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Boro Through The Ages - A Brief History of Middlesborough F.C.

Published by Through The Ages Podcast

• Football

Boro Through the Ages is a ten-part podcast history of Middlesbrough Football Club, tracing one hundred and forty-nine years of football on Teesside — from the winter kick-about in Albert Park in 1876 that accidentally started it all, to the Riverside Stadium in 2025 and the cautious optimism of the Michael Carrick era. Each thirty-minute episode follows the same format: historical context, main narrative, a Player of the Era portrait, and a fan voice from the terraces — placing the club's story not just in footballing terms but in the life of the town that made it. Middlesbrough is inseparable from Teesside, and this podcast treats them as one. It is a story that has everything. The first four-figure transfer in football history. Two world-class players who should have won everything and won nothing. The locked gates of 1986 and the last-minute rescue that kept the club alive. Juninho. Ravanelli. A points deduction that still stings. One afternoon in Cardiff in 2004, after one hundred and twenty-eight years without a major trophy. A European final in Eindhoven. And through all of it — the triumphs, the heartbreaks, the long Championship years — a community that never stopped turning up. Boro Through the Ages is for supporters who lived it, for those discovering it for the first time, and for anyone who believes that the history of a football club is really the history of the people behind it. Up the Boro.