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Despite being misguided in their choice of football clubs, those lads and ladies down at Woking do have some bright ideas from time to time. For example, if this looks like remarkably like something that appears on a leading Woking website, then that is because we have 'borrowed' the idea to give Boro' fans the chance to catalogue all those great occasions, events and incidents that serve to remind us what we keep coming back for, travel to Carlisle for, take days off work for, and burn so much of our wages for.

If you have any ideas, then please feel free to contribute them to the Borochat forum and they'll get rudely picked up and dropped onto this page.


Seeing Boro' in the League Two section of the BBC website

'Losing' 3-2 at Mansfield Town but picking up three points.

The Grannies' day out at Eastbourne Borough.

Joel Byrom from the halfway line against Crawley Town.

Matt Stanton, dressed as Santa, going full pelt into a 50-50 challenge with Rob Edwards on a beach ball in the Railway Bell at Kiddy. Rob coming out on top and Matt going arse over tit onto his back in front of a beer garden full of Boro' and West Brom fans, with the West Brom fans breaking into a chant of she fell over.

Champions

- Serenading the Crawley players with the Hokey Cokey.

- Dippers being thrown back INTO the ground at Weymouth. He only wanted a pint!

- The infamous Gents meet a Hen Party incident at York.

- Two coach loads of Sunderland Lassies in fancy dress (in particular, Catwoman) at York.

- Beating Luton Town at Kenilworth Road, celebrating like we'd "won the FA Cup" and was this the fault of ickle Stevenage?

- On reaching the Playoff Semi against Cambridge

- Cole signing a new contract

- Winning the FA Trophy for the 2nd time

- Having a 100% record at Wembley

- Having a friend turn up at the club house with all her belongings in 10 black bags and a suitcase. Then getting the help from some stewards and other fans carry all her bags about a mile down the road. They didn't even know the girl yet they stopped to help... Fantastic.

- Moro leaving.. although sad, fair play to him. Every one of his goals have been sweet.

- Inflatables at Mansfield and Kettering winning 1-0

- Spiderman's lap of the pitch and somersaults... yeah, because that was Phil Wallace(!)

- Moro' signing a new three-year deal

- Blocking the toilets at Kingfield

- Ball boy at Exeter

- The minibus ride to Halifax

- Moro putting the thumbs up in response to "is she fit" chants after being interviewed on Setanta

- Junior Lewis clean through on goal about to silence his critics from two yards out, only to cross the ball to noone

- Clapping the Northwich players and Dino after they ended our playoff hopes

- Lighthouse and Pete wooing Peter Vincenti at Halifax with his songs

- Beating Ipswich 3-0 in a PSF and thinking we were good enough to win the Championship

- "Ukranian Phil, you're losing 2-0"

- Losing 3-2 to Halifax at home despite being 2-0 up at half time

- Peter Taylor moaning about the "longest interview" he's ever done (all of 3 minutes 28 seconds or something)

- Young lad doing lap of honour with his team at half time when in front of the away stand gets a ball from 40 yards whack on his head

- Mitchell Cole telling the moaners on the east terrace to f#$k off.

- EEMPT (DWAH)

- Lighthouse on the dancefloor at the Torquay caravan park

- Thora's header at Cambridge

- Having ex-England manager Peter Taylor taking control of the squad for six months

- Running through the fountains at Wembley

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- Stealing the mascot's giant ball at Northwich and playing headers with the home fans

- The Final Countdown at Forest Green... Stimmo: "it's the final countdown?"

- Stimmo celebrating taking a 4-3 lead after trailing 3-0 at Forest Green Rovers by half-climbing the perimeter fence at the New Lawn.

- The York 96 - televised semi-naked conga and ten minutes of 'The Final Countdown'

- Defeating Grays in the FA Trophy semi-final to get through to the final at the new Wembley.

- George Boyd: The White Pele

- Braving the wind and rain at Weymouth to see a Boro' victory; especially those who dared to do it topless.

