Anonymous poll - England win World Cup or Boro promotion

Given the choice which would you pick

  • Boro promoted in the summer

    Votes: 140 67.3%

  • England win World Cup in Qatar

    Votes: 68 32.7%
  • Total voters
    208
Promotions in 74, 87, 88, 92 all still have fantastic memories of Boro games I've attended, we've won, travelling to away games etc, I wont remember one England game this time next year
 
The big moments of failure for England haunt me more than the moments of failure for Boro.

My week is ruined by Middlesbrough losing a league match, but I've long been over our relegation or our failure to make the play-offs.
I can't pretend that the 1997 finals really upset me because I was 4 years old and had no clue they were happening at the time.

An individual loss for England spoils my day a bit, but I'm fine after that, but then I can barely bring myself to think about the Euros final, we were so close.

At the same time though, that's probably because England have been a lot closer to winning something than Middlesbrough in the last decade and play for less frequently.

I'd probably have similar feelings if Middlesbrough lost another final or missed out on the title narrowly, but when the stakes aren't so high there's always another game around the corner to wipe away the depression of the last defeat with Middlesbrough.

Felt despondent after Barnsley, 3 days later we knocked out Spurs.

England lose on penalties in a major final, some of our fans embarassing themselves and there's 2 months of goading and self reflection before England play again.
 
MickaelDebevePhenomenal said:
well with that attitude what is the point of watching Boro or entering the cups as we wont win and cant ever go above our glass ceiling.

I know it is odds on that if we do go up we will struggle and may even come straight back down, but you have to have that wide eyed optimism or you might as well Fu$k off and play bowls!
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My attitude doesn’t equal what you’ve said. Not even close.

If England win the World Cup it would trump any promotion that boro have achieved. That is what is being asked, nothing to do with a perceived glass ceiling or anything to do with a cup.

If the question was Boro win major cup or premier league Vs England World Cup then without a shadow of a doubt I’d pick boro…so let’s stick on topic so we can debate sensibly.
 
TeaCider said:
The big moments of failure for England haunt me more than the moments of failure for Boro.

My week is ruined by Middlesbrough losing a league match, but I've long been over our relegation or our failure to make the play-offs.
I can't pretend that the 1997 finals really upset me because I was 4 years old and had no clue they were happening at the time.

An individual loss for England spoils my day a bit, but I'm fine after that, but then I can barely bring myself to think about the Euros final, we were so close.

At the same time though, that's probably because England have been a lot closer to winning something than Middlesbrough in the last decade and play for less frequently.

I'd probably have similar feelings if Middlesbrough lost another final or missed out on the title narrowly, but when the stakes aren't so high there's always another game around the corner to wipe away the depression of the last defeat with Middlesbrough.

Felt despondent after Barnsley, 3 days later we knocked out Spurs.

England lose on penalties in a major final, some of our fans embarassing themselves and there's 2 months of goading and self reflection before England play again.
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Totally different for me. I don’t even think about the euros now just looking forward to the World Cup. Where as I’m still not over the Barnsley defeat and a couple of others this season. Beating Peterborough on Saturday will help me overcome that
 
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Diego said:
Totally different for me. I don’t even think about the euros now just looking forward to the World Cup. Where as I’m still not over the Barnsley defeat and a couple of others this season. Beating Peterborough on Saturday will help me over coke that
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For me, it helps that the Barnsley defeat won't define our season.
We're arguably in a better league position now than we were before that defeat.
Before the Barnsley match, we were 7th and 1 point outside of the play-offs.
Now we're 7th, 2 points outside of the play-offs but with 2 games in hand.

Reaching the play-offs is still entirely in our hands right now.
It will be defeats or victories elsewhere that'll ultimately determine where we finish.

Starting with Peterborough.
 
StillCantPickAUsername said:
My attitude doesn’t equal what you’ve said. Not even close.

If England win the World Cup it would trump any promotion that boro have achieved. That is what is being asked, nothing to do with a perceived glass ceiling or anything to do with a cup.

If the question was Boro win major cup or premier league Vs England World Cup then without a shadow of a doubt I’d pick boro…so let’s stick on topic so we can debate sensibly.
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you said "we’d be at the lower end of the premier league scrapping for our survival getting beat most weeks"

You appear to be saying you would take a world cup win because Boro cant ever compete in the top flight, which is very much alluding to a glass ceiling.
 
I wouldn't take England winning the World Cup over Boro getting three points at Peterboro on Saturday. I struggle to understand any Boro fan who would think differently. Yes I support England, but with the Boro it's a different level!
 
MickaelDebevePhenomenal said:
you said "we’d be at the lower end of the premier league scrapping for our survival getting beat most weeks"

You appear to be saying you would take a world cup win because Boro cant ever compete in the top flight, which is very much alluding to a glass ceiling.
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Well as you should know we’ve had one top fight top half finish in the last 20 years, I don’t think I appear to be saying anything about a glass ceiling, I think you have come to that conclusion using the sensible part of your brain.
 
I enjoy watching and supporting England in the Euros or WC but soon get over it if and when they get knocked out.

For some reason the Ryder Cup has more of an impact on me. I don't play golf or follow it, not even the majors. But I get really caught up in the Ryder Cup.
It p!sses me off for weeks if Europe don't win it. It all goes back to a drunken 1985 Sunday afternoon in Edinburgh watching it with my golf daft cousin and uncle.
 
Otto42 said:
I wouldn't take England winning the World Cup over Boro getting three points at Peterboro on Saturday. I struggle to understand any Boro fan who would think differently. Yes I support England, but with the Boro it's a different level!
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Same_as_before said:
In nearly 60 years time will we talking about the Boro getting promoted or England winning the World Cup? I can still name the team and I was a child.

Has to be England.
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I can name most of the cast from the 1966 Batman Movie but would still prefer watching Dimi catching that ball to watching that film.
 
Given I'll be watching Poland v Sweden on the red button tonight, rather than the England match you can probably guess my answer. :ROFLMAO:

To be fair it is a competitive match featuring two of the best strikers of the last twenty years and given I watched Sweden overcome the Czechs last week in Stockholm I want to "see it through" so to speak.
 
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