The holiday is over and the hangover needs a cure – Boro are back in training, albeit minus one oaf who can’t leave the club fast enough…Afonso Alves mimicked the disappearing act, finally turning up Wednesday after securing air transport from the far outpost that is Holland…which is 70 minutes as the turboprop flies to [...]

The vitriol is now flying from both directions. An open attack on supporters from the club, in reply to their collective vocal assessment of the effort on display during the recent ‘Cup final’ v Pompey. They chanted, ‘we’ve only got one player’, a glowing plaudit to the only one they believe to give a fuck, [...]

FA Cup finality eluded – profligacy at its best…Boro squandered opportunity after opportunity to net an unwanted, and unneeded, extra fixture amongst the labyrinth to Premier League safety. And to allow an equaliser in that fashion, again…pitiful. Alves was effing garbage. Good scoring opportunities could’ve been great ones – Didier Digard wonderfully winning a midfield ball [...]

While concurrently complex, football is a simple game. Passing, defending, attacking, and SCORING FUCKING GOALS. The last dimension is seemingly lost on Middlesbrough at the moment – 1 goal in the last 8 league matches. This dovetails nicely into the middle of an abject run of form…winless in the last 13 top flight matches. At [...]