Summary
FORGET X-Factor, Gordon Strachan's preferred weekend viewing of choice. On Saturday, the Middlesbrough manager was forced to sit through a 90-minute production that was decidedly X-rated. And on the evidence of the jeers that emanated from Vicarage Road's away end at the final whistle, there is little chance of him surviving a public vote as things stand.
"I watch it and cringe, " said the Scotsman recently. "I ask, 'Are they still on?' It is horrific." He was talking about the latest set of wannabe singers queuing up to humiliate themselves on ITV's flagship show, but he could easily have been describing the opening stages of Saturday's defeat.See the full content of this document
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Strachan Steel Is Nowhere to Be Seen
Less reality TV, more surreality viewing as Boro shipped three goals in the space of 20 madcap minutes.
"When you're playing away from home, you have to set your stall out and establish a bit of a base in the opening 20 minutes, " said Gary O'Neil."We didn't really do that."If their defending had matched their captain's ability to u...See the full content of this document
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