QUEUES formed at Boro’s club shop yesterday morning as fans waited to get their hands on the team’s latest kit.

At 6.30am, season ticket holders were already waiting outside the Riverside Stadium’s shop in anticipation of the kit’s release.

Teesside celebrities including Steph McGovern and Bob Mortimer were one step ahead of the crowd, showing off their kits on social media before others could snatch them up.

The 2018/19 design, produced by Hummel, is inspired by the kit worn by the team in 1986, and also features the lyrics to Infant Hercules, a song by Teesside musician Joe Hammill, who performs with Cattle and Cane.

The song pays homage to the town’s history by echoing the sentiments of Victorian minister William Gladstone, who said in 1862: “This remarkable place, the youngest child of England’s enterprise, is an infant, but if an infant, an infant Hercules.”

The kit, sold to season ticket holders on Friday, goes on general sale this morning.