The Pride of the North East - A Middlesbrough Story

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May 2016

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It was a great end to the month as we saw off Leicester on the final day of the season to give us a good chance of qualifying for European Football next season. However after the FA Cup final it was confirmed that we.....

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would be entering the 2016/17 Europa League at the Third Qualifying Round!

Squad Stats

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Player of the Month - Jacob Butterfield

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Jacob gets the Player of the Month award after he started the 4-3 win over Leicester and put a goal on a plate for Charlie Austin.

League Table

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We finished 7th in the league and qualified for the Europa League after Chelsea won the FA Cup!

Club News

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Our strike force of Jerome Sinclair and Charlie Austin have been called up to the preliminary England squad for the 2016 European Championship!

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Our transfer policy is starting to pay off as five of our players have been called up to the England U21 Squad to attend the French Youth Invitational.

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Following qualification for the Europa League, the board have decided to upgrade the transfer facilities after I persuaded them that we need to compete with the best.​
 
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2015/16 End of Season Review

End of Season Squad Stats

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Player of the Year - Tom Ince

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Tom had a fantastic year for Middlesbrough and I was disappointed he didn't make the preliminary squad for the 2016 European Championships.

Young Player of the Year - Dane Burke

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Dane stops Jerome Sinclair from winning it for a third successive year and it was mainly down to his second half of the season performances which led to Ben Gibson having to settle for a place on the bench.

Result of the Season

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The 4-0 demolition of Manchester United in February has to be the winner as it was very unexpected and United hadn't lost a game in all competitions since October 2015!

League

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A very good year for us as we met one of my managerial targets by qualifying for European football in our second season in the Premier League!

Capital One Cup

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Once again we were very disappointing in the Capital One Cup and went out in the Fourth Round. Hopefully we can make it to at least the semi-finals in the 2016/17 season.

FA Cup

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Another domestic competition we exited at the Fourth Round. I would love to win it within the next two seasons.

Aims

1) Win promotion to the Premier League
2) Qualify for European Football
3) Win the Premier League
4) Win the FA Cup
5) Win the Capital One Cup
6) Win the Community Shield
7) Win the Europa League
8) Win the Champions League
9) Win the Club World Cup
10) Complete a domestic treble
11) Have 10 or more players selected for national duty for the main team.
12) A Middlesbrough player to win the Golden Ball
13) Become the most reputable club in the world
14) Become the world's richest club
15) Become the most successful club in the North East​
 
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2015/16 Premier League Review

League Table

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Champions
Arsenal

Champions League
Arsenal
Chelsea
Manchester United
Manchester City

Europa League
Stoke
Newcastle
Middlesbrough

Relegated
West Ham
Brighton
Crystal Palace

Footballer of the Year

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Eden Hazard - Chelsea

Players' Player of the Year

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Leighton Baines - Arsenal

Players' Young Player of the Year

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Jack Wilshere - Arsenal

Golden Glove

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David De Gea - Manchester United

Manager of the Year

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Claudio Ranieri - Arsenal

Top Goalscorer

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Romelu Lukaku - 26 goals

Goal of the Season

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Nani - Everton (v Reading)

Team of the Year

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David De Gea (Manchester United)
Leighton Baines (Arsenal)
Ryan Shawcross (Stoke)
Raphael Varane (Manchester City)
Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea)
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Marco Verratti (Tottenham)
Jack Wilshere (Arsenal)
Willian (Chelsea)
Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea)
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal)​
 
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2015/16 English Season Review

Premier League

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Arsenal won the league title for the first time since 2004 over Chelsea who finished in second place. Manchester United and Manchester City will join them in the Champions League. Stoke, Newcastle and Middlesbrough will represent England in the Europa League. At the other end of the table it was bad news for West Ham, Brighton and Crystal Palace as they were relegated to the SkyBet Championship.

