The stalwart, the erstwhile moderator of reason – he’s turned: AV is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore! The latest gutting installment of Untypical Boro raises a variety of excellent points: How many away goals do we have to score to protect against defensive lapses? Is the [...]

World Cup qualification is officially done and dusted, but the stream of anti-Gallic invective is still strong. Whether our frail Frenchman Didier Digard becomes collateral damage in the maelstrom is irrelevant – club football returns, and Boro are back at the Riverside to host a frighteningly            in-form Nottingham Forest side that have passed us in the [...]

We like variety. Like the variety of more adult-oriented social networking sites currently on offer. Footballing variety too, and that’s why we have license to deviate from the Middlesbrough FC minutiae from time to time – it’s Championship Roundabout! We start our spin at the top: Fucking Newcastle keep winning – their perpetual off-season turmoil may [...]

If the sanctity of at least your afternoon doesn’t ride on this result then why bother paying attention? That sagacity courtesy of TheProphetBob – chatting on AVs live blog from Selhurst Park – for providing perspective as Boro endure a worryingly woeful slide whilst adjusting to the revised coaching cabal. Gordo, the players, the fans, [...]

Change, not love, is exciting and new. Everyone in the Boro extended network is acclimatising to the new action-oriented approach to personnel dealings. Gone are the days of endless conjecture and pontification – Gordon Strachan operates like a thief in the night, undermining rumour mongers everywhere. Isaiah Osbourne is now in the fold through the [...]

To effectively mould his new side into genuine promotion contenders Gordon Strachan will need time. And patience. And a large sum of cash. All aspects were abundantly – painfully so – clear in another bumbling home under-performance v Plymouth Saturday at the Riverside. Additionally, the new gaffer must decipher the ubiquitous park-the-bus approach adopted by [...]

It’s the promise of fresh ideas – a new voice in the lads’ ears, an improved scouting strategy, more rigid and detailed training – that’s doing wonders to augment the collective mood engulfing the club. Gordon Strachan won’t be the only Boro debutant versus Plymouth; the peripatetic Marcus Bent was drafted in on loan from [...]

It was so nonchalant and casual. ‘Of course I do’ the simple retort offered when bluntly asked if he could take Boro back up. It wasn’t patented Gordon Strachan acuity at the official unveiling on Monday, more of a direct and refreshingly cutting candor about the past, present, and immediate future. For a man who [...]

Call it the residual impact of the previous regime. Another shriveling display late on allowed Preston to claw back for a 2-2 draw yesterday at Deepdale – not as damning as the Coventry capitulation, largely due to the Lilywhites continuing consolidation in the upper tier of the league. Gordon Strachan has a few tasks to [...]

Like in the film Snatch, when the neatly shorn hostess at the bookmakers said to Sol and Vincent in upon their proclamation to empty Brick Top’s till , ‘All…bets…are…off’. Gordon Strachan is expected to be revealed as the new manager of Middlesbrough Football Club after the untimely – but probably well overdue – sacking of [...]