Hou-stank. 

Ok folks, tomorrow is the big day! Houston is coming to town and judging by Saturday’s attendance and the usual numbers for midweek games, there won’t be too many butts in the seats. But, that doesn’t mean we can’t be loud and proud, 10,000 cheering fans are much louder than 2,000 cheering fans and 13,000 fans sitting on their hands. Oh, and $1 brats and beers (pregame only). Let’s cheer the boys to victory!

Courtesy of the BBC for gathering these.  Some of these are just fantastic.

Bishop Stortford (Toni Basil’s Hey Mickey - sung to St Albans goalkeeper Nick Eyre):
“Hey Nicky you’re so fine, you’re so fine, you’re two behind, hey Nicky!”

Arsenal (The Jackson 5’s Blame it on the Boogie):
“Don’t blame it on Henry, don’t blame it on the injuries, don’t blame it on the referees, blame it on Eboue!”

Man Utd (Black Lace’s Agadoo):
“Anderson-son-son, he’s better than Kleberson,
Anderson-son-son, he’s our midfield magician,
To the left to the right we’ll dance the samba beat tonight,
He is class, our midfield brass, and he dumps on Fabregas!”

Newcastle (The Beatles’ Let It Be):
“When we find ourselves in times of trouble, Kevin Keegan comes to me. Speaking words of wisdom, Geremi!”

Tottenham (Elvis Presley’s The Wonder Of You):
“That’s Ju-ande, Ju-ande Ramos!”

Everton (Black Lace/The Tweenies’ Music Man):
“I am the Music Man. I come from far away. And I can play (what can you play?) I Play The Pienaar! Pi Pi Pi Pi Pienaaaaaar!”

Chester (The Outhere Brothers’ Boom Boom Boom - to Simon Yeo):
“Boom, boom, boom, let me hear you say Yeo, Yeooo!” (Also used for Paul Mayo by Notts County fans - Ed).

Blackburn (Christmas standard Santa Claus Is Coming):
“You better watch out,
You better beware,
He’s good on the ground and he’s good in the air,
Santa Cruz is coming to town.”

Newcastle (Happy Days theme tune):
“Sunday, Monday, Habib Beye
Tuesday, Wednesday, Habib Beye
Thursday, Friday, Habib Beye
Saturday, Habib Beye, rocking all week with you!”

Man City (The Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)):
“Oh you can freeze 500 million, and you can freeze 500 more, Cos Thaksin’s got another billion underneath his bedroom floor, Shin-a-watra! Shin-a-watra!”

Look Alikes Chants

“You’re just a fat Paris Hilton.”
Arsenal fans to Liverpool’s Andriy Voronin.

“There’s only one Tina Turner!”
Doncaster’s big-haired Jason Price gets the treatment from Forest.

“You’re just a fat Annie Lennox!”
No More I Love Yous from the Spurs fans to West Ham’s Dean Ashton.
 
And on the bench for Eastleigh…

“There’s only one Roland Browning.”
Bognor Regis fans taunt Eastleigh sub Steve Watts.

(Roland Browing was a character in a kids soap opera based around life at school called Grange Hill.
Roland Browning was the classic fat nerdy kit who was always being picked on.)

“You’re just a fat Kevin Doyle!”
Reading fans to Robbie Keane.

“He’s big, he’s Scouse, he looks like Mickey Mouse!”
Sheffield Wednesday fans take the mickey out of Franny Jeffers.

“You’re supposed to be a gnome!”
Millwall fans to Northampton’s pint-sized full-back Danny Jackman.

“Sit down, Pinocchio!”
Spurs fans to Boro boss Gareth Southgate.

From the Official FCD Blog:

Anonymous said…

WOW! What a game wasn’t sure we were going to pull it off; but I am glad we did I would have hated us to go up against Houston without a win. How about that new supporter section on the east side of the stadium? They really got the crowd going, keep it up!

