People not from the Teesside area, and without a Teesside family connection, following the Boro

festa5 said:
It's far more interesting supporting a team like ours. Builds character! 🤪

Suspect we're getting far more pleasure out of this stupendous run were on that Man City fans get from winning a league cup.
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It's certainly never been dull that's for sure 😁😁

I'm in a process at present where I'm telling my son (nearly 9) that getting beat at footy, seeing Boro (or Stockport) lose isn't the end of the world, there's always next game. Just enjoy the ride, no big deal - there's always next week.

One of his friends at school is a proper plastic Man City fan, who's a right little tw*t. Family have absolutely no ties to City whatsoever but suddenly they are all City fans......can't think why 🤔🤔. Lad cries when City get beat, the little f*cking Doyle. Love it, LOVE IT if City get nailed.....and relegated a la Juventus, Rangers etc.

We'll see a Man U shirt next season........

Plastics, eh? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
 
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I don't normally highlight one particular fan above others, but Yusuf (from Wembley area) is surely now a Boro superfan and he had no connection with the area.

On Saturday there was a point in the game when a large group of rowdy lads near the top of the away stand shouted down "Yusuf Yusuf give is a song"...he was near the bottom row seated but stood up and sung and bounced singing a solo about Akpom (Do de de there etc....) and then the lads joined in and eventually most of the away end. Yusuf looked totally at ease, I think at times he didn't sometimes say 5 years when he was getting snide comments from a few knobs.

To me that moment on Saturday was a little emotional, showing how its a bit special about supporting the Boro, and its fans, that you would never have at one of the big glamour/plastic clubs. How we have taken him in and he has taken us in.
 
h_m_boro said:
It's certainly never been dull that's for sure 😁😁

I'm in a process at present where I'm telling my son (nearly 9) that getting beat at footy, seeing Boro (or Stockport) lose isn't the end of the world, there's always next game. Just enjoy the ride, no big deal - there's always next week.

One of his friends at school is a proper plastic Man City fan, who's a right little tw*t. Family have absolutely no ties to City whatsoever but suddenly they are all City fans......can't think why 🤔🤔. Lad cries when City get beat, the little f*cking Doyle. Love it, LOVE IT if City get nailed.....and relegated a la Juventus, Rangers etc.

We'll see a Man U shirt next season........

Plastics, eh? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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You have a bit of an anger issue towards this lad and his family HMB.

Chill out a bit pet before you have a stroke 🤣
 
SalfordBoro said:
You have a bit of an anger issue towards this lad and his family HMB.

Chill out a bit pet before you have a stroke 🤣
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Well .......I'm shocked, offended etc 😲😲.

Nah they are - generally - okay, but just can't be doing with plastics. Guaranteed if City get proper punished there will be a Man U top appearing👍
 
I always describe myself as a Cumbrian Boro fan living in Preston. I've no family links to the area, Went to Teesside Uni in the 90s and went to my first boro match when i was on placement at Middlesbrough College. Eventually left and as soon as i had my own means to get there i got a season ticket (It was an excuse to visit local friends i made when working at the college.). I was about to get a red book the season we got to the carling cup final... crashed my car and ended up not renewing at the start of the season... ended up going to all of the home games anyway and got a half season ticket that year (but missed out on the carling and UEFA cup finals.). I've had a season ticket ever since (With a "glory hunters" patron number... ).
 
Redwurzel said:
I don't normally highlight one particular fan above others, but Yusuf (from Wembley area) is surely now a Boro superfan and he had no connection with the area.

On Saturday there was a point in the game when a large group of rowdy lads near the top of the away stand shouted down "Yusuf Yusuf give is a song"...he was near the bottom row seated but stood up and sung and bounced singing a solo about Akpom (Do de de there etc....) and then the lads joined in and eventually most of the away end. Yusuf looked totally at ease, I think at times he didn't sometimes say 5 years when he was getting snide comments from a few knobs.

To me that moment on Saturday was a little emotional, showing how its a bit special about supporting the Boro, and its fans, that you would never have at one of the big glamour/plastic clubs. How we have taken him in and he has taken us in.
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3 years ago stayed in London with my wife for a break and got a taxi from hotel to kings cross. Talking footie with the driver and whan I said i follow Boro he immediatly said you know Yusuf then hes famous in the smoke for following Boro
 
alanmoodysdog said:
Brilliant. Used to go to Margarets shop at the end of East Terrace ( now flattened) when I was a kid and up to 21 when I moved out . Lovely lady
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Cool mate, yeah I don’t remember that shop, not sure if she still had it by the time I was born, she got a new one right in the middle of Station Town , opposite the football pitch / community centre.

Used to spend a lot of time there during school holidays when my mam was at work. Was amazing when I look back, she used to get pies and pasties delivered, so I’d scran all the pies, crisps, chocolate, toffees, Bon bons, fizzy pop etc that I could eat. Was still always skinny as a rake.

