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I'm on 5 live tonight I think talking about the Mido chants

.com get it spot on With Mike Ashley's appearance on Sunday providing a visible riposte to reports of him selling the club for a quick profit, those same journalists unfortunately didn't have far to look for their next Toon-related headlining-making target. Clearly audible chants from the travelling Toon fans directed at home fans and Boro striker Mido visibly wound the player up and provoked an outbreak of gesturing as he confronted the away section after scoring. As well as reporting on the game, press box occupants were kept busy deciphering the chants, before suppressing grins and then penning their outraged missives. While some reports correctly labelled the chanting as "distasteful" (The Mail), other more hysterical writers donned their UN peace keeping body armour before reporting on: "vile and ignorant Islamophobic abuse.... stereotyped as a terrorist bomber in a barrage of anti-Arab abuse" (Guardian) Post-match comments of Mido on Sunday: “I just think it’s ridiculous. They were taking the p*ss. Maybe some of them were drunk or something. I heard it, it was very clear and I understood what they were saying. “The chants made me want to score more goals. I was delighted to score and I wanted another. “I am used to it from opposition fans - but I was really frustrated when the referee gave me a yellow card. “I don’t understand why I got booked. I was told it was for security reasons but I don’t see how that’s possible. I don’t see what I did which would affect the security of the fans. "I just put my finger to my mouth to say ‘quiet’. But I suppose that’s football and you have to get on with it.” Taking the p*ss eh? whatever next? RE: the hand signals though - that's the player lying and the press box occupants either unable or unwilling to see what went on before them live or on the video playback. Just report the facts that fit eh? 3,000 people behind the goal though will tell them exactly which Olde English gesture Mido revealed on two occasions - whether it gets "officially" reported or not. But in the words of Catherine Tate - are we bothered? Can anybody explain what difference any of this made? Did we rush to find a constable and report our righteous indignation? did we f**k - we just gave Mido back what he gave us and thought no more about it. It certainly didn't stir up the locals (those that bothered to turn up at all), the post-match mood echoing that of the pre-game buildup in being less and less threatening year on year. And it's a bit rich for football writers to suddenly start becoming outraged at the utterances of the Newcastle fans on Teesside. Variants of the unsavoury child abuse anthems that are trotted out annually were first heard back at Ayresome Park - talk of "paedo's" isn't new, even if rhyming it with Mido was. So: kiddy fiddling jibes = OK terrorist talk = bang out of order Did those same writers and those same papers embark on a sizeist crusade after those same travelling fans sang songs about Sammy Lee being a dwarf two weeks ago? No. Mentions of hung monkeys, sex with flocks and floods could be heard in our pre-season away games, while countless examples litter our back pages - foot and mouth, throwing petrol bombs at Londoners etc. It's called terrace humour - it's cruel, bawdy, coarse, always offensive to someone and often not funny. It's got nothing to do with people in £300 coats making shapes in the street or chucking darts at each other - it's just football, along with people drinking to excess, crap toilets and the bloke next to you smelling like he's not washed his strip since he bought it. Go anywhere else and you'll hear the variations on familiar themes - scummers, Munichs, Yiddos, whatever. Mido was baited as opposition players have been since the game began - Frank Worthington, David Speedie, Dennis Wise anyone? - and he reacted, as he has done previously. We're not suggesting everyone shouting "Mido, he's got a bomb you know" or "he's gonna blow in a minute" was aware that the player was once banned for six months by his country for kicking off with his coach at pitchside. What a few more people are aware of though is that the bloke seems to have a sizeable ego, previously told journalists he'd signed for us when he hadn't and often seems "excitable" when seen live and on TV. In short, perfect wind-up fodder - just like Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was here previously - when christened "Fat Eddie Murphy". And what about the gentleman who scored our second goal? One-time "fat Aussie bastard" when at Boro and Leeds, now a canny lad. Double standards? of course. Infantile? undoubtedly. Humorous? sometimes. In reality it's all regrettable and avoidable and makes us look like a bunch of clowns, but that's just our opinion - where does one draw the line - and who draws it? Who defines what is religious or sectarian abuse and just exactly how do you police it? When people with learning difficulties are being kicked to death twenty minutes up the road from here and children shot in the head at the other end of the M62, forgive us if we find it hard to get really worked up about any of this frankly juvenile cobblers.

Morbid. Arsenal raped us that day. Even Ray f*cking Parlour got a hat-trick. Mate we didn't play Arsenal on the same day we beat NAC Breda at home.

Wish I was old enough to remember that properly. Would have been awesome.

5-0

Doesn't he have an £86m release clause? Would explain the lack of cash thrown about by them this season. Fuck knows Apparently Roman has "fallen in love" with Chelsea.....erm....again

One of tomorrows papers reporting that Ronnie is going to Chleski for £100m and will be on £200,000 a week

Eh??

Because a) The cunt hacked down rob lee when he was in on goal and b) the 5th goal in the 5-3.

Thank fuck he's gone. What a pleb.

James Milner is one of our best players tbh.

How's that? Out. Hitting middle and leg. Gag repetition is a banable offence. Different decision tbh. Excessive appealing will result in bowling restrictions.

