Monday, August 09, 2010

Mciddlesbrough



For all of us who have wondered and pontificated on how Celtic or Rangers would do if they were relocated to the English leagues this season gives us some answers to those mental meanderings. Middlesbrough have acquired the services on nine former SPL players, in addition to which they have a Scottish manager and two high profile former Scottish internationals as coaches.

An old firm forward line of Kris Boyd and Scott McDonald, backed up by fellow ex-Old Firm players: Kevin Thomson and Steve McManus who have joined the other Scots that Strachan signed last season: Wilo Flood, Barry Robson and Andrew Halliday. Add to this Gary McAllister and Jim Blyth, who are first team and goalkeeping coaches respectively and Gordon McQueen who has been appointed as head scout and the whole club suddenly has a Scottish feel to it.

2 comments:

Span Ows said...

hmmm...another disappearing post? I haven't seen this one until today...yet I commented on the one before and after and have popped in a few times (from 4 different countries!) since and not seen this blogpost before...weird.

Paul said...

Hi Span - not disappearing I hadn't published it, it was still sat as a draft from a while ago.