By Come On Boro.com
December 22 2005

All questions refer only to competitive fixtures, unless otherwise stated. All answers are for the year 2005 between 1 January and 18 December inclusive (i.e. they deal with all matches from Manchester United (a) on New Year's Day to Spurs (h) on 18 December). You will find a lot of the answers on this site by using the search facility in the red bar at the bottom of the page. Answers published here in the New Year.

General

1. How many times have Boro featured on television this year (discounting highlights)?

2. How many European games have the Boro played this year? (1st and 2nd legs count as separate games)

3. Who is the first Austrian player ever to play for the club?

4. How much does a single, black typed Boro brick cost? How much extra would one pay to get the type in gold?

5. Which Premier League club have the biggest brick road? How many bricks does it contain?

6. Which European country (apart from England obviously) have the Boro played in most since entering the realms of competitive European football? Name the clubs the Boro played from this country and the scores in each game.

7. Against whom did Danny Graham score his first League goal in February?

8. How many starts did Michael Reiziger make for the Boro in 2005? How many times was he booked in these games?

9. Of the 17 clubs who were in the Premier League for both the 2004/5 and 2005/6 seasons, which grounds did Boro NOT visit in the calendar year 2005 for League games?

10. How many times did Boro play on a Sunday in the first half of the 2005/6 season?

11. How many competitve score draws have Boro had in 2005?

12. How many competitive no-score draws have the Boro had in 2005?

13. How many times have Boro scored at least four goals in 2005? Name the opposition Boro have done this to, as well as the final scores in these games.

14. How many times have Boro had a man sent off in 2005? Name the players and the fixtures in which they were dismissed.

15. How many times has Chris Riggott scored in the year 2005?

16. What was different about the goal he scored at West Ham in October 2005?

17. Which two clubs gave Boro fans student discounts in the 2004/5 season?

18. Which club did Andrew Davies join on loan for the 2005/6 season?

19. How many mid-week league games have the Boro played in 2005, not including December 2005 fixtures?

20. Which two sides did the Boro play most in 2005?

21 Boateng's contract is up for renewal. When did we sign him, from which team and for how much?

January

1. At what time did the home game against Man Utd kick-off on New Year's Day?

2. Who scored his first senior United goal against us in this fixture?

3. How much did a ticket for the away end at Chelsea cost in January? How much did it cost in December?

4. Who did Boro play in the third round of the FA Cup this month? What was the scoring pattern of the game and who scored the goals?

5. What connects Doriva in this Cup game, Zenden against Everton the subsequent week, Queudrue against Palace on 2 April and Downing against West Brom on 23 April?

6. Who scored the three Norwich goals in around ten minutes that gave them a 4-4 draw from a prospective 4-1 defeat?

7. Which defender chipped in with a Boro brace in this game? What was the similarity between the two goals?

8. In losing 3-0 at Manchester United in the F.A. Cup at the end of the month, what was the similarity between this and the defeat at Liverpool in the Carling Cup two months previously?

February

1. What was the kick-off time of the Portsmouth match?

2. What were the half and full time scores in this match?

3. Who scored Pompey's goals in this match?

4. Against whom was Boro's only league win in three months? What was the score?

5. Who got sent off for Boro in this match?

6. What was the score when Boro met Charlton at the Riverside? What was unique about this and who scored Boro's goals?

7. Why is it Grazer AK when the name of the town is Graz?

8. What was the aggregate score of the Graz match?

March

1. Who scored the Villa goals in Boro's 2-0 defeat at Villa Park?

2. Which leg of the Sporting Lisbon tie had the greater attendence?

3. What time did the home leg of this match kick-off?

4. How many minutes were there between Boro's first and second goals in this 3-2 defeat?

5. Who scored twice as Southampton beat us 3-1 at the Riverside?

6. What was the score before this player scored the first of his brace?

7. How many months had Southampton gone without an away win before securing this 3-1 success on Teesside?

8. How many games had Boro previously lost at home all season before losing this match?

April

1. Against whom was the league hoodoo finally broken?

2. After this game the Boro only lost one match until the end of the season. Who was this against and what was the score? Who scored?

3. In the last eight games, what was the most common result the Boro achieved? In how many games did Boro get this result and against whom?

4. By the end of the month, Boro had two major rivals for 7th place in the League. Who were they?

5. How many times did Brad Jones play in goal this month? How many goals did he concede in his spell between the sticks?

6. Who refereed the 0-0 draw between the Boro and Newcastle at the end of the month?

7. What was the balance of home and away games during this month. State the sequence of these games.

8. Who scored Boro's goal at Anfield? How many minutes had elapsed?

May

1. Ray Parlour suffered the same fate against Liverpool on 30 April and Manchester City on 15 May. What was this?

2. Who was on the front cover of the official match programme for the Spurs game on 7 May?

3. James Morrison at Manchester City on 15 May suffered the same fate as that of James McMahon at Portsmouth in February. What was this?

