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Ken Smith
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Joined: June 18, 2020 10:01 pm
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RE: Boro's squad starts to shape up

Boro sent a mixed academy side to sunny Redcar on Wednesday night excluding of course those who are in Devon, but including Sol Bamba and although Bor...

4 years ago
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RE: The Covid gamble

@werdermouth and David in Cumbria It can’t be a coincidence that following the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley that both Saints and Ca...

4 years ago
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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

It’s ironic that whilst we’re having a heatwave in most of the UK that Friday’ night’s Speedway Grand Prix in Prague was continually interrupted by ra...

4 years ago
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RE: Potential New Managers

I don’t think OFB was actually suggesting that Lee Cattermole should be a future Boro manager, but merely asking the question. And there was no sugge...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

I’ve been watching the Open Golf this week but 13/14 hour days of televised viewing have at times taken their toll and I’ve often fallen asleep on occ...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

I’ve just received my souvenir programme for tomorrow’s Rugby League Challenge Cup Final with my name printed inside amongst almost 700 fans who will ...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

I hope that Boro’s football won’t be as dull as their petrol blue away strip is. Likewise Castleford’s Wembley strip for the Rugby League Challenge Cu...

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RE: England

@ OFB Also Yorkshire and the Northeast provided the most players of the current England squad. Harry McGuire, Kyle Walker and Dominic Calvert-Lewin...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

Will Martin Payero be the next Carlos Marineiii who of course turned out to be the next Diego Maradona? No thanks from me.

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RE: England

I don’t like penalty shoot-outs but apart from having a replay I can’t think of an alternative. But last night I felt it would have been a travesty if...

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RE: England

The previous fastest England goal was scored after 27 seconds by Bryan Robson in a World Cup group match on the 16th June 1982 against France in Bilba...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

Well today’s the day for England. Some lovely memories and tributes from ex-Boro players on the Gazette website about Gareth Southgate. In my opinion ...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

I quite agree with you. I don’t know whether you remember the Robledo brothers from Chile who played for Barnsley in the early 50s and even lived toge...

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RE: England

Yes there seemed to be a clash of ‘colour’ with England playing in black and white, whilst West Germany played in white and black. However colour was ...

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RE: England

The last time England won the World Cup it was definitely televised in colour, and it went to extra time. It was only 18 years ago so I guess most of ...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

@lenmasterman Copying the same route as Mido and Yakubu when wanting a transfer. Same as Mannion also in the past who went on strike for a few mont...

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RE: England

@martin-bellamy I really hope England win on Sunday. In the annals of time nobody remembers runners-up though.

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RE: England

Over the top celebrations again, England haven’t won anything yet! But l suppose not many folks remember 1966 or were even born then. And how dare the...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

Just to cheer Boro fans up with a bit of nostalgia, the 2003/4 match highlights of Manchester Utd v Boro are available on YouTube at the moment. It fi...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

I’m pleased that Boris Johnson is set to ease restrictions on crowds in the EFL next season, especially for the Boro fans although it obviously won’t ...

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RE: Boro’s Foreign Strikers

I’ve previously written about Bernie Slaven as one of Boro’s all-time leading strikers so I won’t be writing about him again. Also I’m using the crite...

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RE: Boro’s Foreign Strikers

As an addendum to the list, of course some of the players scored all their Boro goals in the Premier League whilst others scored all theirs in the Cha...

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RE: Boro’s Foreign Strikers

As Boro have had a problem of scoring goals since relegation, I thought I’d start with a list of Boro’s foreign strikers to see if they were any bette...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

My mental state must now be on the wane as I was thinking that England’s match against Ukraine was a semifinal match in the EUROs until I saw the resu...

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RE: Boro 2021/2022 Transfer Targets & Rumours

Whilst happy that England won yesterday, I do think that the celebrations were a little overdone as it was only one match against an average European ...

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