A fantastic player and a great servant to the club.
I remember his testimonial. A 2-2 draw with Dynamo Zagreb if my memory serves me correctly.
He scored a penalty.

31/3/1964 - On this day, Frank Spraggon made his 1st team debut away to Huddersfield Town in a 1-0 defeat, replacing Bryan 'Taffy' Orritt in the starting line up

Frank registered No441wearing the No6 shirt played Wing Half, a great servant to the mighty Boro he went on to play 318 games, plus 5 as sub, scoring a total of 3 Boro career goals between 1963-1976

16/12/1970 - Birmingham City H won 4-2

15/4/1972 - Norwich City H won 1-0

9/3/1974 - Cardiff H won 2-1

26/11/1966 - Frank was our 1st ever FAC sub when named No12 for our 1st round tie away at Chester,  he replaced John O'Rourke in the second half of our 5-2 win

16/12/1969 - His 1st Boro goal was at home to Birmingham in a 4-2 win

15/4/1972 - His 2nd Boro goal was at home to Norwich in a 1-0 win

9/3/1974 - His 3rd & final Boro goal was at home to Millwall in a 2-1 win, the winning goal & the last outfield player to score in that glorious, unforgettable season

20/3/1976 - His final Boro game was at home to Derby County in a 2-0 defeat, he was subbed by Brian Taylor

He never completed a full season of games during his time at the Boro, he wore shirt Nos, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12

Son in law of Harold Shepherdson, Frank was a very important member of the 1973-74 legends & had a well deserved testimonial at home to Dynamo Zagreb

Mine & our Kev's favourite season & favourite Boro team of all time

This day back in 1974 the mighty Boro travelled to Kenilworth Road to face our nearest challenges Luton Town, who sit a massive 12 points (2 points for a win back then) behind us
The previous Saturday we guaranteed promotion when David Armstrong scored the only goal of the game at home to Oxford & our 20 year wait to win our place back in the top flight was over, we are back in the top flight & with 6 games remaining we now stand 90 minutes away from securing the 2nd division championship for the third time in our history, though TBF, we were a team in waiting once we beat Bristol City (who were top of the league back then) on the 29th September 1973

Thousands travelled down to see the mighty Boro clinch the championship, a soccer special was put on with all carriages full as it departed Middlesbrough station

On the game itself David Mills scored the only goal of the game, to record his 10th of the season, Boro were champions & going up in style, securing our 8th & penultimate double of the season
Great days indeed & very fortunate & privileged to be old enough to appreciate that team, thanks dad x

Big Jack's Boro team:

Jim Platt - My No1 Boro keeper. Ever present
John Craggs - Ever present
Jimmy Cochrane - 2nd of 3 Boro 1st team games that season
Graeme Souness - IMHO, Boro's best ever player & Stan Andersons final signing
Stuey Boam - My favourite Boro captain & CH
Willie Maddren (RIP) - My favourite Boro defender & the best I have seen back then & since
Bobby Murdoch (RIP) - Big Jacks 1st signing & what a signing, could pass the ball on a sixpence
David Mills - 10th goal of the season, another excellent young talent coming through the youth set up
John Hickton - Mr Middlesbrough, a Boro iconic legend & my favourite Boro player of all time
Alan Foggon - Another excellent signing by Stan Andersons, which turned out to be Stans penultimate signing & very good good player, goalscorer for the Boro
David Armstrong (RIP) - The little gem, another excellent player that came through the youth setup, scored the winner v Oxford one days short of one year of consecutive Boro games, an amazing footballer, 1st full season with consecutive matches that stretch from March 24th 1973 to 6th September 1980
Sub
Malcolm Smith, scored a few vital goals that season, especially the one that knocked out Man Utd at OT in the league Cup earlier in the season, Malcolm Smith shared the subs bench with Peter Brine, they would alternate most weeks with only one sub back then
Peter Brine, Boro's other supersub, made his full league debut in the same home game as Graeme Souness
Peter Brine was a good hardworking player who gave everything for the Boro, sadly had to retire due to a persistent knee injury at the same time as the late, great Willie Maddren 😞
Great memories, great team, great era, what a time to be a Boro fan
UTMB 🥰

Our first win as a league club on this day

Alexander 'Sandy' Robertson, registered Boro player No46, scored the final Boro hat trick at Linthorpe road before the club moved to Ayresome Park some 18 months later

This was the 4th hat trick scored at our Linthorpe road ground, with Alex scoring 2 of them

On this day we beat Chesterfield 7-1 in a 2nd division clash, our 4th joint highest number of goals scored in one game since joining the football league, the previous highest being a 9-2 win over Gainsbororugh (Mar 1900-01) 8-1 over Burton Swift (Nov 1899-1900) & 8-0 over Willington in the FAC 2nd round qualifier (Nov 1900-01)

Alex Robertson never played at Ayresome Park, he played the following season at the Boro our final season at Linthorpe road ground, 1902-03 & left in 1903 to join Man United

Alex's goals were his 1st goals of the season, other goals came from Joe Cassidy (the 1st goalscorer at AP) scoring his 15th & final goal of the season, William Wardrope with his 6th of the campaign & Robert Watson, becoming the last Boro player to score on his debut at Linthorpe road

1901/02 we finished 2nd, four points behind champions West Brom, the only team to win at Linthorpe road that season - Our first promotion, top goalscorers & the least conceded

I have tried everything i can to contact him.

 

Loved that programne, apparently, there were 7 issued, one during the summer, not seen that one mind so not 100 sure

Yeah I noticed he hadn't posted in quite a while, hope he is ok.

On this day Boro beat Shrewsbury Town in our promotion winning third division campaign, with a goal from our Mr Middlesbrough, John Hickton

Stan Andersons.

Willie Whigham
John Hickton
Geoff Butler.
Don masson
Bill Gates
Billy Horner
David Chadwick
Jimmy Irvine - Jimmy Lawson.
John O'Rourke
Arthur Horsefield
Derrick Downing

Attendance - 23,452

26th March 1983 The mighty Boro beat Charlton Athletic 3-0 at Ayresome Park with goals from Stephen Bell & a Mick Baxter brace. It was our first double of the season

The No1 programme was the first of 6 A3 excellent programmes we issued that season to run alongside our final 6 matches, also match supplement gazettes too, I'm missing No 1 only

Malcolm Allison team

Kelham O'Hanlon
Gary Hamilton
Joe Bolton
Mick Baxter
Tony Mowbray
Heine Otto - Dave Currie
Paul Sugrue
Mick Kennedy
Darren Wood
David Shearer
Stephen Bell
Attendance  - 7,075