Article on Planet Football

[calamity]

Not exactly anything new, but nice to see the 'Boro make the "national" media in a relatively positive manner

https://www.planetfootball.com/nostalgia/tribute-fantastic-flawed-middlesbrough-side-96-97/

[El Capitan]

 

[CLEM FANDANGO]

Define "relatively positive"....

"Middlesbrough is not the most glamorous of towns – and Middlesbrough FC are rarely the most glamorous of football teams.

An area synonymous with high crime and unemployment, held together by chemicals and steel."


 

[Minge]

    Bang on !

[Robbso]

An area synonymous with high crime and unemployment, held together by chemicals and steel."

It keeps the riff raff away

[Jimmy Cooper]

Ravenelli two footed.the fucker never seen his miss against derby on the goal line, someone put his smiley thing up,😃

[Holgateoldskool]

A great article - just demonstrates how unrecognisable we are from the club we are now.....

[calamity]

Define "relatively positive"....

"Middlesbrough is not the most glamorous of towns – and Middlesbrough FC are rarely the most glamorous of football teams.

An area synonymous with high crime and unemployment, held together by chemicals and steel."


 

The article, even including that, was relatively positive. I took a look at the Gazette website a couple of days ago, for the first time in months, jesus wept. What the hell is going on there. Any other time Middlesbrough appears in any national media it is because it made the top echelons of some undesirable list, there has been a scandal, or there are another load of jobs being lost.

At least in the list referenced there we were near the bottom, which in this instance at least we didn't want to be