- Craig Dobson in the 94th minute to beat Woking in 06/07!

- The Samba at the County Ground

- Female steward heading the ball against Crawley on Easter Monday 2006. Except she didn't know much about it. Made Stampy laugh though!

- Spunky singing Genesis on the terrace at Canvey Island and well, everywhere, really.

- Scarborough fan in the away end @ York saying "F***ing hell Rolo, you've only just finished a Burger" as he opened up a family sized packet of Fruit Pastilles.

- The old East Stand (shed)

- Chelsea thugs invading away stand at Hayes and me running away onto the pitch!

- Kenny Webster's amazing own goal from at least 50 yards.

- Line dancing on the steps to "I Feel Like a Woman" at Doncaster.

- Jon Nurse letting about 9 million kids into Broughie Audi TT and one of them spilling about a litre of Fanta over his drivers seat. Also, seeing Brough walk out of the BHS with one square of tissue to mop it up as if it'd be enough.

- Half-time at York in 05/06. Keepy-uppy's and grumpy stewards. And Shane Gore dancing.

- Recovering from 3-0 down in 9 minutes at Scarborough

- Gary Crawshaw's goal at Hereford in ''97.

- Waiting for an eternity (well, 10 minutes) for the Morecambe v Tamworth result to come through in the 04/05 season so we knew whether we'd made the play-offs.

- BoroGuide FC football

- Steve Watson crawling across the centre circle to rugby tackle someone

- Being 1-0 down in the 89th minute to Carlisle at BHW and winning 2-1

- Seeing Ant score against Gravesend (I think), take off his shirt, run all the way round the pitch only to see them equalise in injury time.

- Julian's save at Kingfield in 04/05 when we won 2-1.

- Jermaine Hunter

- "One Barnet Council, there's only one Barnet Council".

- Grazioli equalising against Newcastle.

- Rain/Hail/Snow/gale force wind at Swindon

- Shilton snapping Bazza and the ref not sending him off at Leyton Orient

- Jason Soloman going in goal and trying to take a kick with his trousers round his ankles against Woking.

- 4 day trek to Carlisle to win 2-1 in the snow.

- Free soup at Carlisle

- Efe Sodje heading the ball from one box to the other.

- Efe going on an amazing run from defence into Birmingham's area, losing the ball, then running back 20 yards to make a superb tackle and set up another attack.

- Taking 10,000 or whatever it was to Birmingham.

- The procession of 54 SA coaches on the M1 to Brum.

- Crawshaw's(?) lob from 45 yards in the Trophy semi final 2nd leg v Woking

- Jude's throwing and 'dolphin dance'.

- Seeing Shearer and Barnes kick off at Broadhall Way.

- The conga and 'two stepping' at Burton.

- Getting lost on the way to Folkestone.

- Being the only team to beat Chester at the Deva the year they won the league

- Lighthouse and Burgers dancing to Girls Aloud at above game.

- Dean Martin is one day coming back from Iceland

- Jon Brady's outburst at Big Mick!

- Tony Roberts, Rory Prendergast, Jamie Pitman, Chris Lane and Barry Jones

- Home to Boston in 01/02. 2-0 down with 15 to go and won 3-2 with goals in the 90th and 93rd minute. The look on the Boston fans' faces was priceless.

- First season in the conference Macclesfield away. Last game of the season. They'd won the league already, and we hammered them 3-0. There was a sea of red down one side of the ground, and 'Paul Fairclough's Red & White Army/itchy brown jumper' went on for half an hour

- Michael Brough's 93 minutes on the clock strike at Hereford - 04/05

- Free sausage sarnies at the Forge

- The duck walk at Aylesbury

- Andy Green saying 'Welcome to Broadhall Way' in front of 10000(?) Boro supporters at Birmingham. :-)

- There was the moment during a tediously boring end of season game during those times when there was nothing to play for when a Tesco paper bag caught the eye of one wag in the South stand. It was drifting perilously towards the opposition goal line but then blew away only to come back again. Soon we were all singing "There's only one paper bag" and to everyone's delight the wind suddenly drove it into the back of the net! I can't remember the game but their goalie played along and tried to save it!

