A 4-0 FAC thrashing at Spurs this day 1966

Erimus74

Erimus74

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In the 3rd round

Anyone off here go to London for the game

Rich Carter picked his final Boro cup team

Des McPartland - FAC debut
Bill Gates
Gordon Jones
Stan Anderson - Next Boro cup match he was involved in he was our manager
Dicky Rooks - His Boro debut was a 6-0 thumping now his FAC debut & another thumping
Ian Davidson
Don Ratcliffe
Eric McMordie - FAC debut
Arthur Horsefield
Ian Gibson
d*ck Le Flem

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That is truly bizarre. One of those photos taken in 1966 when I was aged 5 has a youth looking exactly like me aged circa 13 yrs old. I have just shown it to 2 people who now think I am a time traveller 😧. Hopefully, whoever the kid was, grew out of his look to be as charming and handsome as I 🧟‍♂️

Also, you’d have thunk Bernard Gent would have spelled Boro correctly 😉
 
coluka said:
That is truly bizarre. One of those photos taken in 1966 when I was aged 5 has a youth looking exactly like me aged circa 13 yrs old. I have just shown it to 2 people who now think I am a time traveller 😧. Hopefully, whoever the kid was, grew out of his look to be as charming and handsome as I 🧟‍♂️

Also, you’d have thunk Bernard Gent would have spelled Boro correctly 😉
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So coluka your 1st cup match wasn't the City game but out if the tardis & into WHL 😏
 
My dad went, I'm sure it was with a trip organised through the Boro Social Club on Clive Road - found the programme the other day when I was cataloging my collection
 
A surprise there for me. I thought Eric McMordie arrived later than that. A flipping good player he was.
 
I was there too. Another disappointing FA cup defeat but the side we were playing was a bit useful mind - virtually the double winning side of a few years earlier

I used to know a bloke that played Northern Intermediate League for donny. He used to quieten down the opposing player with a couple of roughhouse tackles early doors.. He tried it on McMordie and he said he was tackling thin air - best player he was ever up against
 
Almeria2005 said:
I went to the game,the pich was a quagmire,Le Flem managed to come off the pich as clean as he went on don't think he even got the bottom of his boots muddy
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When I checked up he only made 10 apps for us - 10 more than we deserved - actually, we could have mentioned him as playing for both clubs for the Forest game - only 25 years old when he retired from football
 
Erimus74 said:
In the 3rd round

Anyone off here go to London for the game

Rich Carter picked his final Boro cup team

Des McPartland - FAC debut
Bill Gates
Gordon Jones
Stan Anderson - Next Boro cup match he was involved in he was our manager
Dicky Rooks - His Boro debut was a 6-0 thumping now his FAC debut & another thumping
Ian Davidson
Don Ratcliffe
Eric McMordie - FAC debut
Arthur Horsefield
Ian Gibson
d*ck Le Flem

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I was
 
1962onwards said:
I was there as well . Wasn’t there a severe frost in the week leading up to the game and it was in doubt. Middlesbrough had boots made for them that had soles that would give some grip on the icy pitch, but unfortunately it thawed overnight and they were useless, as the pitch was an absolute quagmire( worse than Derby County’s Baseball ground pitch). The team stayed on the South Coast before the game ( Portsmouth/ Southsea) and there was a picture in the gazette of some of the team, with the story of the “special” boots.
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Next week we were away to league leaders Manchester City where we lost 3-1, Jim Townsend scoring. At least we had a goal to cheer in this game, even though it was only a consolation.
 
I went in the hope of seeing the great Jimmy Greaves, only to find out he wasn't playing, massive disappointment for me personally but with Jimmy playing who knows how many they would have got.
 
BoroGold said:
I went in the hope of seeing the great Jimmy Greaves, only to find out he wasn't playing, massive disappointment for me personally but with Jimmy playing who knows how many they would have got.
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What a striker he was, didn't he score on every debut he played?
 
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