Middlesbrough away with Charlton coaches
"To and from the fixture", are they thinking people might decide to stay there once they have seen the sights!
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The good news is that the club seems to be getting on top of the coach service now and taking it seriously.
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This thread-title makes it look like some dangerous inter-club liaison is taking place, possibly at the Skegness Butlins1
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Coaches might be an ambitious target
An S Max might be more realistic3 -
Thought this was going to be a thread on the most painful ways to die.2
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I went on my own by coach to their old ground one year maybe about 1988. My Walkman batteries run out before dartford tunnel. Was a long long trip for a nil nil or one nil defeat. Vague memories of golf balls being thrown at us.4
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I did the 3 1 game in our 85/86 promotion season on my own by coach. I must have been f*****g mad.MrOneLung said:I went on my own by coach to their old ground one year maybe about 1988. My Walkman batteries run out before dartford tunnel. Was a long long trip for a nil nil or one nil defeat. Vague memories of golf balls being thrown at us.
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i done a boro away on my own by coach Tommy Caton last minute penalty winner .... we were greeted by empty milk bottles being lobbed at us as we got off the coach
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I went in 1970 (had to look it up). We lost 3-0 and their boot boys came round to our end to "swap scarves". Bloody long coach ride home.
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Think that was my one and only visit to Ayresome Park, 0-0 draw in December, my abiding memory was how cold it was.MrOneLung said:I went on my own by coach to their old ground one year maybe about 1988. My Walkman batteries run out before dartford tunnel. Was a long long trip for a nil nil or one nil defeat. Vague memories of golf balls being thrown at us.
The things you do to tick off another ground, then they bloody move:-)1 -
Remember definitively doing Feb 95 game by coach. Lost 1-0, Uwe Fuchs scoring.
Randomly I think I can remember chatting with @northstandsteve on the corner terrace. Think he was with Frankie0 -
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Old Boro trips by coach. Early prem years for me. A Sunday game, think it finished 0-0. The coach got there for about 1pm. Kick off was 4pm. 3 hours walking round the ground. Went into the club shop and saw they had a Boro back door for sale in the style of French window.....
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Is it worth signing up to Valley Gold now to ensure i get a ticket??4
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I was there for that 'classic'. And people wonder why Sky swerve us as often as possible. I also went by coach (no trains as I recall) for Les Reed's last game in charge, a couple of days before Christmas. We took one coach and got clapped out of the car park afterwards by the Boro blue rinse brigade. An abject 2 0 loss. I counted about 70 of us there that day, not sure where the other 5930 had disappeared to after Operation: Riverside not 8 months earlier.cabbles said:Old Boro trips by coach. Early prem years for me. A Sunday game, think it finished 0-0. The coach got there for about 1pm. Kick off was 4pm. 3 hours walking round the ground. Went into the club shop and saw they had a Boro back door for sale in the style of French window.....
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We were in Milan that weekend, we begged/cajoled/bribed the bloke in the football pub to put it on ( he had feeds to another PL game which he had advertised).... We crept out at the end before he came after us for the loss of bar takings. It wasn't all our fault, Boro were shocking but it was a terrible game.4
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Ha ha, yes it was both teams' fault. And I guess we should give ourselves credit for serving a footballing feast up there on Sky: a 3 0 romp at the start of '05-06.Big William said:We were in Milan that weekend, we begged/cajoled/bribed the bloke in the football pub to put it on ( he had feeds to another PL game which he had advertised).... We crept out at the end before he came after us for the loss of bar takings. It wasn't all our fault, Boro were shocking but it was a terrible game.
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True, one of the best Charlton performances I've seen on telly or anywhere else. Remember at one point we were totally in control but couldn't get the second goal to kill it off, enter Chris Perry to apply the killer touch. Then they gave Darren Bent a yard.......
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Last season Rock Spectacle and myself were in The Zetland opposite the station.CostaFortune said:I went in 1970 (had to look it up). We lost 3-0 and their boot boys came round to our end to "swap scarves". Bloody long coach ride home.
That's why I've never been back.
This very nice Boro' fan was very keen to buy us a drink whilst telling us how wonderful Lennie was.0 -
Also, these were the days before you had toilets on the coach and were restricted to the service station stops. I'm lucky if I make it through the Dartford Tunnel before needing to go nowadays.DaveMehmet said:
I did the 3 1 game in our 85/86 promotion season on my own by coach. I must have been f*****g mad.MrOneLung said:I went on my own by coach to their old ground one year maybe about 1988. My Walkman batteries run out before dartford tunnel. Was a long long trip for a nil nil or one nil defeat. Vague memories of golf balls being thrown at us.
