This day 1988 Play off winners

[erimus74]

One of the proudest moments following the Boro

Just 24 months previous we were facing the possibilty of not having a football league team at all when the Boro went in to voluntary liquidation & now we stand 90 minutes away from reaching the top league, Divison one, what a transformation, a football miracle

In the face of advercity, Middlesbrough Football Club, with a team of mainly young local lads, who were minutes away from losing everything, have put one foot in the 1st divison by beating 1st division Chelsea 2-0 in the 1st leg playoff final at Ayresome Park.

3 days later & on this day 1988, a team of legends, led by Boro legend Tony Mowbray,faced a hostile atmosphere at Stamford bridge against 1st division Chelsea, with 10,000 Boro fans behind them Chelsea may have scored on the day to take the score to 2-1 on aggregate but that was as close as they got to securing their top flight status, with the Boro running out winners over the two games & relegating the Londeners 

One more time, Bruce Rioch red & white army

UTMB - erimus

Boro team

Stephen Pears
Gary Parkinson
Colin Cooper
Tony Mowbray
Gary Hamilton
Gary Pallister
Bernie Slaven
Stuart Ripley
Trevor Senior
Paul Kerr
Dean Glover

[TommyDickfingers]

Me, my dad & Uncle huddled around a radio in a caravan at Flamingoland to listen to us go up

[tunstall]

Me, my dad and my brother, all nervous as fuck listening to this on the radio in my bedroom....

[John Trebor]

Me stood outside fukng Radio Rentals in fukng Harrogate watching the updates.

[Ebenezer Good]

I was there' still outside the ground for ages after it with a hundred Chelsea fans at the end of the road where our transit van was parked. 😬 Broke down near Dishforth on the way home 😩