SkyBet Championship

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Fulham and QPR received automatic promotion into the Premier League as they finished in 1st and 2nd position respectively. Joining them in the Premier League are Hull as they won at Wembley in the Play-Off final. Blackpool, Bolton and Preston will compete in SkyBet League One next season after being relegated.

SkyBet League One

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Sheffield United and Tranmere achieved automatic promotion to the SkyBet Championship and will be joined by Shrewsbury, who won in the play-off final. Chesterfield, Gillingham, Coventry and Dagenham and Redbridge were relegated after a poor 2015/16 season.

SkyBet League Two

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Wycombe, Northampton and Scunthorpe have boosted their finances by getting promoted to SkyBet League One and Southend will have made slightly more money after getting promoted via the play-offs. Luton and Bury were relegated from the Football League and Bury will compete in non-league for the first time in their history.

FA Cup

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Chelsea won the FA Cup for the second successive season after beating Newcastle 3-1 in the final at Wembley.

Capital One Cup

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Manchester United won their first trophy under Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer after beating Chelsea in the final.​
 
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2016/17 Pre-Season Update

Transfers

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In

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Adil Nabi

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Adil joins for a very small fee compared to what I think he is able to achieve in his career and will be a back up striker with Will Keane and Kyle Waine.

Tom Adeyemi

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He joins for ?500,000 from Huddersfield and, like it says in his contract, will be a back up midfielder to Jacob Butterfield. If there is an injury he will provide great cover.

Dele Alli

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Dele moves from his hometown club to join us as one of the brightest centre midfielders in the English game. Leeds submitted a bid for him and that's when we made our move.

Nathan Redmond

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When we played Norwich last season Nathan ripped us apart so it made sense to bring him in for ?3.3m. Will take over Elliott Bennett as our first choice right winger.

Out

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A large number of players left the club in the summer, like in last pre-season, whether it be with a permanent or a loan move. Faris Haroun and Justin Hoyte were released after their performances decreased in the last season and are on the wrong side of 30. The two permanent moves involved Emmanuel Ledesma and Richard Smallwood, who moved to Bologna and Celtic. Emmanuel will forever be remembered for scoring the goal that sent us into the Europa League but with Redmond arriving there was no place in the team for him. Richard leaves Middlesbrough as his attributes have started to decrease sharply.

Matches

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During pre-season we started our Europa League campaign and it was a fairly easy start as we beat Tromso 8-1 over two legs. It was disappointing to not keep a clean sheet in one of the games but it was our first competitive game of the season.

Club News

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After beating Tromso earlier on we now face Slovan Liberec for a place in the Europa League Group Stages. It could have been a lot worse but I think we should be the favourites for both ties.

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Jerome Sinclair was called up to the England squad for the 2016 European Championships and made his debut shortly after. It capped a great few years for the 19 year old after impressing in the three seasons at Middlesbrough.

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Over the summer we announced a link with Japanese side Jublio Iwata which will allow us to make a presence in Japan which could boost merchandise sales. We are already looking into touring Japan next summer.​
 
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August 2016

Transfers

In

Jack Stephens

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Jack joins the club for ?1.2m from Southampton and will be a backup defender in the squad. Dan Burn hasn't been himself since his lengthy lay off so Jack will replace him on the bench.

Ryan Ledson

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After three years of trying to sign him, I finally got him in! We paid ?7.5m for him but we had over ?10m left of our transfer budget so thought it would be wise to pay that amount. It's a shame he is over 18 now as I'd have liked to have him trained by the club between 18-21 for European competitions.

Matches

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August was a good month for Middlesbrough as we only lost one out of the five games we played. We've only played three league games but two of them were against the big guns of Manchester City and Arsenal so one defeat from them two games was excellent. We also beat Slovan Liberec 6-2 on aggregate so we are through to the Europa League Group Stage!

Squad Stats

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Player of the Month - Tom Ince

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Tom Ince continues his form from last season to fire us into the Europa League Group Stages with two impressive free kicks against Slovan Liberec.

