It'll sell out with Boro fansWe have nothing left to play for. Sell the ground and get some more money in. Pointless having empty seats when fans are wanting to watch the game who can’t get tickets
It'll sell out with Boro fansWe have nothing left to play for. Sell the ground and get some more money in. Pointless having empty seats when fans are wanting to watch the game who can’t get tickets
Same as our own supporters who will also fill the ground with vile chants?I'd rather not have Leeds polluting the ground with their vile chants.
The full ground won’t, we will have thousands of empty seats which we could have soldIt'll sell out with Boro fans
I doubt the ground will be full of vile chants from the home fans, unless you include the Leeds scum song.Same as our own supporters who will also fill the ground with vile chants?
Did you forget the Saville song every time we play them?I doubt the ground will be full of vile chants from the home fans, unless you include the Leeds scum song.
If you look at road signs on A19, A1 even A171, they say TEESSIDE. When you're driving south on A19, at Crathorne it says welcome to North Yorkshire, same on A171 at scaling dam towards Whitby. So no, TEESSIDE IS NOT IN YORKSHIRE.I think you'll find that the area South of the Tees of Teesside is and always has been in Yorkshire, so the terms are not mutually exclusive!
Not all of Teesside is in Yorkshire, but the bit where MFC play is.If you look at road signs on A19, A1 even A171, they say TEESSIDE. When you're driving south on A19, at Crathorne it says welcome to North Yorkshire, same on A171 at scaling dam towards Whitby. So no, TEESSIDE IS NOT IN YORKSHIRE.
Your geography skills needs a tweak cos that's in Middlesbrough on the banks of what river? Oh yes , THE TEESNot all of Teesside is in Yorkshire, but the bit where MFC play is.
So will you be singing Y Y YORKSHIRE while we are singing TEE TEE TEESSIDERSNot all of Teesside is in Yorkshire, but the bit where MFC play is.
From a small minority, not the whole ground.Did you forget the Saville song every time we play them?
My geography skills are fine thanks, your English comprehension on the other hand……One last time, the Tees separates the county of Yorkshire from that of Durham. Teesside is an area which includes parts of said counties.Your geography skills needs a tweak cos that's in Middlesbrough on the banks of what river? Oh yes , THE TEES
I sing Yorkshire at the cricket and come on Boro at the football.So will you be singing Y Y YORKSHIRE while we are singing TEE TEE TEESSIDERS
Its tedious, the old guys hold on to their Yorkshire identity, the younger generation only identity as Teessiders...I feel its unfair to call them plastic Yorkshire men.I do find this debate tedious. But I'm bored so I'll chip in. People can identify with what they want. Most football supporters in this area identify with a "country" that ceased to exist in 1707. If they wish, that's fine for them. If I have to cleave to a country that used to exist but doesn't any more, I'd rather call myself Northumbrian than English, but do what you want.
As far as local government is concerned Yorkshire stopped having any local government jurisdiction over Middlesbrough when the County Borough was created in 1889, so not long after the club was founded and before it was professional. It remained in the North Riding for ceremonial lieutenancy purposes until Cleveland was created in the 1970s, and got bunged back into North Yorkshire lieutenancy when Cleveland was abolished in the 1990s. So but for those 20 years, as an issue of fact it was and is in Yorkshire.
In footballing terms Middlesbrough has been in the North Riding FA since the Cleveland and York and District FAs amalgamated to create it in the early 20th century. We have won the North Riding senior cup more than any other club, still enter every year, and have staged four of the last ten finals.
So you are free to choose your own personal identity But @indeedido @Otto42 and others have facts on his side, historical and current.
Not necessarily a bad thing. I think the Tees Valley districts might do better separate from that. We always got f--- all from the regional authority when it had formal status. We are both and we are neither. And there are times when it serves us to be both and times when it serves us to be neither.We're going to have plenty of arguments that were not in the North East either in years to come, with the new North East Combined Authority which Teesside is not a part of.
Not necessarily a bad thing. I think the Tees Valley districts might do better separate from that. We always got f--- all from the regional authority when it had formal status. We are both and we are neither. And there are times when it serves us to be both and times when it serves us to be neither.
I’ve been reading a book this last week or two about when we were part of Doggerland, I was struggling on the map to identify the east boundary of Yorkshire.
I was going to clarify I’d put Dogger rather than Doggxxx and then realised there was no needSome of the posters on here will remember those days.
They were doggers and that was the way they liked it.