Stephen Tompkinson

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Award winning actor - and Boro fan - in new football play

'This is such a football area and it really suits the story - we're having a ball'
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He is a Boro fan.
I remember he also wrote and starred in a BBC play set during the Yugoslavian War of 1991.
He played a Boro fan stationed with a Newcastle fan in a remote spot.
They were both desperate to get a radio signal so they could listen to the Boro-Newcastle relegation / promotion match in 91.
I won't spoil the ending for you.......:)
 
Was the Boro celebrity fan apparently on the 97 cup final coverage, never seen it though it was on VHS at my mother’s. I was busy in North London that day. Brother’s a big Man Utd fan and decent comedian back in the day, Paul. Remember reading that the family moved to Lancashire when the lads were young, but Stephen had already got the Boro in his blood.
 
Otto42 said:
Was the Boro celebrity fan apparently on the 97 cup final coverage, never seen it though it was on VHS at my mother’s. I was busy in North London that day. Brother’s a big Man Utd fan and decent comedian back in the day, Paul. Remember reading that the family moved to Lancashire when the lads were young, but Stephen had already got the Boro in his blood.
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Yeah I'm sure he was, or one of the Wembley games. He couldn't go as he was filming Bally so he was interviewed in costume drinking a Guinness (I think)
 
I met him at one of the MSS do's in London after a game at QPR. He was with his then girlfriend who was also on TV. He seemed a nice chap.

I remember a number of players being there including Robbo, Neil Cox, Curtis and Alan Miller.

The legend that was Wilf Mannion was also in attendance.

I got pictures with all of them and Mannion signed my Brazil top as follows -

'Wilf Mannion, Middlesbro, England & Great Britain'
 
Otto42 said:
Was the Boro celebrity fan apparently on the 97 cup final coverage, never seen it though it was on VHS at my mother’s. I was busy in North London that day. Brother’s a big Man Utd fan and decent comedian back in the day, Paul. Remember reading that the family moved to Lancashire when the lads were young, but Stephen had already got the Boro in his blood.
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You don't mean this guy surely? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tonkinson
 
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