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Jordan Hugill
Born in Middlesbrough.
Attended ex-Boro player George Smith’s academy as a schoolboy.
Played for Whitby Town & Marske United.
Worked as a barman at the Dickens Inn, Middlesbrough.
Now a £10 million signing by a Premier League Club.
That’s some story!
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Would you sell Adama Traore to Newcastle for £10 million?
RT for Yes, I'd drive him there myself
Like for No, he'll rip the Championship
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33-year-old Kike Garcia scored twice against Sevilla on his home debut for Alaves tonight, helping them to a 4-2 La Liga win.
He scored 14 goals in 64 Boro games 2014-16.
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Boro’s Greatest Players of the Decade
*as voted for by our followers
1st Grant Leadbitter
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Gastongate: Are you willing to forgive and forget?
RT for NO!
Like for YES!
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20 years since we lost Willie Maddren aged just 49 to motor neurone disease. Absolute tragedy.
293 Boro games by the time he was 26 before being forced into early retirement due to a knee injury.
#Boro
legend
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15 years ago today - Boro in the UEFA Cup final.
Well beaten that night but what a journey. And just how far have we fallen......
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Thoughts?
Greatest
#Boro
Team since relegation in 2009 - chosen by our followers
Darren Randolph
Emilio Nsue
George Friend
Ben Gibson
Daniel Ayala
Grant Leadbitter
Jonny Howson
Gaston Ramirez
Stewart Downing
Chuba Akpom
Alvaro Negredo
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Delighted for this man: leads Blackburn to promotion at first attempt. Well done, Mogga!
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Boro Team of the Decade
As voted for by our followers
Darren Randolph
Emilio Nsue
George Friend
Daniel Ayala
Ben Gibson
Grant Leadbitter
Adam Clayton
Adama Traore
Gaston Ramirez
Patrick Bamford
Alvaro Negredo
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Following his departure from the Mackems, would you like to see Tony Mowbray back at the
#Boro
in some role?
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Despite rumours of his “disastrous start” at Ajax, Chuba Akpom has scored a goal every 50 minutes in the Dutch top division - 5 in 9 games.
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Congrats to Grant Leadbitter
Voted by our followers as the Greatest
#Boro
Player of the past 14 years since relegation ended our golden era in 2009
Grant beat George Friend in the final 👏
What were Leadbitter’s best qualities?
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Boro’s Worst Team 2009-13
As voted by our followers
Joe Lumley
Antonio Barragan
Sam McQueen
Sean St Ledger
Stephen McManus
Adlene Guedioura
James Lea Siliki
Sammy Ameobi
Carlos de Pena
Rudy Gestede
Kike Sola
Thoughts?
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20 years ago today: Marco Branca scores 4 minutes into his debut to put Boro 2-0 up v Liverpool to send us to the Cocoa-Cola Cup Final - our third major final in just 12 months
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Boro’s 2000-01 season - before & after Terry Venables’ appointment
Before:
W2 D5 L10
F19 A28
17 games, 11 points
After:
W7 D10 L4
F26 A16
21 games, 31 points
#Transformational
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Colin Cooper
Nearly 400 Boro games, 1986-2006
First game aged 18, last game aged 39.
Player, your team coach, first team coach, caretaker manager
Boro legend
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“Congratulations” to Gordon Strachan - voted by our followers as the worst
#Boro
manager of the last 15 years since relegation in 2009 ended our “golden era”
What’s your assessment of Strachan’s time with Boro? What did he get so wrong?
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Today Boro broke 2 club records
*8 league clean sheets in a row
*9 home league clean sheets in a row
@Dimster23
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
1st Juninho (1995-97, 99-2000, 2002-04)
125 league apps, 29 goals.
The winner of the poll - my miles!
Carling Cup winner. World Cup winner.
At his best, a world class, fast-paced, jinking maestro.
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This man has scored 19 goals in 29 games for Girona in La Liga this season.
Behind only Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez and Aspas.
What a bad mistake that was letting him go without even trying him up front.
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Stephen Pears
424 Boro appearance, 1983-95
Boro legend
Greatest ever Boro keeper?
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Possibly an unpopular opinion but I don’t think Greenwood is good enough
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Robbie Mustoe
367 Boro appearances, 1990-2003
Excelled under 5 Boro managers - Todd, Lawrence, Robson, Venables and McClaren
Boro legend
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Happy 53rd birthday to David Currie - 15 goal Boro top scorer 1983/84
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Champions:
Classic
#Boro
pic of Jack Charlton’s legends of ‘74 celebrating the Division 2 title - left to right Willie Maddren, John Craggs, Stuart Boam, John Hickton, Bobby Murdoch
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The cult hero and the legend
Uwe Fuchs and Wilf Mannion
Last league match at Ayresome Park 1994
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Happy 50th birthday to possibly the greatest ever £2.5 million signing Alen Boksic! At his peak (and when he could be arsed) possibly only behind Juninho during the Riverside years.
