Paddy Butcher
We weren’t around at the time ourselves – but, for those who were, the mid-1980s saw Boro’ back at our swashbuckling best. The step from the United Counties League to the Isthmian League was a tough one to make. So, we needed the players who…
Marvin Williams
For a Boro’ side adapting to life in the Football League, one of the men that Graham Westley looked to for that bit extra was Marvin Williams. After storming to the 2009-10 Blue Square Premier title, we pretty much kept faith with the same band…
Peter Gittings
“At least I’m the best player in my own family” – it says much about England’s 2001 Ashes team that bowler Jimmy Ormond’s best moment in a two-Test career is the withering put-down he delivered to Australia’s Mark Waugh. In much the same way, we…
Chris Day
Goalkeepers. In a lot of ways, it’s much easier to notice their impact on a team – compared to other positions on the pitch, anyway. Think of Gordon Banks and that save from Pele in 1970 is probably what comes to mind first. What about…
Right Backs
A great philosopher* once said “nobody grows up wanting to be a Gary Neville“. But we’re not sure about that one. At Boro’, we’ve seen lads wearing the number two shirt and doing quite brilliant things while doing so. In modern football, right backs are…
Carel van der Velden
If we asked you to, we bet you could name at least one of England’s one-cap wonders. Steve Guppy – he’s one. Brian Stein is another. See, it’s easy. But what about if we ask you to reel off one of Boro’s (many) one-outing wonders…
Rodney McAree
Newcastle aside, there ain’t too much about the 1997-8 campaign we’d look back on with love. Cloughie got to work rebuilding the Boro’ squad during summer 1998. New faces for the 1998-9 season included Carl Alford, Lee Howarth and Dominic Naylor. But the start of the…
Michael Bostwick
Michael Bostwick. Unassuming, but certainly not underrated. And we’re sure that all Boro’ fans speak highly of both the man and the player. Mark Poplett – or Sev as you might also know him – is here to tell us why Bozzie has a special…
George Boyd
If we had to choose our favourite all-time Boro’ player, it turns out that George Boyd is that man. But it also turns out that telling you why ain’t the doddle we thought it’d be. To get our sparkly new concept up and running, we…
Boro’ Left Wingers
The scourge of the English national team for most of the 1990s and maybe even still now, but we’ve had some real gems of left wingers here. From the word go, we’ve had fellas on the southpaw side; twinklin’ and jiggin’ their way down the…
