Borokian1876
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Middlesbrough is part of Teesside teesside consists of 3 big towns with a population of around 500,000. There’s no major club until 40 minutes up the road Sunderland we don’t have much competition for support and are effectively a one club area. The Burnley comparison was just ridiculous, the facts don’t really lie we fall short catchment area wise to the other two granted but teesside is still the 18th biggest contribution in the country for one football club many above us have two. This small town catchment stuff is with all due respect ridiculous it’s not an opinion it’s a fact that we have a large catchment area with little competition for support. Not too the extent others that saidPersonally think you are over egging ours abit there. Middlesbrough is not Teesside and Vice Versa. Yes Middlesbrough have some fans in the North Yorkshire villages etc but not big numbers and whey would we, what tie or affinity would people from a moors village have to Middlesbrough as a town, unless a parent was from there not a lot. The ones from Whitby etc are fans because a parent moved there, true locals from Whitby do not support Middlesbrough.