It’s a new service set to precede each coming week in the Championship, with a multi-layered purpose: gives a tantalising taste of the upcoming league action, replete with unique commentary and obvious assertions broadcasts our ineptitude at prognostications of any sporting kind a cheap way to file 600 or so words and stay on the cusp of relevance Saturday 12.15p Coventry [...]

Here it is – part two of our incoherent thoughts concerning the upcoming season in the Championship…important players, exceptional gaffers – some quite libidinous, and selectively bold predictions: Boro – ‘an ambitious football club’…it feels terrific saying and hearing that…a proper half-cocked look ahead to the new campaign should be available later this week Millwall – a [...]

Credit Preston for trying it. The tested script to banjax Boro at home reads: put them under the cosh for the first 15 mins – let the supporters shower them in abuse – watch them shrivel – score as much as you need. It used to work; not anymore though. Nine on the bounce unbeaten [...]

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 [...]

Side: Peterborough United F.C. Nickname: The Posh Ground: London Road Stadium From Boro: a 3 hour jaunt southeast – 170 miles…ish Kit: Chelsea-lite, both of them… Ambition: Irish real estate magnate Darragh MacAnthony arrived with aspirations mirroring the size of his bank account…lower league-busting fees and wages have been doled out as the club ascend the Football League, achieving successive [...]