Nothing new there, I'm afraid. I had a rumble there back in 1990 after the 4-1 defeat on the last day of the season when 50-plus Boro fans charged into the station with bricks and bottles.
Boro can be a dodgy bunch, as I remember back in the 1970s on many train journey's up and down the country following the Toon.
We clashed often. There was never many of them, but they could handle themselves, and I remember one incident in the Midlands when they knocked "seven bells" out of a gang of Man Utd fans ... when outnumbered very close to two-to-one.
The derby game on Saturday saw 25 supporters arrested although police reports don't say how many from either club.
Newcastle fans took full advantage of the 3,743 seats allocated to them and Boro supporters on Gazettelive and the Fly Me To The Moon fanzine’s website blamed much of the trouble on Newcastle supporters taking up seats in Middlesbrough areas of the ground.
Writing on the Fly Me To The Moon website, parmoboy said: “I was sat in the North-west and it came very close to kicking off when a Geordie started celebrating Newcastle’s first goal. Loads of lads around me were getting wound up asking him to be removed.
“It got to the point where the Boro fans were getting more and more wound up.”
Parmoboy added that a club steward had no choice but to ask a police officer to escort the offending “Geordie” from the ground.
Rumbly added: “Few punches thrown, loads of young ‘uns jumping about, that’s about it.”
Blindschool said: “The Geordie in the North Stand was identified and when the steward tried to get him out he smacked the steward in the face until reinforcements came.”
Evening Gazette chief sports writer Eric Paylor said: “Some Newcastle fans came down to the Riverside Stadium during the week and bought tickets to sit in the Middlesbrough areas, because all the Newcastle tickets had been sold.
"Newcastle fans who wanted to go to the match knew you could come down to Boro because they weren’t going to sell out their areas.”