The Championship weekend: What we learned as Boro and Forest continue play-off march, Warburton on brink

It may have started badly for Hull City, but the Championship weekend proved another enthralling one at both ends of the table as the promotion and relegation race hots up as we career towards the pivotal Easter weekend.

City's 1-0 home loss to Huddersfield Town on Friday night kicked things off, before Birmingham City's derby victory over West Brom on Sunday afternoon brought it to a conclusion, with big results for Nottingham Forest, Middlesbrough, Swansea City and Derby County thrust in between those two.

Here, Hull Live rounds up what happened across the country.

After a couple of years in charge, Mark Warburton is seeming only on the brink of losing his job at QPR, following Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat to Aleksandar Mitrovic - the Fulham striker single handily returning Marco Silva’s Cottagers to the Premier League.

One win in six has seen Rangers slip to ninth in the table and from looking a good bet for a top-six place, they’re facing a real battle to make the end of season play-offs despite being just three points off sixth, and reports suggest Warburton will pay with his job.

The Rs have lost three successive games in the Championship with Saturday’s Fulham reverse coming after defeats to Peterborough United and Nottingham Forest.

Peterborough’s hopes of avoiding what looks like being an inevitable return to League One took another blow on Saturday when Middlesbrough romped to a 4-0 win at London Road, seeing Posh concede their 80th goal of the campaign.

They’re rooted to the foot of the table and eight points from safety, but with a vastly inferior goal difference, that’s essentially nine and McCann must surely start preparing for life back in the league he won with City last term.

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