Former Stoke City boss Tony Pulis is favourite for the Middlesbrough job.

Pulis has been immediately installed as the bookmakers' favourite to replace sacked Tony Mowbray as manager at Middlesbrough.

Pulis has been linked with a host of vacancies since leaving Stoke City in the summer and insiders at Boro are not surprised to see him in the frame for the post at the Riverside, says The Sentinel.

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