It’s finally here! The first home derby of the season and after the shower of shite against Bolton, hard training sessions and lengthy discussions should have been on the agenda in the build up to this game.

Newcastle had gained a massive positive after earning a point against Chelsea last week but we need to take control and kick them while there down.

However it doesn’t hinder the fact that they’re a joke, a pure utter joke and the 8th biggest club in world? Yeah ok then, even the mackems as well as us smoggies can’t let that slide before our letting our spleen burst with laughter. You have an owner fearing for his “life”, a crafty cockney  sitting in an office playing on Football Manager whilst sipping on a latte (in a nifty office in London), a chairman who never appears to do anything or say anything. One of England’s arguable top 5 strikers of all time whose apparent wage is alledgedly £110k a week sits on the bench after being dropped by a manager whose renowned for managing a team with the nickname ‘crazy gang’. I mean the words “haha” needs to be heavily mentioned!

They’re picking up in results to be fair, Joe Kinnear is there till he’s told where to go by some deluded foreigner who wants to take over the world after winning the Champions League. It’s issue after issue with the skunks and for how high and mighty they once were now it’s time to stick it to them.

I hope that Nicky Butt isn’t playing, he’s quite good for them, a good tackler and a good passer, he seems to make Newcastle tick (just). If we do start our 3 speedsters in Tuncay, Aliadiere and Downing we need to run at them and hopefully it will give us some good entertainment watching the Geordie back four shit themselves.

My slight alarm is Obefemi Martins pace, he’s a quick little player with an eye for goal and when Newcastle needs him to score 5 times out 10 he will (and let’s hope we’re 1 in 5 that doesn’t let him) He usually gives them a 70mph strike. He will be most likely partnered by former Boro target (f*ck me) Shola Ameobi who’s as much use as good manners in Sunderland.

I like to think we can win, obviously I want us to win and Middlesbrough would be a place of jubilation when going out on the town.

Let’s beat the bast…I’ve swore too much, Skunks!

Come on Boro!!

2-1 or a late one from the away team to 2-2.

MarkA