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Did 1997 2-1 defeat, 2006 4-2 defeat & 2013 2-2 after being 2 up. Never again.0
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The '97 2-1 defeat was a really hot day, didn't injury time seem to go on forever untill Ravenelli got the winner? Drove up to this with Solidgone from PlumsteadBR7_addick said:Did 1997 2-1 defeat, 2006 4-2 defeat & 2013 2-2 after being 2 up. Never again.
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Was it 1985, it was raining and they let us under cover in the second half? The police were selling tea out of a Transit van, a bloke in the queue asked if they had pies and was directed to an ambulance outside.1
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I was probably on the same coach.oohaahmortimer said:i done a boro away on my own by coach Tommy Caton last minute penalty winner .... we were greeted by empty milk bottles being lobbed at us as we got off the coach
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Bastard place Ayresome Park. I remember the glass coming over the line of houses behind the turnstiles and the police doing the tea.0
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Yes, that was the 85 game. The stand had been shut after the Bradford fire but as there was only a few of us, they let us in.BrentfordAddick said:Was it 1985, it was raining and they let us under cover in the second half? The police were selling tea out of a Transit van, a bloke in the queue asked if they had pies and was directed to an ambulance outside.
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I wonder if @Big_Bad_World was up there when Millwall played them in either their promotion season or their first season up in division 1. I only ask because the guy wrote the book the Firm that the film ID was based on, said Boro were terrible at Ayresome. And the police did nothing. Maybe it was because it was Millwall thoughAirman Brown said:Bastard place Ayresome Park. I remember the glass coming over the line of houses behind the turnstiles and the police doing the tea.
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Top o' the morning to ya.cabbles said:
I wonder if @Big_Bad_World was up there when Millwall played them in either their promotion season or their first season up in division 1. I only ask because the guy wrote the book the Firm that the film ID was based on, said Boro were terrible at Ayresome. And the police did nothing. Maybe it was because it was Millwall thoughAirman Brown said:Bastard place Ayresome Park. I remember the glass coming over the line of houses behind the turnstiles and the police doing the tea.
I have vague recollections of that day. I was, if memory serves me correctly, up there with my uncle and remember it being a bit lively.
Losing 4-2 probably didn't help matters.
I've always had a huge amount of respect for Borough fans. True working class fans.0 -
One of my most silly away games was Boro away, alone by coach. I saw Iron Maiden on the Friday and missed my last train home so sat on a park bench drinking vodka and smoking cigars (I was 16 so this was acceptable). I got back to Dartford at about 6:30 then was pretty much straight up to the coach stop.
That was 2003 I think, and I did the same trip the season before or after wearing double denim. Have I ever told you guys how cool I am? One was 1-1 and the other 0-0, I can't remember which way around.
Both days were more enjoyable than Operation Riverside, the highlight of that day was seeing 2 cows having sex in a field. I don't think I need to go back to Middlesbrough.5 -
That Jim Bannon said the police were terrible in his bookBig_Bad_World said:
Top o' the morning to ya.cabbles said:
I wonder if @Big_Bad_World was up there when Millwall played them in either their promotion season or their first season up in division 1. I only ask because the guy wrote the book the Firm that the film ID was based on, said Boro were terrible at Ayresome. And the police did nothing. Maybe it was because it was Millwall thoughAirman Brown said:Bastard place Ayresome Park. I remember the glass coming over the line of houses behind the turnstiles and the police doing the tea.
I have vague recollections of that day. I was, if memory serves me correctly, up there with my uncle and remember it being a bit lively.
Losing 4-2 probably didn't help matters.
I've always had a huge amount of respect for Borough fans. True working class fans.0 -
@cabbles , Jim Bannon is a massive fantasist. It's been determined that if he was actually involved with anything then he was on the peripheries of it all. Nobody of any note of that time remembers him as being a major player (excuse the terminology. I've just teleported myself back to the mid to late 80's).cabbles said:
That Jim Bannon said the police were terrible in his bookBig_Bad_World said:
Top o' the morning to ya.cabbles said:
I wonder if @Big_Bad_World was up there when Millwall played them in either their promotion season or their first season up in division 1. I only ask because the guy wrote the book the Firm that the film ID was based on, said Boro were terrible at Ayresome. And the police did nothing. Maybe it was because it was Millwall thoughAirman Brown said:Bastard place Ayresome Park. I remember the glass coming over the line of houses behind the turnstiles and the police doing the tea.
I have vague recollections of that day. I was, if memory serves me correctly, up there with my uncle and remember it being a bit lively.
Losing 4-2 probably didn't help matters.
I've always had a huge amount of respect for Borough fans. True working class fans.
Re the Borough plod, I don't actually recall anything about them to be honest.
@MillwallFan may be in a better position to elaborate (knowing him as I do
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Did one have a strap on ?RedPanda said:the highlight of that day was seeing 2 cows having sex in a field
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