Deferred notes on the Crystal Palace match are enclosed. We agonised over not being able to use ‘quality and imagination’ in a laconic fashion – Vic and Uncle Eric had the market cornered, and it is what they do and all… We enjoyed the usual feast consisting of a battered, deep-fried live blog escalope served w/ [...]

If the sanctity of at least your afternoon doesn’t ride on this result then why bother paying attention? That sagacity courtesy of TheProphetBob – chatting on AVs live blog from Selhurst Park – for providing perspective as Boro endure a worryingly woeful slide whilst adjusting to the revised coaching cabal. Gordo, the players, the fans, [...]

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 [...]

Side: Crystal Palace F.C. Nickname(s): Eagles, Palace Ground: Selhurst Park From Boro: down London way around 260 miles – 5 hours by motor and 3 by rail Kit: awful – looks like a rejected Barca design gone horribly awry w/ the vertical stripes meandering off under the arms Rivalry: Brighton and Hove Albion…not geographically suspect at all You Don’t Know What [...]