Notes from the Reading match – devoid of any formal introduction or lead-in: Jones; Hoyte, Wheater, Grounds, Pogatetz; Robson, O’Neil, Franks, Arca; Killen, McDonald Brad Jones back in goal – they say it’s to punish Danny Coyne for a dodgy performance at Derby…doesn’t it just really punish all of us? No Mick – he took ill prior to [...]

Feel the heat in the following notes. The Derby live blog was a sexually liberating experience, just like we’d always imagined. Men openly loving men, achieving emotional nirvana…this is who we are, and we’re okay with that. Barry Robson invoked it. It’s not his fault though, with the tackling, passing, commitment, deathly frozen stare – [...]

Outstanding. Terrific. A Real Treat. Call it what you will, just don’t call it a crucial victory in a palpitating parochial derby. Another late match lapse – the first in some time – confirmed the postulations of Gordon Strachan: this squad is nowhere near finished or to my liking. This is a big project. It [...]

Middlesbrough will be playing in the Championship next season. And it’s all part of the apparent 2 year promotion plan the club claims it’s been following all along. Year one ostensibly for protracted deliberation over who was to blame for the relegation mess, and year two to survive on the last parachute payment and re-mould [...]