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Same old story, the Boro aren’t clinical enough in front of goal. The one positive is that the Boro lost at York last season but drew their opening le...

Adam Armstrong scored 29 goals for Blackburn in 2020/21 season, but only twice in 20 matches for Southampton. Just shows the difference between the Pr...

Warm weather training? Should be hot weather training as forecast for Lagos during the next week is 30 degrees maximum, could be worse though it’s 39 ...

Current maximum temperatures in Lagos are 30 degrees for the week with minimum of 26 degrees, rather Boro players than I. Still better than Lisbon whe...

What an amazing night’s cricket at the Oval tonight. Yorkshire unable to score more than 35 runs in the first 6 over power play with Adam Lyth being o...

No sign of our signing Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root then? Seriously though, but the turnaround at England cricket has made cricket the main summer attr...

Now to the present. Whilst welcoming the Boro’s attachment to Bishop Auckland for the use of their stadium several times a season for our academy team...

Three days ago I posted a puzzle of life before the Premier League when football was much more competitive in the Football League First Division than ...

I’ve just finished watching the DVD of the 1979 BBC series of Secret Army which I used to regularly watch amongst many other DVDs during the winter mo...

A lucky day for Yorkshire CCC as despite a poor performance at Grace Road, Leicester last evening where they were thumped by 60 runs in the Northern g...

If Neil Warnock was overwhelmed by the trophy cabinet at Ibrox he obviously hasn’t done a tour of the trophy room of the Neu Camp Stadium in Barcelona...

There comes a time in life when history and nostalgia takes over one’s life, certainly in my case as I don’t look to the future but every day at prese...

I mentioned the fantastic innings of Finlay Bean for Yorkshire’s Second XI yesterday on the cricket page as he was on 365 not out overnight, but yeste...

Make a note of 20 year old Finlay Bean of Yorkshire CCC who has just become the first player to score a triple century in Second Division cricket. Aft...

THE CRAZY SEASON OF 1927/28 We’ve all heard recently how crazy the Championship is, but the First Division of 1927/28 must have been the craziest ev...

Ah Gribdale! I was trying to remember the name of the little village below Captain Cook’s Monument. I thought it began with a G but that’s as much as ...

During my hiking days I always found descending Roseberry Topping a greater challenge than the ascent. I once wanted my ashes to be thrown from the su...

I’m back home now after 5 days of scans and tests at James Cook Hospital. Thanks to everyone’s concern but for a fuller blog on my hospitalisation, th...

Thanks for everyone’s concern about my hospitalisation for the last five nights as I was discharged, or should I say released from James Cook Hospital...

First a brief geography lesson about the River Tees. It starts in Cross Fell, Cumbria and is perhaps the most torturous river in England as it runs in...

What is happening behind the scenes at Headingley where in a matter of days another player Tom Kohler-Cadmore has decided to leave the Tykes at the en...

June has certainly been a stellar month for Sheffield born athletes, especially from the red side of the city. First Joe Root has regained top spot in...

Here’s a whimsical tale that Lee Westwood relates about his former caddie Billy Foster who is now employed by Matt Fitzpatrick, winner of this weekend...

So caught up with the emotion early this morning over the greatest finish to a major golf championship that I got it wrong about the venue of this yea...

What a fantastic last day’s play at the US Open Golf Championship from Brookline Country Club in Boston, Massachusetts where I stayed with my wife in ...

Werdermouth Before the internet I used to buy La Marca when in Spain, A Bola in Portugal, or my favourite La Gazzetta del Sport in Italy drinking a ...

Werdermouth It’s even worse on Rugby League shirts with so many sponsors of clubs nowadays that not only do several camouflage different parts of th...

Werdermouth And yet the Teesside nostalgic Evening Gazette newspaper ‘Remember When’ which ceased publication in 2017 is making its comeback by pub...

Teesside Live may as well become a weekly newspaper as they struggle to find anything original to report at the moment. Any news they report especiall...

Can Boro ever expect to have a 20 goal a season striker ever again? In my lifetime only the following Boro players have scored 20 or more league goal...