Rip Van Fish
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Be Sunday lunchtime regardless mate, as will Coventry awaySky will probably hype it up as a derby and change the KO time to daft o clock...
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Be Sunday lunchtime regardless mate, as will Coventry awaySky will probably hype it up as a derby and change the KO time to daft o clock...
It’s not a derby. Never has been to Lads fans
Of course it’s in the north eastI thought Middlesbrough wasn't in the north east?
Therefore south of it can't be either?
Can it?
You’re a staff member? Wow.Until the government created the ITV network and divided the country up to include "Tyne-Tees", most people in the northern counties of Northumberland and County Durham had little interest in a small trophyless club. Once on the TV as a 'region' every night it is easy to see why the 'regions' big three had a form of rivalry. These days we don't define our lives anymore by one chanelll of one media and current generations no longer have any interests in rivalries with someone away down the coast in North Yorkshire. Different for Boro of course who need to find a rival!!
And their saviour. #1986Hartlepool is Boro's Derby.
I think it is personally but I keep reading on here it's notOf course it’s in the north east
Just south of Middlesbrough are some of the nicest places in the north east.
behave manOur older supporters probably 65 + see it as a Derby . Few younger than that have any hatred for Sunderland. If anything they feel a bit sorry for you with 2 relegation and 4 years in Div 3.
Leeds are hated and to some extent the mags.
Luckily our players seem to think it's a Derby when we play you and get well stuck in.
Surely sunderland isnt THAT bad................Hard to disagree , but can’t see the relevance when the match will be played in a shit hole of a ground in a shit hole of an area.
Surely sunderland isnt THAT bad................
Then again...
I see.
Burnley v Blackburn
Darlo v Pools
Also ‘misguided’ derbies then…
I see.
Burnley v Blackburn
Darlo v Pools
Also ‘misguided’ derbies then…
12 o'clock KO ?...hope not..earliest train from Edin. (9;00) arr. Central 10;23..then 10;30 Northern service arr. Boro 11;48..Too tight a travel schedule that..so will probably opt for Plan B (if it is a Sunday mid-day start) and travel down to my coiusins abode (Felling) for a Saturday night stop-over.Be Sunday lunchtime regardless mate, as will Coventry away
That’ll be Swansea v Cardiff also binned as a local Derby then.Correct, not derbies, no matter how much Sky push them.
A derby is against your nearest rivals, it’s not hard to understand really.
I hate the “London derbies” the “north west derbies” it’s bullshit. Where will they stop every game in the league could be the “English derby” it’s bullshit.
So how do you justify the palace v Brighton “derby”
I’d be interested genuinely to know what you think defines a “derby” I’ve given mine.
You've got to live in a pretty insular place and have a shit social circle not to know a fan of a team 25 miles away, Sunderland isn't Royston Vasey man, ironically it is named after one of Boro's favourite sons Chubby Brown.I'm going not. There's no real rivalry, the places are too far apart, most will never work with or even meet a Middlesbrough fan.
Not every team needs to have a derby.
Have you ever even been to Ayresome Park?It is not THE Derby. It is a Derby. Nowhere near the levels of playing the Mags but more than playing QPR ETC