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In the Barcelona daily paper Sport Karanka is always depicted as a puppet on strings whenever he features in the back page cartoon. When Mourinho failed to show in Nyon one year for the Fifa awards gala people half expected to see Aitor Karanka turn up in his tux to take his place. It’s synonymous with being someone’s stand-in.įor all the times Mourinho was at war with the Madrid press and sent his number two out to bat away the questions. ‘Karanka’ has practically entered the Spanish lexicon. Welcome: Karanka has swapped the Santiago Bernabeu stadium for the Riverside after agreeing to manage Middlesbrough The five-star hotel boasts a spar and a 18-hole championship golf course, which recently hosted the home of the English Senior Open. You will take charge of a club with one of the best training facilities in the country at Rockcliffe Hall, which is not actually in Middlesbrough but in Darlington.
Best head for the coast to the idyllic seaside town of Whitby or the The North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish. Middlesbrough once topped a poll of the worst places to live in Britain and its best known landmarks, the Transporter Bridge and ICI plant, are often shrouded in smog. You face travelling even further afield for the best tapas, however you could always partake in the local delicacy, Parmo, an irresistible combination of breadcrumbed chicken, creamy sauce and melted Cheddar.
Only one Teesside eaterie made it into Harden’s 2013 guide and that is 10 miles away in Stokesley. There is the option of staying in town, and Middlesbrough has laid claim to both the cheapest house and the cheapest street in Britain, but you will probably join your players in living in the nearby villages of Yarm or Ingleby Barwick. Perhaps it's a good thing then that Boro do have a week on the training ground, with their next fixture not until their trip to Reading next Saturday.Club rules state you must live within 40 minutes of the training ground. At 72, he's here to take Middlesbrough up.īut inconsistency is once again proving costly and needs to be addressed.
Rocket science it may not be, but it's certainly easier said than done. “We can go anywhere and beat anybody but until we start getting clean sheets too. You can’t teach them to dive really, can you?
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“We could have been professional two or three times and got free-kicks but we didn’t. “I can’t fault them effort-wise and technical ability, probably sometimes you’ve just got to have that little bit more. Go HERE for the latest Boro news and views. We’re a bit short of that in one or two areas. But you just need a few more things to put in your cake to get the right recipe. “The players are good enough, the technical ability is as good as I’ve had within the team itself. “We haven’t got that ruthless streak I think you need at times whether we can get that I don’t know," he said. On the back of the midweek win at Nottingham Forest, this looked like their chance to win back-to-back for the first time this season and doing so would have left them just one point off the play-off places.īut the 2-1 defeat epitomised overall why they've not started the season as well as he'd have hoped. Saturday's Blackpool defeat was another of those 'what if' moments.