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All it needs is a few random checks at games to make sure the ticket holder is attending and it hasn’t been flogged on
Ahh another 60 000+ attendance i see
Please go all the way this time Spurs we've lost 8 semi-finals in a row.
Not sure I can take another one.
Not sure I can take another one.
I vaguely remember going there a couple of times late nineties. Dog hole of a place. Good for ship spotting. That’s about it. The town centre is depressing as fuck. Makes the worst of any southern town look like Milan. Except maybe Chatham.
I’d stack it up against Merthyr Tydfil and Cumnock both appalling places
As you drive towards it even on a sunny clear day you can see the smog above it from all the chemical factories
Natives aren’t particularly friendly either
My last visit, and I’ll never go there again, was Berba’s last game for us which we lost 2-1 and even Mido scored for them
The LPs system is duff. But I don’t know what is better. Clearly some people club together in groups and share. Means kids get to go to away games. But it’s become a closed club now. I’m lucky. I got high points at just the right time, basically as my mid life crisis was insisting that I had to see every Tottenham away game.
Now I do have to chose a bit. And I normally go to the higher LP games. Liverpool and Everton were 1 and 3 respectively. Same journey. So I went to Everton. I don’t bother with Arse, Spam as it’s 1 LP and a shit day out. LPs are a form of currency for fans. It’s also a consequence of away ticket prices being low.
There is some exaggerated mythology about that Tranmere game though. I went. Journey was ridiculous. Friday night motorways were a joke. Some gave up but the turnout looked decent to me.
Rochdale was another. Not a spare seat anywhere. Very few tourists on show.
We have been damn good to watch over the last 5-6 years, and that’s backed up by the numbers that want to watch us each and every game.
Most STHs with high LPs have earned their stripes. Timing may have been lucky, but anyone could have joined in mid late nineties if they wanted to - and that STH demographic is reaping the benefits now.
Carabao Cup run last season... Oxford, Fulham, Leicester and Burton Albion.They drew the weakest team in last season's champion's league QF as well.
Carabao cup run this year .... Colchester.... wait am I doing this wrong?
Been there twice and the first time was when we lost 5-1 after having a man sent off
Jamie Redknapp scored from a free kick as I recall
Their song which they all clapped to was by Pigbag
‘Papas got a New Pigbag’ which came on the tannoy system after every goal
Stevie Carr did his level best to also get himself sent off
Miserable day
Middlesbrough are also about the only team I can think of that drew a match 6-6 (when Brian Clough played for them).
I remember our fans mimicking the pigbag celebration and they fucking hated it. One of the brighter moments in a grey, chemically polluted afternoon. Christ, I even went up for a night game. What the fuck was I thinking?
If I ever hear that song it reminds me of that game and I shudder
Anyone know what the Trust’s view on this is?
My last trip up there:
Middlesbrough v Tottenham Hotspur, 18 December 1999
11v11 football match report for Middlesbrough v Tottenham Hotspur, Premier League 2000 , 18 December 1999
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We came close against Reading. 6-4
Watching the highlights of Leeds V Middlesbrough... If we don't beat Borough by at least 4goals,we,as a species have failed in life.
