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No schadenfreude from me, prefer lippen schweigen until after Monday.

Writing about Covid booster jabs, I have received a notification from the NHS that I will require another Covid booster jab eight weeks after my last ...

To start I think it’s worth recording Boro’s total number of League matches in their long history, so these are the statistics at the end of last seas...

My sympathies go back to 1939 and the start of the Second World War, not that I remember it of course, when football fans throughout Britain wondered ...

The Supercomputer according to the Hartlepool Mail has predicted the Championship top 6 as follows:- 1st Fulham 93 points. 2nd Bourne...

Despite being stationed at RAF Padgate I never ever considered visiting the old Wilderspool Stadium in Warrington as the town was out of bounds after ...

Have Boro become the new Leeds United? I’ve never joined the brigade of Leeds, Newcastle, Sunderland or indeed Manchester United haters? I’ve even cla...

Boro weren’t the only team to score winning or equalising goals in added time yesterday. Just look at this lot:- Luton against Bournemouth - 97th m...

I awoke this morning with the news that Mark Wood had decimated the Australian batsmen with roar pace and had taken 6 wickets for 37 runs and that Eng...

This part of the season in my opinion is all about accumulating points. Maybe it’s an age thing, but I’m not in the least concerned about how other te...

I know one shouldn’t take too much notice of clips of players on YouTube but Riley McGree looks the real deal to me, more of a Jimmy Greaves or Fabriz...

Amazing start by England in the final Test match in Hobart, Australia 12 for 3 wicket s in the first 10 overs, but what happened next has certainly al...

Middlesbrough FC have now played 96 different clubs in League matches since 1899. Some of these clubs are not now in the English Football League and o...

For three years both Middlesbrough FC and Ironopolis had battled it out against each other in the Northern League, though after drawing 2-2 in their f...

I thought I’d start by briefly writing about the second oldest Football League in the World and its impact not only on Middlesbrough FC but also on Mi...

@powmillnaemore Point taken

I didn’t realise that Werdermouth had transferred some of my historical seasons from Diasboro .worldpress to the current diasboro.club. Many thanks to...

It will certainly be an embarrassment if Boro don’t beat the Royals on Saturday.

Boro’s home match with West Brom has been chosen by Sky for television on 22nd February, and the long awaited match away to Sheffield United is schedu...

Yorkshire CCC have made great strides in their fight against racism by the appointment of Pakistan’s pace bowler Haris Rauf as their overseas player f...

STATISTICS BEYOND OUR KEN Now that I’m completely housebound I’m looking for something to occupy my time and was thinking about producing all Boro’s...

I agree, but doubt that we could afford him now.

I should have mentioned that Aston Villa and Everton have met each other more than any other two clubs, a total of 207 times in League matches yet onl...

It was a Scotsman William McGregor who introduced an English Football League in 1888 and was made up of 6 clubs from Lancashire and 6 from the Midland...

I see that Hartlepool have been also been drawn away to Premier League opposition, namely Crystal Palace not the most glamorous of ties for them. I re...

By the way a great draw for Boro in the FA Cup before a crowd of some 75,000 if it’s at Old Trafford and a great chance of beating a dysfunctional Man...

As ever it’s the fans that suffer. Charles Amer sailed close to the wind with Boro and George Reynolds was the reason for the demise of Darlington. I ...

I see that ‘Gentleman’ George Friend was sent off yesterday for two yellow card offences. I can’t recall his ever being sent off in his career with Bo...

A case of “new balls please” or is that purely a tennis remark?