So who was the mystery party on the other end of Gordon Strachan’s mobile long after the final whistle yesterday? Stood serenely in middle of the barren, darkened Oakwell pitch whilst AV and his media cohort awaited to fulfill their post-match responsibilities, the speculation is rampant. Fortunately our dire league trajectory and continued result ambivalency [...]

Some Boro conjecture overheard during post-Christmas lunch: So what about Aliadiere? Is he fit? Nah, plus Strachan thinks he’s rubbish – didn’t even play him during that loan spell w/ Celtic… So it went that Jeremie Aliadiere not only furtively recuperated enough to not only make the squad for Scunthorpe, but actually start up front w/ [...]

A renewed call to arms from Gareth Southgate punctuates the latest installment in the never-ending series of critical matches. The gaffer wants a comprehensive reply to the recent malaise-infused performances, effective tomorrow as we host Leicester. The Foxes currently sit 10th, a tremendous start to the campaign engineered by former Boro hard man Nigel Pearson [...]

The potential for trouserings like that weren’t supposed to go off until after we made it back, surely never before it, not this season. The prototypical Championship sides we’d become familiar with might elicit the odd scare, or even inflict a few wounds as we traipsed back to the top. No one imagined the swift [...]

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 [...]