4. Why was the last-minute penalty given at the City of Manchester Stadium? Who had infringed upon the rules?

5. Who missed that penalty?

6. When Schwarzer saved the penalty, to whom did Century Radio's Alistair Brownlee compare him?

Close Season + Signings (June and July mainly)

1. What is Yakubu's first name?

2. Yakubu is the club's third most expensive signing. How much did we pay for him and name the two players who were more expensive.

3. What was Yakubu's goalscoring record at Portsmouth? Which player is the only player in the Premier League to emulate this feat in the same period?

4. From where did the Boro sign Abel Xavier?

5. How many seasons had he played in English Football before signing for Boro?

6. Which English clubs did he play for?

7. Name three of Xavier's other clubs.

8. Against whom was Emmanuel Pogatetz's debut?

9. From where was he signed?

10. Name the Russian club he was on loan to?

11. From where did the Boro sign Rochemback?

12. What do both Pogatetz and Rochemback have in common?

13. Tony McMahon suffered a shoulder injury whilst playing for the reserves on 9 August. Who was the opposition?

14. For the 2005/6 season, how much does an adult 'Premium' ticket for the West Stand Upper cost? How much does this differ from the price for a 'normal' match ticket in the same stand?

15. Two adults, two under-16's and an over-65 buy tickets for the North Stand for a 'normal' match. How much does this cost in total?

August

1. Name the Liverpool player who missed what seemed like a thousand chances during the 0-0 opening day draw at the Riverside.

2. Who got sent off in that opening match?

3. What were the two similarities between the Spurs away match in the 2004/5 season and the one that took place on the 20th of this month?

4. Which glasses-wearing Dutchman received his home debut for Spurs in the League match against us?

5. What was the half-time score at Tottenham when we played them on the 20th?

6. Who scored for Boro on the stroke of half-time at Birmingham on the 23rd?

7. Who scored the third goal at Birmingham? Name the ground where he had scored his previous senior goal for the club.

8. How many goals did Charlton put past us in the second half of the home fixture against us?

September

1. Who scored for Boro in the 2-1 defeat of Arsenal at the Riverside?

2. Both players were later substituted. Who replaced them and who was the first to be rested?

3. Which former Boro player was an unexpected visitor to the Riverside this month?

4. Who was the referee for the 1-1 draw against Wigan Athletic?

5. Name the long-suffering Sunderland player who scored a direct free-kick past us on the 25th.

6. Who conceded this free-kick? And who was fouled?

7. At the end of this month, where were Boro in the table and how many points had we accrued?

8. How many Boro players got booked in Greece in the tie against Xanthi?

October

1. What was the similarity between the result at Aston Villa in March compared to the one in October of this month?

2. What was the half-time score at Villa Park on the 2nd of the month?

3. Which result this month mirrored that of the previous season?

4. Which Boro defender was on the front cover of the 15th October official match programme?

5. In what minute did Hasselbaink score against Grasshoppers?

6. What injury did Gareth Southgate sustain against West Ham on the 23rd?

7. Who 'scored' West Ham's disputed second goal?

8. Middlesbrough were awarded (and scored) two penalties in the month of October. Who scored them and against which clubs?

9. What was special about Christiano Ronaldo's goal in Manchester United's 4-1 defeat at the Riverside this month?

10. What was interesting about the scoring and disciplinary statistics for the Manchester United game?

November

1. Name the banned steroid that was found in Abel Xavier's urine sample.

2. On what date was Xavier's drug hearing?

3. How many second-half minutes were there between Viduka's 1st and 2nd goals against Dnipro?

4. Who was the referee for the league match against Everton?

5. Against which opposition was the new scoreboard unveiled?

6. What do Liverpool in 2004 and Fulham in 2005 share in this month?

7. When was the last time, before the Fulham game, that the Boro came back from a goal down to beat Premier League opposition? Who were that opposition?

8. What nationality was the referee for the game against AZ Alkmaar?

9. Who was fouled and by whom in the obtaining of our penalty against West Brom?

10. What two things have the League Cup home wins against Crystal Palace this season and in the 1995-1996 season have in common?

December

1. What score did the BBC's 'Football Expert' Mark Lawrenson predict for the Chelsea clash at the start of this month?

2. What formation did Boro play in this game?

3. How many players got booked in this clash?

4. Which two Liverpool players did Chris Riggott foul to earn his red card in the game at Anfield?

5. Which referee administered this red card?

6. How many minutes were there between Maccarone's two goals at the Riverside against Liteks Lovech?

7. What was the attendence for this game and when was the last time an attendence at the Riverside for a competitive fixture had been so low (and what was the fixture)?

8. Had the Boro conceded to Nigeria's requests to release Yakubu for the African Nations tournment in early 2006, which game would the Yak have missed first?

9. Which former Newcastle player scored one of Tottenham's goals against us on the 18th?

10. Who scored in both matches where the two sides met in the 2005/6 season?

You will find a lot of the answers on this site by using the search facility in the red bar at the bottom of the page.