"I know what the manager is like and how he likes to play," he says. "I like working with the staff and I am at a club where I have always been treated in the right way.
"I'm ambitious for this club and myself and I hope that in the next year or two I can help us get back into the Premier League."
Former star Craig Hignett tells how he biked 330 miles from London to Paris to back ex-England international Geoff Thomas's charity drive for Leukaemia and Lymphona Research.
And Academy manager Dave Parnaby looks back on the emergence of Luke Wilkshire in his new series, Made at Boro.
There's plenty more to read in the npower Championship's Programme of the Year, which is on sale now at leading Teesside newsagents for £3. It will also be widely available at the Riverside this afternoon.