How's that? Out. Hitting middle and leg.

Think that the £6.3 mill purchase of a Spanish LB was looking to the future. Bridge would also have to be superman to pass a medical. Not going to happen. He's not on our radar anymore.

I don't see any problem with Taylor at RB, he's making far too many mistakes at CB and Roz and Caçapa has the potential to be a top class pairing IMO. I reckon Geremi will move straight to RB though when Barton is fit again.

That Guardian report in full: Football's simultaneous ability to enthral and appal was encapsulated on an afternoon when Julio Arca's bewitching passing could not quite erase the depression imposed by the moronic behaviour of some Newcastle fans. Listening to them persistently subject Mido, Middlesbrough's new Egyptian striker, to vile and ignorant Islamophobic abuse detracted from a compelling game that was dominated by Gareth Southgate's gloriously creative side. Few managers would even contemplate fielding two South American playmakers in central midfield against a team coached by Sam Allardyce but Southgate dared to be different yesterday. His bold decision to pair Arca and Fabio Rochemback, men known for the quality of their touch rather than enforcement credentials, saw Boro largely out-pass and out-class Newcastle in a game they really should have won. "I'm very proud, we're a side that looks good; we've tried to pass, we've tried to attack, there's a lot of good signs," enthused the home manager, whose game plan contrasted sharply with Allardyce's more direct, generally utilitarian, approach. "Julio and Fabio showed vision and quality." Southgate's tone turned frostier when he was asked about Mido's treatment. Fed up with being stereotyped as a terrorist bomber in a barrage of anti-Arab abuse, the Egyptian celebrated his first-half goal by walking over to the away fans and pressing a finger tight to his lips. Adhering, pedantically, to the strict letter of the law, Mike Dean booked him. "I find it strange that 3,000 people can abuse one person and nothing is done. On the other hand, when the boot is on the other foot, it gets him into trouble. In terms of civil liberties I find that strange," said Southgate. "We had to calm Mido down at the end of the first half." What a shame the Egyptian's tormentors did not simply celebrate Charles N'Zogbia's stunning opening goal for Newcastle. Assuming possession wide on the left and well outside the area, he did not initially appear to present any great threat to Middlesbrough but cut inside George Boateng before traversing along the edge of the 18-yard box and, finally, unleashing a shot with his supposedly weaker right foot which curled into the top corner. Undeterred, Boro stuck to their passing guns and, when Mido chested down one of Rochemback's through-balls he proceeded to shrug off Steven Taylor's lunging tackle before taking the ball beyond the advancing Steve Harper for his second goal in two games. Almost immediately Harper was diving at full stretch, first to tip a Rochemback drive to safety and then to palm an Arca shot round the base of a post, but Allardyce's side menaced on the break and in the second half Mark Viduka - fiercely booed by his formerly adoring Boro public - gave them another lead. It arrived shortly after the ineffective Obafemi Martins was replaced by Michael Owen but the England striker was a spectator as Viduka chested down Geremi's lofted ball into the area before out-muscling Jonathan Woodgate and directing the ball into the bottom corner. It was a rare occasion when Woodgate - impressing in his first game since knee surgery in May - was outwitted by his former team-mate, who provoked anger from Steve Gibson. Furious about Viduka's claims that Boro were slow in offering him a new contract last season, the club's chairman responded: "We spoke to Mark and his agent last Christmas and I was told very early that it was about money and he'd go to the highest bidder." Gibson's mood was improved 10 minutes from time when the game's principal creative influence enjoyed the final word, Arca turning deftly and dispatching an angled half-volley past Harper after Rochemback's initial pass had caused consternation among Newcastle's defence. "We're bitterly disappointed," said Allardyce, who lost Stephen Carr to a hamstring strain and saw his replacement Peter Ramage sustain a potentially serious knee injury. "When you get in front twice you should never surrender a win. We switched off at the wrong times and didn't do the basic job right. The injuries might take us ferociously into the transfer market this week." In contrast Southgate is "not bothered" about new signings, and with Arca, Rochemback, Woodgate and Mido in this kind of form, no one should argue. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Middlesbrough were in such stunning and glorious form that they were delighted with a 2-2 draw with a team under construction that played quite poorly. No way in the world were the smogs "glorious"

http://football.guardian.co.uk/Match_Report/0,,2156856,00.html What a load of balls They were the only players he had. Guardian is a shite paper like.

No way we'd sell given how short we are at the back.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2007390715,00.html If they think those taunts are bad they're gonna flip when the Keano song is sang for 90 mins solid at the sos

Just newsnow it and type in Newcastle. It's the first few hits.

Lots of morning papers mentioning the Mido chants, Ashley in his toon top and Taylor bring "overhyped"

Every player goes down the tunnel now after being subbed, predumably for some sort of warm down fitness thingy. Can't be good to play 70 mins of football then just sit on a bench.

the s***...do the asterisks stand for "hit" or "tar" ? Take your swear filter off and find out.

The man on the right is hilarious Ashley looks excited like a little kid there like, as he looks off towards the toon fans. Bet he wishes he was in with them tbh.

Fucking hell, after his England howler maybe dropping him is fair enough, but this??!!!?? Oh....