League Table

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Although we are 17th in the league I'm not too worried as we are only three games into the season. We've already played two of the biggest teams in the league so we now have a run of games against 'easier' teams.​
 
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2016/17 Europa League Draw

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Middlesbrough have been handed a tough group for their first season in the Europa League under Michael Henson after being drawn in Group C along with Zenit (RUS), Vitesse (NED) and Anorthosi (CYP). Zenit are the strongest team in the group so Middlesbrough will be lucky to finish higher than them in the group.

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Middlesbrough start their Europa League campaign at home to Vitesse before heading out to Russia to take on Zenit. They then have back to back fixtures with Anorthosi and will be looking to get six out of six points against the Cypriot minnows. The Boro then wrap up the group stage with the return fixtures against Vitesse and Zenit.​
 
Apologies for the lack of updates recently, been very busy editing a TV package and writing a 1500 word essay for an assignment. More updates coming shortly!
 
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September 2016

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September was a very mixed month for us as we started it with two good wins before going on a bit of a bad run and then ending it was a superb with against Zenit in the Europa League. It was good to start the Europa League campaign off with a win against Vitesse before an amazing performance away to Zenit secured a 3-0 win. The FA decided to schedule two games within three days of each other so we rested nearly 10 players for the Capital One Cup game and they put a decent performance in but lost 4-2.

Squad Stats

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Player of the Month - Jerome Sinclair

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Jerome grabbed two goals in the 3-0 win over Zenit and played well in the other games despite losing three games this month.

League Table

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A bad start to the league campaign as we lie in 15th position with only one win in six games but I'm confident we'll get a few wins soon.​
 
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October 2016

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I think this month could turn our season as we remain unbeaten in five games which included a 3-2 win over Chelsea and a draw against Liverpool. It started off with a grea twin against Fulham at the Riverside before a boring 0-0 draw at Carrow Road. A 3-0 demolition of Anorthosi in the Europa League followed before our two best results of the season so far.

Squad Stats

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Player of the Month - Charlie Austin

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Charlie led the line excellently during October and grabbed a goal in the win against Chelsea.

League Table

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After the good month of October we've moved up to 12th in the league and a couple of more wins we'll be up around 7th position.

Club News

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After a lengthy period of time we've upgraded our training facilities so they are up there with some of the best in the country.​
 
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November 2016

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Another wonderful start to a month but we slowly faded away and ended up not winning for the last three games. We started the month off by qualifying for the knockout stages of the Europa League with a solid win against Anorthosi before beating English giants Manchester United at the Riverside. After the international break we took on bottom of the league Aston Villa but couldn't beat them which was very disappointing. We were 3-0 down at half time against Vitesse as a number of youngsters started due to us already qualifying before Redmond and Austin made the scoreline look respectable.

Squad Stats

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Player of the Month - Jerome Sinclair

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Jerome scored two goals this month but the crucial one was to start the win off against Manchester United.

League Table

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Middlesbrough now go up to 9th in the league and I'm hoping we can carry on our form to qualify for the Europa League again.

Club News

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Tom Ince finally made his debut for the national side after a number of good performances. Hopefully he can keep his place in the team.

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After a recent number of good performances I've decided to extend Adrianinho's deal until June 2021 as he is still eligible to play for England.​
 
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December 2016

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We faced seven games in December and we did extremely well to only lose one and draw one game. It started off with the great battle against Zenit which we came out on top in a 5-4 win. It was then two identical results against Swansea and Newcastle. The surprise result came against Hull as we were demolished away from home but bounced back with two wins against Leicester and QPR.

Squad Stats

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Player of the Month - Jerome Sinclair

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Second award in a row for young Jerome who scored four goals this month.

League Table

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We've not moved up to 6th in the league and if the finishes now I'd be very happy with another season in the Europa league.

