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McMordie

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  1. I know what you mean - I thought at first that I'd got my maths wrong with the 41 years.

    Hodgson was indeed sent off together with City's Nicky Reid. This was the final day before red and yellow cards were abolished in the Football League because the League had decided that referees brandishing red and yellow cards wound up spectators. Hodgson and Reid therefore became the last players to be red carded in the League for six years, until FIFA forced the League to reintroduce them.

    The match was also notable because Boro played in Manchester United shirts (complete with United badges). This was back in the days when teams were not allowed to wear shirts with sponsors' logos in televised matches. The match wasn't scheduled to be televised but Granada switched their cameras to it at the last minute after the game at Bolton that they intended to cover was postponed, meaning that Boro couldn't wear the Datsun Cleveland sponsored shirts they'd travelled with. They therefore borrowed a set of shirts from Old Trafford to allow the game to be shown on TV.

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  2. What was unusual about Boro's match at Manchester City 41 years ago tomorrow (17 January 1981) and what happened to David Hodgson during the match that didn't happen again in the Football League until 6 years later?

  3. I think my mum thought that being given stockings as a teenager by a mysterious American serviceman might have been exciting but getting them from a bunch of lecherous old men in the Synners Social Club, less so.

    (Could have been even more awkward for the committee if a teenage boy had won).

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  4. She knew him because she used to follow the Synners home and away, often travelling on the team bus. She said that if a girl ever spoke to him he stood there with his ears blushing first and then the blush spreading to the rest of his face.

    As an aside, my mum was Billingham Synthonia's supporter of the year one year in the late 1940s or early 1950s and the committee men decided than an appropriate prize for a teenage girl would be some stockings. Different times!

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  5. 31 minutes ago, Rishworthian said:

    Just in case some of our younger members find Clough hard to take or understand.  I can only explain that you went to Ayresome Park on a Saturday afternoon once a fortnight to see how many Clough was going to score   -    not if he was going to score.

    Think about that

    My mum knew him during his Billingham Synthonia days and reckoned his persona was an act to mask his shyness.

  6. 20 minutes ago, RiseAgainst said:

    It is weird that we've appropriated lots of words from Norway (krill, ski, floe, etc) but not Denmark. Personally, I blame Mikkel Beck. If he'd scored one of those chances against Leeds on the last day in 1997 and kept us up, a grateful region would have adopted Danish as a second language and we'd all be bilingual.

    Could be right as we did name a local delicacy after our former Estonian star Kinky Parmo after his spectacular goal against Burnley.

  7. My daughters have never forgotten that while we were waiting in the very long queue to go to the top of the Willis Tower in Chicago there were life size pictures of Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama and signs to show you how many times their height the tower was. Everything is now measured in Baracks in my family.

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  8. 17 minutes ago, Denzel Zanzibar said:

    No, random would be something like "what flavour crisps do you think Matt Crooks prefers, salt and vinegar or cheese and onion?"

    That reminds me of those Focus On.... columns they used to have in Shoot!, some of which I was reading a few weeks ago.

    Did you know that David Armstrong's favourite pastime was marquetry?*

    Ok, yes, that should be in the random Boro tidbits thread.

     

    *Although looking at Spike's other answers it's possible he was taking the p*ss.

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