Boro away (8-1)

[Scottyboi]

Bump for Freestyler, that lads reply is spot on.

 

[davymcfc]

Was watching the united game in the pub when the score came up on the bottom of the screen. I remember the whole pub giving me grief. Not a good day.

 

[asgoodasitgets]

Dismal day, but equally one of the best away days.
We d stayed up in Newcastle on the Saturday and had a brilliant day out, weather was superb and had plenty of banter with Geordies beforehand.
Cue the day of the game, sun blazing away, shades on and looking forward to a great day. Driving through the Tyne Tunnel towards Boro on the A19 , looking over to our left and seeing this huge feckoff cloud of smog/fog and thinking " That's not right"
Into the smog and what followed was the most bizarre football day I ve ever witnessed. City fans in full voice, party atmosphere and expectancy about a good result. Cue Dunney being carded for a coming together and a shitload of shipped goals. Elands was definitely the best though.
The Bill that day were a bunch of cunts. We saw the old boy getting a costing and we saw the reaction from fellow blues.
One of the triggers I always thought was the actions of the stewards. After each goal they would come out from the wings , running to form a line in front of the City fans and goading them. Bound to turn a bit tetchy.

Even coming back from the game, the Police were hounding City fans outside the ground. I recall a Boro fan telling us it was the worst example of crowd control he'd ever seen at Boro and he said the Police were cunts at the best of times.

Back in the car, back on the A19 and the fecking sun came out as soon as we hit the outskirts of Middlesbrough

 

[Bill]

Remember this like yesterday. The whole of the UK baked in a heatwave, thousands of blues pitch up in shorts and sunglasses and it was fucking freezing in the smog.

This has probably been discussed, but did we throw this game for some sort of Sven statement? Boro were crap that year, and to this day I don't know what the fuck happened.

Remember cheering the goals ourselves from the 5th onwards, whilst secretly thinking, what the fuck is going on here.

Bizarre day.

i would say we threw it,for those were there you'll remember that we couldn'y play 3 yard passes. it was obvious we were playing at it.

 

[c-t-i-d-87]

Bump for Freestyler, that lads reply is spot on.

Cheers mate.

Anyone who witnessed it first hand would agree.

Cleveland police treated us like animals that day, and our away support was held responsible for the trouble while their conduct went completely unpunished.

I saw an old bloke lying on the floor (could've been the guy who was struck first) who appeared unconscious, I saw a number of people holding blooded head wounds and I saw the relish on the faces of the coppers as they were lashing out. [It's worth noting that the police are only given the jurisdiction to strike soft tissue areas with their batons, anywhere else is a no-go especially the head.]

In spite of all that, the only public mention of any injuries was of the officer I mentioned previously who suffered an "injury to his wrist".

The police behaved disgracefully that day, and no-one was ever held accountable, they got away with it.

 

[Mike D]

I remember this being the scapegoat for MH downfall, just like the tories start every speach with "Well the mess that we inherited from Labour, and then go on to blame the eurozone for the recession"

I remember this 1 single result being the sole reason why MH took us backwards in what season despite blowing the best part of £120 on a whole new team.

TBH the result was one of those freak resulted which more than flatterd Boro on the day, I really felt for Sven and the disgusting way he was treated by Frank.

 

[chris_m]

Haha the big MEN spread trying to get city fans nicked for attacking the dirty bastards, they laid into an old man who got pushed forward celebrating our goal.

I was right in the middle of this, would have been about 16, flicking v's at that copper

 

[blue John]

Remember this like yesterday. The whole of the UK baked in a heatwave, thousands of blues pitch up in shorts and sunglasses and it was fucking freezing in the smog.

This has probably been discussed, but did we throw this game for some sort of Sven statement? Boro were crap that year, and to this day I don't know what the fuck happened.

Remember cheering the goals ourselves from the 5th onwards, whilst secretly thinking, what the fuck is going on here.

Bizarre day.

i would say we threw it,for those were there you'll remember that we couldn'y play 3 yard passes. it was obvious we were playing at it.

It was the first time I had the pleasure of meeting De Niro it is a day I will not forget Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :-)

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Save our Sven!

 

[UweGoater]

one thing i will never forget is the temperature

we all went up in shorts and t shirts etc and it was soooo cold up there and on route home it was like 4degrees and went through to yorkshire and the temp gauge went up like time! crazy day all round!

getting beat 8-1 didnt help either! ha :)