Boro's pensioner boss conceeds title
after a superb start to the season where, boro became the only team to get a point at the geordie stronghold, boro entered the christmas period vying with Jimmy's newcastle for the title.
a potential title decider loomed at the riverside as newcastle entered fortress riverside seeking to avoid humiliation, both teams entered te game with key defenders out injured, woodgate/albrechtsen for boro and dawson for the geordies, and the game was particularly hard on both teams defences, with both boros starting central defenders and one of newcastle's going off injured.
boro looked comfortable at 4-2 with 30 mins left when i made the biggest mistake of the season, in taking off perez (to rest him for next game after he had torn newcastle apart) and newcastle stormed back to take a just about deserved 5-4 win.
this left newcastle 4 points clear with 2 games in hand. boro's form went down hill from then on, only winning 1 game in 7 (although only losing 2) with bizarre results like 7-7 draw at chelsea being the norm, (the only win being a 7-6 win)
boro's defence continues to leak goals at an alarming rate, conceeding over 50 league goals in 26 games, only the attacking brilliance of carew (undoubtedly the best striker in the premiership this season) supported by hidalgo, perez, gamst pederson, waigo and pearson (resulting in over 100 goals being scored in the same period) keeping boro in the top 2 in the premiership and still challenging in the champions league in boro's first season in the competition and the continuing love afair with the fa cup keep boro's season alive.
although the gap with newcastle is closing for the 4th season in a row, boro believe the geordies are just too far ahead to be caught.
elsewhere, boro continue to have a massive clearout of talented players, virtually having gifted hull with a team of players(got to help another boro fan stevey), and offloading some garbage players to portsmouth (never mind ant, i am sure they will do well in div 1)
few signings have been made this season, the key ones being taylor from portsmouth to play left back, and woodgate from burnley as defensive cover. the great news for boro fans is the continuing development of the youth players, with several 17 and 18 year olds (other than those given away) knocking on the first team door.
for the rest of the season, my aims for boro are to remain in the champions league positions (hopefully clinching 2nd) to retain the fa cup, and get to at least the semi of the champions league. all should be achievable with the current squad wwo will continue to improve and roll on next season
, you have timm anyway
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