- Cyril the Squirrel

- Robbie Mutchell getting the 100th goal of the season.

- Traffic on the way home from Swansea, and the Gummi Bear war.

- Bonjour Alan Paris

- Des Gallagher admiting he wore his wifes knickers.

- Barry Hayles

- Paul Fairclough's itchy brown jumper

- Brady's cross and Dino's goal v Hereford in the Play Off Semi.

- Lionel Perez

- Love Rat Jamie march's reaction to being released - played his heart out in his final game then burst into tears.

- Steve Butler's gentlemanly act of stopping the ball on the line to allow Carlo to claim the goal and the golden boot.

- Stuart Beevor scoring a hat-trick before half-time, against Hayes I think. Game was abandoned at HT, because of snow. :)

- Liam George being shit.

- Kirk Jackson's two-goal debut against Dover in the FA Trophy

- Bomb scare at Cheltenham away

- Graz's goal against Swindon - keeper blasted it forward, wind brought it all the way back to the edge of the box for him to score.

- Any of Barry Hayles' goals when he picked it up on the corner flag and did the rest himself.

- Tony Lynch, literally about three seconds after being named Man of the Match, hitting the flood light with a shot.

- Balls Kenny - Stevenage like theirs bouncey!

- Tears from Robbie Mutchell in his final game.

- The Lee Harvey/Carl Alford partnership.

- Black Monday for Woking

- Alford nicking Efe's bandana.

- Spending 3 hours making a "Spirit Of '96" banner for the Britannia Stadium

- Knowing it was the end of Turner at Kettering 2002.

- Little kids running around shouting "Sagapo Boro" and waving Chilean flags at pre-season friendlies.

- Mook's "Prendergast Scorecards"

- Danny Hockton scoring twice at Kingfield in a 2-0 win.

- Billy Turley inciting the crowd at Nene Park.

- Crying at Swansea knowing the boys played there hearts out.

- Seeing a 9-man boro claw back from 3-1 down to 3-3 at Boston away

- Realising a Boro dream and beating Hitchin in a league game

- Hearing the opposition moan about our long ball game only for Rob McComb to run from inside our own half, beat 4 defenders and then slot the ball home

- Sodje sliding in at the far post vs Woking

- Venables scoring from a corner kick - the only one I have ever seen!

- Venables walking like the penquin from Batman!

- The transformation of the ground

- Seeing three Sodje brothers playing for Boro, Efe (Peter), Sam and Akpo

- Dennis Wise's agent (Eric Hall?) managing Boro for a half and being featured in Four Four Two

- Travelling back from Hyde United on the coach and getting everyone playing eye spy!

- Taking too much food to away games and never eating it all!

- Making loads of really good mates throughout the years

- Flying to Liverpool for a Southport game and boinging down the runway!

- Dipstick's diagrams going to camp site in Telford for the Shrewsbury game which had us driving off a bridge!

- The Chairman wanting to camp out for the victorious Boro players returning from Hereford after getting to the Final!

- Getting the last ticket to the away game at Newcastle and outsinging the Geordies!

- Ruud Gullit playing at Boro when at Chelsea

- Dean Wordsworth and that shot on goal at Woking that went out for a throw in to them!

- Darran Hay asking Smudger why a game against Hitchin didn't go to extra time when we won 2-1! - who said footballers were thick!

- Taking more than the 950 allocated tickets when playing Ru$hden and their fans having to sit on each others laps!

- Smudger having Alan Shearer in his pocket!

- Two packets of crisps and a mars Bar - Grazioli!

- Grazioli scoring at home to Newcastle and Crawshaw scoring at the real St James' Park

- Away to Sharpness in the Vase. A Ricky Marshall shot hit a horse in the next field!

- The four slopes in one pitch at Saffron Walden!