Football: Arca Must Rough It at Least One More Time ; He Left Sunderland for Middlesbrough to Escape Championship Football. His Reward? An Fa Cup Tie Away to League One Opposition. Stuart Rayner Speaks to Julio Arca

The Journal › January 27, 2007

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THE pantomime season may be over for another year, but Middlesbrough will step out at Ashton Gate this afternoon with almost 19,000 Robins fans and millions more up and down the country casting them as villains.

Just about the only people who will be hoping Boro win their FA Cup fourth round tie against the in-form League One side will be either from Teesside or on the pitch wearing white shirts.

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Football: Arca Must Rough It at Least One More Time ; He Left Sunderland for Middlesbrough to Escape Championship Football. His Reward? An Fa Cup Tie Away to League One Opposition. Stuart Rayner Speaks to Julio Arca

There is little the British public loves more than seeing top- flight sides fall embarrassingly on their faces and few sporting competitions have made such a virtue of it as the FA Cup.

Football fans up...

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