Here it is – part two of our incoherent thoughts concerning the upcoming season in the Championship…important players, exceptional gaffers – some quite libidinous, and selectively bold predictions: Boro – ‘an ambitious football club’…it feels terrific saying and hearing that…a proper half-cocked look ahead to the new campaign should be available later this week Millwall – a [...]

Newcastle United – romped the league – finished w/ 102 points…going straight back up, rather unexpectedly given the turmoil same time last year West Bromwich Albion – it’s their bi-yearly migration north…can they solve the riddle of consolidation? Roberto di Matteo goes from League One to the Prem in a meteoric two years… Nottingham Forest – rode [...]

If there’s going to be a Welsh bottle job late in the Championship this year it won’t happen in Cardiff. Swansea looks eminently more catchable at this stage – even Leicester are vulnerable and displaying signs of hitting the metaphorical wall and exhausting a season long exuberance which propelled them to unimaginable heights. Deliciously enough, [...]

It wasn’t difficult to agree w/ Roberto Mancini. Boro did play very well – for large spells anyway. Immaterial really, since the quality of the final product remains abject. Gordon Strachan employed a five-man midfield to harry their elite opposition, even overcoming a devastating injury to Adam Johnson – which is becoming so redolent of [...]

We like variety. Like the variety of more adult-oriented social networking sites currently on offer. Footballing variety too, and that’s why we have license to deviate from the Middlesbrough FC minutiae from time to time – it’s Championship Roundabout! We start our spin at the top: Fucking Newcastle keep winning – their perpetual off-season turmoil may [...]