‘I have no doubt that Middlesbrough will be there or thereabouts in the promotion race. I still regard them as promotion rivals for us…’ At a time when promotion pessimism pervades Teesside, there is at least one outsider still confident that Gordon Strachan can correct the current ills and rehabilitate prospects for this campaign. Never [...]

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 [...]