All Posts by Tom Sharp

Tom Sharp

A real Northener who has the odd quirk of supporting Middlesbrough, and has done for a lot of years now. A football nut in most respects, I finally decided I needed somewhere to express all my words of the sport, creating OwnedbyHleb, OwnedbyKwasnik, and contributing (almost regularly) to Offsideref, and now Soccerlens

How McClaren plans to get Sacked

How McClaren plans to get Sacked

The genius of his lunacy is sublime. Not even the most advanced sports psychologists have recognised this, so I want you all to remember that I did. Its really quite clear – Steve McClaren wants the boot.

Could Middlesbrough ‘do a Leeds’?

With my beloved Middlesbrough languishing in 17th place in the Premiership, and the performances getting worse, perhaps I should start looking at relegation as a possibility. Southgate is still a rookie, so dropping down a division is very possible, and looks more than probable. But would it really be all that bad? Could we ‘do…

Middlesbrough should play like Barcelona against Chelsea

Middlesbrough should play like Barcelona against Chelsea

21 years now since Steve Gibson and his band of merry men took charge at the Riverside, and rescued Middlesbrough from a certain death, and for those 21 years since, we’ve been told its the ‘town’s club‘. To some extent it is, we enjoy the triumphs together, we hate the losses together, and we complain…

Time for change at Middlesbrough

For the past two weeks, I’ve been fervently trying to avoid anything to do with Middlesbrough, simply to avoid having to face the fact that its going to be a long hard season. With our strike force looking worryingly thin, our (depleted) defence leaking goals everywhere, Schwarzer seeming more concerned with getting his buspass than…