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My good friends the band The Knockouts tell us about their club, Luton Town...
Q: When I was a youngster there was a certain glamour about Luton with the distinctive kit and some real flair players.
Do you have good memories growing up with/in Luton?
A: When I first started going we played...
After the cup success but also following league defeat at Barnsley we bounce back with Issue 624 of Fly Me To The Moon.
There is no Unpleasant-ness in this issue instead it is a treasure trove of delightful feelings. Then there is Don Revie remembered and reassessed. Points mean prizes. Knockout...
England Women Play Canada tomorrow night (17th Feb) at the Riverside and ahead of that game we talk with former Middlesbrough and England international Marrie Wieczorek. Maz recently returned to work for the MFC Foundation 5 months after suffering a heart attack. She is fit and working again...
Boro’s own Claire Streeter, Alice Hutchinson and Abbey Lyle set off from the Riverside and walked the 106 miles to Old Trafford to raise money for MFC Foundation to create a Dementia Hub at the Riverside Stadium. In mid winter!
The trio set off after the Coventry game and so gave themselves...
INTERNATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER DAY
Today is International Childhood Cancer Day (15 Feb), a day dedicated to raising awareness of the special challenges faced by young cancer patients.
Within the Great North Children’s Hospital, the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, which is part of Newcastle...
This one probably won’t make us many friends, but here goes…
Steve Gibson should do the right thing and drop the club’s legal action against today’s visitors.
From the outside looking in, this messy episode is an unnecessary act of kicking another club when it’s down and it reflects poorly on...
Fmttm Issue 623 v Derby County - inside bringing the celebrations from Man U and the plaudits from QPR back home.
Looking forward to Erimus74 Boro Memorabilia Exhibition at Base Camp and looking forward to Eng v Canada Women with Mbro's own international Marrie Wieczorek. Also looking ahead to a...
I’ve always enjoyed creating things for as long as I can remember but I had never allowed myself to consider that aspect of my life as something I could spend my day doing full-time.
My perspective on that gradually began to change after my Mum died of ovarian cancer in 2017. I went on...
Over 10,000 miles away from North East England, an England v the Rest of the World football match has raised an amazing £5,500 for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
The Live Forever Cup was held in Brisbane, Australia, and was organised by 38-year-old Iain Chisholm, originally from Walker...
Which one of you told me to ‘write some fiction’ after the Charlton game in December 2019? It was one of you. Anyway, over the past 18 months I’ve done just that, although ‘The Case of the Shot-shy Strikers,’ inspired by that particular game, didn’t make the final cut on this occasion. December...
CATTLE & CANE COLLABORATE WITH THE UNTOLD ORCHESTRA ON STUNNING NEW VIDEO
Earlier this year, The Untold Orchestra invited Teesside siblings Joe and Helen Hammill, aka Cattle & Cane, over to The Albert Hall in Manchester to record a special version of ‘Golden’:
“We’ve spent most of the year...
The autobiography Vin Garbutt wrote in his final years has rocketed to number one in Amazon’s Biographies of Folk Musicians chart within 24 hours of its release in paperback and ebook versions on Monday (November 8).
Folk legend Vin, who was 69, passed away on June 6 2017 after undergoing heart...
Chris Wilder held his first pre match press conference today and laid out his mantra that his Middlesbrough team would play effective football. No pigeon-holing but whichever way it takes to win.
Gone were the zoom meetings as Chris Wilder waved in a new era by holding his first pre-match media...
After two years of only being able to provide a small covid safe family festival the North Yokshire music and comedy and so much else weekender is bouncing back in style next year - here is a list of the first acts to be confirmed.
"We are super excited to share with you our first music...
A beautiful new artwork inspired by one of Sir Bobby Robson’s best-loved quotes is now available for sale as a Christmas card to benefit his cancer charity.
Created especially for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation by Newcastle-based artist, Peter Francis, it shows two children seeing a floodlit...
Chris Wilder met the media this afternoon via ZOOM hosting his first conference live from the training ground.
In all the media conference lasted about 45 minutes in which the former Sheffield United boss paid out some of his vision in reply to questions from radio, tv and written press. What...
Boro have parted company with boss Neil Warnock and his trusty lieutenants Kevin Blackwell and Ronnie Jepson and rapidly filled the vacancy with Chris Wilder, another former Sheff Utd manager and fan, funnily enough.
There were strange scenes following Boro's battling draw away at third place...
At the end of the press conference this morning I put a few questions to manager Neil Warnock ahead of the long trip to South Wales.
Q: Last week – you talked about backs to the wall and all needing to pull together – we all did that with great success. I suppose it shows how quickly things...
Versus Peterborough - Posh Boro
After the international break can we bounce back with games against struggling Posh Boro and Barnsley - we'll have to do it without a defence it seems.
It is fair to say that there have also been some distractions provided by events up the A19 in Newcastle - and a...