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 [...]

For all the previous penalty injustices. Dodgy ones called against – Luke Young’s hand ball at Villa…with his back completely turned against the attacker. And the ones not awarded – Lee Dong-Gook at United in 2007 anyone?  We win that match and United might not be enjoying their current clutch of 3 consecutive league trophies. [...]

Haven’t we been here before? A club recently incapable of stringing any sort of strong form together – something more ambitious than 6 unbeaten w/ 3 draws – are required to produce another miraculous feat to avoid an undesirable league position. Last year’s model had infamous results, and the current trajectory of a rebuild-on-the-fly project [...]

We left, but were never really away. And the more things change, the more they stay the same. Shoddy clichés are all we can muster after officially completing the most packed 4+ weeks ever experienced in any incarnation. Middlesbroughfcblog.com has entered into a ground share agreement w/ Dynamo Girlfriend , open ended and w/ immediate [...]