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@malcolm - Thanks for that link.

Your starter was a really excellent and enjoyable read, Andy. Jarkko & Selwynoz - I think both local sport journos AND the Boro should be showi...

@ken - I hadn't realised Bobby Smith was a "local lad". I look forward to PART II later....

@ken - Lack of sleep can be very wearing and demoralising but hopefully your body will become more acccustomed to the steroids and the situation will ...

@deleriad - Spot on there, with your post. That was a very enjoyable way to spend an afternoon (the 3-0 win at home against Blackpool). I agree the...

@malcolm - Hayden was born in Redcar. He played twice in 2016 in the England U15 team and once last November (2022) in the Scotland U21 team. I wonde...

@powmillnaemore - I looked at the Telegraph and the Times in the shop this morning and decided to buy the Times today, so I won't get to read the orig...

I have just now spotted an article about this (by Matthew Hobkinson) on the Gazette website - TeessideLive. Now to read it....

@k-p-in-spain - Has CW now done an article or an interview about it all then? I hadn't been aware of that.

@lenmasterman & deleriad - The whys and wherefores of the decision to allow Watmore to leave the club is probably something we will never get to ...

@stircrazy - You are right. ALL NIGHT in the Squashed Stoat I was saying he'd gone to Watford, and every time my mate corrected me ("Millwall") but o...

@jarkko - Thanks to you and the others above, for keeping me up to date with the players moving in and out at the end of the January transfer window. ...

@ken - Good to have been able to see you yesterday, Ken. I was just about to send a message about having seen you, to the others you mentioned but you...

Thanks for the opener, OFB. It's all about getting three points. I'd love a comfortable win (by which I mean that the Boro scores three goals in th...

I suspect the club believes it has another player lined up. Didn't Millwall say they had been in talks with Boro for 10 days but it was agreed to kee...

@malcolm - It was difficult to select an MoM because so many played well in the Boro team. There is an argument that any of 5 or 6 players could be se...

I don't really know why I dived into Constantine the Great and Christian history in pre-Reformation Britain - save to say that Constantine is, sort of...

@martin-bellamy - You are right that the latest Census showed as reduction in people identifying as Christian. God forbid there should be a war becau...

@martin-bellamy - They would CERTAINLY have been Christian names 800 years ago. Then (in 1223) virtually everyone in England would have been a Christi...

@jarkko - The player has a Turkish father and has played for Turkey at youth age-group levels (though I think more recently he has also played in Eng...

@original-fat-bob - Thanks for that link, OFB. The stats for Boro v Watford in the last decade are more than grim. Let's hope our team, minus Fry, p...

@clive-hurren - Very kind of you, Clive. At least all this endless speculation about football keeps the grey cells working, for the present at least...

Gestede re-wrote the laws of physics (and anatomy) by missing a headed goal against Swansea that was IMPOSSIBLE to miss from so close. Einstein, Gale...

Darvel (who??) 1-0 Aberdeen yesterday in the Scottish FA Cup. A team from the 6th tier of Scottish football from a town with a population of 3,600 b...

Fair comment by you in your starter, AndyR. Watford is possibly not the game you'd choose after losing at Sunderland yesterday but we have to play wh...

I have had some further time to think about Sunderland v Boro. On reflection, I can see that the use of arms by Fry might easily be seen as a foul by ...

@philip-of-huddersfield - The tweet of 1.58pm is the last I have read following the game, before starting to type this. I haven't disagreed much with ...

@ken - I know you like The Arts and, though unable to travel out these days, you have access via the internet to the digital world out there. In that ...

@k-p-in-spain - I fiercely want Boro to win the game as well. Then again, I want them to win every game. Two more sleeps...

@ken - I suppose on your analysis Boro could never have a local derby. Hartlepool and Darlington are not likely to be in the same division/league as ...