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How does finishing 12th in the Premiership all of a sudden make Boro the BIGGEST club in t...

How does finishing 12th in the Premiership all of a sudden make Boro the BIGGEST club in the North East?

Every season you smoggies come up with some cock and bull reason why you should be recognised in this way?

Even when NUFC finished 7th the other season and you lot were kicking about near the foot of the Premiership table, you smoggies were claiming then to be a bigger club because you'd been in the UEFA Cup final that season! PMSL

I'm more than sure that all those fumes from the smog in Teesside, give you lot delusions of grandeur & tunnel vision.

Two point with whats usually argued on these boards about what makes you a BIG club, what you've won in footballing history and your fanbase.

NUFC have been TOP division Champions 4 times in their history, even as long ago as it was (before the heckles from you lot start) is something that BORO has NEVER ACHIEVED!

You Smoggys go on about all the Cup finals you've been in, well! sorry! Boro have only WON ONE cup EVER, and thats the Carling Cup, (a cup that NUFC would love to win just for the fans alone) but ask your Man United's, Chelsea's and Liverpool's out there, its not that great an achievement.

But! Boro have won that, and I take nothing away from them for doing so, NUFC would love to win that Cup because Newcastle as a City, would party hard for a fortnight if they did win it! but in the amount of time Boro have existed in footballing history, it was the least to be expected that they win at least ONE thing EVER!

NUFC have won the FA Cup 6 times and been in 13 FA Cup finals in their history, Boro have NEVER (so far) won the FA Cup EVER in their HISTORY!

Have Boro ever played Champions league football? NO! they have never finished in the top 4 of the Premiership to qualify for it, funny that! NUFC have quite a few times!

Whats Boro's highest ever finishing place in the Premiership so far? can the Boro say 2nd place like NUFC can? NO! they cant! can they?

As for going on about reaching the UEFA Cup final and getting a good spanking in it, yeah! yeah! yeah! thats all good and well, the Fairs Cup is exactly the same competition but NUFC WON that in 1969, they didnt come home beaten & sour men!

As for support? NUFC get 52,000+ at their home games, Boro are lucky if they can get their small stadium 3/4 full for a home match...

...so whos really the biggest f*cking North East Blub then?

Even Sunderland have a better footballing history and support than Middlesbrough.

I think NUFC fans can just see the jealousy creeping through in Doug the Smoggy's little message thread, it reeks of fear knowing that NUFC and SAFC will ALWAYS BE CLASSED AS BIGGER NORTH EASTERN CLUBS because of their entire history...

...not because of a few 'nearlys' and ONE EVER SUCCESS in the last decade.

Dougy,dougy,dougy,inspite of everything you said ,and yes there was some truth in,there yo...

Dougy,dougy,dougy,inspite of everything you said ,and yes there was some truth in,there you really do need to get those blinkers off. yes we`ve had many bad signings ie.players who weren`t prepared to try eg. babayaro,carr,luque etc and those who were continually "injured" owen,duff,dyer,actually carr,babayaro and luque qualify for this reason also and then those who simply weren`t good enough bramble,boumsong, oneyewu (on loan)luque carr and babayaro again.then the managers,firstly souness,who was a strange one.even now when i see him on t.v.as a pundit i still think he speaks a lot of sense,he seems to appreciate good football and appears to know a good player when he sees one.yet in his time at our place our football was dull,negative and grim to watch.then we had the unfortunate glen roeder and to be fair to him he was an honourable and decent man but not a motivator of men. i firmly believe that we`ve finally got the right man to take us forward and with a new owner in place things can only get better.i don`t blame you for rubbing it in about finishing higher than us this season,but be honest neither of us would be happy to finish that low next season.i agree with a lot of what you said about viduka,i`d hoped we`d go for eidur gudjonson who`s apparently unsettled at barcelona ? i`m very happy with joey barton,he`s a "winner" and if his energy can be channelled correctly he`ll be a hell of a player.if he occasionally chins a lazy #$%$ on the training field thats great by me,afterall it`s the lazy #$%$s we both need out of our clubs,not the joey bartons.we need a couple of full backs and a centre half ( tal ben haim ? ) and it`s then onwards and upwards.obviously it would be fab and groovy to win things or even to be in contention,but realistically i`d settle for a season of decent entertaining football,played by players who are genuinely trying coz by god we had some dross to put up with last year.......keep the faith dougy and you cjmalboro...........p.s. do you think these rose tinted glasses suit me or do they make me seem just a tad less manly ?

Doug - Someone once said: "It's a common delusion that you make things better by talking a...

Doug - Someone once said: "It's a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."

I'm not apologising for anything.So ur a Newcastle fan!I take it you must live in Newcastl...

I'm not apologising for anything.So ur a Newcastle fan!I take it you must live in Newcastle then...if not,how and why did you choose Newcastle?Apart from the Claret and Blue being to my liking,Villa also played excellent football which they have maintained for the vast majority of the years i have watched them.Sometimes it brought the league,domestic and Euro Cups,other times it was at the wrong end of the table,but all in all i'm very happy with my club.I intended to cause u no stress over your team as supporting Newcstle gives you enough stress as it is.I sincerely hope the new money that will surely be pumped into the club,actualy achieves something for a change.As for Boro....Mixed feelings as they have one of my all time fav players in charge.G Southgate was much under rated due to not playing for a top 4 club,so i wish him well in managment.The thrush comment was very funny...i do sing like a bird!!!!

I did know he wasn't refering to the song bird......

I did know he wasn't refering to the song bird......