WE are top of the league...

I'm waiting sph. You're all talk. Does the talking but can't walk the walk

That's what my missus says as well.

Very poor that Blackburn only have 48% capacity at their home games.
Boro's gates also crap.

Red dave if it were stress free it wouldn't be Derby or Forest no matter where they are in the league

shameful support for Boro in view of their position. Is the area still 'depressed'? It always felt like it when I gigged up there. (Genuine question)

Moj! Only just joined this thread, but a true story about the last time I went to Boro.
About ten years ago my son and I arranged to watch the Wanderers there with a mate who's a season ticket holder at the Riverside. We met at his place, a very tranquil spot near Yarm.
Come the time to head off to the area near the ground for refreshments, he jovially announces "We can't go to the usual pre match pub, there was a murder there last night".
We passed this place, a flat roof pub decorated with police tape and head for an equally salubrious inn only a hundred yards away.
The clientele looked in the main as they hadn't left the premises in a week and the effort involved in crossing the sticky carpet from the door to the bar was incredibly hard on the legs.
The service was interesting.
The bar keep pulled a couple of pints for me and my Boro pal, then I requested an orange juice for my son.
I swear the juke box stopped and the local regulars slowly turned and stared on hearing this absurd order.
The grunts emanating from mine host's podgy face hinted that he didn't understand.
I pointed at a fithy bottle of Robinson' s squash on a shelf behind him. It became obvious he hadn't made such a complex cocktail before, as he poured the orange liquid into a dirty half pint glass 'till it formed a meniscus at the rim.
Not the time to be picky, I thought, so I cheerily thanked him and handed over the cash.
"The food's not so good in here", my mate enlightened me. The pie trodden into the floor covering looked more appetising than the neglected ones in the murky pie-warmer.
"My round"! , says Mr. Boro.
"What's the beer like in the ground"? I ask.
Oh, forgot what you asked, Moj!

Moj, shall we just say that it's a good job there is no such place as "Bottombrough", as that would mean there's an even shìttier town!

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I think depression is unavoidable, worked for a few months in Redcar a good few years ago, the word grim well described it then, and that's where they went for their holidays!

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