Jumpers for Posts - Then a Dizzying Ride to the Top Division

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TONY Mowbray spent the summer of 1986 training with jumpers for goal-posts.

He could never have imagined in his wildest dreams what the next two years would hold in store.

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Jumpers for Posts - Then a Dizzying Ride to the Top Division

Consecutive promotions, many remarkable and intense games of football, and a team spirit at the Boro the likes of which has not been witnessed since.

In addition, Mowbray achieved ever-lasting notoriety when manager Bruce Rioch told the Evening Gazette: "If you were on a rocket ship heading for the moon the man you would want sitting alongside you would be Tony Mowbray."

That statement has stuck with Mowbray and the fans, and is going to be an oft-h...

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