UEFA Cup - Basle v Boro SPOILERS

fozzybear · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:41

Basle 2-0 at half time with goals in the 43rd and 45th minutes. Boro had done ok until the first goal. What the hell was Doriva laughing and joking about when walking off the pitch at half time? I hate to see that.

Does anyone know what the commentator was talking about when he apologised for a banner behind the goal. He also said it had been taken down. :confused:

mysticsniper · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:42

Key for Boro is that they have to score an away goal to have any chance of getting past this round in the competition

It has the F word written on bold letters, and I don't mean Food either

JohnnyG · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:46

UEFA have obviously issued a briefing to refs about diving by the looks of things, I thought he had given Basil a pen at first

fozzybear · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:58

Looks like there could be a bit of trouble amongst the Boro supporters.

Weve just seen pictures of Swiss police carrying the biggest guns i've ever seen! :eek:

JohnnyG · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:01

Trouble does seem to follow them about now...

Gooner14 · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:10

Ouch

fozzybear · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:12

That looks really nasty after a clash of heads with a Basle player.

Pogatetz...wth? I actually thought he was having a fit on the pitch. Looks like a possible broken nose.

Gooner14 · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:16

I thought it was a fit too, but I'm not sure. He certainly isn't having much lucky with facial injuries at the moment.

G-MAN2004 · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:34

Bad luck for Boro.

fozzybear · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:37

Full time - Basle 2-0 Boro.

I can't see Boro keeping Basle out at The Riverside so Boro will therefore need to score at least 4 goals. That isn't going to happen.

Pogatetz has been confirmed as having a badly broken nose.

atpbx · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:40

Basle are such a good footballing side, cant handle sustained pressure though.
Boro should beat them easily at home.

atpbx · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:40

fozzybear said:
Full time - Basle 2-0 Boro.

I can't see Boro keeping Basle out at The Riverside so Boro will therefore need to score at least 4 goals. That isn't going to happen.

Pogatetz has been confirmed as having a badly broken nose.

I think Basle will collapse and Boro will roll out 3-0 winners.

cyris · 30 Mar 2006 at 22:25

atpbx said:
I think Basle will collapse and Boro will roll out 3-0 winners.

i hope so as it is a last chance saloon scenario

fozzybear · 30 Mar 2006 at 23:38

fozzybear said:
Does anyone know what the commentator was talking about when he apologised for a banner behind the goal. He also said it had been taken down.

Has anyone found out what the banner said behind the goal? It must have been fairly offensive for C5 to ask for it to be taken down.

bungler · 30 Mar 2006 at 23:55

fozzybear said:
Has anyone found out what the banner said behind the goal? It must have been fairly offensive for C5 to ask for it to be taken down.

I remember seeing it at the start and thought it was quite funny. It was along the lines of 'beat the ******* boro', I can't quite remember exactly.

fozzybear · 31 Mar 2006 at 01:38

Gooner14 said:
I thought it was a fit too, but I'm not sure. He certainly isn't having much lucky with facial injuries at the moment.

It's worse than first thought.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/middlesbrough/4857910.stm

Suspected fractured skull as well as the broken nose! :eek:

Gooner14 · 31 Mar 2006 at 09:05

fozzybear said:
It's worse than first thought.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/middlesbrough/4857910.stm

Suspected fractured skull as well as the broken nose!

When I watched the replay there seem to be little contact with his nose, most of it was on he cheek or eye socket. I doubt he'll play again this season.

ra5a-libre · 31 Mar 2006 at 13:05

well i travelled down to basel yesterday morning at 6 got back at 3 this morning, had a great day out apart from the result

fair play to basel, they took there chances very well and looked very dangerous going forward, but boro looked really comfortable on the ball for the first 40mins, really expected us to come away with at least 1 goal (i punted on 1-0 boro)

about the trouble that occured i was watching it, some arguement happened between a basel fan, boro fan and then a steward stepped in something was said, and next minute a steward was just flat out on the ground, a little bit of fighting went on (resulting in 3 stewards all knocked out :rolleyes:

) and then the riot police come up, the guns they had fired bean bags (dont know if anyone has seen jackass when johnny knoxville gets shot by one, but i imagine they hurt) and they had big canisters of tear gas, the trouble was stopped, but the riot police remained there for the rest of the game.

the banner had boro fans in stiches but was dropped down onto the tier below after a few minutes. for anyone that wants to see it.

SWEARING IN LINK!!

was a shame about the little bit of trouble because all day we had been drinking with basel fans etc, and they were very nice people indeed (but all said mendieta is boros best player, dont know what they have been watching lately) and i had a great laugh drinking in basel, beer is expensive like 17swiss francs for 2 lagers :eek:

but soon everyone had noticed a spar down the road, 4 cans of lager for 3 swiss francs

cant wait for the return leg gunna be 3-0 to boro

anyway what was john barnes saying on channel 5 we were right next to him, boro fans had a few "geordie reject" songs for him

edit- just found this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/4863490.stm about the trouble at the game, its a shame like that a few people want to cause trouble when the rest of the fans were on their best bahaviour

Reidy · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:02

mountain to climb now

moody · 31 Mar 2006 at 17:01

Were you drinking outside of Pickwicks?

We had quite a few inside then did the buying the cans from the spar. The beer was cheaper in the Swiss bars, Pickwicks seemed to be about 2francs more.

UEFA Cup - Basle v Boro *SPOILERS*

UEFA Cup - Basle v Boro SPOILERS