Banging on like he’s Graham Norton or something – and not the manager of Middlesbrough Football Club – Gordon Strachan keeps proclaiming ‘…I need men’. Some familiar Scottish imports are en route – late reports say a fee has been agreed for Gary Caldwell and Barry Robson. It’s half the quartet the former Celtic gaffer [...]

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 [...]

Kicked down, terrified, sodomized, outclassed…all appropriate in describing Saturday’s debacle at The Riverside. An injury ravaged Chelsea side delivered the most decisive performance of the Premier League campaign to date. No A$hley, no Drogba, no Deco, no Cech, no Ballack, no resistance from the hosts. Compounded by a bizarre squad selection from Gareth Southgate, and [...]