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Progressive development of the role of the substitute at Middlesbrough Football Club |
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Comings and Goings, most appearances in a Boro career, most in a season, Goalkeeper substitutions, consecutive games coming on and going off. |
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Those that scored from the bench, leader board, scoring twice in a game, two scoring subs in a game, most goals in a season. |
Most clubs will have the same total number of players going off the field as those that came on. Not so the Boro!
Near the end of a Boxing day game in 2000 at home to Liverpool Noel Whelan is substituted and goes off the field shaking hands with Joseph Job and then straight down the tunnel. But Job fails to come on, the linesman asks him to remove his jewellery and before he has time to take it all off there goes the referee’s final whistle!
Near the end of a Boxing day game in 2000 at home to Liverpool Noel Whelan is substituted and goes off the field shaking hands with Joseph Job and then straight down the tunnel. But Job fails to come on, the linesman asks him to remove his jewellery and before he has time to take it all off there goes the referee’s final whistle!
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Since the introduction of two substitutes it has happened on a number of occasions where one substitute has replaced another. The first came in December 1989 when the Boro played Leicester at home and ran out 4-1 winners. During the course of the game Stuart Ripley substituted Alan Kernaghan only to go off injured himself and be replaced by Mark Burke. Ripley's 21 minutes on the pitch were not unproductive in that he managed to score Boro's 3rd. goal. At the end of the season this turned out to be his one and only goal of the entire 1989/90 campaign.
In December 1994 Jaime Moreno became the second sub to be replaced. He came on for Andy Todd and was later substituted by Clayton Blackmore. And so it goes on at frequent intervals but to date a triple sequential substitution has not occurred. This would involve starting player X subbed by A who is subbed by B who is subbed by C.
Since the introduction of two substitutes it has happened on a number of occasions where one substitute has replaced another. The first came in December 1989 when the Boro played Leicester at home and ran out 4-
