How many of us NEVER saw a game at Ayresome Park?

Demolished when I was two.

Not even sure I've been to the road it was located, at least not knowingly.
 
I saw 1 circa 78/79. Everytime the ball went forward the crowd surged forward and I was lifted off my feet, honestly thought I was going to die. :eek:
 
Wow not even a question I'd ever considered 🤣
You do forget that people born in the 2000's didn't - stand - on the terraces, breathe in the Bovril cigar infused air.. or watch the 4 shadowed players run across the lush green & glistening Ayresome Park pitch.. of a night match..
 
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BobUpnDown said:
Wow not even a question I'd even considered 🤣
You do forget that some people born in the 2000's didn't - stand - on the terraces, breathe in the Bovril cigar infused air.. or watch the 4 shadowed players run across the lush green & glistening Ayresome Park pitch..
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It was closed in 1995, most of the people born in the 90s won't have been either.
 
I went a fair amount between 1990 and 1995. Never in the Holgate, always East End. I have great memories of it, especially my first few matches, but objectively I always knew it was a crumbling sh1thole.

Can understand why people who spent their teens and 20s in it have the nostalgia they do for it. (Though surely at least some of the “atmosphere” was down to hooliganism.)

I was 21 when we won the Carling Cup though, the perfect age for it, I wouldn’t change that for anything.
 
My first Boro game was a 2 - 0 win against Huddersfield in about 88. I was only 9. Also remember being at the Man United league cup Semi Final 0-0. Plus a few others.
 
I still miss Ayresome and the Holgate. Me and my mate meeting her uncle and his mates at 12 on a match day in the pub, never had to buy a pint with that lot and went to the match a bit wobbly, the bovril, kids asking for a squeeze, the sound of the roar under that tin roof, the coppers refusing to let me leave one new year's day at half time (I was rough as hadn't slept, we were getting beat by one of the Sheffield teams, copper said if we have to stay and watch this **** so can you), Hendrie's goal, beating Newcastle 4-1 on the last day of the season to stay up.....ahhh the memories...getting a bit glassy eyed now looking back. God I had some fun!!
 
atypical_boro said:
I went a fair amount between 1990 and 1995. Never in the Holgate, always East End. I have great memories of it, especially my first few matches, but objectively I always knew it was a crumbling sh1thole.

Can understand why people who spent their teens and 20s in it have the nostalgia they do for it. (Though surely at least some of the “atmosphere” was down to hooliganism.)

I was 21 when we won the Carling Cup though, the perfect age for it, I wouldn’t change that for anything.
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I was 44 when we won the cup, the perfect age for it. The hooliganism really reduced the amount of games I attended early on.
 
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