55 years ago Boro 4 Oxford 1

Pear-Drops said:
At the previous home game (Peterborough?), I think the guy in a white coat, on a podium, was there, leading some singing........he always did it at Wembley on FA Cup final day.
(Or was my dad winding me up with that tale?) 🤔
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Yes, it's true. Frank Rea was the guy. Song sheets were handed out and it started out OK because we started with the first song on the sheet. Unfortunately, he deviated from the order on the sheet and that was too much for the Holgate who were singing the next song from the sheet. So the band was playing one song and the Holgate was singing another and it all became a bit of a shambles.

17 ac TEARFUL
 
Another one that was there too. I seem to remember we'd spent much of the season sat on the Holgate Terrace as no one was there. Then we get towards the end and we felt like packed sardines

O'Rourke certainly had a good season or two with us " give us a goal etc" certainly sticks in my mind too

Did he make 30 goals ? and Arthur Horsefield wasn't that far behind

Happy days
 
I'm pretty sure 1 dn is wrong, because 10 ac is INVOKE, 4 dn is MONET and 1 ac is SKIM
 
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Took the afternoon off work to get there early then had a scary time in the crush in the alley outside the north holgate entrance waiting to go in, could easily have been a mini Hillsborough. They should have made it all ticket or at least opened the turnstiles earlier. But after that such an emotional evening, not least because 2 of my friends had died travelling to watch Boro at Oxford on September 3rd, I felt we were playing for them
 
Blf said:
I have such great memories of that night.
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Me too.
Walking running and jumping with joy on the pitch with all that built up emotion that night with my dad was the night that I fell in love with the Boro
and changed my life for ever.
I was in a wonderland that I will never forget.
 
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So at 8 yo, a group of kids the oldest probably 10, walked from Berwick Hills, over the White bridge through Grove Hill to AP and back again after the Game.

Frightening thought today.
 
I was there, honestly, along with the other 100,000 Boro fans who reckon they were too:cool:. I was at my usual roost next to the lighting pylon in the South West corner Clive Road exit.

#UTB
 
Alan_Breck said:
I was there, honestly, along with the other 100,000 Boro fans who reckon they were too:cool:. I was at my usual roost next to the lighting pylon in the South West corner Clive Road exit.

#UTB
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100,000 was still more likely than the 185,000 that attended the game in Hartlepool when the Boro were locked out of Ayresome Park :)
 
In fact there's a couple of other solutions I'd probably like to Tipp-Ex out, but this was 1967 and, while correcting fluid had been invented, it wasn't generally available outside the office environment.
 
As a ten year old it was my first game and my older cousin took me in the Holgate. That was rough; we spent most of the match on the cinder track behind the goal.
 
I managed to get into the "Boys End" (yes, there was one at Ayresome Park in 1967 as girls obviously never went to football matches in those days:ROFLMAO:). From where we always used to climb over the wall into the East End....except the ground was so full that night, lads were climbing back in to avoid the crush! Health & Safety being a different matter back then that the crowd was allowed to spill onto the cinder track around the pitch. Imagine that these days! There were two pitch invasions in the first half when we scored-well it was easy, with so many practically watching from the touchline, with from memory, a half time announcement that if it happened again, the ref would abandon the game. Good sense prevailed until the final whistle when we all ran onto to the pitch-even 12 year old me, who'd managed at last to find a spot to climb over the Boys End wall. I think Stan Anderson even gave a speech from the Directors' Box. Happy Memories!
 
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