Football: Tony's Return to the 'Moon' ; Fa Cup, Fifth Round: Middlesbrough V West Bromwich Albion
Birmingham Post › February 22, 2007
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"I think it shaped me as a human being," Tony Mowbray says, as he casts his mind back to 1986 when Middlesbrough were on the brink of bankruptcy and the players were being paid by cash in brown envelopes.
Locked out of their Ayresome Park ground, Mowbray and his team- mates were forced to train at a nearby public park and play their first home match of the 1986-87 season in Hartlepool.See the full content of this document
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Football: Tony's Return to the 'Moon' ; Fa Cup, Fifth Round: Middlesbrough V West Bromwich Albion
A generation on, as Mowbray takes his West Bromwich Albion team to face Middlesbrough in the FA Cup fifth round today, the contrasts could hardly be different.
Football is strewn with money and the match will tak...See the full content of this document
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