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My Boro Life - Episode 3
by littlejimmy on March 11th, 2010

Four Seasons in One Year - Smiling as the sh*t comes down… Well, if you don’t laugh, you’ll probably cry

 
1996 was actually quite a tumultuous year in modern history. Looking back through the…..

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My Boro Life - episode 2, part 2, the promised land…..
by littlejimmy on March 05th, 2010

<TLF, Mikkel Beck, and a bloke who had 20 quid on him to score>

On my return from honeymoon in the Channel Islands, I was invited to attend a match by a season-ticket holder at work……

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Mystic Dave Goes Down Under
by Barney on March 05th, 2010

Well what a week folks. My column last week got me hungry so went for the Korma with Pilau rice, chips, Garlic Naan, onion bhaji, veggie pakora and side order of poppadoms with mango chutney……

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My Boro Life episode 2 - Robsons Riverside Revolution
by littlejimmy on March 04th, 2010


1995 was a big year for me as well as for Middlesbrough FC, but more on that later. This was the year that saw the collapse of the Barings Bank and the arrest of Rogue…..

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Mystic Dave looks to the weekend….
by Barney on February 26th, 2010

 

Well it’s Dave back again. I’m really getting back into this – looked forward to it more than my deep fried pizza kebab this lad introduced me to. Said to me “Ere slim (not many…..

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My Boro Life edpisode 1, part two, growing the seeds
by littlejimmy on February 25th, 2010

 

Up until that point, Boro hadn’t really registered with me. I knew there was a football team there who were rivals with Sunderland and Newcastle. I knew they were seen as something of a yo-yo…..

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My Boro Life - episode 1
by littlejimmy on February 24th, 2010

MFC’s Golden Years through the eyes of a Boro convert

Episode 1

By Little Jimmy (he’s the bloke in shorts on the picture)

1970 to 1989 - Before Boro

Nobody chooses to support the Boro; you are born to…..

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The Lying, the Bitch and the Wardrobe
by Barney on February 19th, 2010

 
Well, I’m back. I never thought I would get asked to do this again but since the original predictions the amount of dead stars wanting to do this has been amazing. Politicians, film stars,…..

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Enter the ginger ninja………….
by Clyde on February 12th, 2010

Its Autumn 2009, Middlesbrough FC are in the Championship and in the hunt for promotion back to the Premier League. This triggers off Gibbo to start the search for a new manager.
Gibbo has despatched…..

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Incoming and outgoing
by Iggy Pop Barker on February 12th, 2010

  How one man with a fitsful of rail tickets is trying to save our season  With his determined efforts to turn Celtic into a five-a-side team, Gordon Strachan has certainly put his own stamp on the…..

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