While the race for the Premier League title hots up, let's not forget there is plenty of football being played outside the top 20 teams in England.

Here are seven stand-out players from the Championship, all of whom could be playing in the top flight next season:

Albert Adomah

Despite making almost 200 league appearances for non league Harrow Borough and League Two side Barnet, Adomah was a largely unknown quantity when he arrived at Bristol City in the summer of 2010.

Nottingham Forest's Robbie Findley had the chance to level Tuesday's match against local rivals Leicester from 2 yards out, but make quite a mess of things... After Kasper Schmeichel makes a mess of dealing with a cross, American Robbie Findley has the chance to tap in to make it 1-1. His missed opportunity and the [.

Who's Looking Good?

Leicester: Having massively overhauled the squad during the summer, signing no less than nine players, including the marquee signings of Kasper Schmeichel, David Nugent, Michael Johnson, Neil Danns and Paul Konchesky should give the Foxes the quality needed to reach the Premiership for the first time since 2002.

The 2011/2012 Championship season gets underway this weekend and in what has become recognised as possibly the most competitive division in football, it is Leicester City and West Ham United who are the favourites to win the much coverted price of a place in the Premier League.

Traditionally the hardest league to be promoted from, the Championship has earned the reputation of being uncompromising, erratic, unpredictable but always entertaining, where any team can win any game.

As I'm sure everyone is well aware the Premier League is jam packed with foreigners from all corners of the globe. This practice has filtered down to the lower leagues, so I thought I'd begin a series on foreign XIs in the Football League with this one on "Scandanavian" players in the Championship.

Ritchie Branagan is not only following in his father's footsteps by carving out a career as a professional goalkeeper, but his first call-up to the Ireland Under-21 squad follows the career path of his father Keith, who represented Ireland in goal in 1997.
Ireland Under-21 manager Noel King announced a 19 man squad, including Branagan, for the upcoming U21 International friendly against Cyprus, which will take place on Wednesday, February 9 at the GSZ Stadium in Larnaca.

He's the friendliest ghost there is. In that he plays for Leeds, so even his amazing goalkeeping skills can't prevent us from putting 3 past him. That save he made against Chamakh's header was something else though.

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The Flying Dutchman

Arsenal produced a clinical performance at Championship side Leeds winning 3-1 to book their place in the FA Cup fourth round. The Gunners were impressive throughout and took an early lead when Samir Nasri slotted in from Andrey Arshavin's pass.

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There's a very nasty tendency among Arsenal fans to pick on individual players when the game isn't going for us.
The thing about the Leeds match, was that things just weren't going for us. Leeds weren't creating anything, but frankly, neither were we. And we can have no complaints about the penalty we conceded.