Fanzine
One of the great traditions at the Riverside for over 25 years has been to enjoy the wild, up-beat, trumpet-led tune which greets the ‘Boro team coming out onto the pitch. The tune, Reach Up (Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag) by the Perfecto Allstarz, is a 1995 remix of an original 1982 hit Papa's...
SWANSEA CITY; IN THE RED?
Here we go again! But how far up the table will Boro end this season? The Telegraph envisages the top of the table looking like this in May, based on the odds bookies are offering...
The Lad With The Radio
Eric Hughes is the Boro supporter who knows the score
Quite unlike any Boro supporter since or before
The Boro are and always will be Eric’s team
And he follows them with a passion supreme
Born in Middlesbrough 60 years ago
He is known as the lad with the radio...
Fmttm Issue 644 v Blackburn Rovers - now for sale.
It's a RAV ing mad league and so say all of us.
But we would not complain if we extended the winning run to 4 games.
Read about the Ayresome Angel's Flight of Mercy and David Lister is Losing My Religion.
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Avoid Sunday morning shopping - you can buy the fanzine now - sent out in the post.
Q: How much do you think we have learned as a squad from the last three games, the defeat to Stoke and then playing away at Exeter, the character needed there and then Plymouth, the back and forth in that game?
MC: Yeah hopefully a lot. Sometimes it takes a little set-back to move forward, you...
It is a momentous day for women's football. England Lionesses are poised to play a World Cup Final v Spain and nearer home Middlesbrough Women begin a new chapter as part of the Boro. Hopefully celebrating a World Cup win this afternoon Middlesbrough Women play a home derby against Norton and...
Following the sad death of former Boro coach and Scotland legend Gordon McQueen I thought it would be useful to reflect on the work of Dr Judith Gates and her campaign about the dangers of dementia from football. Dr. Gates is wife of former Boro centre back Bill Gates as well as being an...
Meet Middlesbrough Women's New Manager - Mick Mulhern
Last Friday was a massive date in the history of Middlesbrough Women, becoming officially part of Middlesbrough Football Club and appointing a new full time manager Mick Mulhern. Mick was the man that guided the women's team at Sunderland...
Tackle This? The Biography of Football Hardman Mick Kennedy by Johnny Meynell – Legends Publishing
Biography of Mick Kennedy – Boro, Pompey and Rep of Ireland midfielder. (Born 9 April 1961 – Died 9 February 2019)
Right Place Wrong Time would perhaps be the best phrase to sum up tough...
Last autumn I was given two old Boro postcards to look over by a fellow volunteer archaeologist Jeremy Gard to see if I could find out any details about them. Questions I was asked included was the person called Walter writing on the back of one postcard actually pictured in the Ayresome action...
Looking ahead to Boro v Bees this Saturday and we have to start by looking over recent transfer activity.
We talk to John Powls - poet and Boro Banter man - about his new publication North Sea To The East - a love letter to Teesside and The Boro - accompanied by beautiful artwork as well...
Next fanzine will be Issue 610 Boro v Millwall - Sat Dec 12th 2020 - if anyone fancies contributing the deadline is the Tuesday before which is 8th December by my reckoning.
Previous fanzine was Issue 609 v Norwich City (Sat Nov 21st)