is mc'laren hoping he will fetch a shovel to dig him out of the claggy stuff

To be fair to Beckham, love him or hate him, he couldn't do worse than the last three teams have shown.

Personally I think McClaren would be as well picking a team from the Championship and below who'd actually show some hunger and desire. Christ we're playing Estonia, who're about the Championship level at best. There's no-one in that group of any standing at all. Are you telling me that Andorra wouldn't get beaten 3-0 every week in our League??

Good point, when you look at the standard in the play-off games over the last couple of weeks the gulf between the premiershit and the football league appears quite small. At least a squad of football league players would be proud to wear the shirts. As for Mclaren, he can welcome to the board. The boro fans were out partying when he left, now we see why.