Erimus74
Well-known member
Thousands of Boro fans, young & not so young, have waited a long, long time for this moment, to wake up on a saturday morning & see their team name as a 1st divison club, alongside 1st divison teams
Boro played their 1st top flight game since losing 3-1 away to arsenal on the 24th April 1954, Linda Delapenha scoring our last top flight goal, our last visit to St Andrews as a 1st division club was 15th April 1950 drawing 0-0
With no new signings during the summer big Jack is keeping faith in the team that stormed the 2nd division the previous season, stormed, well we battered that league, we were far too good, head & shoulders above the rest
Boro started their 1st game back in the top flight with a game away to Birmingham City, a ground we don't normally do well at & managed by Freddie Goodwin (wasnt there a commedian with the same name) who finished 19th previous seson (73-74)
Boro won the game 3-0 at a canter & who better to open our account back in the top flight than Mr Middlesbrough, John Hickton, when he put the mighty Boro one up, Alan Foggon, Boro's top goalscorer the previous season, hoping he's going to carry on that stat when scoring a brace to cap a fantatsic return to the 1st division & set the tone for the season ahead, we carried on from our magnificent 73-74 season
Boro team
Jim Platt
John Craggs
Frank Spraggon
Willie Maddren
Stuart Boam
Brian Taylor
Bobby Murdoch
David Mills
John Hickton
Alan Foggon
David Armstrong
Great times following the Boro back then
Boro played their 1st top flight game since losing 3-1 away to arsenal on the 24th April 1954, Linda Delapenha scoring our last top flight goal, our last visit to St Andrews as a 1st division club was 15th April 1950 drawing 0-0
With no new signings during the summer big Jack is keeping faith in the team that stormed the 2nd division the previous season, stormed, well we battered that league, we were far too good, head & shoulders above the rest
Boro started their 1st game back in the top flight with a game away to Birmingham City, a ground we don't normally do well at & managed by Freddie Goodwin (wasnt there a commedian with the same name) who finished 19th previous seson (73-74)
Boro won the game 3-0 at a canter & who better to open our account back in the top flight than Mr Middlesbrough, John Hickton, when he put the mighty Boro one up, Alan Foggon, Boro's top goalscorer the previous season, hoping he's going to carry on that stat when scoring a brace to cap a fantatsic return to the 1st division & set the tone for the season ahead, we carried on from our magnificent 73-74 season
Boro team
Jim Platt
John Craggs
Frank Spraggon
Willie Maddren
Stuart Boam
Brian Taylor
Bobby Murdoch
David Mills
John Hickton
Alan Foggon
David Armstrong
Great times following the Boro back then
