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How will the North East and particularly Middlesbrough take to Rugby League especially after the World Cup? Of course when Gateshead Thunder entered S...

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV 1844/1908 Rimsky-Korsakov was born in Tikhvin, Russia and started composing by the age of 10 years old, but actually preferr...

We debated the points deduction for clubs going into administration as far back as June, and I mentioned then that 12 points deductions were sacrosanc...

Quite agree. I realise the circumstances are different, but had Boro not had their 3 point deduction in 1997 who knows where Boro might have been toda...

I mentioned Peter McKennan this morning, but the only match that fitted that profile was in 1949 against Newcastle. It was the day of Boro’s record ho...

Afraid not, but that’s some feat by your brother. I used to remember the clubs in every Cup Final from 1948 to the 1980s but not the players though Iv...

I certainly concur with OFB on the hands-on obstruction of Dael Fry. As soon as I saw the replay I thought the same but with such a congested penalty ...

Before lockdown I could remember every result from the English and Scottish Leagues once I had recorded them in my Nationwide Pocket Football Annual u...

EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG 1843/1907 Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen when the city was part of Sweden although now of course in Norway. His life was portr...

OFB Yes I do remember Statto. His real name was Angus Loughran and featured with Frank Skinner (West Brom fan) and David Baddiel (Chelsea fan). But...

There’s one peculiar statistic about this match. It is that Boro’s biggest away win at the time was 7-1 at Blackburn on the 29th November 1947, and on...

Alan In Yorkshire ‘radged’ seems to be used in a more negative manner such as ‘I’m not rate radged one way or t’other’. In this context it means ...

@ Original Fat Bob Sorry to hear you’ve had it tough during lockdown. One advantage for myself is that I now have a urologist visiting me at home to...

Here’s two older words that I’ve not heard recently:- ‘Wassock’ meaning an annoying or stupid person. ‘Radged’ meaning slightly crazy. Or another ...

Thanks Jarkko. Actually I’ve just realised I meant to write ‘NOT much older’ but I’m still struggling to type with my left hand.

Wasn’t Dael Fry much older when he made his debut at Deepdale?

I reckon Redcar Red got as much enjoyment in writing this excellent report as we all did in reading it. The next three matches look tough but 4 points...

Yes I did. In fact I saw him play for Portsmouth against Boro and with Boro 1-3 down with 20 minutes remaining I remember hoping that Boro would score...

Thanks Werdermouth for the witty introduction, though although I’d rather be in the pink than in the red financially speaking, both Boro and Forest’s ...

I’m finding it difficult to type at the moment for as well as my accident to my face my right hand is also bandaged up, not broken but a ‘bloody’ mess...

I might have to curtail my contributions to this forum for awhile as I had a bad fall in Redcar yesterday and spent 3 hours in James Cook A & E in...

ARTHUR SEYMOUR SULLIVAN 1842/1900 Arthur Sullivan was the second of the great English composers after Henry Purcell as I’m led to believe, but as I’...

Thanks Werdermouth. I thought it was lost forever.

Werdermouth HELP! I started to write under the Classical music section about the life of Arthur Sullivan and after a few lines pressed the ‘send’...

ARTHUR SEYMOUR SULLIVAN 1842/1900 Arthur Sullivan was the first of the great English composers. He was born in Lambeth, London on 1842 and at the ag...

One of the greatest pre-war managers was Major Frank Buckley who managed Wolves from 1927 to 1944. He laid the platform for the great Wolves teams in ...

Some fans are never satisfied. I’m not getting at Boro fans, but Rugby League fans. Because of Covid Sky tv cameras are located at grounds where up to...

JULES MASSENET 1842/1912 Jules Massenet was born in Montaud in 1842 and was taught to play the piano by his father at an early age. However the who...

As yet only Reading and Watford have won all 3 of their home matches, whilst Derby, Preston and Wycombe have lost all of theirs. Cardiff have yet to w...

Just to deviate from the chronological order of Classical composers possibly not known as well today by many, I thought I’d look back at music still p...