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In the first half of our debut Football League season, new additions to a close-knit squad were carefully chosen – and Jay O'Shea was one of 'em

Jay O’Shea

In the first half of our debut Football League season, new additions to our close-knit squad were carefully chosen – and Jay O’Shea was one of ’em. The Irish winger arrived not all that long after another lad we looked at recently – Marvin Williams. Well, 10 days after the …

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For a Boro' side adapting to life in the Football League, one of the men that Graham Westley looked to for that bit extra was Marvin Williams

Marvin Williams

For a Boro’ side adapting to life in the Football League, one of the men that Graham Westley looked to for that bit extra was Marvin Williams. After storming to the 2009-10 Blue Square Premier title, we pretty much kept faith with the same band of brothers who had earned …

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Like all those England one-cap wonders, we've also signed our fair share of one-outing – er – wonders? And Carel van der Velden is one of 'em...

Carel van der Velden

If we asked you to, we bet you could name at least one of England’s one-cap wonders. Steve Guppy – he’s one. Brian Stein is another. See, it’s easy. But what about if we ask you to reel off one of Boro’s (many) one-outing wonders from over the years? Now …

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Part of Cloughie's efforts to reshape Boro's squad for the 1998-9 campaign, Rodney McAree joined in September 1998. But he didn't hang around...

Rodney McAree

Newcastle aside, there ain’t too much about the 1997-8 campaign we’d look back on with love. Cloughie got to work rebuilding the Boro’ squad during summer 1998. New faces for the 1998-9 season included Carl Alford, Lee Howarth and Dominic Naylor. But the start of the season didn’t put an end …

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No-one chooses to remember Teddy Sheringham's time in charge at Boro' – do they? But what about those players he signed – like Offrande Zanzala?

Offrande Zanzala

No-one chooses to remember Teddy Sheringham‘s time in charge at Boro’ – do they? As failed experiments go, his spell as gaffer is right up there; the ex-Spurs striker leaving us dangling dangerously above the League Two drop zone with just six wins from 29 games*. But it also means …

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