Peter Davenport, remember him, made his home debut this day 1988

[Erimus74]

Big expectations were expected of him, unfortunatly he failed to deliver, still say a few more experienced players, defenders, midfielder would have been best & IMHO, would have seen us survive that season

Mark Brennan scored his 1st Boro goal as the Boro ran out 1-0 winners, recording our 5th consecutive home win, out of a possible 6 that is some going, our only loss to date was the home game v Norwich City

Bruces team

Stephen Pears
Gary Parkinson
Colin Cooper
Tony Mowbray
Gary Parkinson
Gary Pallister
Bernie Slaven
Mark Brennan
Mark Burke
Peter Davenport
Stuart Ripley
Sub
No14 Dean Glover

 

[BeanBeany]

Terrible signing, hadn't performed at Utd so no idea why our management team thought he'd work for us. Pretty mu h blew any cash we had on him.

 

[Chutney]

Bit of a dīck as well going by an anecdote Andy Cole recounted in a book I read recently.

 

[grumpyoldgit]

I always remember Davenport being portrayed in FMTTM as "the man with the jelly legs".

 

[johnsmithsno2]

Seem to remember him hitting the bar in this game and we had high hopes, a bit like when Muniz smashed one just wide after coming on for his debut.

 

[Linthorpe_Exile]

Peter "Underwhelming" Davenport... what a disappointment (trying to be polite)

 

[Box To Box]

IMO always seemed 2 moves ahead of anybody else in the team.

 

[ThePrisoner]

Ah! Old Jelly Legs Davenport. Who could forget? Though god knows I've tried!

 

[Bruciebonus]

I always thought he was the wrong type of strike partner for Bernie, who played better alongside a more physical forward with an aerial presence such as Archie Stephens, Ian Baird or Paul Wilko.

 

[Archiestephens_elbow]

Those consecutive wins in the autumn of 88 were class