FA cup 4th Round draw Middlesbrough at home

Big Dave Watson said:
eversince 76 said:
Obviously not the perfect opponent we were calling for, but we are at home and that is pretty much the main preference.

I remember December 1977 at Ayresome Park when we won 2-0. Colin Bell started his first game after his long injury. The game came straight after we beat Newcastle 4-0 with the King coming on at halftime. Together with Stoke and Wolverhampton the most dump place I've ever been.
My first City game. My uncle took me as a Christmas present.

I remember that game, too. My one and only time in the north-east. I don't want to sound sniffy, but I distinctly remember looking round from the very top of the (uncovered) terrace that I was on, at the general industrial wasteland stretching as far as the eye could see, and thinking to myself "Fuck! Do people actually live here?" As I remember it, there was an ice cold wind ripping through the stadium that day. But it also seems to me that Pete Barnes scored a terrific goal to warm the inner blue in us all (off to History section to check that, my memory's unreliable these days…)
 
I hate those "UTB"/"COYR" type football signoffs. Twee and teenage and more irritating than they should be. I've actually got a feeling we might have started it too with "CTID".
 
"d meet a father and son combo who owned a nightclub in Boro in Ibiza, in, I would guess, 2004. Interesting pair. Think they both had the same forename. I remember John Digweed had just finished his set, for some unfathomable reason. It's funny the things you remember."

It wasn't Barry Faulkner and his son Barry Faulkner Junior was it? They own The Empire in Boro and would have spent a lot of time in Ibiza through the years, proper characters!

That's right they were called Barry! The Empire is definitely ringing a bell too. What a pair of fucking lunatics. Good lads they were. I think it's fair to say they've lived a bit ;-)

Phwooar too right, they're off it! Sound lads though, what a small world!
Any rumblings round your way when the game might be? TV is just guess work. I'd imagine the southern wankfest will continue and Chelsea vs Milwall and Brighton vs Arsenal will be shown. I think I'd rather have Saturday 3pm and combine it with a night out. We've always had a good laugh with the Manc lads.
 

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