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Yep, and I say this as a Labour member. I want them to do just a little bit better than expected today. Not on Teesside, natch, as would be great to see this Houchen character iced, but I dearly want Sunak to fight the GE as there is no way the UK public will vote for him. So I'd be happy with a...

A tactical genius, a true Premiership-class manager, and one of the greatest managers of all time, will have to slum it by visiting the likes of Middlesbrough, a sub-standard outfit who were too weak to match his ambitions. Boro may as well hand over the six points now. "Oi, you! Stop eating...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was with his weaker foot: a 30 yard flighted ball into Lath's path. I recall the beaut he scored against Preston was with his right. It's nice to have a genuinely 'two-footed' player in the team. I think he will come good, this lad. Just needs a bit more brawn...

bizarre but true

So far Carrick tends to keep with a winning team: understandable, but let's be clear, we were pretty poor yesterday and not great against Sheff Wed. We rode our luck against Saints too. Dependable as Howson is at CB, I think we need him back in the middle against Hull, to give us that control...

I don't know about you, but while a few weeks ago I was seriously concerned we were going down, now I'm desperately trying to read the runes to find portents for Boro making the most incredible end-of-season run to sneak into the play-offs and (who knows?) gain promotion! This most maddening of...

She 'doesn't want to dignify the rumours' by speaking out - yeah, right. The knife is glinting in her hand! And then it will be 'Well, others put me forward, but when it became inevitable there was going to be a challenge from somewhere...' Have to say, she's long been my biggest fear, to the...

Notice he's scored for under-21s in each of his four games since his return from injury. On the first team bench soon maybe...?

The football vogue is to try and dare the opposition to press you so you can break their lines and attack. Fine. But you have to have the players with the technical aptitude to be in the 'credit' column in terms of the risk/reward. We aren't. We have too many technically suspect players in...

For an example of how the Right governs (and reports on itself) in a totally un-self-aware bubble, this has to be the most eye-popping yet. The Welsh Police should question him under caution. The right sort of protesters?

We're all waiting for this striker to pop up in the next few hours - and last season's transfer window did yield some exciting additions. There's a lot of buried trauma there too though. I was thinking that stinker under Karanka - Gestede, Guedioura, some other donkey, wasn't it? Can't remember...

With friends like this... This is the uber-rightwing Tory who planted the piece in the Telegraph last week (on behalf of his wealthy - but bashful - hedge-fund backers) about how Sunak needed ousting. Well, you're never gonna guess who the tool supports...

With Southampton and Leeds breathing down Ipswich's necks, it's looking increasingly likely one will supplant the Tractor Boys on the top 2 - with the other likely to be favourites to win the play offs. If that happens, it is also likely that when their respective season-long camping holiday in...

I thought he favoured them all game - typified by his blowing for full time when we were mid-attack - bizarre. The missed pen on Greenwood was shockingly blatant - and how the linesman didn't clock it I'll never know. Ditto their keeper taking out Rodgers. Hopefully, he'll be rightly criticised...

Will we go three at the back now Jones is out and no Ayling? Can't see who else can play wing-back now. If we go our usual system I'd go VdB to full back, Howson and Barlaser middle, and Forss, Crooks, Hackney behind Rodgers. Thought Crooks was decent when he came on today, made things happen...

It's badly written, with the clunkiest exposition I've seen in a long time, but it's undeniably moving for the simple reason that it depicts such humble and blameless lives being ripped apart. It is twee, though, and it wasn't until a good way in that a non-white story was aired, with the the...

Even Millers fans will admit they were massively spawny in that game a few weeks ago. We were manifestly superior and they essentially scored without having a shot on target as their goal was a poorly-executed cross! With our horrendous injury situation beginning to ease, both sets of fans will...

In my younger days, the template was always Pat Nevin. A footballer who 'liked Joy Division' was...well, someone a bit like me, basically. Football in those days seemed like an impregnable fortress of conformism. Even from a young age, reading Shoot magazine, the mono-cultural nature of the...

Off to Genoa on loan as a sweetener in a transfer deal, with Spurs paying all his wages... 10m option to buy (tempting...)

..You sold your soul for a rich fan-cy And all you've left from your rich Russian man Is a plastic club for your plastic fans