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@lenmasterman - This Blog must be unique.
Dael Fry is one of a number of Boro players who, when fit enough to start games, should be wrapped up in cotton wool between games. Warm down properly...
It is vital Hayden Hackney is fit for the Millwall game, and the final run-in so if that means he misses the Blackburn game, so be it. To be without H...
I agree with @exmil. Better to give Hayden Hackney the benefit of the International Break so he can come back hopefully 100% after that, rather than r...
@powmillnaemore - I don't know about you but I suspect that, from my point of view, poking my head into "my favourite films" is a kind of displacement...
...and I type this as I watch "The King's Speech".
@simonfallaha - How could I have forgotten "It's a Wonderful Life"? I have/had it on DVD as well as watching it on TV just before Christmas for DECA...
@clive-hurren - To clarlify: the Ipswich (A) game which had been listed for Saturday 18th is now to be played on Sunday 19th April at 12 noon, and th...
@powmillnaemore - So long as most of the goals end up in the Blackburn net.
@selwynoz - I suppose it's always a problem. "Name ten good films. Ok, I like that list apart from No 7, but what about X, Y and Z? I'd not taken ...
I met somebody in the local High Street earlier today. I told him I still had faith (specifically meaning in Hellberg, Boro and promotion). He looke...
@lenmasterman - I love Kes, too! The school football scenes with Brian Glover channelling his inner Bobby Charlton, the indescribable cruelty of the b...
@werdermouth - Thanks for that! Where would we be without you? Maybe next time I will write "May 8" or "21 March" or 21.03.26 to avoid the superscrip...
@simonfallaha - Nicely put, Si. The perspective of the manager, the player and the fan IS different. And that perspective can, will, change from week...
@clive-hurren - My proof reader is very poor and currently on a final warning. He came out with some cock-and-bull story about having been advised to ...
Arghh! There is a typo in paragraph 4 of my Match Preview (under the heading "The Past"). The league Title was most recently won by Blackburn Rovers...
@original-fat-bob - Thanks, Bob and it's great to have you back. We really need a return of the old "Boro3".
@lenmasterman - That's very kind of you to say, Len. And a nod, too, to exmil and to Martin. I'm pleased the writing of Match Previews is not someth...
@k-p-in-spain - Nice to know that it's not only Our Heroes who are punched in the face by possession and other match stats.
@jarkko - That is witchcraft....
@exmil - I agree. There is time for a few more twists and turns before this season's Championship promotion race arrives at the finishing line. And...
@pedro - I think football supporters also look at this in a partisan way. It's fine for one's own team to "manage the game" but not fine for the oppo...
Boro's recent home form is a concern. Draws against Leicester, Oxford and now against Bristol City, with a defeat recorded against Charlton as the thi...
Well, here we go. Today could be the day Boro gets the train back on the rails. Boro could end the day still in second place and confidence will retu...
Great Match Preview, @Jarkko. I HOPE that Boro can "come good" tomorrow. An early goal by Boro which would lift the tension and oblige Bristol to com...
@martin-bellamy - I agree, Martin. Firstly it's as if the referee and assistant referees either don't look at throw ins any more or they may have "fo...
@jarkko - I hope things are fine up there in the frozen North. I hope you enjoyed your after-sport sauna. I have just checked and see that Helsinki...
@pedro - I agree, Pedro. I would have brought Browne on for Whittaker, but with the aim of going where Hackney was playing (so Browne and Morris woul...