Take that Holloway.

If I had a fair crack at being a Premier League boss, with a budget as good as some, I believe I could do it. I am not one of these foreign fellas who gets a job just because he has known Jose Mourinho for 10 minutes or met him on a train


Holloway said this after he left Crystal Palace. He left on the 24th October 2013. AK started on the 13th of November 2013. And i'm not saying that this was directly aimed at Aitor, but it seems suspicious. 

Even if it wasn't aimed at Karanka, then up putting 5 past his Millwallians won't have strengthened their relationship.

But that shouldn't be the headline, it should be he scores when he wants, does Jelle Vossen. Well, he does in December vs Millwall. We can say that for a fact. But hey it took a long time coming didn't it. And I'm tempted, for journalistic reasons, to say that it was worth the wait.

But the wait was nearly shorter, when Forde pushed Vossen's front post flick, lets not be biased and say 'away from the goal'. When it probably did cross the line. Well make your own mind up.

https://twitter.com/VossenJelle/status/541387259531235328/photo/1
(even though the quality is EXTREMELY poor)

But after 21 minutes, our number 21 showed us class is indeed permanent, dispatching Big Ken's delightful 40 yard pass. You got the sense then that this was going to be a good away day. But that sense only heightened after 7 more minutes had passed and we got the familiar face of Patrick Bamford celebrating another goal, his 5th in 6 games. 

The last time (excluding Bournemouth where no-one scored) Bamford last failed to score on the 25th of October, around about the same time the previosuly mentioned Cherries were putting 8 past Birmingham.

Truth be told, we could have scored 8 or even more. Reach had a field day, in the no-mans-land that was between the 3 centre backs and right midfielder in Ian's 3-4-1-2. 

How very continental of the Bristolian,

The afternoon got even worse for the great southern tactician as Jelle strode through the wobbly cockney defense and slid the ball home twice more before the interval. The first hattrick scored by a Boro player since the, now Millwall player, McDonald vs Hull in 2011. (both of which were first-half hattricks incidentally. 

Unfortunately the half time interval seemed to take the sting out of our attacking presence.
Well from a goals point of view. We still dominated proceeding, even when the inevitable did happen and the little Aussie McDonald stole in with a goal. 

OH NO!

Typical boro, we aren't going to let a 4 goal lead slip are we?!?!?!

No

Less than a minute later the striker formerly known as Enrique Garcia Martinez (or Kike to normal people) who had replaced Vossen minutes earlier, planted his right footed curling shot into the goal infront on the travelling Smoggies, The first goal at that end all game.

Kike had been dying to get on the pitch as he could smell goals even from the bench. Or so I was told by the BBC Tees commentary trio of Ali Maddo and Mark.

Boro are a strange team. Why oh why oh why couldn't we have not reserved one of those goals for last week? Like Vossen? But, hey, lets not moan. It's a 5-1 victory. Our biggest away victory since the same score against QPR in 2009. The game afterwards, however, we did lose 3-0 to Blackpool. But history never repeats itself, right?

Only time will tell, and one way we can tempt fate against doing that is by packing the riverside to the rafters and singing our hearts out for the lads.

So come on the boro, lets put on a show for the cameras!