LIFELONG Middlesbrough football fan Andy Watson is really stuck on his team.

But his latest demonstration of devotion to his premier league idols floored his wife, Julie - as well as leaving a deep impression on their expensive living room carpet.

Disaster struck as the security man glued the name Middlesbrough using letters cut out of fabric across a 5ft St George's flag spread across his front room floor.

However, the 38-year-old had not reckoned on the strong adhesive seeping through onto the carpet beneath.

And when he finally managed to tug the flag free from the floor, he found the name Middlesbrough emblazoned not only across the banner, but over the wine red carpet as well.

It was then his horrified wife, 36, carpeted him.

"It took a lot of hours to clean it, picking up the bits and scraping it off the carpet," said Mr Watson. "She just was not pleased.

"I spent hours cutting out all the letters from fabric and gluing them to the flag. I did not want to move the flag, so left it for about 20 minutes, but it stuck to the carpet.''

He said: "It looked good, the name Middlesbrough running along the carpet, I could have lived with it.''

Mr Watson was preparing the flag to send out to 19-year-old RAF technician Craig Thomas, from Norton, near Stockton, who is serving in Afghanistan.

His mother, Vicky, made a plea on presenter Jeff Winter's TFM radio phone-in on behalf of her son.

Craig shares a room with a Newcastle fan and said he needed the flag to redress the balance after a giant Geordie emblem appeared on the wall.

Mr Watson heard the plea on Graham Mack's request on the TFM Breakfast Show.

The presenter said: "It's brilliant. You could say the flag has not been stuck away somewhere, but going to a deserving cause.''

As for the Watsons, they now have a new living room carpet.