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Jarkko Condolences for losing your Finnish football team. It’s actually a bereavement, and it almost happened to Boro in 1986. Well done for support...

KP in Spain Stockton Town FC have done really well with 3 promotions in 5 years, but Redcar Athletic’s progression during that same period of 2 pr...

Thanks OFB for an excellent preview of Sunday’s match and I agree with most opinions that a draw will be a good result, but as ever our Finnish corres...

I don’t know if any of you have dipped into The Hundred cricket matches yet where prior to the Test Match series against India we have had cricket reg...

JUNINHO 1995/97, 1999/2000 & 2002/04 155 Appearances 34 Goals Christened as Osvaldo Giroldo but known as Juninho Paulista he was born in São Pau...

Haven’t we had enough strikers who looked good on paper but turned out to have a bad attitude - Mido, Viduka, Yakubu, Boksic, even Ravanelli? All star...

AYEGBENI YAKUBU 2005/07 103 Appearances 35 Goals Yakuku was born in Benin City, Nigeria in November 1982 and started his career with Julius Berger ...

@martin-bellamy Meant to write that it was first sung by a chapel based choir probably with a Halifax accent. As sources specifically mentioned ‘ch...

SCOTT McDONALD 2010/13 124 Appearances 40 Goals Another Australian born in Victoria in a suburb of Melbourne called Dandenong who also played for C...

Whilst mentioning Yorkshire Day, the lyrics of “On Ilkla Moor baht’at” was a story sung by someone chiding his friend for courting his girlfriend Mar...

Yorkshire Day is quite a recent celebratory day following the protest by the Ridings Society of Local Government Reorganisation Act of 1974 which term...

So very sad to hear of the death of Terry Cooper who when playing for Boro lived in Cricket Lane overlooking Normanby Hall cricket ground near my golf...

Just as the cricket season reaches its height we now have rain to contend with as well as coronavirus increases especially on Teesside. Redcar and Cle...

I seem to remember a couple of disputes when Viduka was at Celtic also. In the month of Celtic signing him Celtic announced that he had left the club ...

MARK VIDUKA 2004/07 102 Appearances 42 Goals Discounting Fabrizio Ravanelli who only played one season plus two matches and scored many of his goal...

Maybe have to go back as far as Jack Charlton.

Oh for a Gordon Jones, Mick McNeil or even Geoff Butler!

BRITT ASSOMBALONGA 2017/21 161 Appearances 47 Goals Britt Curtis Assombalonga was born in Kinshasa, Zaire in December 1992 but with his parents move...

@lenmasterman Thanks to you also, Len. I well remember Astor and of course Charlie Williams, but didn’t know, or had forgotten that the former was a...

Despite Cas reach the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final and putting in a good performance I’m becoming disillusioned with Super League and now think th...

Let’s wait and see if Boro actually get work permits. Neil Bauser is confident, let’s not jump the gun.

LINDBERG DELAPENHA 1950/58 270 Appearances 93 Goals Lindy Delapenha was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica in May 1927 and was not only the first Jamaic...

BERNARD SLAVEN 1985/93 382 Appearances 147 goals As I’m becoming more forgetful and falling asleep during the daytime perhaps I need to get a move ...

Should we be worried about this season following last night’s defeat at York? After all it was only a friendly and it was the 4th game in just over a ...

Back to local football, and following my observations about Redcar Athletic and their defeat by a Boro Academy side. On Saturday a third defeat in a r...

How the above article appeared under Classical Music I don’t know, but I thought I’d set up a new topic called Tyne/Tees Rivalry. Perhaps Werdermouth ...

There’s always been a sporting rivalry between Teesside and Tyneside going back to the old TV programme of ‘Shoot’ presented by George Taylor (remembe...