Don't pin hopes on Palace - Mowbray

Middlesbrough boss Tony Mowbray has told his players to concentrate on Watford on Saturday and not Cardiff's tie at Crystal Palace.

Boro need to take all three points at Vicarage Road and hope Cardiff suffer defeat at Selhurst Park if they are to sneak into the play-offs on the final day of the campaign. Mowbray told the club's official website, www.mfc.co.uk: "The game's important for us, but maybe a bigger game is in south-east London, where we need Crystal Palace to win. "But we will just be doing everything we can to win ours. There won't be any little radios or telephones telling us what the score is there. "I don't think there's any need as the only result we can take care of is ours. "We can't affect what goes on at Selhurst Park, so it doesn't really matter what happens there, we have to win our match."