It is reported that Middlesbrough Football Club will demonstrate on Sunday their solidarity with the 1,700 Teessiders who face unemployment because of the Corus steel plant closure.

As per report, Mr Steve Gibson chairman and owner of the Club has invited 100 workers and their families to the Riverside Stadium and issued a withering rebuke for the government's pathetic response to the crisis.

Mr Gordon Strachan's players will again wear T shirts declaring 'Save Our Steel' as they warm up for their lunchtime kick off against Cardiff City, before which the Corus workers will parade around the pitch. Mr Gibson, Mr Ray Mallon mayor of Middlesbrough and Mr Geoff Waterfield, the multi union chairman, will attend.

UK Government announced a GBP 60 million rescue package for the region this week but Mr Gibson, who was a Labour councilor, believes its handling of the affair has been inadequate. He believes that Middlesbrough, the Coca Cola Championship club, have a duty to act as a flagship for the area they represent.

Mr Gibson said that "The Government hasn’t had a manufacturing policy since Tony Blair was elected. We have supported the Labour Party through electing its councilors and MPs and we do so because we have a kind of blind loyalty to the Labour Party to it representing the hard working class. But it doesn't, does it?"
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