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This Month's News & Features

24/04/06 Downing shines for Teessiders in dour semi-final defeat
VILLA PARK has been the scene of many FA Cup semi-final triumphs over the decades and an equal amount of heartache stories.

24/04/06 McClaren: use defeat to spur UEFA victory
A REFLECTIVE Steve McClaren last night urged his shell-shocked Middlesbrough players to use the bitter taste of FA Cup semi-final defeat as a motivating factor ahead of Thursday's make-or-break UEFA Cup showdown with Steaua Bucharest.

21/04/06 England talk avoided as McClaren hails defenders
AS further talk circulated about the increasing likelihood Steve McClaren will soon be named the next England boss, the Middlesbrough manager last night hailed three performances which keep alive his hopes of becoming a trophy winner this season.

20/04/06 McClaren still upbeat as skipper joins sick list
With captain Gareth Southgate and in-form Mark Viduka out of the first leg of tonight's UEFA Cup semi-final in Bucharest, manager Steve McClaren insists Middlesbrough still possess enough quality to gain the initiative in the tie.

20/04/06 High point for Ehiogu in a traumatic season
DURING the course of the past three months, Middlesbrough have completed a remarkable turnaround that is threatening to ensure this season will live long in the memory.

19/04/06 Nothing less than the best for Boro, says Doriva
MIDDLESBROUGH'S players will fly to Romania this morning ahead of the biggest seven days in the club's 130-year history with midfielder Doriva claiming they are setting their sights on nothing less than a unique cup double.

18/04/06 McClaren is keen to hang on to Hasselbaink
JIMMY-Floyd Hasselbaink has received the biggest hint yet that his future could lie at Middlesbrough beyond the end of this season.

14/04/06 We must not let Jimmy go, Viduka warns Boro board
MARK Viduka last night urged Middlesbrough's board to do everything in their power to keep Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink at the club after claiming his strike partner was the most "instinctive" finisher in the game.

13/04/06 Memories of 1999 for McClaren
A JUBILANT Steve McClaren last night compared Middlesbrough's current pursuit of a unique cup double to Manchester United's thrilling treble triumph.

12/04/06 Deal or no deal asks Doriva ahead of contract expiry
AFTER finally shedding his tag as a football nomad, Doriva has urged the Middlesbrough board to extend his current stay at the Riverside by offering him a new one-year deal.

12/04/06 We've done nothing yet, insists McClaren
AS they prepare to play their 22nd cup game of the season this evening, Steve McClaren has warned his Middlesbrough players their efforts will count for nothing if they fail to lift a trophy in the final four weeks of the campaign.

10/04/06 Watching Brief: Bragging rights mean little to top dogs Boro
WHILE Peter Ramage's loyalty to his master is both admirable and understandable, his assertion that Newcastle remain North-East football's top dog is at best misplaced, at worst a downright perversion of the truth.

10/04/06 We have bigger fish to fry than Magpies says Boro boss McClaren
MIDDLESBROUGH boss Steve McClaren, while unhappy at losing yesterday's derby with Newcastle United, admitted he had bigger fish to fry.

07/04/06 Watching Brief: McClaren gets his performance
THE memorable performance Steve McClaren claimed would 'get everyone thinking that this could be Middlesbrough's year' arrived on cue last night.

07/04/06 McClaren salutes his heroes
AN ECSTATIC Steve McClaren last night paid tribute to his European heroes after Middlesbrough bounced back from three goals down to book a place in the UEFA Cup semi-finals for the first time in the club's history.

06/04/06 Cattermole's injury blow
MIDDLESBROUGH'S teenage general Lee Cattermole is facing up to the prospect of his debut season coming to an injury-stricken end with ankle ligament damage sustained at the weekend, writes Paul Fraser.

06/04/06 Boro are McClaren's priority
STEVE McCLAREN last night chose to overlook talk of him being one of the front-runners for the England job by claiming that leading Middlesbrough to UEFA Cup glory is higher on his list of priorities.

06/04/06 Riverside heroes can see us through, Gibson
OVERTURNING a two-goal deficit in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup demands a memorable performance and Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson last night declared: 'It's going to be a night for heroes'.

04/04/06 Mendieta foot injury is huge blow for Boro
IF MIDDLESBROUGH are going to go all the way in the UEFA Cup they will have to do it without Gaizka Mendieta after the Spaniard broke his foot in a freak training ground accident.

03/04/06 Seven academy products show future is bright
STEVE McClaren last night hailed his young guns after they fired Middlesbrough to a convincing 1-0 win over Manchester City, and predicted things can only get better.