-Mary

May 24, 2008 9:14 PM

Dallas ’til I die, indeed.

MMP editor-in-chief missed the game tonight as he was out of town. Furthermore, the earliest he could possibly watch the game–or any game, for that matter–is late Monday night.

Perhaps some other Los Toros member will post some words of praise for Dominic Oduro (wasn’t he close to getting cut earlier this season due to international spots?).

P.S., the (semi-RIP?) is due to Carlos Ruiz being on the bench for the LA-KC game, but as of the time of this posting, he has not been in the game. If I find out Alan Gordon gets substituted in first, I might just die laughing.

P.P.S., I’m not too happy with DeMarcus Beasley right now, but I’ll just leave you with this (those are Tommy Burns shirts they’re wearing):

In what’s looking more and more like a putsch, the good folks at the Official FCD Blog have stopped accepting comments.

We apologize that we had to stop accepting comments for the time being. We feel that we have been fair in providing fans a forum to express their opinions over the past couple of days - especially on the team blog.

Why, you ask?  Well, read on:

That being said, there are other online forums that may accept comments that have foul language, inappropriate images, personal attacks, or copy pasting the same phrase and / or words over 100 times [Ed. note:  pa-re-ja?] in over 15 comments.

Well, welcome to the Internet, guys.  We get most of those things (and are proud of it) in a typically brilliant MMP.

I’m just concerned:  if you’re interested in building pride and passion in a team (and a sport that attracts about as much attention from your average American as, say, curling), why not allow fans to rant and rave?

Better yet, why not police the few inappropriate posters and let the rest of us feel like we have an actual community to be a part of?

I have to say that since the end of last season, I’ve agreed with far more of Steve Morrow’s decisions than I’ve disagreed with. It is difficult, from the outside, to know who made what decision or whose connections caused what move. But, I get the feeling that since Oscar Pareja left, most of those decisions fall on Morrow and Michael Hitchcock’s shoulders.

I posted on the FC Dallas Blog that hopefully this was a decision made that combined Morrow’s UK job prospects with whatever discontent might have existed. Having said that, I’m going to proceed under the assumption that this decision was entirely out of Morrow’s hands and analyze the major decisions of this season.

• The trade of Carlos Ruiz to the Galaxy for allocation money that eventually led to Davino seems to have panned out completely. Even just having Ruiz off the roster seemed like a good move in a salary cap situation. In the NBA, we would have gotten nothing, as trades need to be approximately equal value so we just would not have picked up Ruiz’s option. Duilio has been a wonderful addition. This was probably a Morrow/Hitchcock consensus.
• Moving from a 4-4-2 to a 3-5-2 seemed almost obvious to me given our personnel and how many other MLS teams have used a similar formation successfully.
• Loaning Ray Burse to Portland seemed borderline brilliant. I’m sure a lot of people would have liked to have seen Burse come in during the 2nd half, but I wouldn’t have made that decision.
• Playing Dario Sala over Ray Burse? Questionable but understandable pre-season, obvious after Sala’s first 3-4 games
• Letting Clarence Goodson be taken in the expansion draft proved wise.
• Lackluster start for Juan Toja, Arturo Alvarez, and most of our midfield has been the most unnerving part of this entire season to me and where Morrow deserves most of the blame. My question is this: which of Morrow’s superiors is qualified enough to judge this? Hitchcock is a salesman. HSG put this team in Frisco. And isn’t this the kind of thing you judge after the season as opposed to 1/3 of the way through it?
• Not bringing in a top-notch striker, as was rumored, seems completely out of Morrow’s hands. Given the way many Latin American playmakers and strikers play (this is where all the rumors came from), I don’t think there’s a chance that could have had an effect on that blowout.

Again, this all assumes this was a one-sided decision. Reading through the comments for the above FCD Blog post and the LA reaction, I seem to be in the minority, so did I miss anything?

[Edit: Buzz agrees with me]