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RT if you agree new BDO World Darts champion
@Duzza180
should be invited to parade his trophy on the Riverside pitch next Saturday
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Boro Legend
Willie Maddren would have been 70 today.
Tragically, Motor Neurone Disease took him in 2000 aged only 49.
His career too was cut short aged only 26 - but he had already played nearly 300 games for Boro.
As manager, he signed Slaven, Pallister & Pears.
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George Boateng
@george1boateng
223 Boro games, 9 goals
2002-08
Carling Cup winner, UEFA Cup finalist, midfield enforcer, smiling assassin.
“You Are Boateng!”
Boro legend
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Uwe Fuchs
Scored 9 goals in 13 starts to help seal promotion in Robbo’s first season as manager and our last at Ayresome Park.
Legend? Cult hero?
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The original Gorgeous George
#Boro
legend George Hardwick
Captain of Middlesbrough, England and Great Britain.
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Strange but true.....
Fabrizio Ravanelli scored 17 goals in 35 league appearances for Boro, 1996-97
Alen Boksic scored 17 goals in his first 35 league appearances for Boro, 2000-01
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Marco Branca
Scored 10 goals in 13 games after signing in 1998 to help Boro win promotion and reach the League Cup final.
Legend? Cult hero?
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Harry Kane
18 goals in 26
#England
games.
George Camsell
18 goals in 9 (NINE) England games.
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
3rd Mark Schwarzer (1997-2008)
367 league apps, 445 total.
Best keeper in Boro history?
Bargain £1.25 million signing - played more games than anyone in the Riverside era including 3 cup finals.
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Here’s a challenge to the Gazette sports journalists
@untypicalboro
@TallentireMedia
- how about an analysis of Boro’s recruitment in the last few years and maybe an interview with Bausor putting some tough questions to him? It would give their credibility a much needed boost
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Boro’s all-time top scorer George Camsell.
Scored 18 in 9 England games.
345 Boro goals.
Once scored 29 goals in a run of 12 Boro games.
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One that got away: Cristian Stuani scored one of the goals as Girona won 2-1 away to Real Madrid. Since leaving Boro, Stuani has scored 33 goals in 51 games in the Spanish top division.
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Congrats to unsung Teessider James Coppinger, shortlisted for League 2 Player of the Year at age of 36. Now more than 500 Doncaster games.
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Karanka’s top
#Boro
signings ranked by you.
Top 10
1 Adama Traore, swap
2 Adam Clayton, £1.5m
3 Gaston Ramirez, free
4 Patrick Bamford, £5.5m
5 Cristian Stuani, £2.7m
6 Alvaro Negredo, loan
7 Stewart Downing, £7m
8 Kike, £2.7m
9 Lee Tomlin, undisc
10 Emilio Nsue, free
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After Juninho who is Boro's greatest player? (QF 2)
RT for Graeme Souness
Like for Bernie Slaven
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
2nd Gareth Southgate (2001-06)
160 league apps.
The only Boro captain to lift a major trophy - 2004 Carling Cup. Also led us to UEFA Cup final (his last ever game).
Supreme reader of the game and a gent.
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57 today - Bernie Slaven.
Boro’s top scorer of the last 40 years - 146 goals.
More than the combined totals of Ravanelli, Yakubu, Hasselbaink & Viduka
Legend?
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Players who would probably be starting today if they were available:
Dieng
Smith/Dijksteel
McNair
Lenihan
Hackney
O’Brien
Crooks
McGree
Lath
Forss
Incredible situation. We need Dijksteel, Hackney, Crooks and Lath back asap.
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RIP Nobby Stiles
England & Man U legend, World Cup winner & former Boro captain
Pictured here sporting Boro’s new-look white chest band in 1973 with fellow World Cup man Harold Shepherdson and - from the left - Souness, Boam, Brine, Hickton & Craggs
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Alen Boksic
68 Boro league game’s, 22 goals (2000-03)
20 in his first 50.
2 on his Boro debut at Coventry. Last goal in 3-1 win victory Man Utd.
Magical, majestic, arrogant & infuriating.
Boro legend? The jury’s out...
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305 consecutive Boro games - just imagine that!
A bloody great player in some great Boro teams too.
David Armstrong RIP - you absolute legend
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Gotta love this photo of Boro legend Graeme Souness dressed like... a pimp?
But what a player - on and off the pitch, I’m told!
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Flashback:
Boro’s Jonathan Woodgate explains to Man United’s Cristiano Ronaldo that he’s in grave danger if he continues to debate with Emanuel “Mad Dog” Pogatetz.
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
5th Stewart Downing
334 league appearances (2001-09, 2015-19)
The only Boro Academy product in top 25 & one of only 2 Teessiders.
At his best, arguably the best left footed player in the Premier League.
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@sdouglas80
Let me just get this right. So you agreed to delete the footage because you wanted to get to see the match? What happened to journalistic integrity? Surely getting the truth out is the most important thing as a journalist?
