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The banana-est of banana skins that ever banana'd in its way into our hapless path gave us a right old banana-ing last weekend, and as we lie prostrate on the pavement six days later, what should be hurtling down from the heavens but a big old grand-piano with an anvil on top? That's the setting for our trip to Teesside tonight, where unbeaten Middlesbrough await with a recent record against us so formidable that you could stick a baseball cap on it and call it Tony Pulis. It's been a full six years since our last success at the Riverside, a 1-0 win courtesy of Hal Robson-Kanu, and Boro are scoring enough (nine in five) whie conceding few enough (three in five) to make a repeat highly unlikely.

We can, at a push, hang our hopes on our away performances so far being markedly superior to home matches, which raises the possibility we might at least give Boro a game. But it'll be an uphill struggle, and realistically a point here would be fantastic.