Tag: showdown

Tottenham v Newcastle: Lewis Miley ready to step up for Sandro Tonali showdown
29 August 2026 Off

Tottenham v Newcastle: Lewis Miley ready to step up for Sandro Tonali showdown

By Total Football News

Miley’s level-headedness also made him a firm favourite of former Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe.

Howe even trusted Miley to fill in out of postion at right-back when Tino Livramento sustained a series of niggling injuries in his final campaign in charge.

Miley, as a result, ended up playing the most minutes (1,403) of any English teenager in the Premier League last season before he turned 20 in May.

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Middlesbrough: Kim Hellberg admires Boro legend Tony Mowbray ahead of showdown
20 August 2026 Off

Middlesbrough: Kim Hellberg admires Boro legend Tony Mowbray ahead of showdown

By Total Football News

Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg has spoken of his admiration for former Boro boss Tony Mowbray ahead of their first meeting in the dugout.

Hellberg’s side head to Ewood Park on Saturday (15:00 BST) to face Blackburn, who are playing the first home game of Mowbray’s second spell in charge of Rovers, more than nine years after his first began.

The Saltburn-born 62-year-old played nearly 350 league games for Boro

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Southampton and Ipswich Town prepare for automatic promotion showdown
27 April 2026 Off

Southampton and Ipswich Town prepare for automatic promotion showdown

By Total Football News

McKenna’s men were the firm bookies’ favourites to win the title on the eve of the season in August.

Town were odds-on to go up, with Southampton the second-favourites, and the other relegated Premier League side, Leicester City, third in the betting… though the less said about that the better.

For the record, champions Coventry were sixth-favourites for promotion, behind Birmingham City and Sheffield United, and just ahead of Middlesbrough.

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