BORO Blog is 1!

BORO Blog is now 1 year old!

BORO Blog first reported in early June last year as BORO announced the imminent signing of Arsenal striker Jeremie Aliadiere. Since then we have reported many stories and rumours totaling 95 posts, 96 including this one.

Our First Post

Catch Up

Well plenty has happened whilst I have been away, a four week holiday in Dubai and you struggle to keep up.

First up, BORO waved farewell to long standing Aussie goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer last month as he headed south in a bizarre move to Fulham.

Schwarzer had served BORO for 11 years and was BORO's longest serving player still with the club up until his move. He joined BORO from Bradford City and helped the club win their first major piece of silverware and made a memorable penalty save to ensure BORO's highest ever premier league finish and second season in Europe under boss Steve McClaren.

Schwarzer might well be sorely missed, but after arguably a less than impressive season last time out and at 35 years of age it was time to move on. Gareth Southgate has declared his confidence in stand-ins Ross Turnbull and Brad Jones, both of whom will now fight for the number one shirt, rather than the club bringing in a new keeper.

The UEFA European Championships are well in full swing now and whilst new BORO captain Emanuel Pogatetz's Austria have been eliminated from the competition they are co-hosting, BORO do still have an interest in the competition as Tuncay Sanli made it through to the quarter finals with Turkey after an extraordinary game against the Czech Republic where they overturned the odds to fight back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 with just 15 minutes of the match remaining. But that was not all, Turkish keeper Volkan was given a red card for pushing over Jan Koller with 4 minutes remaining of injury time and, with all 3 substitutes already made, BORO's Tuncay was handed the gloves and looked drowned in the huge Volkan's goalkeeper jersey. But Turkey held on and made it through to the last eight where they will face Croatia.

Finally, the closest thing to a new BORO signing I can see is that BORO appear favourites to sign PSG midfielder Didier Digard. However conflicting media reports suggest that the player has had a medical where other reports suggest a deal has not yet been agreed. BORO do look set to miss out on Chelsea midfielder Steve Sidwell as his proposed move to Aston Villa draws ever near.

Despite all this the MFC official website (www.mfc.co.uk) have published an ever growing list of players that we have been linked with, something for the fans to get a little excited about perhaps.

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