Fearsomely in-form Boro too hot for QPR to handle – Report Sun 14th Dec 2025 A chastening afternoon in the northeast to end and otherwise positive week for QPR – absolutely torn to ribbons by in form Middlesbrough across a brutal first half that could have been so much worse than the scoreboard reflected. |
QPR full of festive cheer, but is Boro after the Lord Mayor’s show? Preview Fri 12th Dec 2025 It’s been a fantastic week for QPR as Tuesday night’s cliffhanger ending against Birmingham pumps the R’s back into play-off contention, but it’s a daunting trip to high flying Middlesbrough ahead. |
Hellberg's hot start means Boro haven't missed a beat - Oppo Profile Fri 12th Dec 2025 After years of tipping Middlesbrough for promotion and being left with egg on our face, this year we lost faith and stuck them 13th so of course they’re flying away in second place – Dana Malt from @Boro_Breakdown tries to explain how and why. |
Are McKenna’s Ipswich stuttering, or hitting their straps? Oppo Focus Thu 30th Oct 2025 Title favourites Ipswich are currently 12th after a start that has included a manager of the month award, and 3-0 home defeat to Charlton. With Celtic interest rumoured in manager Kieran McKenna, we asked Phil Ham from our sister site TWTD for the latest from Portman Road. |
QPR's impressive resurgence faces acid Millwall test - Preview Fri 17th Oct 2025 QPR return to action as the form side in the Championship, in the play-off places for the first time in nearly three years, but the forthcoming fixtures are an interesting acid test of this wave of optimism, starting with a difficult Millwall assignment tomorrow. |
Season Preview 25/26 – Middle of the pack Wed 06th Aug 2025 Part two of our season preview focuses on an intriguing midtable picture where Middlesbrough and Stoke are stinking the place up, Derby, Disney FC and Millwall feel upwardly mobile, and everybody is looking at that Watford attack thankful they don’t have to play centre half against it. |
Season Preview 25/26 – The Contenders Tue 05th Aug 2025 The first part of our annual 1-24 Championship season preview focuses on the bookies’ favourites for promotion, a list dominated by sides coming out of the Premier League with parachute payments with one or two notable exceptions. |
Defeats mount once more as QPR limp to meek Boro loss – Report Wed 12th Mar 2025 QPR are fast building another run of defeats – four in a row and seven in the last nine – after a Tuesday night setback at injury hit Middlesbrough, where even a slightly higher intensity would surely have brought home a better result for the visitors. |
Fireworks night? Preview Tue 05th Nov 2024 QPR go in desperate search of a first home win of the season at the eighth attempt in the league this evening as Michael Carrick's inconsistent Middlesbrough visit the Bush. |
Carrick’s flying Boro have second in their sights — Interview Thu 16th Feb 2023 Middlesbrough have gone from 21st in the table when Michael Carrick took over to third now, and after a midweek win at Sheff Utd they’re hunting down the second automatic place — James Boothby gives us the latest. |
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