Match Of The Past: Middlesbrough FC
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The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
Match Of The Week: Sunderland 1-1 Middlesbrough
The tripartite nature of footballing rivalry in the north-east of England means that this afternoons FA Cup Fourth Round match between Sunderland and Middlesbrough has a hint of being a...
Middlesbrough’s Close Encounter With Bankruptcy Revisited
The Insolvency Act of 1986 was enacted on the twenty-fifth of July of that year, and its ramifications would come to change the face of English football, through the introduction...
Use Hearing Protection: Six FA Cup Final Songs
Amid all the talk of the “devaluation” of the FA Cup (and it should go without saying that we should all wish an eternal curse on that rogue organisation, the...
Match Of The Midweek: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Middlesbrough
The heightened feeling of expectation that is generated by a place in the play-offs is one of the more curious phenomena that has come to accompany this most modern of...
Mark Bright: Football Co-Commentator & All-Round Sage
Mark Murphy got a bee in his bonnet whilst watching the Sunday afternoon match between Newcastle United & Middlesbrough, and it came in the form of co-commentator Mark Bright. In...
Football In The Regions: The North-East
The second in our very occasional (by which I mean once a year or so) look at the history of regional football broadcasting on the television in Britain. Tonight, we...
Match Of The Week – Reading 0-2 Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough are trying to find an instant route back into the Premier League but, after a strong start, the wheels have come off their wagon a little of late. Their...
Alex Ferguson: Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold?
As we suspected all along, it has come down to the last day of the season. West Bromwich Albion had managed to postpone the hangman’s noose for a couple of...
Match Of The Week: Newcastle United 3-1 Middlesbrough
It has been a wretched season for the north-east of England. Newcastle United, Middlesbrough and Sunderland have all lurked near the bottom of the Premier League, and it remains uncertain...
In Praise Of… Brian Clough
The unveiling of a new statue of Brian Clough in Nottingham last week seems like as good a time as any to to take a quick look back at the...
Gareth Southgate – What An Arsehole
In the first instance, he was the guy that lost England a European Championship semi-final against Germany but, in the spirit of the feel good summer of 1996, he was...