Went to the match last Saturday despite the fact I’ve actually give up all of Boro staying up after the humiliation of the Bolton away match. However I know there is a little piece of me that ignores this logic and will not give it up until it is mathematically impossible, so off I went to watch Middlesbrough v Fulham in the Premier League. This was a must win game for the Boro, and disappointingly we didn’t win. We managed a come a way with just one point after drawing the match 0-0. This was because of lack of a cutting edge as the extremely well worn football cliché goes, and to be honest we were lucky not concede a late goal as Fulham piled on the pressure in the last five minutes. All in all, like the rest of the Middlesbrough’s season, it was very disappointing.

Now we have left ourself a very difficult run in, logically, as I’ve already said, we are doomed to the championship, but until all those points have gone, we can’t give up that hope our hearts.

Middlesbrough F.C. have recently unveiled their new away kit for the 08/09 season, and in rare bit of good news regarding Boro kits, we have returned to the Black and Blue Striped kit. Which was first seen in the Jack Charlton’s Seventies era, and is a particular favourite of mine.

I’m tempted to splash out on one, even though I got tired of Middlesbrough F.C. of sticking with Second Rate kit manufacture like Errea a number of years ago.

I’ve missed some good opportunities to blog over the past few weeks. I regret this, mostly because I can’t remember what I was going to blog about.

Anyway, I would probably have blogged about the Football, as since the last update I was at the Middlesbrough home FA cup games against Sheff Utd and Cardiff, as you probably are aware. Boro blew away the best chance they’ve ever had of winning the FA Cup being performing against Cardiff like a bunch of dead haddocks. This was with out doubt the most disgusting, disappointing, and embarrassing game of football I’ve ever seen.I suppose the only bright point was the Cardiff fan, who sang a number ofhumourous chats during the game, mostly anti-English and pro-bestiality.

I’ve also fix the comments RSS feed (again) it was breaking when because if could not handle the way some comments had paragraphs or double spaces, I’ve made it a little less sensitive about such things.

Finally, the main news is it is near the end of the year at work, and I’ve got a load of holidays left. Since I’m not allowed to carry them over to next year or sell them, as of tomorrow I’m on holiday until the end of the month. I plan on catching up on few jobs I’ve got behind in, the garden, the c64glen show #5 and the new designs for ObscureInternet and this blog.

Press play for some Teesside Pride!

I know this update has been a long long time coming, but it’s been difficult to write this one (until I decided to miss out the interesting stuff), Some of this this update with written on a sunny Balcony in Lytham St Annes over a two week ago, and the rest I am trying to complete now.

As you also may remember for a previous update, overclockers.co.uk are a bunch of cocks. Who manage to turn there RMA process into a decent way of making money. Thanks to them I sold the Processor for sale on ebay, and Graphics and sound card will follow.

It’s been up and down for me, the lows have seen me get drunker than I have been for a long time (on a school night) and I’ve also missed a important social function too. The ups have seen me return to the Blackbull in Peterlee for a drink, a nice meal on the town with friends, I’ve managed to hit the gym to days running, and I caught up with some old friends while watching the Boro perform very poorly.

I’ve also learned how to drive an Automatic car, the simple secret is to chop off your left leg.

C’mon Boro!

EDIT: Pah, McClaren Out.

Pah, I've had a bad case of bloggers block over the last few weeks, which is a shame because some interesting things have happened over the last few weeks.

Probably the strangest things was meeting someone Id only talked to on the internet before, as those of you who have access to private area of the forum know, Lemonpillows kindly offer to borrow my some ITIL learning material. Now I’ve not really met anyone I'd only spoke to on the internet before (except Dawnylou but that doesn’t count because Id worked with her fella and seen her a few times at work) this mixed with my below average social skills turned me into a gibbering idiot when I collected the books. Sorry Lemonpillows I'm a bit rubbish with people I haven’t know for many many years.

Last Saturday I took Conor to see Ice Age 2, I really enjoy going to the Cinema with Conor it reminds me of when my sister took me to cinema when I was a boy, Anyway we both enjoyed the film.