Club News

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Doug Preece made his debut in the 5-4 win over Zenit and impressed a lot of people as he scored a goal on his debut.

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First time I've ever seen this on Football Manager! Somehow managed to get fined after criticising the referee for not giving me a penalty!​
 
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Europa League First Knockout Round

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Middlesbrough are set to travel to Belgium in the first leg of the Europa League 1st Knockout Round as they take on Standard Liege.

Boro fans will be hopeful of a solid performance in Belgium before the return leg at the Riverside the following week as they look to progress to the Second Knockout Round.

Other standout ties include AS Monaco v Leverkusen and Lazio v Benfica.
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January 2017

Transfers

In

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Ray Williams was brought in from Watford after being tracked since the start of the season. He will be retrained to a CM whilst providing cover for Tom Ince.

Results

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This month shows just how good we can be as we remain unbeaten in seven games with five wins and two draws against Manchester City and West Brom. We started off the month with two late wins against Everton and Crawley before beating last years Premier League champions Arsenal at the Emirates. The two draws were either side of a solid performance against our feeder club Tranmere before we demolished Reading.

Squad Stats

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January Player of the Month - Nathan Redmond

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Nathan had a superb month on the right hand side of midfield and capped it off with a hat trick against Reading.

League Table

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A solid month saw us remain up near the European places and quite close to Champions League qualification.

Club News

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Tom showed his commitment to the club by agreeing a new contract with the club until June 2011 and move his wage to ?63,000 a week.

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After the 2-2 draw against West Brom, I criticised the ref again and got another fine by the FA.​
 
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February 2017

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It was nearly another great month for it but the defeat against Birmingham in the FA Cup Fifth Round saw us lose our first game of 2017. Progression in the Europa League was pleasing as we have gone past our expectations and it was followed by a goal fest against Norwich in the league. We signed off the month with a last minute equaliser against Chelsea and a win against Manchester United.

Squad Stats

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Player of the Month - Charlie Austin

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Charlie was in great form for the team this month with eight goals in seven appearances including a hat trick against Stoke.

League Table

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Another good month for Middlesbrough moves us up to 4th in the league which could see us enter the Champions League next season.

Club News

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After beating Standard Liege in the First Knockout Round we now face Dinamo Moscow in the Second Knockout Round with the first leg being on the 2nd March.

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To get a presence in a foreign country, we now linked up with the New York Cosmos to try and expand our merchandise opportunities.​
 
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Europa League Second Knockout Round

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Two English teams remain in the competition as Middlesbrough take on Dinamo Moscow and Stoke take on Vitesse. Other stand out ties include Galatasary against PSV and FC Twente against Marseille.​
 
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March 2017

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Another defeat where we only lost one game and it was another goal fest as we were beaten 5-3 by Fulham. We progressed further in the Europa League with an easy 10-4 aggregate win against Dinamo Moscow and have been drawn against AS Monaco in the next round. We only played three league games this month but didn't win a single one which was concerning for me.

Squad Stats

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Player of the Month

No one stood out this month for me.

League Table

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A disappointing month sees us slide down the league table to sixth place and we're going to have to put 110% effort in in April.
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April 2017

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Another jam packed month and we remain unbeaten in all eight games, amazing. We've made it through to the Europa League Final after dispatching AS Monaco and PSV in the quarter final and the semi final! We are still up there in the league as we won three of the five league games played this month. After the win against Monaco, Jason Steele was quick to praise me.

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Squad Stats

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Player of the Month - Tom Ince

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Once again he showed what he is capable of by destroying opposition full backs and adding four goals this month including two against rivals Newcastle.

League Table

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We are still up there and hope to qualify for the Champions League but we have a game against QPR on the Saturday before the Europa League Final so players will be rested.

Club News

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After getting through to the final of the Europa League, we will face FC Lorient at the Parc des Princes.

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We set two Europa League records this month, one was pleasing and the other wasn't as we set records for the most scored and conceded.​
 
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