
Nagle's deal, via his company Town FC LLC, with former chairman Dean Hoyle received the approval of the English Football League and the Financial Conduct Authority and gave him 100 per cent ownership of shares.
Planet Sport takes a look at the Championship relegation dogfight and weighs in with our tips for the outright relegation market.
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