25th January 1975 FAC 4th round - Boro 3 Sunderland 1

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25th January 1975 - One of my favourite Boro FAC matches of all time

Certainly at Ayresome Park when the mighty Boro cruised past Sunderland & in to the FAC 5th round
Although its happened before at Ayresome Park it hadn't in my time, or since, when both team wore their away strips, my favourite away strip too & the MOTD cameras present at a full house AP
In the 3rd round we struggled over two games to get past non league Wycombe Wanderers, the reward a home cup tie against our 2nd tier neighbours, Sunderland

The game started at a frantic pace & after just 10 minutes a misplaced pass from, IMHO, the best player in my time to wear our colours Graeme Souness, gifted Sunderland a goal start.
Souness later made amends for his mistake when creating the equaliser for Bobby Murdoch to bring the score level, the holgate erupted, normal service was now resumed

Twice during the 2nd half David Mills was brought down in the Sunderland penalty area, resulting in Boro legend King John Hickton scoring 2 penalties, which was the 11th time in our history that we have scored 2 penalties in one game, putting us 3-1 up & the game to bed

We showed our superiority, progressed through to the next round & TBH, we made the game easier than the Wycombe game

In front of 39,400 two big John penalties & a Bobby Murdoch goal seen the mighty Boro through to round 5

Boro team
Jim Platt
John Craggs
Frank Spraggon
Graeme Souness
Stuey Boam
Willie Maddren
Bobby Murdoch
John Hickton
David Mills
Alan Foggon
David Armstrong

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