Outdone again late on the road – more valuable points dropped. A delightful goal for us with just over 10 minutes left was nullified by a quick following six minutes of hell. The inability to manage a late lead was flagrant once more and Boro continued a slip into the lower stretches of the table. Hull [...]

Mad props to Raul, from Arizona Broadband, for fixing the satellite TV late Friday afternoon…all after flagging him down in the parking lot and begging and pleading. He made a live Saturday morning viewing of Boro/Fucking Barcodes a reality w/ his benevolence – forget the fact the shit went out again later in the afternoon. [...]

The twats @ Setanta laughably had the ‘debut’ of Boro/Bolton broadcast at 145a MST…after failing to abstain from the scores all day, we culled some visual interpretations from Bolton battering Boro 1-3 More misery at The Riverside…a nightmarish start coupled with dull and uninspiring finishing resigned Boro to another humiliating failure. The same shit as before; [...]

Beat up and thrown out of the national side…incredulity surrounding the psyche and current club form…that was Stewart Downing in the recent past. His future surely aided by performances of the present, the Boro winger w/ a stormer of a match today in Berlin as the Germans hosted England. Man of the match says The [...]

Ambitions to watch the match live Sunday morning were ambushed by a late night drunk. Potential viewing of the last replay was sabotaged by the start of another work week. I was reduced to this…admittedly this whole thing will be cobbled together w/ the likes of this and that. Other media sources helped piece the puzzle [...]

It would be criminally easy to salute Tuncay as man of the match. Stewart Downing too. But it was the guy who was loathe to play football such a short time ago. Chris Riggott maintained his top form for another week. Tasked with marking the pacy Gabriel Agbonlahor, the Boro man delivered critical and thoughtful [...]

Aston Villa 1 – 2 Middlesbrough 11 of the last 18 points…unbeaten in 5 of 6, and 4 straight…the superlatives are endless in describing the rich vein of form Boro currently experience. And so early in the campaign, for terrifying starts have been de rigueur so far under Gareth Southgate. The rodgering Chelsea put forth must’ve [...]

…the explicit reason for an inexcusable lack of updates regarding the crucial 4 of 6 points we’ve recently garnered. A 2-0 triumph over Cit-eh last mid-week and a rescue by Mido, again, to secure a 1-1 draw at The Riverside last Saturday v West Ham.  Quick notes, and a mini-Likely Lads for the respective affairs: Middlesbrough [...]

Player ratings and other musings from Saturday at Ewood Park…sliding beer scale Kronenbourg: Carlos Villanueva – all over the ball in the first 30 minutes; made life miserable for the Boro defense; great service from dead balls, a few cracks on goal; Jeremie Aliadiere gets a shout for his indefatigability; could have put MFC ahead on [...]

Coping with another missed opportunity and flagrant late-match discipline. 8 points and counting left at away grounds; Anfield, Fratton Park, and now Ewood Park…Boro seemed poised for recovery after their last humiliating performance. But there would be no repeat like at Wigan, pilfering all 3 points…a late Benni McCarthy header resigned MFC to a gutting [...]