Boro Must Blunt Blades
It’s finally here after the shortest close season in the history of the universe Boro are back but now down to second tier football. Reality time.
But if you think that will make it easier then just wait until Sheffield United hit town. Nothing lightweight about the threat posed by Kevin Blackwell’s flashing Blades. Sheffield United were only narrowly pipped in the play off final so provide a really good test for our Championship credentials. Gareth ....
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Fmttm Charity Trophy Today
As if Boro relegation wasn’t bad enough it’s the big fmttm charity grudge match today at 1pm at Yarm. Two top teams kicking absolute lumps out of each other. Please go along and take sides.
Lisbon’s Ringers have been rounded up over the net from their top secret HQ in north London and come face to face with Oldman Athletic a team or is it a plot? concocted over stoppybacks at the Pov in Normanby. The object is to decide once and for all which is the ....
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We've Got To Win It To Stay In It
Only a day left now until our date with destiny at West Ham. Will it be Championship or will there be a miracle? Of course any real hope dwindled with Stewart Downing down and out v Villa. But whatever happens at least go out with a win.
There will be 1200 of us in the away end having lined the Hammers pockets in silver with 45 notes we have paid in the hope of seeing a miracle. We are praying for an emphatic Boro away win, a mini miracle in itself, a Newcastle defeat and a Hull side ....
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Finish At Home With Some Aston Blastin’
The final home game of the season, a terrible season but what a turn up if we could finish at the Riverside with a win. You know what I think we can as well. Then who knows what might happen?
Once more we put ourselves through it at home. Relegation might be fast closing in on us but what if we were to win today? What if Hull fell again at Bolton? If Fulham proved too resilient to beat at Newcastle. Then Liverpool took West Brom out tomorrow. How much pressure would ....
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Bring Us Victory
Boro fans are heading north to Newcastle tonight willing their team on to success. Incredibly, after all the torment we have suffered, a doorway has opened towards Premier safety. We must seize that opportunity stuff Newcastle and leap through it.
The Boro players have a chance to become legends. They can right a season of wrongs in one 90 minutes power play. This will be the finest derby night victory for 20 years or more and one that we will never tire of talking ....
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Boro Must Mug Man U
On paper it looks an impossible task but somehow tomorrow Boro must go out and blast the Man U bandwagon off course. We must put the skids on their Premier charge. A most unlikely three points tomorrow could save our top flight skins. Anything less will likely not be good enough. A massive task but one we must go all out for. And the thing is We CAN DO IT.
Boro must be brave. We must take on board lessons from the Robson and McClaren eras and catch Man United cold just ....
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Can Boro Make Shockwaves In London
Can Boro do the impossible and get a result down in Arsenal? It would be a massive shock no doubt about that especially the way the Wenger Boys have been scoring for fun of late. But we are still to be beaten at the magnificent Emirates Stadium. Let’s hope we can again battle against all the odds to return north with something from the game.
Boro play Arsenal lunchtime Sunday in a sell out fixture. We’ll be scouring the results on Saturday beforehand and ....
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Boro Must Beat Fulham..
..It’s as simple as that. Last week we put ourselves back in the game by defeating Hull now we need to build on that and make a breakthrough by clinching back to back wins. That means beating Fulham and former keeper Mark Schwarzer. That means overcoming all the fears and mounting pressures and that means doing something we haven’t done all season. Then it will really be game on.
We can do it. Despite the lack of the injured skipper Pogatetz and suspended ....
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Shoot Down The Tigers
Boro simply MUST beat Hull City tomorrow to have any real hope of seeing Premier football again in August. We have 90 minutes to secure an absolutely crucial victory. Anything short of the and you fear the door is slammed shut forever. There will be a big crowd in tomorrow, left’s hope it can inspire the team to deliver when it is needed more than ever before.
Just imagine what a lift it would give us all if we could breathe new life into the escape plan this Easter. With ....
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Boro Must Go For It At Bolton
Attack, Attack, Attack
We’ve had a break. And how we all needed it. Can we come back recharged and reinvigorated? With a big away crowd roaring the team on can we make it count and get some points on the board at long last?
It seems like weeks and weeks rather than a fortnight since we lost that last Must-Win game at Stoke. It’s all history now though. The only route now is to go for it and that’s how we must approach today’s game at Bolton. ....
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Can Middlesbrough Crack The Potters?
Boro travel to the Potteries tomorrow going head to head with one of our main relegation foes. A win away tomorrow would be a massive boost for Boro and a body blow to Stoke. We’ve heard that before but it’s true. If only we can do it this time.
Without their home form Stoke would be sunk. The place is like a fortress, a cauldron of noise, as intimidating as it gets. With Rory Delap hoying his long throws and fit again Fuller tearing a strip of defenders it is a ....
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Boro Must Sink Pompey
It’s another massive game at the Riverside but maybe this time there is EVERTHING at stake. Come on Boro put recent defeats behind us and repeat our last home performance win v Liverpool. We need it.
Boro need to take maximum advantage of a run of winnable games. That must start tomorrow by taking 3 points from Pompey. We must sink their ships and stop their semi revival in its tracks. Lying just 2 points and 1 place above us we must look to leapfrog Crouchy and co. ....
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Boro Can Give Everton Cup Blues
It’s back to the FA Cup this weekend and that Quarter Final date with destiny and with in form Everton. Kick off 4pm at Goodison Park on Sunday. The prize a trip to New Wembley, now just a win away. A tagged on prize is we rebuild our confidence again ready for the league survival battles ahead. Can we do it?
