It was a mercy killing really, not just a ‘rubbish laptop’. The plug was pulled under circumspect conditions, but we still followed it until the end – another dreadful display under the bright – or more appropriately snow swept – gaze of a nation. A single text to our Newcastle supporting mate read: ‘That was [...]

The eloquent and erudite Dave Kitson said it during the week: some club was due to get a ‘right spanking’. His prescience was augmented by the immediacy of it – QPR the victims in a 5-1 mauling Saturday at Loftus Road. The chances lamentably missed over the last 5 plus matches were bagged with class. [...]

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 [...]