You have to admit Alf was right about the rebirth of the Boro........just got the year wrong (and just about everything else
the last three paragraphs of that Gazette comment shows how much things have changed since then
Round 20
H Tottenham v Burnley
D Blackburn v Derby
H Cardiff v Barnsley
H Fulham v Bristol City
H Hull v Stoke
A Luton v Wigan
H Boro v Charlton (Fletcher)
A QPR v PNE
H Reading v Birmingham
A Sheff Wed v Brentford
Round 21
H Leeds v Hull
H Forest v Boro (Fletcher)
D PNE v Fulham
H Stoke v Luton
D Barnsley v Reading
H Birmingham v QPR
H Brentford v Cardiff
H Derby v Sheff Wed
H Swansea v Blackburn
A Wigan v WBA
yeah....Hughton likes giant defenders....playing with one up front ...."combative" box-to-box midfielders and favours "narrow" rather than "wide" formations.......based on South Coast and known for teams that score very few goals....does this sound familiar?....on the plus side, he is very experienced, by all accounts respected by players and isn't "controversial"...but is he really going to produce better football than people were so unhappy about twelve months ago.......(having said that, if he was appointed as a short term "keep us in the Championship" deal, I could live with that)