Just three more words

Why aye man!

This Geordie doesn't like smog. For today I don't like Geordies! Thank God for smog or it could have been all over.

Just three words

I love Smog!

Home turf?

My ickle bruvver has observed that:

"Turncoat Brown is again trying to ingratiate himself with our southern neighbours by supporting the English FA's possible bid for the 2018 World Cup."

Stewart Maxwell MSP, the Scottish National Party's culture spokesman, said:

"Good luck to England, but I suspect that Gordon Brown's support for the bid is more about politics than sport, and his desire to ingratiate himself with the English electorate in his desperation to get into No 10."

Opinions in England were apparently all for going for the bid whilst most in Scotland appeared not to care.

However, the Chancellor appears intent on demonstrating how much he identifies with English voters as he explained:

"I have been around the world, I have been in Asia, America and Europe, and I think there is great support for England having it 50 years after we won the World Cup in 1966," Mr Brown said yesterday.

I assume Mr Brown has now become English. Good luck to them.

P.S. Note to the F.A. Watch out for the VAT.

P.P.S. By the way Scotland are of course the real World Champions as evidenced here. And will of course be the current holders of the Cup on the 24th March of this year when they beat Georgia almost 40 years to the day since they last held the Cup after beating the English at Wembley.

Boro Boro - the Revenge

Jose cannot make his mind up what's funnier; Abel Xavier's hair or his own goal. Or he might have heard this ditty.

The Smogmonster hoodoo is now put to rest.

Time to eat humble pie

Well for the second seaon in a row the 'Smogmonsters' done for us. The grinning eejit wasn't long in communicating his glee! Good to see Sheva get a goal though.

Now to Blackburn and back on course I hope.

As usual there was the flurry of emails in response to the grinning eejit's missive.

It started this way ......

DON´T YOU JUST LOVE COMING UP NORTH......

PLEASE CAN WE PLAY YOU EVERY WEEK......

STILL LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE....

YOUVÉ ONLY GOT TO PLAY US ONCE MORE.....

AYE ITS AN EASY 6 POINTS EVERY YEAR......

COME ON SOUTHGATES RED AND WHITE ARMY......


BYE BOYS......

To which Steve rightly pointed out....

Typical farkin Boro, only ever hear from you when you win. That would also explain why I never hear from you !

PS Did you go ?. Thought not, I got back in the house @ 4.30am and back to work @ 08.30 (Dedication son)

Enjoy your little moment now, and I'll enjoy our big moment in May !

and Mark said...

And who was it that lost to Reading last week ? ....Reading ?

and I said....

OK OK - we have to give everyone else hope and well done, but after losing to Reading, is your team any better off than us?

Jose was honest enough to say that the Smogmonsters played with more passion than the Blues and let them off the hook, but I suspect your return to the Bridge will be a different kettle of fish, by which time you will be wriggling your way out of the depths of relegation like a bottom dweller and we will be back on top.

p.s. Southgate better get that hair cut or he'll get an Essien!

Speaking of haircuts........

Abel Xavier (Back from drugs ban) samples the Riverside reek!

Boro 'squashed' in final 4-0

Pithy!

Boro to conquer Europe?

The grinning eejit must be beside himself tonight.
2 wins in a row and against the finest Europe can throw at them.
Will Boro's bubble burst?

p.s. As of 17/02/2006, the grinning eejit has started a blog too - To which I say, "You only blog when you're winning, blog when your winning." etc. etc. - which cannot be seen here probably because it's masked by the industrial smog !!!! And it's not just me who says so......

The Best and Worst Places - Middlesbrough

Situated on the south bank of the Tees, Middlesbrough is at the edge of the North York Moors National Park, and a short drive from both the Yorkshire Dales and the North Sea.

So, the surrounding countryside has much to recommend it. The town itself, however, is one of stark contrasts. A local Premiership football team means that there is money in the area, with bars, restaurants and clubs to cater for it. However, there are also 800 empty terraced houses in the town centre, and certain areas are notorious – such as Whinney Banks, which sometimes seems to have more houses boarded-up than occupied.

Like much of the North East, long-term unemployment is high. It’s rare to be earning anything approaching the national average wage, and any employment tends to be factory work. In fact, not for nothing are Middlesbrough’s inhabitants known disparagingly as “Smog Monsters” – a history of heavy industry, along with a chemical works that pumps out a terrible smell, means that this is not the town for those with sensitive noses.

Given the poverty in the area, few people own a car. In fact, more people catch the bus here than in any other part of the country.

It’s not all bad news, though. The Tees estuary has extensive sandy beaches and a colony of breeding seals, and is a migration route for thousands of salmon and sea trout every year.

So you can escape to wide open spaces relatively easily – just ask Captain Cook, the eighteenth-century explorer and circumnavigator of the globe, who was born in Marton, now on the outskirts of the town.

Good:

* Sports fans are well catered for, with a Premier League football team, rugby and cricket grounds and an athletics stadium.
* Nine council-run leisure centres mean it’s easy to get fit and healthy.
* It’s home to the region’s biggest multi-cultural event - The Middlesbrough Mela – and a new £19.2 million modern art gallery is being built.

Bad:

* The town’s main employer is a chemical factory. The place stinks.
* Widespread unemployment and poverty, with accompanying social problems.
* Birthplace of Roy “Chubby” Brown and Paul Daniels.

Famous for:

* Home of legendary explorer, Captain James Cook. Who clearly couldn’t wait to leave.

Infamous for:

* The Smog.
* “Middlesbrough is very bad. It is not a very nice town and there are a lot of factories.” – Szilard Nemeth, Middlesbrough FC striker, endears himself to the fans.

A wise Newcastle United fan prepares himself for an evening in the smog at Middlesbrough