Why do we support boro dad.?

I was born down south to Leeds born and bred parents. My family were Leeds fans during their glory years.
Moved to Middlesbrough when I was 4 and left when I was 9, during that time swore my allegiance to the boro when playing football in the playground and have followed Boro for the next 50 years. As said above I dont claim to be a supporter as I dont go to matches but I do claim to be a sympathiser.

Having said that I have questioned my loyalty in the last six months. Love the area and the people but feel frustrated with the club, hoping for better times ahead.
 
Brought up in Maton, all the family were Boro fans, no other choice really.

Taking my son to football training and seeing all the kids in man city and chelsea kits is just a nonsense. Hopefully they grow out of it or they're condemnded to a long distance soulless football supporting experience

Boro have been a great club to support for me, i don't get all the negativity you see in Boro fans at times, we've had so much more going on since i started in the mid 80s than most clubs our size
 
festa5 said:
Depends how you define Middlesbrough.

Edge of Guisborough to edge of Nunthorpe is about that surely? Even centre to centre is only 8? though.
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you occasionally see the same on here about Stokesley, Great Ayton, Hutton Rudby etc. It's aboslute nonsense, like Guisborough it's less than a 10 minute drive out of Nunthorpe, Coulby Newham etc to Stokesley, why on earth would it be a Leeds area?
 
Our family live in Bishop Auckland so have no local ties to Middlesbrough.My grandad decided it was time to take his son to a football match in 1946.He looked in the paper that Saturday morning to see which one of the big three were at home.It was Boro so the die was cast and the rest is history.It could just as easily been the other two.Thank God it wasn’t.My Dad went for 60 years and I’ll have been going 56 years this Christmas.Going to Millwall tomorrow and can’t wait.The day I don’t look forward to going to the match is the day I pack in.Will never happen.UTB.
 
Born in the Boro, support the Boro.
Could never understand any other way.
Adult('ish) son born north of the Tyne, is a fanatical Boro fan.
No idea how that happened.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Well first if you support Boro you actually support a them by going to games. Going to games is fun. Most glory supporters won't attend games. I mean I know about 5 or 6 arsenal fans in London - non of them go to matches.

Second the more you lose the more you enjoy it when you win. Lobster doesn't taste as good if you have it every week.
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It's more like battered sausage than lobster with Boro to be fair, but like the analogy. 👍
 
My parents were Boro fans so never even considered not being. Never understood the point of glory fans but I also started following Boro in the early 90s so my formative years were exciting times. Hard to say whether I'd have been as committed if it was someone lower league with not much interesting going on. I was also lucky enough to actually attend football matches which made glory fans seem even stranger. I always wondered if they were even real football fans if they never attended? Why would you choose to be a fan of a club you couldn't watch when you could be a Boro fan and actually go to the matches. As I've got older my perspective has changed. I know a lot of people can't afford to go to the match anymore. It's prohibitively expensive for so many people, particularly if you are a big club fan. The poster above that mentioned their mates are Arsenal fans, it's £66-££99 per ticket for their Cat A games or £900 for their cheapest season ticket. I don't live on Teesside anymore so I don't go to many games. I'm an armchair fan for the majority of the time. I go when i am back home and I go to the local away games but the majority of matches I have to rely on the TV. It's easy to see every football match live broadcast live now so that coupled with the high ticket prices is changing the way people support a team. As I don't live on Teesside I have also had the thought of who my kids will support. At the moment they are young and have no concept of what it means to be a fan yet but there are lots of much bigger clubs than Boro in our local area if they decided to support someone else. I'd obviously prefer them to be Boro fans and I agree it is character building.

Also, massively echo the sentiment that no fan of any big club will ever understand how much that win in Cardiff means. When you win, even only occasionally throughout history, you will never get the same joy from winning another League/FA Cup/European Cup etc as being there for the 1st ever trophy. There will be other clubs like Newcastle who have won nothing despite having a very high opinion of themselves for so long who will have fans that have been watching for decades that will feel the same or even some of the bigger clubs like Spurs and Everton that have lived in their neighbours shadow for so long while winning nothing might be similar but I get the impression their fans feel entitled to win something which I don't think we ever have.
 
Ian Bairds Ears said:
Back on board the lifetime of misery and heartbreak 😁 its almost cruel isn't it....at least we keep our kids feet on the floor...firmly 😊 none of this winning things nonsense...
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Well.......I'm not suffering alone 😁😁.

Having Stockport County as their second team is also a double whammy, but it's just proper football teams supported by a loyal local fanbase. None of this plastic just-passing-through type of supporter bollox.

Winning is just a bonus, the club and what it stands for is far more important.👍
 
wilkos_perm said:
you occasionally see the same on here about Stokesley, Great Ayton, Hutton Rudby etc. It's aboslute nonsense, like Guisborough it's less than a 10 minute drive out of Nunthorpe, Coulby Newham etc to Stokesley, why on earth would it be a Leeds area?
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Exactly. I went to Sacred Heart in Redcar, so quite a big catchment area given it was the only Catholic school for miles outside Middlesbrough itself.

Had kids from across East Cleveland up to Staithes/Hinderwell and from Guisborough. Vast majority were Boro fans, few were Man United/Liverpool. Can't remember many Leeds at all.

Worked in Northallerton for a bit too and even that had a heavy Boro presence. Maybe 50/50 Boro - Leeds (although the Boro fans tended to go to games. The Leeds ones didn't).
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Well first if you support Boro you actually support a them by going to games. Going to games is fun. Most glory supporters won't attend games. I mean I know about 5 or 6 arsenal fans in London - non of them go to matches.

Second the more you lose the more you enjoy it when you win. Lobster doesn't taste as good if you have it every week.
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I don't go to the games anymore due to commitments etc. Does that make me a lesser supporter than you?
 
family is all west ham, ham rolls, cheese rolls, ars*holes. Born south, bred in Boro, left Boro, Boro never left me.

Conversion has occured in both my folks (still there) and my offspring (never there)
 
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