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Richard Mark Bradley: Poor game. Both sides will stay up but that's about it. Referee should be relegated

celticmikey: Karanka has not included enough of last year players in his PL teams. He won't take Boro forward.

Ibrahim Hewitt: I saw coachloads of Leicester fans leaving the city at 7am this morning. Do the players appreciate such commitment? I wonder.

DanYule: 45 minutes of enjoyment. But that's enough about my Terry's Chocolate Orange. Football was awful.

Other chocolate oranges are available. Actually, are they?

It is a full day of fixtures in the Championship with 12 games at 15:00 GMT.

All of the top four are away from home with leaders Newcastle at Blackburn, second-placed Brighton taking on Fulham, Reading in third playing a Bristol City side that have lost their last five games with fourth-placed Huddersfield playing at struggling Wigan.

Steve McClaren's Derby, unbeaten in 10 matches, play away at Norwich, with Ipswich playing at Queens Park Rangers.

Bottom of the table Rotherham have a tough test at Leeds, while struggling Burton and Cardiff are both at home, against Preston and Aston Villa respectively.

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John Hartson
Ex-Wales striker

I think Leicester could get dragged into the relegation battle. I remember getting relegated at Wimbledon, we never won our last 12 games. We got dragged in and got relegated on the last day of the season. I am sure one of the bottom three will put a run together and pull away.

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Adam Feneley: Zola's flick from a corner vs. Norwich in 2002. I've never tried so hard to replicate a goal at the park as I did after that.   

Oliver Viney: Trevor Sinclair bicycle kick for qpr and Roberto Carlos scoring from corner flag vs tenerife  

Rodney Marshall: Dennis Bergkamp - take your pick from Leicester or Sunderland away. Two of the very best.  

Pat Nevin
Ex-Chelsea winger on 5 live Sport

The quality has been very, very limited. There are some good players out there but they have had very little so far. 

Everybody is tackling, everybody closing down and players that you want to get half a yard on the ball have been closed down well.  

Gaps open up, they do in any game, but especially after the run of fixtures teams have had recently. That will favour the attacking players and the players that are brought on.

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Not much to get the heart racing.

Not much of anything really.

Two minutes of injury time to play...

Maybe the lack of action has let my mind wander, but how often does Adama Traore hit the gym?

The boy brings the gun show.

Pat Nevin
Ex-Chelsea winger on 5 live Sport

There's not been many chances at all. 

A couple of good pieces of defending from Middlesbrough and a couple of good crossing positions for Boro as well, but the ball in has not been good - that pretty much sums it up.

Middlesbrough's Ben Gibson pulls back an accelerating Riyad Mahrez - into the book you go, sir.

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Riyad Mahrez has a go from 20 yards - it's into the arms of Brad Guzan. That's the second shot on target of the half.

Mat VP: How frustrating is Traore? As a Gooner pace and no product is something we know well. He was so good in FM14 as a cheap buy!  

Jeremy: Dreadful game unless you are used to Championship football. This is nowhere near Premier League standard is it?  

Here's an odd thing.

Not a lot has happened, but we're five minutes from half-time... that happened quickly.

Maybe I drifted off for a few minutes.

There's one early game in the whole of the English Football League today and it's in London as AFC Wimbledon host Millwall. Five minutes in and the visitors have taken the lead, Aiden O'Brien with the goal.

Pat Nevin
Ex-Chelsea winger on 5 live Sport

It's not particularly pleasing on the eye, there's no one taking control of the ball in the midfield area.

The positive you take is everyone is working hard, but it is one of those games where you are waiting for someone to do something a bit special.

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Best move of the match here from Middlesbrough.

Adam Forshaw slips off the the left flank and tees up Alvaro Negredo to hit from 20 yards.

It deflects off Wes Morgan for a corner... but no, the referee says "goal kick".

Robert Madley then asks Morgan if it hit him - the defender admits it. Can't change the decision now, though.

Antonio Barragan was one of the game's busiest players before suffering injury. His 25 touches is only bettered on the pitch by Calum Chambers (29) after 35 minutes.

Neither side are covering themselves in glory here - Middlesbrough have completed 75% of their passes, Leicester 68%. It's wayward and sloppy.