Boro's reserve side came from two goals down at half-time to beat Manchester United Reserves in an entertaining game at Altrincham tonight.

Mads Timms and Darren Fletcher had the home side two-up in 44 minutes, but Phil Gulliver struck with a splendidly taken low volley within 90 seconds of the restart, before Brian Close (81) and Craig Dove (87), both scored contenders for goal of the season with brilliantly hit 25 yard shots.

His view of the game on tuesday night was as follows:

"It is utterly not true, that Real Madrid won last night. It was all trickery. In fact we crushed Real Madrid, Ronaldo was committing suicide in the box. We fed poison to Figo and beat him to death with our shoes. The reports that they scored three goals are scandalous lies, we hammered their goal keeper, then when we stopped crushing them, they would quickly put the ball in the net and take a photo of this. Scandalous lies. Some of you may have seen the film Escape To Victory, if you are familiar with the plot of this, you will know that the Spanish infidels are nothing but dogs and liars not to be trusted. Victory was ours."