Need some company for the working day? How does nine hours of Tony Mowbray playing the saxophone solo of Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street sound?
You can get on with your work, and Tone will keep wailing away in the background. For nine hours. read more »
Without the benefit of context, this finish looks like a defender taking advantage of some slack marking to power home a header from the edge of the six-yard box. To an extent that’s true. Alas, Middlesbrough defender Seb Hines is heading into his own net.
Hines’ own goal proved to be the winning goal for Swansea as the Premier League side booked their place in the Capital One Cup semi-finals. read more »
Name: Jaime Moreno
In his 90s prime for: Middlesbrough
Lowdown: Although Moreno is one of the most famous players in MLS history, it is easy to forget that he brought his South American ‘magic’ to England. After beginning his career at Blooming in his home country of Bolivia, Moreno had a brief spell at Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia before Middlesbrough made him the first Bolivian to play in England. read more »
Hoyte-y toity
The undoubted highlight of Sunderland’s extra-time FA Cup victory over local rivals Middlesbrough last night was this bizarre slide tackle on Boro defender Justin Hoyte from a pitch invader.
A couple of morons ran onto the pitch. One of them lost his footing behind Hoyte and ended up sliding through the back of him with the sort of challenge that’s liable to get you a red card these days.
This proves yet again that pitch invaders still haven’t learnt their lesson about the need to wear studs to the match if they’re planning on running around on the playing surface.
Home cinemas, conservatories and walk-in wardrobes, with England winger
Aston Villa and England star Stewart Downing was forced to give us an interesting insight into how a Premier League player spends his wages in court yesterday. Downing was asked to talk about his spending habits hile giving evidence against his former agent Ian Elliott.
Elliott is accused of four counts of fraud after allegedly siphoning off hundreds of thousands of pounds from Downing’s bank account. read more »
