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1125 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

17 Feb 2048
From our football correspondent Steady

Match15 Feb 2048

Middlesbrough throw away a 3-goal lead

3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Reading the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Middlesbrough will enjoy reviewing.

Squad17 Feb 2048

Liam Reid says Middlesbrough went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market17 Feb 2048

Simon Brown has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Middlesbrough they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad17 Feb 2048

Jason Cunningham falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings17 Feb 2048

James Russell in the eights

A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad17 Feb 2048

The manager makes an example of Nicholas King

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match15 Feb 2048

Middlesbrough share the spoils with Reading

A 3‑3 draw with Reading leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings17 Feb 2048

Nobody could get near Henry Wright

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Feb 2048

When it matters, Henry Pearson plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

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1050 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

10 Sep 2046
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Sep 2046

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dean Benamar

84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Middlesbrough lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad10 Sep 2046

Henry Pearson keeps Middlesbrough in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad10 Sep 2046

Edward Marshall is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad10 Sep 2046

Words at Middlesbrough training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jason Cunningham is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match8 Sep 2046

Middlesbrough see off Brentford

Three points for Middlesbrough, 1‑0 the final word against Brentford in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings10 Sep 2046

Simon Harris was immovable

17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Market10 Sep 2046

No place for Liam Reid in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Liam Reid has his answer from Middlesbrough; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Player ratings10 Sep 2046

Nobody could get near Jason Cunningham

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market10 Sep 2046

Middlesbrough shop where it costs nothing

David Wright signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

In brief