I grew up in Billingamm but even as a kid I thought Station Town was so much different to Bham even though it was only 10 mins up the road. I needed at least a 2 year advantage on a Station Town kid for a fair fight 😂😂

Nana Beeston is still going strong, will be 82 this year, genuinely believe she’s the best nana a kid could have.

Was thinking a few weeks ago, I’d love to have one last night Saturday night being ‘baby sat’ by her watching the crap to shows she used to watch - casualty / blind date / birds of a feather
 
Redwurzel said:
Everywhere we go, everyone knows our name" - well they do about Yusuf and the Boro
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I was sat right at the back at an end of a row before the no man's land and the Cardiff fans behind the goal, a steward walked up to me and goes 'is that Yusuf',looking at the crazy man who was waving his arms and singing next to one of the entrances nearish the front, I goes 'yep' that nutter is Yussuf'. I did say it rather fondly ( no disrespect intended) and it occurred to me that either the steward has heard of him either through his job or his football sources, but he has become an icon for the club.
 
alanmoodysdog said:
Good post and well done for your choice How did the Boro sneak into your DNA?
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I've lifted this explanation from a post I made a couple of years ago:

My nearest club is Crystal Palace, with Charlton and Millwall also in contention, and as a kid I loved playing and watching football, but I reached the age of 10 without having chosen a team to support. My dad nurtured my love of the game, but he was a huge non-league fan so he didn't push me towards any of the teams in the 92. I'm sure if he'd been a Palace or Charlton supporter then I would've done the same and that would've been it.

Anyway, I was 10 years old and I randomly decided that Nick Barmby was my all-time hero, and he played for Spurs, so I thought I'd support them. But only a few weeks later, he moved to Boro and I announced that I was now going to support them instead. I had no idea that Boro was one of the furthest possible clubs from where I lived, let alone the misery and heartbreak they'd bring to my life. My dad laughed and told me it would never last. But it did. Even when Barmby moved on. I stuck faithfully with the Boro and it's now been 26 years of dedicated support and love. I adore the Boro with all my heart and I can only hope to be accepted (much like Yusuf and some others) as an adopted Teessider even though I have absolutely no connection to the area.
 
futureboy said:
I've lifted this explanation from a post I made a couple of years ago:

My nearest club is Crystal Palace, with Charlton and Millwall also in contention, and as a kid I loved playing and watching football, but I reached the age of 10 without having chosen a team to support. My dad nurtured my love of the game, but he was a huge non-league fan so he didn't push me towards any of the teams in the 92. I'm sure if he'd been a Palace or Charlton supporter then I would've done the same and that would've been it.

Anyway, I was 10 years old and I randomly decided that Nick Barmby was my all-time hero, and he played for Spurs, so I thought I'd support them. But only a few weeks later, he moved to Boro and I announced that I was now going to support them instead. I had no idea that Boro was one of the furthest possible clubs from where I lived, let alone the misery and heartbreak they'd bring to my life. My dad laughed and told me it would never last. But it did. Even when Barmby moved on. I stuck faithfully with the Boro and it's now been 26 years of dedicated support and love. I adore the Boro with all my heart and I can only hope to be accepted (much like Yusuf and some others) as an adopted Teessider even though I have absolutely no connection to the area.
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Top man,
 
Heam44 said:
Cool mate, yeah I don’t remember that shop, not sure if she still had it by the time I was born, she got a new one right in the middle of Station Town , opposite the football pitch / community centre.

Used to spend a lot of time there during school holidays when my mam was at work. Was amazing when I look back, she used to get pies and pasties delivered, so I’d scran all the pies, crisps, chocolate, toffees, Bon bons, fizzy pop etc that I could eat. Was still always skinny as a rake.

I grew up in Billingamm but even as a kid I thought Station Town was so much different to Bham even though it was only 10 mins up the road. I needed at least a 2 year advantage on a Station Town kid for a fair fight 😂😂

Nana Beeston is still going strong, will be 82 this year, genuinely believe she’s the best nana a kid could have.

Was thinking a few weeks ago, I’d love to have one last night Saturday night being ‘baby sat’ by her watching the crap to shows she used to watch - casualty / blind date / birds of a feather
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Nice post. Remember the new shop in the new estate after they flattened the terraced houses in Station Town. Your gran knows my mum very well and shes 93 now ... Nice countryside around Station Town great for kids to get up to mischief ...
 
h_m_boro said:
Not Mick by any chance is it?
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No, not in this case h_m_b. My dad's side of the family is/was from N Yorkshire/S Durham so there are ties. Still, I wonder who he is/was? Used to see Boro graffiti in the town back in the 1970s which was often blamed on me but I never did get to discover the real culprit.
 
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