God's got it in for Boro, claims Barry Robson

Barry Robson has an almighty excuse for Middlesbrough’s nightmare campaign – God’s got it in for them.

Struggling Boro need a spot of divine intervention to make the play-offs after a disastrous run of one win in six games leaves them six points shy of squeezing into the end-of-season lottery.

Scotland international Robson – five goals in 10 starts from midfield since his £1m January switch from Celtic – insists: “I know you make your own luck, but for me it’s ­probably the unluckiest period I’ve been through. You wonder if someone up there is not on your side.”