Saturday, 8 April 2017

Burnley’s Matt Lowton denies Middlesbrough late on in tame draw

The warm spring sunshine dictated that Middlesbrough treated fans to a pre-match funfair in the club carpark. Complete with bouncy castle, carousel, live music and speciality food it made for a carefree atmosphere only mildly tarnished by the cautionary presence of an adjacent fleet of ambulances and an NHS “health bus”.

By the final whistle though it was Steve Agnew and his Boro players who seemed most in oxygen as their failure to beat a Burnley side without an away league victory this season nudged them a step nearer relegation.

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from Football | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2oaoAQn