First ever Middlesbrough game

Can’t remember who mine was against but it would have been the very early 90s at Ayresome Park with my dad, and my main memory of it is crying cause it was too loud and I got scared. Absolute sh*thouse.
 
21st September 1963, Boro 2 Leyton Orient 0. 1'6d (7.5p in new money! ) to go in the Boys End at Ayresome Park. Ian Gibson scored both ...but I had to look it up as I'd have been a very advanced 9 year old with 20:20 vision if I'd seen and remembered that!
 
morrissey said:
1969 v Bury at home, lost 2-3
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I remember that one. Last home game of the season? Willie Maddren's debut...as a striker and he scored I think. And someone called Alf Arrowsmith (there's a name from a football story in a 1960s comic!) scored the winner with a header at the Holgate End. Mind you, he had played for Liverpool once. Our promotion push to join Brian Clough's Derby in the First Division had fizzled out and there was crowd of about 10 000 when we'd been getting 20 000 plus all season. Weird atmosphere and I was gutted. And honest, that's all from memory without looking anything up, proof that as you get older, you can even remember what the weather was like at a match 55 years ago and that Alf Arrowsmith scored for them but couldn't name Bristol City's scorers from last Saturday. Can't even remember what the weather was like but I know we lost! ;)
 
smogintheforest said:
I remember that one. Last home game of the season? Willie Maddren's debut...as a striker and he scored I think. And someone called Alf Arrowsmith (there's a name from a football story in a 1960s comic!) scored the winner with a header at the Holgate End. Mind you, he had played for Liverpool once. Our promotion push to join Brian Clough's Derby in the First Division had fizzled out and there was crowd of about 10 000 when we'd been getting 20 000 plus all season. Weird atmosphere and I was gutted. And honest, that's all from memory without looking anything up, proof that as you get older, you can even remember what the weather was like at a match 55 years ago and that Alf Arrowsmith scored for them but couldn't name Bristol City's scorers from last Saturday. Can't even remember what the weather was like but I know we lost! ;)
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Can hardly remember a thing from that game, but Man Utd in the cup, Sunderland away when Johnny Vincent scored in a 1-4 loss, tota recall !
 
Bristol Rovers at home, October 1990. We got beat 2-1 I think typical Boro letting me down from the start. I was hooked of course and coming from Shildon it wasn't an easy thing to do. I didn't even know where AP was or which end of the ground to go on. But found myself on the Holgate End and knew I was where I was meant to be

 
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