Newcastle United – romped the league – finished w/ 102 points…going straight back up, rather unexpectedly given the turmoil same time last year West Bromwich Albion – it’s their bi-yearly migration north…can they solve the riddle of consolidation? Roberto di Matteo goes from League One to the Prem in a meteoric two years… Nottingham Forest – rode [...]

Up the road they were celebrating heartily. Loads of beer, plenty of tits, and the criminally underrated Geordie birds too, all celebrating their crown – and passport back to Prem prosperity. The mood back down south was decidedly more somber – a new generation of supporters indelibly scarred by an indifferent squad trudging towards the [...]

So Gary Caldwell isn’t coming? Okay, fair enough, Premier League certainty outstrips mere remote possibilities of it. No matter, cos Gordo has a list of targets who want to play for Boro as long as his arm – or a bigger blokes arm. The former Celtic gaffer was able to successfully trap three quarters of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Side: Coventry City F.C. Nickname: The Sky Blues Ground: Ricoh Arena – another corporate brothel in use since 2005 when the club vacated Highfield Road From Boro: 175 miles south, between Leicester and Birmingham Kit: the home strip shall forever be sky blue – Sightsee MFC goes for something similar while also on the pitch Why Coventry Will Always Be [...]