What was your favourite game at Ayresome Park?

The Oxford game in 67. We were really down and out at the beginning of that season. Slowly but surely we managed to claw our way into contention.

I am sure this game remains at the forefront of every one who attended. What a night! What a crowd! What a result!

we’ve achieved better than this with better players.However the sense of connection with the club the players , the sense of occasion was one I have very rarely experienced.
 
Nosmo-King said:
The Oxford game in 67. We were really down and out at the beginning of that season. Slowly but surely we managed to claw our way into contention.

I am sure this game remains at the forefront of every one who attended. What a night! What a crowd! What a result!

we’ve achieved better than this with better players.However the sense of connection with the club the players , the sense of occasion was one I have very rarely experienced.
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Agreed totally. The Saturday before we beat Peterborough 2-1 and the excitement started there. Absolute magic!
 
Estonboy said:
Agreed totally. The Saturday before we beat Peterborough 2-1 and the excitement started there. Absolute magic!
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The week before was the least enjoyable match = we lost 2-0 at home to Wallsall and I thought our world had ended - I can still remember walking home with tears in my eyes
 
Not a game but a series of games
15th April 1967 Boro.play Walsall . They come on for the warm up 2.55 as normal. White shirts red shorts, "they can't wear them I say to me Dad". They go off and borrow some of our shorts. They beat us deservedly 2-0. 3rd defeat in a row.
Boro 8th in the table 5pts behind 2nd with 6 games left 4 of them at home.
The four home games all of which we won was a team effort between the players and the crowd. This was the start of the Aryesome Angels and it seemed that promotion was never in doubt.
For the last game against Oxford I played the wag from school and gof to the ground about two oclock and I was close to the front of the queue for the Holgate.
The match was amazing Big John and a Hat trick from "give us a goal" meant we gained promotion. And suddenly I was on the pitch jumping and dancing with half the crowd. A great and simpler time but one I will remember forever
 
Erimus11 said:
The week before was the least enjoyable match = we lost 2-0 at home to Wallsall and I thought our world had ended - I can still remember walking home with tears in my eyes
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I think that was the 1st time that I saw boro get beat. Really thought the world had ended!!
 
Not the best game ever seen at AP, but in the lead up to the 67 finale, we played Mansfield, who came here to totally spoil the game, which they did, but then did the honest thing and scored an own goal in the final minutes. Like i said, not the best game, but certainly very satisfying.
 
Boxing Day 1973. Boro 2 Sunderland 1. Full house, heading for a draw and then Stuey Boam got the winner in the 88th minute. I was in the Holgate End and it went nuts. Complete strangers hugging each other for joy. I'd been going to matches since 1963 but this was the first time I'd ever managed to drag my Dad along with me. I even bought the Gazette photo of the winning goal which adorned my notice board in my University room for the rest of my time there. Closely followed by the Oxford match in 1967 and of course, knocking Man U out of the FA Cup in January 1971, freezing cold night, snow covered pitch, orange ball and all, packed Ayresome Park under floodlights. Magical!
 
stjohn said:
I think that was the 1st time that I saw boro get beat. Really thought the world had ended!!
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I was at that match as well, the source of one of my favourite quotes overheard in the East End (I'd climbed over the wall from the Boys End, which was standard behaviour for that era). Arthur Horsfield went down injured near the end, with the Boro heading for a surprise 0-2 reverse, which provoked the comment "Dig a bloody hole and leave him there" from some disgruntled wit. Boro fans haven't changed! 🤣
 
Versus Oxford 1967 never been in such a crush in my life.
Watched the game sat on the grass near the corner flag (right of the goal) after being passed over the heads of the crowd. A very excited 9 year old.
 
BoroFur said:
That was a great game but the spawny extra time equaliser means it's not my favourite.

I think mine was our 4-1 demolition of Premier League Champions Leeds.
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Sorry to be pedantic but they were English Football League Champions. Leeds have never won the Premiership/Premier League but I get what you mean.
 
Too many to think of, Bradford & Chelsea play off games, chelsea 7-2, Newcastle to avoid relegation, Millwall just for John Hendries goal, but have to go with the Villa ZDS semi. That evening was just immense.
 
Blf said:
Versus Oxford 1967 never been in such a crush in my life.
Watched the game sat on the grass near the corner flag (right of the goal) after being passed over the heads of the crowd. A very excited 9 year old.
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Exactly the same experience here blf, what a night it was! UTB.
 
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