I think we can. But it will not be easy against David Moyes side that seem locked on course for a first ever taste of cup success. That’s the way it had looked to me, ....
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Can Boro Can Cut Back Spurs
Can Boro increase Spurs cup final agonies by making White Hart Lane a red zone tonight?
Boro have an opportunity to build on Saturday’s phenomenal victory against Liverpool and pull a few teams back into the relegation danger zone. We can strike now while Spurs are still reeling from their Carling Cup extra time and penalties hang over.
Obviously we won’t be conned by Harry’s hollow protestations about us rubbing our hands together over their Cup ....
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Match Preview: Boro Vs. Liverpool
Boro will face a tough test when they face Liverpool tomorrow, in a bid to finally stop their disastrous league form.
Middlesbrough have currently gone 14 games without a win in the league. However, last Wednesday’s spectacular performance against West Ham in which they knocked out the Hammers out of the FA Cup 2-0 will no doubt give them confidence. Winning the match however will be difficult, considering how the team second from the bottom will be facing the team second from ....
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Let’s Break The Hammers
Middlesbrough must raise their game a few levels to take out the Hammers tonight in the 5th round FA Cup replay at Riverside. Kick off at the unusual time of Ten Past Eight.
The prize on offer is a Quarter Final tie against in form but now significantly Arteta-less Everton at Goodison Park on Sun March 8th. In other words we are three steps away from a Wembley Cup Final and one step away from a third successive FA Cup Quarter Final. Third time lucky.
More ....
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Match Preview: Boro Vs. West Ham (fa Cup Replay)
A quarter final spot is up for grabs at the Riverside tomorrow when Boro face the Hammers in their FA Cup 5th Round Replay.
Following on from the 1-1 draw down south, Middlesbrough will be hoping that the match tomorrow evening will also help their league performance as they face a side 11 places in the league above them.
This will not be easy, following from the news that Didier Digard will be out for several weeks and will not be able to return until the end of the season. ....
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Come On Boro - A Rallying Call
It’s a massive game today. A Boro win against Wigan could start to change our world. Only start of course but to end this long barren would certainly bring back confidence and renew hope from fans and players alike. Not that the players or supporters have lacked either in the last couple of games. We played well at Man City and surely deserved a draw, we played even better in the Cup at West Ham and deserved to go one better and win.
Stewart Downing reflected on our lack of ....
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Match Preview: Boro Vs. Wigan
Boro will be hoping to end their current losing streak tomorrow when they host Wigan Athletic at the Riverside.
In the first of three home games in eight days, Middlesbrough need to win in order to avoid extending the current run of 13 league games without a win. Failing to win will result in Boro’s worst ever winless sequence in the Premier League.
Boro won against Wigan earlier this season, in a 1-0 victory where Jeremie Aliadiere scored the goal in dying minutes of ....
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Match Preview: West Ham Vs. Boro
Boro will be hoping for some improved form when they play West Ham United in the 5th round of the F.A. Cup tomorrow.
Boro’s only victories in their last 15 games were their two F.A. Cup matches, where they defeated non-league Barrow in round 3 and current Championship leaders Wolves in round 4.
Gareth Southgate, currently the bookies favourite to be the next manager to get the sack, will be hoping for both a spot in the quarter-finals, as well as a win in order to try ....
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Match Preview: Man City Vs. Boro
Boro will be aiming for their first victory in 12 games and their first double of the season tomorrow when they play Manchester City.
Earlier on in the season, Boro won 2-0 against Man City at the Riverside thanks to a goal from Gary O’Neill and a penalty taken by Afonso Alves.
Gareth Southgate has tried to make the fans look at the bright side by looking at their previous form earlier in the season. Having completed almost two thirds of their matches, Boro’s first ....
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Can We Beat The Wolves?
Boro hope to repeat their success against non-league Barrow when they face Wolves in the fourth round of the F.A. Cup.
They will need to just for the sake of morale. The Barrow match was Boro’s last victory in all competitions and our only win in the last 11 games. Gareth Southgate said he hoped that win would help with Boro’s current trouble in the league. He said: “We want to win the game. Simple as that.
“We are not happy with where we are in the league, but a cup ....
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Taking The Boing Out Of The Baggies
It is crunch time again. We failed to beat the Mackems and now we must knock the Boing out of the Baggies. Yes, Boro try to get back on track as we go head to head with West Brom at the Hawthorns, Saturday 3pm k.o.
We’ll have to do it without our captain Pogatetz. It seems likely that senior pro Chris Riggott will step up to take the captain’s armband. Not surprisingly Southgate is reluctant to pass the captaincy down to the normal stand in Stewy Downing, who ....
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Let's Beat Sunderland!
Boro v Sunderland
Right, down to business. We’ve had transfer requests, transfer bids, injuries, speculation and more speculation. Enough. No more. Down to the business in hand, Taking 3 points from the biggest Tees Wear derby match in years.
Yes, what a difference a win would make. It’s a make or break month and starting our January League account with a victory would be such a positive start to the year. It would also tip Sunderland back into trouble. We could ....
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Boro Mustn’t Fall Over Barrow
Boro must avoid a giant sized banana skin today when pitted against non league Barrow in the FA Cup. Yes, it’s that magical day on the football calendar when the minnows have a chance to mug the big boys, the 3rd round of the FA Cup. We cut it fine a couple of season’s ago at the blue Boro of Nuneaton now we must be on our guard against the club that fell out of the league in the 70s.
There will be the excitement of the Riverside’s biggest ever away following ....
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