The Holgate End at half time during Middlesbrough's match with Tottenham Hotspur on April 20, 1993. Boro won 3-0.
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... when I first fell in love with football at AyresomePark (well, when I say “love”...). Back then every season seemed to follow the same course – Boro in contention for the then two available promotion ...
... to Canada for trying to buy booze using counterfeit currency.
Eventually Sunderland offloaded Baxter to Nottingham Forest while Kinnell ended up at AyresomePark, Boro having shelled out £40,000 for ...
... r though, nor was he quick, both of which counted against him when it came to international honours – he was only capped twice by his country. Trophies too eluded him. At AyresomePark Jack Charlton's relucta ...
... contrasted with the more cheery chops of yesteryear. Looking back on my early days as a supporter in the late-1960s I recall neither rage nor happiness at AyresomePark, just the smell of fried onion ...
... But it was beaten the next year when Dixie Dean scored 60 for Everton. In the Blackburn team beaten at AyresomePark was centre half Jesse Carver, who coached Juventus to an Italian league title after ...
... gins a search for identity, something once found easily at AyresomePark thanks partly to two childhood friends, the threesome hunting for the autographs of players and staff they often don't even reco ...
... however.
After all we did save their bacon by lending them our ground when AyresomePark was locked up in 1986 and you wouldn't do that for a real enemy. On their part Boro fans mostly just patronise us. ...
Looking at football in print, Harry Pearson discusses how the game has become more important to the broadsheet press
In the late-1980s I decided to investigate an incident that had occurred at Ayresome ...
... ompetitions) made his amateur debut for the club in March. Andy Wilson: The first season for the Middlesbrough forward who was twice leading club goalscorer and the first (and second) player to be sent of ...
... the club sought to avoid liquidation, training in a nearby park when the gates of Ayresome Park were locked. Current chairman Steve Gibson completed his takeover in the summer of 1986 after which the club's ...
... ldesley off on another riff about AyresomePark in 1966. June 16 Chile 1 Honduras 0 “Chile hot, Honduras not,” says Jon Champion. The Chileans should have racked up a much bigger score against opponents w ...
... He moved to Middlesbrough in 1955 and spotted Clough's talents as a striker in the first pre-season training match. The two became close but parted when Taylor left AyresomePark for Tranmere and then ...
... with the home nation based miles away at Wembley, visitors to AyresomePark found themselves rallying round North Korea, who, to borrow another favoured journalistic phrase, “turned the competition upside ...
... Koreans were expected to be a pushover for Italy in their final group match at AyresomePark, Middlesbrough on June 19, 1966. After all they had been comprehensively outmuscled in losing their first game ...
... ng days, offers the opportunity to pay cash on the gate and stand on a terrace with a pint and a sausage in hand while the gun-toting, beret‑wearing riot police lurk beside a pissoir worthy of Ayresome Pa ...
... “For those of you old enough to have memories of games at AyresomePark,” I said, “be thankful you ever had them. To those of you young enough to have never known Ayresome Park, be thankful you never went ...
Jamie Redknapp and Tim Sherwood attempt to please PFA members with a vanity publication, Harry Pearson reports Many years ago a school friend of mine had trials at Middlesbrough. Chris was at Ayresome ...
... Boro from the dilapidated if amiable AyresomePark back in 1995, his decision was largely influenced by the promises of the government-backed Teesside Development Corporation (TDC) to regenerate the area ...
... the criss-cross steelwork balconies of Roker, Goodison, Ibrox, Fratton et al, and the roof-top gables of Hillsborough, Craven Cottage and AyresomePark – the more I sensed a common thread. Delving further ...