The first of four occasions upon which Boro score 3 goals at home this season but fail to take all 3 points. Fellow promotion winners Aston Villa are the visitors to Ayresome Park in December 1988 and equalise through Alan McInally to make the final score 3-3. Earlier, Andy Gray and McInally had put Villa 2-0 up only for Boro to race into a 3-2 lead with goals from Mark Brennan, Gary Hamilton and Tony Mowbray. Villa defender Martin Keown completed the first part of his future pub-quiz legacy by getting himself sent off (anyone else been sent off at both Ayresome Park and The Riverside?) and Roger Tames TV themed punning is based (I think) on Bruce Rioch saying something earlier in the week about television coverage of football.