I was feeling very great and full on energy on Thursday as I went to the Gym for only the second time this year (I was stiff for days afterwoods) and later that day I saw Boro again perform another miracle by reducing a three goal deficit and qualify for the UEFA cup final. The good weather and the purchase of the Two DVD version of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children have also had me feeling good.

While I was staying in Blackpool last week there was a few other people staying there from Peterlee, So we decided to have a night on the town on Thursday, this was the night of one Boro’s biggest games in their history, the UEFA cup quarter final second leg against Basel at the Riverside stadium in Middlesbrough.

The night started for a couple of work colleagues and myself in the Hotel bar. The bar staff were kind enough to put the Football on the Plasma Televisions so we could watch, Basel would the first match 2-0 mean Boro had to score three goals without let Basel scoring another to win. This I felt was a very difficult task I one we would probably not be able to complete.

We started will and on 14 minutes, and should have had a penalty, however nine minutes later the task was made much more difficult as Eduardo’s tapped-in a goal for Basle which left us needing four goals to win.

Before the second half ended we headed into Blackpool town and more specifically to the Australian style bar Walkabout, in which we meet we our other colleagues for this night out. When I arrived at the pub I found that Mark Viduka had pulled one back before half-time with a powerful run and shot. So my eyes were glues to the huge projection screen for the second half

Basle’s defence again succumbed on 57 minutes when Yakubu slid the ball through for Viduka to sidestep Zuberuehler and shoot home from a difficult angle. Then Our hopes were lifted again when Majstorovic, who had been Basle’s dominant force in defence, was sent off. At this point all the play was one way with Boro constantly attacking Basle’s goal. A stunning shot from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink made it 3-3.

As this point someone tried to introduce some important colleagues to me, but unfortunately I could take my eyes of that large screen.

And as the minutes ticked down, Fabio Rochemback’s had a shot which was only parried by Zuberuehler and Maccarone squeezed home the rebound to send the myself and many other disbelieving Boro fans at the Riverside into ecstacy.

I am scream and shouted, and at the final whistle I had to smoked a cigarette to help me calm down, I could not believe what just saw (I still cannot to a degree) and after a short period during which many people shock my hand I went outside and phoned the wife.

Sometime after we left the Walkabout and for another pub, final ending up in a decent Nightclub and a good night was had by almost everybody including the large party of the Women dress as school girls (one of whom drew on my face) and myself as I manage to stay reasonably sober.

I believe Boro will not lose against Chelsea today.

Yes, the ok but bland Anthony won Big Brother, it is a shame as we all loved Eugene.

Again, I've been busy, this time getting the house ready. Some nice people are coming from the housing associating with a new kitchen, fireplace and they are going to fiddle with the radiators as well, so me and the wife have been moving stuff out of the into boxes and we even had a good old rummage and found lots of stuff to take to the recycling centre.

I've not been stiff at all since my return from the Gym, I'm looking forward to heading back tomorrow.

I've picked my Dream Team for the mini-league at work, of the 28 teams in there my team below screams out midi-table obscurity.

Cech , Chelsea, Goalkeeper, £5.5m

Queudrue , Middlesbrough, Defender, £3.5m

Heinze , Manchester Utd, Defender, £5.0m

Upson , Birmingham, Defender, £2.5m

A Ferdinand , West Ham, Defender, £1.5m

Danny Murphy , Charlton, Midfielder, £3.0m

T Miller , Sunderland, Midfielder, £2.5m

Carrick , Tottenham, Midfielder, £3.5m

Zamora , West Ham, Striker, £2.0m

Rooney , Manchester Utd, Striker, £5.5m

Defoe , Tottenham, Striker, £5.5m

Battlestar Gallactica season 2 continues to impress, where as Transformers Galaxy Force has annoyed me this week with the tiny but newly combined Sonic Convoy knocked out the huge Super Starscream. Pah, stupid Cybertrons (Autobots)

Did I forget to tell you about the news Transformers Cybertron theme tune? It was remixed by the Grammy nominated word famous DJ, Paul Oakenfold. Responsible for the awesome remix of U2's "Even Better Than The Real Thing" amongst other things. The only problem is… it's a bit shit, go have a listen.

Link: Transformer Cybertron theme