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I don’t know if this is a cricket record, but the Huntingdonshire club of Buckden 2nd Xl have this week just been bowled all out for 2 runs. However t...
I’ve now come to the end of the road writing about Boro stalwarts and leading goalscorers. Originally I intended to write about players who had made ...
As Boro fans await the new season’s fixtures which will be released at 9am tomorrow I thought I’d peruse the list of Boro’s likely opponents for the f...
ARTHUR FITZSIMONS 1949/59 Arthur Fitzsimons was born in Dublin in December 1929 and started his career with the famous schoolboy nursery club Johnvi...
JOHN GRATTAN HENDRIE 1990/97 John Hendrie was born in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, Scotland in October 1963 but turned down the chance to join Celtic,...
Jarkko I get your point about it taking a few games for new players to gel, but I suppose it depends on the players signed. Dave Challinor took a ...
It’s a pity that the match wasn’t played at Wembley but nevertheless the atmosphere at Ashton Gate was terrific and full marks to their ground staff f...
Well done Pools. They looked dead on their legs halfway through the second half yet held out until 5 minutes into added time. Nevertheless this game h...
The beautiful game? Yer having a laugh! The 33rd England v Scotland match at Wembley and the first to end goalless with a combined total of only 3 sho...
SAMUEL AITKEN 1903/10 Sam Aitken was born in Ayr, Scotland in May 1878 and really is a blast from the past, even 4 years before Middlesbrough Footba...
JAMES GORDON 1945/54 Jimmy Gordon was born in Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland in 1915 and spent the first five years of his life working as a coa...
ROBERT FREDERICK BRUCE 1927/35 Bobby Bruce was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland in January 1906 and signed for Aberdeen in 1924 spending fou...
GARY ANTHONY PARKINSON 1986/93 Gary Parkinson was born in Thornaby in January 1968, but started his career as a junior with Everton as a 17 year old...
I’m saddened to hear of the the death of Teesside born Louise Wanless who worked in the media, PR and telecommunications industry for Boro up to 2003 ...
This is off subject, but imagine a Boro 17 year old academy player who was still waiting to make his debut for the academy never mind the first team, ...
ROBERT GEOFFREY WALKER 1946/55 Always known as Geoff Walker, he was a left winger born in Bradford in 1926 and during the last two years of the Seco...
That man Rhys Oates again, from long range he sure knows where the goal is. I love Pools passing game, should definitely have had a penalty, but perha...
A tough game at Edgeley Park today for Hartlepool United as they play Stockport County with no visiting fans allowed due to Covid restrictions. A win ...
When children’s Saturday cinema matinees started after the war they usually ended in a serial of what we called the ‘goodies’ and the ‘baddies’. Most ...
I know that this doesn’t help and has nothing to do with racism and is probably frivolous, but according to the Oxford dictionary in another context B...
MARK GERARD PROCTOR 1978/81 & 1989/93 Mark Proctor was born in Middlesbrough in 1961 and signed with Boro as a schoolboy, progressing through th...
I don’t know all the facts of why Grovehillwallah has stopped contributing to this forum, but he has sent me another book ‘You Are My Boro’ by Christo...
Is there a difference between racism and sledging? Not in my book, or name calling come to that. Nor referring to Sunderland being skunks, or Leeds be...
JAMES ADAMSON MATHIESON 1926/32 John Mathieson was born in Methil, Levenmouth, Scotland in 1904 and worked down the coalmines whilst playing part ti...
ROBERT DENHOLM BAXTER 1931/39 Continuing the story of Bob Baxter, he was an inspirational captain and the quintessential centre half back of his tim...
ROBERT DENHOLM BAXTER 1931/39 Bob Baxter was born in Gilmerton, Edinburgh in 1911 and started playing football as an inside left for Musselburgh Bau...
ALAN NIGEL KERNAGHAN 1985/93 Alan Kernaghan was born in Otley, West Yorkshire in 1967 although his family moved to Bangor, County Down, Northern Ir...