Boro live to bore another day.

born and (mostly raised) in Middlesbrough means that i am a Boro fan. it doesn't mean that i have to like how things are going at the club, though.



it is not every team which goes from UEFA Cup Finalists one year to scraping to survival in the Premier League the next. that is what we have ended up doing, despite having a team of established professionals mixed with some awesome young stars.

the reason for the year being such a struggle? Gareth Southgate. a nice man, a very good player, but just not the kind of person you need in charge of a football club. why we ended up with him in charge instead of looking towards Tony Mowbray is still beyond me.

the season in review - a sparse amount of halfway decent results, one or two inspired performances for great victories and a whole bunch of dreadful performances which led to well deserved defeats and, on occassions, batterings.

Southgate claims to know "how to fix" Boro during the off-season. i would like to think that this means he is going to admit he is not up to the job and suggest that they get a new manager who can do the job properly.