Which club are the Boro most like?

[outoftown]

I really struggle with the " we're like Norwich" thing .
Their fans reaction to winning at Wembley, was not one I can ever imagine doing. It was as joyous as if they had just finished a big shop at Asda.

 

[NoloBoro]

I really struggle with the " we're like Norwich" thing .
Their fans reaction to winning at Wembley, was not one I can ever imagine doing. It was as joyous as if they had just finished a big shop at Asda.

I agree, I can’t think of a club less like us. I’ve never seen such dispassionate people. The game meant much less to them that was obvious I remember asking some of their fans why they weren’t singing. Lacklustre and timid I don’t think of Norwich as a footballing town.

 

[Redwurzel]

Portsmouth is strange place - working class but surrounded by some posh areas - South Downs, New Forest, Chichester, Petworth, Midhurst, Goodwood. It a bit like a boil on the bottom which has developed into a macho chip. A sort of Millwall of the South Coast.

My choice similar to Boro would be Ipswich - manufacturing town, not somewhere you would go to unless going to a football match, working class, a bit of the beaten track i.e. ask people to place it on a Map and they are 50 miles out, known for its football club but not much else, strong local concentrated fanbase, football club is a big part of the Town. Often beating teams with better resources. Its a town not a city.

Norwich football club are a in city of quite a large County and it always feel more rural than Ipswich. Although Norwich may not be fashionable its a bit like a slightly larger version of York and this is not unfashionable. I also associate Norwich with stuff like mustard, insurance, medieval wool, farming, black and white houses. Hence a bit nice and well fed to be like Boro.

Sheff United is another similar club to Boro - Northern, Industrial, not won much, goes under the rader a bit, not fashionable, but solid local fan base of same size as Boro's.

 

[Colin Warnek]

If we had won in Eindhoven, all of these conversations would have been different. We were one game away from being justifiably regarded as a top 20 club in the country.

 

[exeterboro]

Portsmouth is strange place - working class but surrounded by some posh areas - South Downs, New Forest, Chichester, Petworth, Midhurst, Goodwood

North York Moors, Yarm, Eaglescliffe, Stokesley, Great Ayton, Richmond, Whitby, Thirsk racecourse , Barnard Castle, Hurworth on Tees.Cleveland Hills, Roseberry Topping.
Guess which place is surrounded by the above posh areas, and I've seen it written elsewhere as a strange contrast.

 

[McMordie]

I've always seen us as similar to Birmingham City.

When I was down in Birmingham in the early 1980s it was surrounded by top flight teams. Villa had just won the European Cup, Wolves, West Brom and Coventry were close at hand but St Andrews was the place that felt like home - a sparsely occupied ground showing its age with a struggling team with a history of under achieving - very 1983 Ayresome Park.

 

[Redwurzel]

North York Moors, Yarm, Eaglescliffe, Stokesley, Great Ayton, Richmond, Whitby, Thirsk racecourse , Barnard Castle, Hurworth on Tees.Cleveland Hills, Roseberry Topping.
Guess which place is surrounded by the above posh areas, and I've seen it written elsewhere as a strange contrast.

I did think about this exeter and Middlesbrough is quite different from North Yorkshire towns - but the contrast to me is bigger in rural Sussex/Hampshire. I went holiday near Petworth a few years ago and it was a different world say from all the NY areas you listed with the possible exception of Richmond.