What's your favourite recollection as a Boro fan?  A specific game, a particular player?  A trip to Torquay to find the match postponed?  By all means tell us about the worst games you've seen, because being a football fan means going through a host of highs and lows.  Email us your Boro Memories and we'll post them on this page.

"It's not nice, leaving a football ground with tears running down your face.  It's only a game, after all.  And grown men don't cry, do they?
Well, I do.  And I have done.  Several times.  That Peterborough game when we lost our Football League status, for example.  And that FA Trophy replay against Macclesfield in 1971 - we'd done the hard work by drawing at Macclesfield, and were 2-1 ahead with only minutes to go, watched by a boisterous crowd of over 4,000 - then Macclesfield scored twice in the last two minutes to knock us out of the competition.  That was very hard to take.
But the one that really comes to mind was an FA Cup game in 2001, up at Whitby.  Boro were really going through a bad patch, with rumours of players being unpaid and the boardroom in chaos.  Manager Neil Thompson had had enough and had left, so youth coach Ian Kerr was put in charge of the first team.  The previous game was a 6-0 tonking at Hereford, and our only hope of success (and perhaps a bit of money) was to beat Whitby and get into the 1st Round of the Cup.  Whitby and their fans were really "up for it", but some of the Boro players just looked as if they couldn't care less.  One midfielder in particular just seemed to walk around and hardly got a touch.  Darryn Stamp's goal kept us in it for a while, but there was only one team going to win that match.  There were rumours flying around at half time, that this would be Boro's last ever game.  The Whitby fans were loud and enthusiastic; the Boro fans got quieter and more dispirited as the game went on.  I left the ground early, which is really unusual for me.  But I was fed up, totally saddened by what I'd seen, and I just wanted to go home."    D.J.

24th January 2004, Boro versus Chelsea in the FA Cup Fourth Round.  John Terry, Frank Lampard, William Gallas, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and the rest. Roman Abramovich didn't bother to turn up, though. 
 
The game was "live" on Sky TV with a lunchtime kick off.  Andy Gray's commentary mentioned a "noticeable slope from right to left" but we assumed he'd been in the hospitality lounge for a while.  An aeroplane circling the ground with a good luck message from the Evening News, all sorts of "pirate" merchandise on sale, and an all-ticket crowd of a reduced capacity so that we could accommodate all the press and media representatives.  A heaven-sent marketing opportunity for McCain to send young ladies around the ground, asking fans to choose between caviar and chips. 
 
Several thousand programmes printed, rather than just a few hundred.  And lots of "lifelong Boro fans" in the stands who have never been seen before or since!
Chelsea looked the classier side, as you'd expect.  And they scored early on, when John Terry headed the ball over the line from, oh, about three inches out.  But Boro worked hard and denied Chelsea space to use their superior skills - though a Frank Lampard shot from around 40 yards smacked against the post before anyone could even blink!
 
Boro's best chance came when Chris Senior won a header (yes, 4'3" Chris flicked the ball on) and Colin Cryan had a clear chance with a diving header (possibly the first and last diving header of his career) but the ball went straight to the Chelsea keeper.
 Towards the end of the game, an obvious handball was spotted by everyone in the crowd and all the players, but unfortunately not by a Mr Barry Knight or the other two guys wearing black.  So we lost 1-0, a heroic and glorious exit from the FA Cup.
S.D.

A lot of my younger days were spent following Boro on the Edgehill end - "the finest stand in the land" we used to sing!
As a Leeds fan i can always say i went to Wembley and saw Boro win more than the famous Leeds United - what great days in the 70s, dressed in butchers coats, doc martins, all marching up town, Wembley beckoning, the Football League Liner train to Wembley with Klondike Bill the famous wrestler as a bouncer. The landlord of the Green Man pub at Wembley saying Boro fans were the worst he had ever seen after trouble before the Dagenham game
The last minute winners at Wembley, the civic receptions as thousands welcomed Boro home. I sat and a few beers with Jeff and Nicky Barmby one night and it bought moist eyes to us all.
 Who will ever forget 1987 dancing in the pouring rain knee deep in mud for the last game of the season?
The infamous Wolves game, the guy who fell through the roof is a mate of mine now - met him at a Leeds game some years later, he won't say where we first became mates lol.  So many memories sat here on a rainy morning in Leeds my mind drifts back to the good old days
Scarborough Council and the fat cats of Scarborough should hang their heads in shame - yes you, Jaconelli, Goodall and the rest for not supporting Boro in their hour of need - they lined their pockets in the glory years, the trade the town got with the success of Boro.
I hope one day probably not in my time a mega rich Russian docks at Scarborough harbour and  rises to the summit of English football - a pipe dream maybe, but you never know.  As my old dad once said, stranger things have happened at sea
Finally I leave you with the immortal song which struck fear into rival fans:
We're all mad, round the bend,
no one takes the Edgehill end,  da da da ….