Today both Middlesbrough and Jonathan Woodgate trended on twitter. Now four years ago this would have been, well, not expected, but not quite so shocking as it is today.
The signing of Woodgate has caused a small amount of conflict, people unsure as to whether it is the best thing for the club. I can tell you now, it will be. Even if he's injured all the time, even if he's the same prat he was when he was here last, it doesn't matter. I can guarantee we're paying him pennies by comparison to his wage while he was here in 2007, wearing the lamentable white with a blue hoop away strip (which, if memory serves me correctly, is the first strip he wore for the first team, vs. Arsenal).
He's had a poor year at Stoke, granted, but he's been deployed predominantly as a right back. One thing that he is, regardless of all the aforementioned problems, is a big scalp.
We've lost our captain, so who better than the local lad who's played in the Champions League, for Real Madrid and scored the winner in Spurs' first tournament win in their recent resurgence to take his place? The odds on him gaining captaincy must be high, very high indeed.
I'd say give him a chance, but in all honesty, we really don't need to.