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Blunderland will rue this decision.
He’s worked miracles there.
Forever a
#Boro
legend
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Hi
22 goals in 58 Boro league games.
33 goals in 2 seasons with Boro.
Premier League hat-trick in 4-0 win at Blackburn.
#Boro
Legend.
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Brighton's 89 pts is the highest points total to not win automatic promotion since Sunderland's 90 in 1998 - who also lost out to Boro!
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
17th Grant Leadbitter (2012-19)
212 league apps, 28 goals.
Fewest Premier League games (13) in the top 25.
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
12th Ugo Ehiogu
Commanding defender. Half of the central defensive partnership with Southgate.
One of 7 Carling Cup winners in the top 12.
RIP
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Ali Brownlee RIP
Today’s the 5th anniversary of his passing.
Surely the Riverside press lounge should have been renamed in memory of the Voice of the Boro?
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Gareth Southgate’s Boro signings ranked 21st to 1st.
Poll results: 1st Tuncay Sanli
Turkey international signed on a free transfer from Fenerbahce. 70 games, 17 goals - several spectacular. Played with a smile on his face.
Left for Stoke for £5 million following relegation.
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Thoughts?
Greatest
#Boro
Team since relegation in 2009 - chosen by our followers
The reserves!
Dimi
Fabio
Giles
Fry
Woodgate (2012)
Clayton
Hackney
Stuani
Traore
Archer
Bamford
Manager: Carrick
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Nearly 20 years ago...
Summer 2001: Kick-off to the most successful era in Boro’s history - Steve Gibson unveils Steve McClaren as new Boro manager.
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Flashback
Tony Mowbray in action for Celtic against Boro’s Paul Wilkinson in his testimonial match 1992
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Gianluca Festa
136 Boro appearances, 1997-92
Passionate and swashbuckling Italian central defender
Played in all 3 cup final defeats 1997 & 1998
Also had perfectly good equaliser ruled out in 1997 FA Cup final v Chelsea
#Boro
hero? Legend?
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Happy birthday to Boro Chairman Steve Gibson, 59 today
Altogether now "There's only one Stevie Gibson...!"
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Ultimately we’re just not good enough.
We’re a mid-table Championship side with very little cutting edge.
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Greatest
#Boro
team since relegation in 2009
As chosen by our followers
Attackers:
Chuba Akpom (2020-23)
79 league games, 33 goals
Alvaro Negredo (2017-17)
36 league games, 9 goals
Thoughts?
@cakpom
@AlvaroNegredo9
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Classic Boro pic: 3 Legends who all pulled on the Boro shirt.
Mannion, Best, Hardwick.
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Shocking performance
#Boro
against a bang average side.
Some really really poor performances.
3 straight defeats. The momentum we had a month back is a distant memory.
Really poor decision making by the manager too
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Boro's Best Images
@teestransporter
after
@higs8
scored the 1st ever goal at the Riverside
@alibrownlee
@lovembro
http://t.co/GaZRRHYFOs
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
10th Emerson (1996-98)
41 league apps, 4 goals.
Strong as an ox, wonderful skills, rocket shot - easily distracted. What might have been?
Played in cup finals of ‘97.
The highest ranked non-international.
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Greatest
#Boro
team since relegation in 2009
As chosen by our followers
Goalkeeper: Darren Randolph (2017-20)
106 league games
Thoughts
@RandzOfficial
?
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
19th George Friend (2012- ).
257 league apps so far.
Signed by Tony Mowbray for £100,000.
One of only 2 full-backs in the top 25.
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Tossing a coin before kick-off of one of the great World Cup shocks
Italy 0 North Korea 1
Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough
1966
#Boro
#WorldCup
#Middlesbrough
#Teesside
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Jack Charlton
Boro manager 1973-77
Led us to record-breaking promotion 73-74 With stars including Murdoch, Souness, Mills, Maddren, Platt, Craggs and Boam
Boro legend
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Have to say that Carrick’s decision-making is again open to question today. We were cruising until he made the 3 substitutions. After that Sunderland dominated and the 3 subs were invisible.
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Iconic Boro pic of the day: Jamie Pollock tells it how it is to Roy Keane. (Suggested caption anyone?)
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John Hickton
Scored 192 Boro goals in 499 appearances, 1966-77.
Most post-war Boro goals
#BoroLegend
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Riverside 25: the 25 top
#Boro
players from 25 years at the Riverside.
6th Mark Viduka (2004-07)
72 league apps, 26 goals.
Big man with the touch of an angel. Goals from the gods.
Highest ranked striker in top 25.
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Happy 65th birthday to
@bryanrobson
A Man United and England legend, yes, but also a
#Boro
legend for giving us the bitter-sweet memories of memories of Juninho, Rav, Emerson, Boksic, Ziege, Merson, Phil Whelan, 3 cup finals, 2 promotions and a relegation.
Glorious mayhem!
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