But we are bigger than them! With more fanatical supporters! Middleborough must be a bigger place with less unemployment and higher wages. Further to travel than us as well. Wonder if the novelty will wear off if they stop up like chazz said it did with us after a season?
It will. I took my lad to see Arsenal against Boro the season Terry Enery left, god knows when that was. But it was half empty around us.
For 6 out the last 7 years, their average crowd has been in the teens, just like us. They seem to find another 5 or 6 thousand when they go up, who go missing when they drop a league. I suppose the opportunity of getting out of the bleak polluted ****hole of Middlesborough, even if it's only to the biggest ****hole in the land, is too tempting.
Cheers. I was looking at the one in Barking as it's just off the North Circular and short drive back onto the M11. Once the date is confirmed for the game, will have a look around and compare prices.
The season Henty left, 2007, they averaged 27,700. Their lowest average at the Riverside in the Prem has been 26,700. Maybe it was just you they didn't want to sit near? Interesting site for looking at these things.
So, Middlesbrough's crowds go up when they get promoted and go down when they get relegated? That is hardly unique, is it? Their crowds have been similar to ours in the Championship.With a population of 174,000 compared to Hull's over 250,000 proportionately they do better than us. And, despite having to travel further, their away support is normally better. Yes, Middlesbrough is one of the crappest dumps going, although, like Hull, it has some decent outlying areas. They are keen on their football and didn't have two rugby teams or decades before they had a football club.
I attended the Borough- HAL game at Ayresome Road in 1986 in the second tier in front of just 6,227 paying spectators. And that was after a decent spell in Div 1, one of the many they've had.
Brilliant honest interview with Mark Noble on Sky just now.. 'if we'd have played till midnight I don't think we'd have scored'..
Yes, that was the season we finished 6th and they were relegated. There were more Boro fans in our home crowd of 7,710 than there were City fans in their 6,227. Our last home game that season was 5,459.
