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As Time Goes By

How have the last couple of weeks been for you? We have spent a large chunk of that time twiddling our thumbs and gazing out of the window at the latest watery thing to fall out of the sky and plunge Britain into chaos. Not playing sucks. Having three weeks …

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Bury’d Under Snow

Surprised? Not much. The postponement of tomorrow’s match was as likely as Sir Alex moaning about this, that or indeed the other. At the time of writing, we are hearing the areas in and around Greater Manchester are completely covered in snow to the point it looks like an additional …

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Don Stop Believing!

Unless we’re mistaken, there is the hint of a feel good factor back in the air among Boro’s supporters courtesy of last week’s win at Crewe Alexandra. Now we contemplate our first home game of the New Year, and Doncaster Rovers’ first appearance at Broadhall Way in nearly nine years. …

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The Crewe-cible

Danforth “You must understand, sir, that a person is either with the Boro’ or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time – we live no longer in the tinpot non-league when evil mixed itself with good and …

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So Solid. Crewe.

We had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of a memorable 2012 for Boro’, but we’re now finally ready to embrace 2013 and all it (hopefully) has to offer. Did we miss anything while we were readily acclimatising to this Brave New World in the last few days? Apart …

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Tying Ourselves In Notts

Before we even had the opportunity to begin writing this epic prose, we were told that it is not certain that tomorrow’s match will be able to go ahead. Fairlands Valley Park seems to have an additional lake to offer visitors because the weather is continuing to be a right …

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Festive Frolics

If you’re looking for the Festive Frolics blog, unfortunately it has been lost. Due to server problems over the Christmas period, we have been unable to retrieve it. If you’re reading this, however, you’re in a small minority anyway 🙂

The Nightmare After Christmas

Records, they say, are made to be broken. It is a concept that spawned a TV show that kept Roy Castle and Kriss Akabusi in work for a number of years. But it’s one thing to set a record; it is another to have one ended. In the past fortnight, …

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The BoroGuide Christmas Special

Here it is – the long-awaited BoroGuide Christmas Special! It is second only in stature to the great Morecambe and Wise and we’re looking to draw in an audience of 18 million on BBC 1 later this evening. Granted, we’ve checked the schedules and there appears to be a mistake …

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That Wasn’t Supposed To Happen!

With a rather tough Christmas schedule fast appearing on the horizon, it would have been preferable to take as large a helping as possible from December’s platter of starters – away at Hartlepool and home to Crawley. But something happened in a mad four minutes at the Lamex on Saturday …

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