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Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice) – Robson Penalties Pace Boro →  February 28, 2010

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. [...]

→  May 24, 2009

Right, here’s the itinerary for tomorrow: beat West Ham, trust United to beat Hull, have Villa dispatch Fucking Geordie Scum. Complicating matters is the particular way it has to be fulfilled: we actually win, on the road, by a sufficient goal margin – pay no mind to the club record 11 game away losing streak, [...]

→  May 11, 2009

Any delusions of nicking unexpected points off of Arsenal and Manchester United were vacated w/ a brace of languid performances – a paucity of attacking flair aligned w/ a miserable resignation permeated those performances. Do Boro haven the bottle, or the bother, to put up the necessary resistance? A maximum return on the 9 points [...]

→  May 1, 2009

Boro host United tomorrow in a lunchtime kick-off that is the latest target of SAFs ire. MUFC are fresh off the 1st leg defeat of Arsenal in the CL semi-final in the midweek. Rio is battered and bruised, Berbatov was a sub v Arsenal, so on and so forth – they have the squad to [...]

→  December 31, 2008

→  December 24, 2008

Match reporting is suspended indefinitely – will resume once we quit playing rubbish football and start scoring fucking goals… Sell Downing to fund a January injection of talent and depth into the squad? Let Gary O’Neil fuck off back to Pompey? Why not give Marvin Emnes a full go? This was a critical opportunity for points prior [...]