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@andy-r Local derby at home to Southampton. A win for the Cherries could put extra pressure on an already tight match schedule.

Come on, it’s Reading and Bournemouth’s results we should be interested in not Barnsley’s who I reckon have much the easiest run ins of anyone with ho...

DAVID JOHN MILLS 1968/78 & 1984/85 David Mills was born in Whitby in 1951 but spent most of his childhood in Thornaby, but aged just 14 underwen...

@lenmasterman I agree with Len about the first half hour’s display. Even despite the fortuitous own goal and equally fortuitous non-sending off of M...

@forever-dormo Yes they have, but conversely Gretna FC played in the English Northern League from 1947 until being admitted to the Scottish Second...

@jarkko Should 3 Welsh clubs (Cardiff, Newport and Swansea, and formerly Wrexham) even be allowed in the English Leagues? After all neither Celtic o...

@martin-bellamy Is the Burnley v Blackburn still the most fiercely contested derby in Lancashire, ignoring obviously the Liverpool and Manchester d...

@powmillnaemore Sounds horrible doesn’t it? However at the time feelings ran high about the present club pulling out at the eleventh hour and for ma...

I’ve never been to Barnsley but I do like three of their fans Dickie Bird, the late Charlie Williams and Stan Richards who added humour to Emmerdale s...

I thought that the first post hadn’t been posted, so I amended it slightly.

RED IS THE COLOUR I’ve been a Boro fan you know since 1899. If you don’t believe me then that’s perfectly quite fine, Cos I didn’t a...

RED IS THE COLOUR I’ve been a Boro fan you know since 1899. If you don’t want to believe me then that’s positively fine, Cos althou...

With perhaps only 4 or 5 exBoro strikers to review I’m already thinking about my next project to keep me awake throughout lockdown, but at the moment ...

JOHN HICKTON 1966/78 John Hickton was born in Brimington, near Chesterfield in September 1944 and started his career with Sheffield Wednesday in 196...

@selwynoz As I doubt that Boro are going to be in the playoffs I’d prefer Barnsley to continue their good run and get promoted. They’re Yorkshire af...

I thought I’d make an attempt at the promotion predictor on the Gazette website, crazy I know. However if, and it’s a big if, Boro were to win all of ...

Thanks to Redcar Red for his preview of our meeting with Stoke City this Saturday, though amazingly I’ve discovered that it took Stoke 23 encounters t...

WILLIAM CHARLES HARRIS 1953/65 Bill Harris as he was commonly known was born in Swansea in 1928 but certainly not a striker although he had a long ...

BRIAN CLOUGH I see that you are reading a biography of Brian Clough, and maybe I might embellish some facts and some rumours about his time at Boro ...

@lenmasterman Thanks for the compliment Len. One error I realised later was I meant to write Aysgarth Falls as there are no falls in Askrigg where ...

Much has been mentioned before Liverpool’s home match against Fulham today that they have now lost 5 successive home matches for the first time in the...

Boro seem to have the makings of a good squad for next season if they can hold on to their loanees excepting Bettinelli who just seems to kick the bal...

First of all I was quite impressed by Boro’s performance today especially in the second half and thought we deserved to win. The only mistake we made ...

I’m one of the few on this website that remember fans starved of football during the War flocking into grounds all over the Country to welcome back to...

England all out now for a paltry 135 and have lost by an innings and 25 runs😢

@lenmasterman Don’t undersell yourself Len. Your contributions to Diasboro are always well worth reading. Ken

Just looking at Swansea’s last 6 results:- LOST Home 1-3 Man City FA Cup WON Home 1-0 Forest LOST Away 1-4 Huddersfield ...

Well our cricketers have soon come down to earth in Ahmedabad having had India 146-6 in reply to 205 and seemingly still in the match allowed India to...

ALAN PEACOCK 1954/1964 Alan Peacock sometimes nicknamed Peach was born in Middlesbrough in 1937 and was working full-time as an apprentice fitter in...

Martin Bellamy Has the kick and clap game of Rugby Union now become the kick and scrap game?