We thought it was best to awaken from our close season slumber for English football’s showpiece game. No, not Sunderland v Southampton but the FA Cup Final. Who cares about the rubbish kick-off time, the fact that the Premier League season still carries on around it and that our experiences …
A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 28: It’s the end of the season and the Old Toffee team are having a party. You’re all welcome to join in with the frivolities and festivities, with host Steve Watkins joined by (t)wits Dean Thompson and Mark Hollis. The guests for this …
There she goes. Leaving on the 16.42 from Waterloo for the evening White Star steamer to the New World. It has been an emotional, enthralling few months where moments of utter joy had been entwined in frustration and, at times, despair. But now she is leaving your life for the …
It’s not quite your four-minute warning, but now is the time to start thinking about how to Protect and Survive as the end is nearly upon us. The only thing between us, three-and-a-half-months without football and Boro’ withdrawal symptoms is today’s showdown at the Lamex Stadium against The Best Team …
A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 27: And so we now come to the end of the season, and what better way to mark it than by an epic 27th Episode Spectacular! OK, we’re overselling it just a bit, but it is still a good ‘un as is always …
According to every English Literature student’s favourite poet TS Eliot, April is very much considered to be the cruellest month. To be honest, we can’t help chortling at the fact that TS Eliot is an anagram of “toilets”, but he could have been onto something with this April malarkey. For …
Three games. Is that it? Is that all that remains of the 2012/3 season? A quick glance at the fixture list tells you no lies – yet another interesting campaign in the life of Boro’ has nearly come to its conclusion. From the early promise of those sultry autumn afternoons …
A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 26: With Boro’ now assured of League One football next season, the Old Toffee team decided to have a party. OK, so we’re stretching the truth there. Join host Steve Watkins, regular minions Mark Hollis and Dean Thompson and first-time guest Pat Jackson …
We know what it must seem like to you. Yes, it has taken us four days to produce our thesis on the goalless draw at Fratton Park, but we have been busy with other things. Honest guv, honest! It is mainly because we realised that ALOOT might need some new …
A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 25: Last week, the Old Toffee team retreated to the drawing room fireside to discuss who would be taking on the managerial challenge at the Lamex. One name, it seemed, rose above the rest during the discussion. And that was a certain Graham …
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