BORO v Wrexham

Forever Dormo · 2025-10-22T23:06:42Z

BORO v WREXHAM (The Championship) The Riverside, Saturday 25th October 2025 – ko 3pm The resumption of Championship football after the recent International Break is at such intensity that the game against Wrexham is slated to be the third game played by BORO in eight days and the third by Wrexham in SEVEN. Such a rapid turnaround doesn’t give much time for reflection between games before moving on to the next one, and little opportunity for any injuries, bumps and tweaks to be worked upon - or even left alone to allow recovery in time for the next game. From tomorrow onwards I have appointments to keep this week and little time to write a reflective Preview following the Sheffield Wednesday match, in time for the spotlight to return to The Riverside on Saturday. In the circumstances this Match Preview will be along the lines of a rapid costume-change in the theatre. For clarity, the current record is held by Des Coughlan-Forbes in the National Youth Theatre production of “Our House” at the Southwark Playhouse last year, and it stands at 37 full costume changes during one performance, to enable him to show his character living through two different timelines. One advantage Des had was that the lines had already been written for him well in advance. Here even the plot, let alone the action and speeches to develop that plot, is yet to be decided. Will BORO enter the pitch buoyed by the raucous enthusiasm of a crowd hoping for a third successive victory and a position that cannot be overtaken in the league by those chasing behind? Or not? Might Wrexham be looking up the table or anxiously looking over the shoulder after the games against Stoke City and Oxford United? Prequel or Recent League Form: BORO - 22nd Oct Sheff Wed (A) - 0-1 W 17th Oct Ipswich (H) - 2-1 W 4th Oct Portsmouth (A) - 1-0 L 30th Sep Stoke (H) - 0-0 D 27th Sep Southampton (A) - 1-1 D 19th Sep WBA (H) - 2-1 W Wrexham - 22nd Oct Oxford (H) - 1-0 W 18th Oct Stoke (A) - 1-0 L 3rd Oct Birmingham (H) - 1-1 D 30th Sep Leicester (A) - 1-1 D 27th Sep Derby (H) - 1-1 D 20th Sep Norwich (A) - 2-3 W The Backdrop: BORO started this season like a house on fire. The players connected with each other (and the supporters), no lines were fluffed, all the high Cs were hit (or the soliloquies were all expertly delivered), and the ball tended to hit the back of the correct net. Plot inconsistencies were ironed out and very pleasing denouements were played out in front of the adoring masses. BORO stormed to the top of the Championship table with 4 successive league wins against Swansea, Millwall, Norwich and Sheffield United and most folk’s early suggestions in the COTY Challenge 2025-26 lay happily discarded in tatters. Standing ovations all round for the team! The 2-2 draw away to Preston came immediately before the fixtures/results in the table I have provided above and, as things stand on the early evening of Wednesday 22nd October (but before the Sheffield Wednesday game has kicked-off), BORO now stands proudly in second place in the table despite the early season imperious form having tempered somewhat in some of the subsequent games. Admittedly BORO lies 4 points behind a currently rampant Coventry (although with the Wednesday game in hand) and respectively 1, 2 and 3 points ahead of Millwall, Bristol City and Charlton who are all on the charge and won their Tuesday games. Of course, a win in Sheffield would put Boro 3 points further ahead of that chasing pack and only one point (and a vastly inferior goal difference) behind the leaders. In light of a declining run of final positions in the league in recent seasons (4th, 7th and 10th), that seemed too ridiculous to be predicted in August. We all know, however, that The Championship season is not a one-act play but a fully blown five-act Shakespearian drama. We must hope this season it will not turn out to be a tragedy. BORO has been in The Championship since May 2017 after Karanka’s single Premier League season, which he didn’t complete, and supporters’ expectations in recent seasons have been gradually eroded like rocks in the Grand Canyon. That was until the arrival of Rob Edwards. Wrexham, on the other hand, has been like a starlet living a drug-fuelled dream for the last four years. You may be familiar with the series “Welcome to Wrexham” which has been shown on the Disney+ Channel on TV in the UK every summer since August 2022. Each series shows what had happened in the football...

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October 28, 2025 1:57 am

@lenmasterman

I thought when we got older we started taking years off not adding them on ,!!!”
Happy birthday Len from a young 77 year old !

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