Feel like I can remember at least something from every game between ‘91 and about ‘98. Yet if you asked me about a game from last season I’d struggle..

I was there... as was my dad who you can see celebrating (bald head, yellow and black away shirt, 1:06).

Today’s Times... ‘Rising star of the week - Ben Whiteman (Preston). Only three games into his Championship career after a move from Doncaster Rovers, the 24 year old midfielder is already showing signs he has the ability to play at an even higher level’ Anyone know much about him?

Unreal he got a new 5 year deal last season after foundering in L1.

“He’s back... and he’s done it”

Always remember Shearer being nursed back at the start of 1993/94, spent a fair few games just coming off the bench and he had only been out about half the time of Dack.

Kean-out esque front page editorial from the Ipswich local rag (who knows their version might actually make a blind bit of difference). https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/sport/ipswich-town/eadt-ipswich-star-say-paul-lambert-should-go-7068372

Top player, end of, people that know the game said so.

It really wasn’t, as he wouldn’t have been sacked with a draw (or defeat).

His 4 year anniversary is coming up, so I’m looking forward to a good run of results into mid Feb... the LT will be doing a pull out.

But then it’s Sky money that makes up the majority of Championship club’s cash flow...

On the BBC website... If there is one man who is synonymous with red shirt of Middlesbrough, then it's Tony Mowbray. Redcar-born, seemingly hewn from the iron ore which was mined at nearby Eston, and granite tough.’ I reckon we don’t make enough of his roots.

There’s even folk mumbling about Dyche every time that lot lose a game... you know he who just ended a three year unbeaten Anfield home record and has completely transformed a club in the doldrums for decades (one year aside). TM has it bloody easy here, be it from those ‘above’ or supporters.

I like how by ‘Lancashire’ you mean The REAL county - that’s me on board! 🌹

As I’ve said before I used to go to the gym at Deepdale and it struck me that there was always maintenance staff around the ground, they’d be jet washing, painting, weeding, cleaning. Just little bits of touching up of the place that keeps you on top of a decent sized estate - Does anybody really think anything similar goes on at Ewood through the week?

Sounds like it’s you needs to breathe, you are trying to put normal club scenarios onto a Venky run establishment and getting very over-excited in seeing things that aren’t there. Give TM a microphone and he defends his position and rarely takes responsibility for failings - it’s the players, it’s the pitch, its the injuries, it’s the ‘market’. I’ve seen of heard nothing that suggests he’s under any more pressure from the owners.

It’s the UK version of a South Korean show... has to be from the Far East!

Football that gets you promoted and keeps you there? Nah, let’s keep going like we are. A certain type of football fan gets bored of it.

No idea what TV India’s going to be on yet. Disney hold the UK rights, they could put it on its own ‘HotStar’ streaming site (no, me either) or sub-contract it out - but no bid from Sky, as yet.

Tuffers ain’t ‘posh’. Agnew’s from Leicester (though he is a bit posh). Anyway, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone...TalkSPORT have nabbed the radio rights for India. 😥

... and Venus, and Downing

There’s an element of every fanbase that are ‘never happy’, but he honestly can’t think he’s had a remotely tough relationship with the Rovers fanbase. I’ve never known a manager as average as TM given such an easy ride.

I would say the League 1 relegation has led to the opposite of fans having ‘1995’ expectations. Standards of what is acceptable and what the club should have aspirations to achieve has dropped markedly post L1, even from the not exactly halcyon days of the Bowyer era - which has helped TM out massively in keeping fans pressure for poor results and performances off his back.

It is out of the ordinary for TM to appear on new fangled mediums like podcasts, he’s more a Radio Tees kind of guy, you’d think. The official EFL podcast with a friendly fellow Boro man would be the best outlet for him to put his point across...

How quaint... “Tam, the Cardiff owner said; their efforts to propel us towards a fifth-place finish and play-off position last year are recognised and appreciated. Although sadly we are in a result-orientated business and our on-field results of late and progress this season has been very poor. “As such, we have had no choice but to relieve them of their duties. We hope to improve results and league position with a change of manager.”