This day 1976 our Boro iconic legend big John bagged a brace away to Leeds

Erimus74

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To record our 1st away win since 13th December when we won 2-1 at Wolves & with only one victory, this calander year, we need a win to kick start our season

Big John, with the vast majority of the 32,993 looking & expecting a home victory, our hero answered the call for his beloved Boro to ensure both points would be going back to Teesside on the Beggs bus, when bagging both goals in a 2-0 win(y)

Billy Woof made his away debut, wearing the No12 shirt, his home debut was the previous season in a 3-1 defeat to QPR, BW replaced Phil Boersma in the 2nd half

Big Jacks with 2 visits to Elland road for the Boro resulted in a draw & win picked the following team

Jim Platt
John Craggs
Terry Cooper - on his old stamping ground & still good enough to play for England, IMHO
Graeme Souness
Stuey Boam
Tony McAndrew - making his 3rd appearence & 1st away game, with 3 victories (y)
Phil Boersma
David Mills
John Hickton - his 6th & 7th goals of the season
Willie Maddren
Davey Armstrong

Sub - Billy Woof
 

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No finer place to record an away victory, always sweet watching the ball hit the back of the home teams net and the Wessies tearfully trudging home bemoaning how robbed they were
 
Never heard Leeds fans called Wessies before?

I was at that game. One of the few games we played at Elland Rd when we didn’t have a man sent off.
 
Never heard Leeds fans called Wessies before?

I was at that game. One of the few games we played at Elland Rd when we didn’t have a man sent off.

Wessies (pronounced Wezzies) is the generalised term given to those that come from the West Riding of Yorkshire (well in my neck of the woods anyway) it is not specific to Leeds fans per se
 
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