Stepping back in time to a winter wasteland

WITH my hair getting a tad long I decided to calm my derby nerves last week with a pre-match haircut prior to our trip down the A19 to Middlesbrough.

The barber jokingly asked if I wanted a Flock of Seagulls style and walking around Teesside an hour before kick off I started to think I should have taken him up on his offer.

Strolling through Boro town centre and towards the ground with my short back and sides I don’t think I’d have felt out of place if I’d had shoulder pads in my jacket and Adam Ant make up on.

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