Tag: Tommy

Tommy Smith: Play-off winning striker against eight team proposal
24 September 2025 Off

Tommy Smith: Play-off winning striker against eight team proposal

By Total Football News

A potential move to take the Championship play-offs down to eighth place would damage the competition’s credibility, according to former Huddersfield, Stoke and Middlesbrough striker Tommy Smith.

The EFL board is set to discuss proposals to increase the number of teams in the end-of-season play-offs from four to six but Smith, who was promoted to the Premier League with Huddersfield via the play-offs in 2017 is not a fan of

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Tommy Doyle: Birmingham City sign midfielder on loan from Wolves
3 July 2025 Off

Tommy Doyle: Birmingham City sign midfielder on loan from Wolves

By Total Football News

Birmingham City have signed midfielder Tommy Doyle on a season-long loan deal from Midlands rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers.

The 23-year-old has played 58 times for Wolves after arriving from Manchester City in 2023 but made just three Premier League starts last season as Vitor Pereira’s side finished 16th and guaranteed an eighth successive year in the top flight.

Doyle, the grandson of former Manchester City captain Mike Doyle, made his professional

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Tommy Watson: From outcast to eternal Black Cats hero
24 May 2025 Off

Tommy Watson: From outcast to eternal Black Cats hero

By Total Football News

What is also remarkable is that in the first home game at the Stadium of Light last month after the deal was announced, Watson was booed by some fans in light of his pending move to the south coast.

Former Black Cats striker Marco Gabbiadini described that response as “brainless”, but there is no doubt that Watson has had the last laugh in a way that nobody will ever

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Middlesbrough 2-1 Plymouth Argyle – Tommy Conway clinches win with stoppage-time penalty kick
19 April 2025 Off

Middlesbrough 2-1 Plymouth Argyle – Tommy Conway clinches win with stoppage-time penalty kick

By Total Football News

Tommy Conway scored a 93rd-minute penalty as Middlesbrough maintained their Championships play-off hopes against bottom side Plymouth Argyle.

But Conway’s spot-kick, awarded after he was pushed over by Joe Edwards, for which the Argyle captain was sent off, nudges the Devon club closer to relegation.

Miron Muslic’s side remain three points adrift of Derby County in 21st but with a far inferior goal difference and only three matches remaining.

For

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Tommy Simkin: Stoke City keeper on loan at Walsall signs new deal
20 February 2025 Off

Tommy Simkin: Stoke City keeper on loan at Walsall signs new deal

By Total Football News

Goalkeeper Tommy Simkin has agreed a new contract to stay with Stoke until the summer of 2028.

The 20-year-old has been on loan at hometown club Walsall this season, featuring in all but one of the Saddlers’ League Two fixtures.

He had previous loan stints with AFC Fylde, Solihull Moors and Forest Green Rovers and has also won six England caps at Under-20 level.

“I love being a Stoke City

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Tommy Smith: Middlesbrough defender forced to retire after injury
5 February 2025 Off

Tommy Smith: Middlesbrough defender forced to retire after injury

By Total Football News

Tommy Smith has announced his retirement from football at the age of 32.

The Middlesbrough right-back has not played since he ruptured an Achilles tendon in October 2023, and his contract at the Riverside Stadium was due to expire at the end of the season.

Smith made 353 appearances in his career, more than half of them with Huddersfield Town – who he helped to win promotion to the Premier

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Bristol City had to sell Tommy Conway said club’s technical director
22 November 2024 Off

Bristol City had to sell Tommy Conway said club’s technical director

By Total Football News

Bristol City had to sell homegrown talents Alex Scott, Antoine Semenyo and Tommy Conway says technical director Brian Tinnion.

Tinnion said the money was being reinvested in “young, hungry” players with the intention they would develop and help the club one day reach the Premier League.

“We offered him [Conway] the highest paid [wage] for his age ever at the football club and he was not interested,” Tinnion said at

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Tommy Conway: Forward expects more goals in Middlesbrough set-up
28 October 2024 Off

Tommy Conway: Forward expects more goals in Middlesbrough set-up

By Total Football News

Conway has started Boro’s last two games after being out for four weeks with a niggling injury.

He has played as the centre forward with last season’s top scorer Latte Lath starting on the bench.

The trip to Norfolk was the first time that Boro have scored three in a match this season and Conway hopes he and the team have now struck the right formula in attack.

“It’s only

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Middlesbrough 2-2 Portsmouth: Late Tommy Conway penalty secures point for Boro
25 August 2024 Off

Middlesbrough 2-2 Portsmouth: Late Tommy Conway penalty secures point for Boro

By Total Football News

Middlesbrough head coach Michael Carrick told BBC Radio Tees:

“For how well we’ve played for the most part and created so many opportunities, I thought we had a spell around the second goal for maybe five or 10 minutes where we lost the focus or intensity and lost our way a bit, but other than that I thought we were really good.

“We can definitely make it easier for ourselves,

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Tommy Conway: Middlesbrough sign Bristol City striker on four-year deal
17 August 2024 Off

Tommy Conway: Middlesbrough sign Bristol City striker on four-year deal

By Total Football News

Middlesbrough signed Scotland striker Tommy Conway from fellow Championship side Bristol City for an undisclosed fee.

Boro boss Michael Carrick has moved to boost his forward options after Conway made clear his intention to leave Ashton Gate.

The Riverside outfit have now secured a key target on a four-year contract as they look to add firepower to an underperforming front line.

The 21-year-old, who had a year left on his

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