→ October 20, 2009
Gareth Southgate has been relieved of his managerial duties with Middlesbrough Football Club, with immediate effect… Let the carousel of conjecture commence – more later…
→ October 18, 2009
It’s not just the points wasted, or the failure to make up critical ground whilst the other promotion candidates falter, it’s the inability to reward the home fans and make a concerted effort to win back affection via results. For a change, Boro did incessantly pressure the opposition goal – 17 total shots and 15 [...]
→ October 16, 2009
First team proper football returns to the Riverside after an exhausting hiatus. Watford, currently 15th and just 3 points off a playoff place, beckon Saturday as Boro remain determined to remedy their malignant home form thus far this campaign. It was a point of contention raised by lurking back room consultant Alan Smith, who apparently [...]
→ October 15, 2009
Christ, it was so barren, so long, that AV resorted to tattooed interpretations for technical content…and it still attracted the usual swarm of Boro banter. Club stewards, editorial ambassadors, restless supporters – all equally afflicted w/ the prolonged malaise induced by the extended end of World Cup qualification. But the majority of that business is [...]
→ October 6, 2009
The hegemony asserted so far away from home continued. ‘There’s only one Gareth Southgate’ boomed from the travelling support; Gaz was giddy enough to give an acknowledging wave, and for the time being, the mounting pressure on the Boro boss subsided. A positive result paves the way to a hopefully-productive international break – anything less [...]
→ October 2, 2009
Boro continue their tour of ill will – Gaz expressed his consternation at the increasingly abrasive cadre of supporters demanding his head and/or resignation. Our fabulous fabulist Louise Taylor reports how the gaffer has to mollycoddle his young troops who think the persistent torrent on home booing is aimed at them, not the under-achieving manager, [...]
→ September 28, 2009
A renewed call to arms from Gareth Southgate punctuates the latest installment in the never-ending series of critical matches. The gaffer wants a comprehensive reply to the recent malaise-infused performances, effective tomorrow as we host Leicester. The Foxes currently sit 10th, a tremendous start to the campaign engineered by former Boro hard man Nigel Pearson [...]
→ September 27, 2009
Was it an apparition? Did we hallucinate that sequence where Clinton Morrison, while turning Justin Hoyte, caressed a floating ball on his right arm, let it drop and beat Brad Jones for the first of two late Coventry goals? And surely we were lucid when last-man Elliott Ward impeded Leroy Lita and, after a lengthy [...]
→ September 21, 2009
The potential for trouserings like that weren’t supposed to go off until after we made it back, surely never before it, not this season. The prototypical Championship sides we’d become familiar with might elicit the odd scare, or even inflict a few wounds as we traipsed back to the top. No one imagined the swift [...]
→ September 15, 2009
This Championship immersion continues to improve…another away triumph, this time at Hillsborough – Boro escaped an early deficit to cruise 3-1…a Darren Purse own goal and strikes from Adam Johnson and Jeremie Aliadiere, encore, did the deed. Gaz sails to second in the table, setting up a potential 1-2 clash at The Riverside Saturday w/ [...]