BORO won just once in their first 20 years of visiting the Baseball Ground, but their second victory in 1920 created another of those weird records that they've long specialised in.

The goals were scored by Tom Urwin and Willie Carr. It was Carr's first for the club, after 11 years there, and he'd only score two more.

You can guess what he looked like as he played centre-half and was nicknamed Puddin'. But in this game he was joined by Jacky, below, and George Carr, the first three brothers to play in the same game.

It's only happened once since - with the Wallaces at Southampton in the 1980s. But the Carrs were much more than that. Their home in South Bank was like a footballer factory - two more played for Middlesbrough, both as amateurs. Henry (played three, scored three) and Walter, who didn't make the first team.

Boro hit an all-time low of 18th place after defeat to a Derby side who led the second division in February 1925 - they would never be as low again for more than 30 years.

And the Baseball Ground was where relegation became a serious threat in 1928, the most bizarre season in history. Everton won the title with just 52 points, Boro finished bottom with only 15 less. Their last away game was at Derby, and they lost it 2-1, leaving them fifth bottom, above Sunderland on goal average.

The Mackems then won at Ayresome Park on the last day. Spurs were seventh bottom that morning, and relegated with Boro by tea-time.

The Hungry 30s on Teesside were like the Jobless 80s - the area was struggling and so was the team - until the end of the decade. But twice they won at Derby with Micky Fenton doubles, and each time it took them into fourth place at Christmas.

After the war, with Fenton about to retire, Alex McCrae, below, made his debut at Derby in 1948. He cost a hefty £10,000 from Charlton, and made little impression in the game or the season.

George Hardwick, though, said he was one of the best players he'd ever seen at finding space, and once they worked out how to use him he finished top scorer for the next two seasons.

He's still the only Boro player since Fenton and George Camsell to score 20 goals in a season in the top division.

McCrae had already reached that mark on the worst of the Bad Days at the Baseball ground in 1950, when Boro went there in third place, six points behind the leaders, Spurs. They lost 6-0, still their biggest defeat there, and took just two points from the last eight games to finish sixth.

After going down to the second division in 1954 they hauled themselves out of the relegation places with a 2-1 win at Derby, followed it up with a 6-0 thrashing of West Ham but, being the Boro, then went to Blackburn and lost 9-0.

Blackburn had been their biggest away win (7-1) until at the Baseball Ground in 1959 they equalled it. Incredibly it was 1-1 until first half injury-time, when Alan Peacock scored his second. He added two more after the break and equally incredibly in a game where they scored seven, Brian Clough didn't get any of them.

After Clough left the side was down to just three England internationals - in the second division! At Derby in 1962 they were joined by a fourth. Cyril Knowles, below, came in for the injured Mick McNeill, and stayed there.

The game finished 3-3 but Knowles was so impressive he spent the next full season at right-back even though he was left-footed - a sort of Colin Cooper in reverse. He came from the same pit village as Geoffrey Boycott, and was on the point of leaving Boro as he couldn't get a game.

Eighteen months later he was a Spurs player for £40,000 and while at White Hart Lane won four England caps. He's also the only Boro player to have a hit single written about him - Nice One Cyril actually reached number 14 in the charts.

He coached Boro, managed both Darlington and Hartlepool to promotion, then, in a sport where the word tragedy is used for someone with a sprained ankle, suffered true tragedy, not once but twice. His son was killed in a freak accident by a stone through his car windscreen and he died from a brain tumour in 1991, aged just 47.

All the internationals had gone as Boro crashed 5-0 on the way to relegation in 1966, but their next visit to Derby two years later was unique. John O'Rourke scored a hat-trick as they won 4-2, and it's the only time Brian Clough ever lost a match against his former club as player or manager. It was the only time any of the Clough family did until Gareth Southgate's final match in charge, earlier this season.

In 1979 another player to suffer real tragedy scored his first goal at Derby - Bosco Jankovic, below, who'd arrived from the Bosnian railway team Zeljeznicar a few weeks earlier, the first of the club's foreign imports.

A lawyer by profession, he left in the summer 1981 fire sale after showing flashes of brilliance and survived the shelling of his native Sarajevo a decade later, only to die from cancer.

Steve Pears conceded his first goal for Boro at the Baseball Ground in 1983, and his first in the first division five years later as Bruce Rioch's side started with a 1-0 defeat.

Lennie Lawrence's promotion side started their away campaign with defeat there three years later, but had the last laugh by pipping Derby to second place on the final day. Boro won their next two games there 1-0, but lost on their final league visit in controversial circumstances in November 1996.

Derby led 1-0, when Ashley Ward scored their second by barging Steve Vickers into the net, with the ball, which was the other side of him at the time, Juninho had his legs whipped from under him in front of goal, and even a two-footed tackle on him by Christian Dailly didn't bring a penalty. Fabrizio Ravanelli scored the Boro goal - one of only two he managed away from home all season.

But revenge came as sweet as local boy Byron said it should be, with a 6-1 thrashing at the Riverside, then an FA Cup sixth round win back at the Baseball Ground three days later.

As for Pride Park, Boro have only lost there once, in a similar game in December 1998.

Derby led through Dean Sturridge but were down to 10 men when Paulo Wanchope was sent off following a flurry of fists with Andy Townsend, below, who said he was amazed to stay on.

Mikkel Beck equalised - the only goal he ever scored at Pride Park, despite spending 16 months there - and the only time Derby even got into the Boro half was three minutes from time, when Rob Kozluk ran unchecked to set up Jonathan Hunt's winner and a typical post-Christmas Boro nine games without a win.

And if not holding onto a lead drives you mad in 2010, 10 years ago came possibly the worst and almost certainly the most controversial example in Boro history.

They were leading 3-0 after an hour, then on came Malcolm Christie. The man who'd scored twice on his debut when Derby won 4-1 at the Riverside a few months earlier scored immediately.

With six minutes left Boro put the ball out of play for treatment to an injured player. Derby took the throw, but instead of giving the ball back, Branko Strupar shot and scored. Christie then equalised with a minute to go. It was the only time all season Derby scored three goals.

Bryan Robson actually used the C-word: "They cheated," he said. "No, we were justified, their lad just sat down," said Jim Smith. Referee Rob Styles said he could do nothing. Derby coach Steve McClaren said nothing - a wise move given the coming summer.

Since then Boro have won 1-0 on both visits, the last time with Tuncay's Goal of the Month volley, the one before that an equally spectacular shot from Robbie Mustoe, on an occasion unique in modern football - the teams wore black armbands and the national anthem was played beforehand to mark the death of the Queen Mother.

She'd actually died during the Boro v Spurs game the previous Saturday evening, but the news wasn't announced at the Riverside until after the game - which continued live on Sky and nowhere else in the UK, on radio or TV.

Pride Park is famously a copy of the Riverside, but Pride Park has a far more famous contemporary there. At exactly the time Boro's new home was being built in 1995, on another piece of industrial wasteland in Derby something else was being created. Not a Rolls Royce, not a tilting train, but Lara Croft.

Yes, Tomb Raider was conceived, born and brought up in what is now Pride Park Industrial Estate.

The Hon Lara has many qualities, but according to her official biography, one of the least known would appear to be an aptitude for the shadier side of some modern football management:

"Her notorious lack of documentation and brute force methodology have done more harm than good. She's alleged to have secretly taken valuable things from abroad before telling the international authorities, and is nothing more than a glorified treasure hunter."