Call it the residual impact of the previous regime. Another shriveling display late on allowed Preston to claw back for a 2-2 draw yesterday at Deepdale – not as damning as the Coventry capitulation, largely due to the Lilywhites continuing consolidation in the upper tier of the league. Gordon Strachan has a few tasks to [...]

What’s an unknown benefit to flogging off your best players? No international duty disruptions, or the senseless and damaging injuries that seem to trail them, that’s what! We take a break from the post-transfer window prevarications to outline where the current squad lay on their respective home country’s footballing radars: (patterned on the squad for Bristol [...]

Boro boss Gareth Southgate surely has pondered if cup runs are worth it this season. With so much wagered on gaining promotion, would the disruption of the inter-league competitions overburden an already underweight side? Even if Tuncay and Alves, and possibly any combo of David Wheater, Robert Huth and Gary O’Neil, do depart it’s painfully [...]

Away day glory for the first time since last November – Gazza beamed in the post game presser: ‘It feels sweet to win away but the manner of the win was pleasing’. Indeed, Boro produced an attractive and clinical display versus a Swansea side whose injury troubles were exacerbated notably by an assiduous Adam Johnson. [...]