After starting out in the academy at his dad's former club Wimbledon, the attacking midfielder made the move to Chelsea. A loan spell with League One Shrewsbury last season was hampered by the side's poor form and ended by injury, but Castledine so thoroughly excelled at Huddersfield in the first half of this campaign that Championship Middlesbrough snapped him up on a permanent move in the January transfer window.
First-half goals from Tommy Conway and Riley McGree were enough to get Kim Hellberg's side over the line, and above Coventry City, as a late red card for Joe Rothwell eased the pressure following Patrick Bamford's goal in the 73rd minute. It was an end-to-end first half as both teams combined for 23 shots before the break, 15 to eight in favour of Boro, with Conway firing over in the sixth minute before Morgan Whittaker headed straight at Michael Cooper for the visitors.
Opening Saturday's showdown sat in silver medal position and looking to widen their buffer in the automatic promotion chase, Kim Hellberg's camp will be confident of making another statement this weekend. Last seen mounting a stellar second-half comeback away at Stoke as they snatched a 2-1 victory, Boro have won all of their previous three consecutive Championship appearances by an aggregate score of 9-3 and they have certainly found a recent clinical edge in the final third.
At Middlesbrough, I drove the team bus out of the garage, but that lasted about 100 yards, he recalls to FourFourTwo. Gazza won 57 England caps (Image credit: Getty Images) Bryan Robson was like, Gazza, where's the bus?' I said. It's in the f**king trees, gaffer, it's f**ked.' He said, Gazza, that's a 400,000 bus' Gazza's former England team-mate should have known that he had form in this matter.
Rob had signed a three-year contract with ourselves during the summer, but after he made it clear he was keen to join Wolves, we reluctantly agreed a figure of compensation for both himself and one of his first team coaches, Harry Watling. On Saturday the Riverside came together as one, players, staff, and supporters, and you could feel the sense of unity which is at the core of our club. To everyone involved, we would like to say thank you.
Middlesbrough returned to the top of the Championship table after holding on for a 2-1 victory over Ipswich Town. Morgan Whittaker's second-half strike proved the difference at the Riverside Stadium, where a Cedric Kipre own-goal put the hosts in front, before a late Dara O'Shea header proved academic for the visitors.
