Robert Snodgrass swoops to nod winner for Aston Villa at Middlesbrough

Tony Pulis may be encouraged to derive consolation from the fact that no Middlesbrough manager since Bryan Robson in 1994 has won their first game in charge of this club. But scant is often the partner of consolation and it was the appropriate companion on a flat, official introduction to Teesside for Pulis.

The only goal of a poor game came from Aston Villa’s Robert Snodgrass and whether or not Terry Venables, Steve McClaren, Gareth Southgate, Gordon Strachan, Tony Mowbray, Aitor Karanka, Steve Agnew and Garry Monk failed to win on their debuts in the Boro dugout will not trouble Pulis as much as the here and now.

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