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Viduka was a top class striker, but, like so many of that era (Ravanelli springs immediately to mind), someone who looked after No 1 rather than even ...

Thanks, Ken. A very telling stat in your last sentence. In spite of Britt's miserable final season, he wasn't as bad as that when we first signed him....

Dave Morris's Club Night was on the radio for years, and at the end of every programme, over the sound of the closing music, Dave could be heard yelli...

Thanks, Ken. Lindy was indeed a memorable character. He had the hardest shot of any Boro player since the war and his average of a goal every three g...

@stircrazy Thanks for that. I'd missed it. Why Josh isn't down in Devon with the rest of the most promising kids is a mystery to me.

@deleriad I agree with you, deleriad. As I said, my assessment of Crooks is premature and extremely unfair and I hope it's mistaken. But it's base...

@werdermouth Absolutely agree, Werder. We don't want a situation where old lags from other clubs are stifling the chances of our own youngsters. Wh...

@werdermouth Crooks played as a no 10/ twin striker for much of the season, and scored a decent goal against the Boro as I recall, but I wasn't real...

There's a guy on the internet who says that he bought a ticket for tomorrow's final months ago for £300. He's now realised that it clashes with his ...

@andy-r Thanks for the link, Andy. I personally don't give much credence to these kind of stats, which have been responsible for some terrible buys...

RR Not necessarily an either/or choice. I think each was right about the other. I'm afraid I had no time for either of them. Braithwaite was a dec...

Agree with all of the above tributes. It has been a great achievement, Ken, which not only brought back innumerable memories, but put flesh on the bon...

The booing at the Riverside, fairly or not, will inevitably have tarnished the image of both the town and the club. We can argue all day about whethe...

@deleriad Good (and typical of this blog) to have an intelligent, educated and informed response to the current issue that cuts through all of the c...

Thanks, Deleriad. Excellent post.

I recall one of Tommy Trinder 's football related jokes from the 1950s. He commented on air about the activities of the Duchess of Argyll, renowned in...

Brilliant, Clive. Hope they haven't got highlight tapes or our recruitment team might well bite at a few of these.

@ken Willie Maddren actually started off as a forward and wore the No 10 shirt for the reserves in his first few years at the club. If my memory ser...

@original-fat-bob We should snatch off their hands.

Has this season been "a step in the right direction"? Whenever I see that argument my mind goes back to a newspaper report I saw back in the 1950s....

The local journos will be the last people to turn against Warnock because he does their job for them. Pressers that go on for more than half an hour, ...

Meanwhile elsewhere a magnificent controlled volley from Wing put Rotherham ahead, Bamford has scored his 15th Premier League goal of the season., and...

You have to be up early in the morning to get the latest news before our Bob.

Thanks Ken, even though he was not one of my favourite Boro players. A bit too much of the Glasgow hatchet man for my liking, and latterly involved i...

A warm welcome back, Werder. Your analysis is, as ever, thoughtful and comprehensive, and provides us with a wonderfully stimulating basis for our ...

Thanks for the link, Martin. The video is available on youtube and they are three excellent strikes. I wasn't Kike's greatest fan when he was with us...

Bob Your posts are definitive proof that you have far more energy when you are half asleep than I have when fully awake and loaded with vitamins and...

Thanks, Bob, for all of your great efforts, well beyond the call of duty. And in the middle of the night. Hope you managed to get a bit of well-ear...