Notes from the Reading match – devoid of any formal introduction or lead-in: Jones; Hoyte, Wheater, Grounds, Pogatetz; Robson, O’Neil, Franks, Arca; Killen, McDonald Brad Jones back in goal – they say it’s to punish Danny Coyne for a dodgy performance at Derby…doesn’t it just really punish all of us? No Mick – he took ill prior to [...]

Feel the heat in the following notes. The Derby live blog was a sexually liberating experience, just like we’d always imagined. Men openly loving men, achieving emotional nirvana…this is who we are, and we’re okay with that. Barry Robson invoked it. It’s not his fault though, with the tackling, passing, commitment, deathly frozen stare – [...]

09 March 2008. It will forever be imprinted on our minds as the date of a spectacular cock-up. Chelsea and Manchester United had been eliminated from the FA Cup a day earlier, and despite another struggling league campaign Boro had relatively clear passage to Wembley. Sidestep visiting Cardiff at first asking and most likely make [...]

World Cup qualification is officially done and dusted, but the stream of anti-Gallic invective is still strong. Whether our frail Frenchman Didier Digard becomes collateral damage in the maelstrom is irrelevant – club football returns, and Boro are back at the Riverside to host a frighteningly            in-form Nottingham Forest side that have passed us in the [...]

This Championship immersion continues to improve…another away triumph, this time at Hillsborough – Boro escaped an early deficit to cruise 3-1…a Darren Purse own goal and  strikes from Adam Johnson and Jeremie Aliadiere, encore, did the deed. Gaz sails to second in the table, setting up a potential 1-2 clash at The Riverside Saturday w/ [...]