So much to dwell on still regarding the 96/97 season. Some of the articles written in the press about the area etc. were an absolute disgrace, it was clearly due to the fact that little Boro had managed to sign (in my unbiased opinion) the best player in the world. There's much discussion about the rights and wrongs of whether or not we should have played, but it's clear there was an agenda against us. If by he FA's logic we cheated in that one game, why were West Ham several years later not deducted points for cheating in several games? (And we heard things like "it wouldn't be fair on their fans as it would effectively relegate them"
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Another thing that doesn't make sense, why were the 3 points not just awarded to Blackburn??
Worst thing about us going down though, had we stayed up, we could have had several more years of Juninho in his prime. It still feels like an injustice that we only got one year of the best player I've ever seen at Boro.
Anyway, has anybody heard more news on Mikkel Beck's charity match?