So here we go with the results....
As usual we start with the words from junos_boots:
John Hendrie - My Selections
Song Michael Jackson Earth Song (can they get any worse – unlikely)
Always liked Jarvis Cocker.
The goals
1st No real surprise here, Robbie Mustoe’s greatest Boro assist, sees Hendrie run a good 80+ yards before calmly clipping it into the net past the keeper. I must admit looking back at his goals I was shocked to find that it was only his 2nd for the Boro.
Oct 1990 v Millwall
https://youtu.be/7h8OOt-Cp_g?t=73
2nd The build up was absolutely keystone cops – but what a strike by John, curling it around the keeper with pace. This game saw another of Bernie’s hat tricks against Brighton, but this strike by Hendrie sealed an emphatic performance by the Boro.
March 1992v Brighton
https://youtu.be/SuDt8hkcUbI?t=156
3rd Sentimentality maybe, but such an important goal. It looked to me sat in the Luton end that we were about to do a ‘typical Boro’ by blowing our chances, including a missed penalty. Then Pollock, in almost an action replay of his bustling run against Wolves three years earlier, broke through the defence and Derek Whyte had (in my opinion) his best moment in a Boro shirt, cutting the ball back for Hendrie. He calmly controlled and finished and three days later it was confirmed that we were back in the premier league as champions.
April 1995 v Luton
https://youtu.be/_km7sERMPzQ?t=157
I loved John Hendrie and was sad that his Boro career fizzled out a bit in his last season. Indeed after Luton he only scored one more goal for us in a win against West Ham, before we had our annual post Christmas slump.
In his first few seasons and the start of the Robbo era he was a brilliant, almost talismanic figure. At the start of Lennie Lawrence’s final season we started with 4 wins on the bounce, with Hendrie scoring 5 goals, but the break for international duty seemed to completely disrupt us and the season tailed away.
Today we invoked the everyone got it right rule. So extra points available for everyone except NZBoro1.
Come and join me coluka. At least we are not too far away from mid-table mediocrity.
Tomorrow is Sunday. So I will be playing golf. I have a 10:30 tee time and we are likely to play 18 holes. So the results are likely to be published at somewhere between 15:00 and 16:00 UK time.
So you can probably be an hour or two late with your entry if you wish. Official closing time is 12:00 noon (ish) UK time tomorrow (31 May 2020).
I am sure that junos_boots will open the next round around 12:00 tomorrow UK time.
Now for some Mikkel Beck goals watching.....