If that doesn’t earn Steve Evans at a least a place on the shortlist for manager of the month then nothing will.
Middlesbrough are motoring but they have been motoring all season and it should not be forgotten that away at QPR on November 28, Evans’ players were taking a hammering from the away end and the Scot himself was listening to chants of “you don’t know what you’re doing.”
Football is easily overlooked at Leeds but the club’s head coach would be well worth the trophy for December.
Then again, when you consider that Simon Grayson failed to win League One’s award once, what chance?