Fans hurled abuse at the Nottingham Forest directors' box as Chris Hughton's goalkeeping gamble backfired at The City Ground and left him on the brink of being sacked.
Goals in each half from Middlesbrough's Andraz Sporar and Onel Hernandez saw Forest remain rooted to the bottom of the Championship table with one point of seven games and it would be no surprise if owner Evangelos Marinakis acted before the weekend with Chris Wilder, Steve Cooper and John Terry all mentioned as possible successors.
To add to Hughton's distress, his decision to axe regular goalkeeper Brice Samba in order to give American Ethan Horvath a league debut didn't work out.