Last 5 1 home defeat?

Our first 5-1 defeat at home since 1949 against Portsmouth.

Been beaten by more at home, and beaten 5-0 more recently, obviously.
 
Grimsby (look where they are now) beat us 5-1 at home in about 84 or 85. Unbelievably awful.

Wilko was playing for them if memory serves.
 
Grimsby (look where they are now) beat us 5-1 at home in about 84 or 85. Unbelievably awful.

Wilko was playing for them if memory serves.
We lost 1-4 to Grimsby in Sept 1982 (5,927)
Sept 1982 was a bad un, we had already lost 1-4 to Burnley and Fulham before Grimsby came to town.
Blackburn then dicked us 1-5 that November (Brotherston)
Managed to hold Grimsby 1-1 in Sept 1983 (10,248)
Then we lost 1-5 to Grimsby in Sept 1984. (5,252)
That is humiliating. Possibly the definition of it.
Some dire times them.
 
Remember this match well. Arsenal played like Brighton on Saturday. Couldn’t get near them. Kanu back heel! Maddo playing for the Boro.

 
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Remember this match well. Arsenal played like Brighton on Saturday. Couldn’t get near them. Kanu back heel! Maddo playing for the Boro.

I remember watching that match with my Dad here in Canada.
He commented that the overhead views of long lines of Boro fans rushing away from the Riverside that day looked similar in appearance to the then underway exodus out of Kosovo.
 
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