All posts tagged Middlesbrough

Kinshasa is a pretty hair-raising place and for some time now, the Foreign Office has advised against all bar essential travel to the Congolese capital, depicted memorably in Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible. After a close season packed full of speculation, Kinshasa-born Leroy Lita will now tick off a perhaps even more harrowing place of residence. He has signed a three year deal at a rumoured £20,000 a week to join Middlesbrough Football Club.After an extraordinarily productive start to his senior career with Bristol City, Lita was a star of Reading’s 2005-6 promotion winning season after Steve Coppell took…

One of the most improved young Premier League stars of the past year has been Middlesbrough midfielder cum central defender Matthew Bates. So, the news that the imposing utility man will miss a large chunk of the season due to a cruciate ligament injury sustained at Carlisle’s Brunton Park will hit Boro hard.The Chemical Heads will need to rely on their young players as the sound of toys falling out of pram has resonated all along the banks of the Tees in recent weeks, and that’s nothing to do with the region’s higher than average population of teenage Mums. Depressingly…