Play The Kids
Play the kids. It’s a sentence that we’ve all thrown out there at one time or another, usually in anger during a bad run of form. It’s the go-to exclamation…
Tag: Middlesbrough
I’m Jealous of Barnsley
I am jealous of Barnsley Football Club. There’s seven words that should never go together but it’s true. It’s not because Barnsley is the birthplace of cricket legend Dickie Bird…
Hashtags and Heartbreak
It started with a hashtag and ended with heartbreak. Middlesbrough’s public courtship of Jelle Vossen during the summer of 2014 set pulses racing as Aitor Karanka looked to add a…
365 Days Later
If anything can sum up the past twelve months, it’s the last goal that was conceded in front of a crowd that wasn’t socially distanced at the Riverside Stadium. In…
Typical Boro or Middling Middlesbrough?
Everything about Tuesday’s defeat to Bristol City screamed Typical Boro. As Famara Diedhiou, heavily linked with a move to Teesside in January, headed in the first Bristol goal in five…
Wat a Boy
Duncan Watmore seems like a lovely fella. He came up through the non-league system, he’s got a Masters in international business, leadership and management, his favourite Christmas song is “Stop…
A Point to Prove
It wasn’t a dream. Middlesbrough Football Club are going to be able to play more than one direct, pacy attacker at a time on the flanks for the first time…
Deadline Day: Hope and Expectation
IT’S TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY. That’s what you’re supposed to do, right? Shout and scream about it being the final day of the transfer window until you’re blue in the face,…
