This day 1978 - Micky Burns made a goalscoring debut

[erimus74]

2nd of October John Neal paid Cardiff City £72k for the signature of MB & what a signing he turned out to be

5 days later on the 7th October Micky Burns, wearing the No10 shirt, made his debut at Old Trafford where he replaced Dave Hodgson, who was dropped down to subs bench, Micky Burns became our 524th registered player, the 2nd team change in the line up was Ian Bailey, wearing the No3 shirt, replacing Peter Johnson

8 games in to the new season & John Neal was struggling to turn a round a difficult start to his 2nd season as manager, with one win to show, which was our 2nd game of the season away to Birmingham

Boro lost this game 3-2, with David Mills scoring our 1st goal, MB netting the 2nd & became the 92nd different Boro player to score on their debut

One win out of 9 now, drawing 2 & losing 6, goals scored 11, against 17

Micky Burns turned out to be a top, top striker for the Boro, in over 3 seasons he scored 24 goals in 67 games

John Neals team

Jim Stewart - Record signing keeper
John Craggs
Ian Bailey
John Mahoney - Previous record signing
Stuey Boam
Alan Ramage
David Mills
Tony McAndrew
Billy Ashcroft - Record signing
Micky Burns
David Armstrong

Sub
Dave Hodgson

[Mike Peeler]

A Peeler claim to fame I once played cricket on the same side as Alan Ramage and also played in the same team as his son (Phil) for a few years.

Not a lot of people know that  - they will now!

[erimus74]

A Peeler claim to fame I once played cricket on the same side as Alan Ramage and also played in the same team as his son (Phil) for a few years.

Not a lot of people know that  - they will now!

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