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Boro’s 24 year old defender Hayden Coulson currently on loan at Aberdeen played last night in a game he will probably remember for the rest of his lif...

We have to face the fact now that Boro are probably not as good as we probably perceived a few weeks ago. At our best you’d expect us to beat any side...

Seriously though, Sunderland were by far the better team on the day and deserved the three points. Not too concerned at the moment with still 10 home ...

Definitely a penalty, but can’t agree with Don Goodman when he said that Diallo won THE DERBY. It was Pinza ridden by Gordon Richards in the Coronatio...

No atmosphere at all from a subdued home crowd, or am I going deaf?

Before I settle down to this afternoon’s match, I just must congratulate Hartlepools on beating Rochdale yesterday and especially the performance of J...

@original-fat-bob I hope it wasn’t the words of that Sinatra song that got you excited!

Thanks Forever Dormo; I most certainly will give Aereopagus a try. As I get older the more my tastes become wider. As OFB recently remarked the older ...

Why the term of Derby was ever used for football is debatable, as it refers to the Earl of Derby who gave his name to horse racing at Epsom that was e...

As far as Middlesbrough FC are concerned matches between Boro and Sunderland have always been classed as local derbies, but I doubt that matches again...

@ OFB He certainly did, but I’d be very surprised if Michael Carrick had described meetings between Manchester United and Liverpool in the same vein...

I have to agree with Sunderland fans that fixtures against Boro cannot be classed as ‘local derbies’; I would prefer the term ‘local rivalries’ the sa...

A similar hatred exists from Sunderland fans about Newcastle, though nothing to do about football. This feud goes back to the English Civil War when p...

Now another couple of football titbits which I have mentioned in the past. I am not a great lover of London football clubs. It seems unfair to me that...

Yesterday I ‘celebrated’ my 85th birthday by watching a recording of Andre Rieu’s concert in Sydney before a record crowd of over 38,000. It was the f...

Here’s a titbit tale that I had reported on in the past about the history between Boro and Sunderland, but probably worth repeating. The season foll...

Looking at the Super Computer which is updated by the Yorkshire Post each week for the Championship, it anticipates that Burnley will finish as Champi...

I notice that my Rugby League club Castleford Tigers are issuing #heritage numbers onto each player’s shirts with #1 heritage being on the shirt of th...

Thanks to everyone for your support. I don’t want to go into too much detail, suffice to state that the news was devastating at the time, although I s...

Whilst not having good news from my cancer consultant this afternoon, I do have some good news for Forever Dormo as I have unearthed a 269 page book o...

Having now got the FIFA World Cup historical statistics out of the way, I’m now turning my attention to what is happening in the major European league...

Let me state that the summing up by Forever Dormo is the most sensible I have read for some time and worthy of the status of a journalist from any qu...

After the excitement of the FA Cup I thought I’d now turn my thoughts to the FIFA World Cup. There have now been 22 seasons of this competition and ap...

There were also some dreadful displays under Steve McLaren. Remember that 2-5 home defeat to Villa in 2002 when a season ticket holder threw his ticke...

I also recall a 1-8 fefeat against Charlton Athletic at the Valley in the 1953/54 season when I made my debut on the same night in the Redcar Subbuteo...

PaulinBoro You asked when Boro were last humiliated so much? Well, the league match at home to Arsenal 1-6 in 1999 and again 0-4 at home to the ...

And that my friends was Boro’s biggest FA Cup defeat in our lifetimes, since 1937 in fact when Boro lost 1-6 at Molyneaux in 1937, and their highest F...

I remember your interview with Frank Spraggon, maybe an unsung hero at the time. As for his father-in-law I don’t ever remember his playing for Boro, ...

Malcolm My carers from Age UK are both laid low with the current disease apparently from Australia. They were both suffering almost from pneumonia, ...

Forever Dormo They say that schooldays are the best days of your life, and having had more time to think about it they probably were in some ways, ...