Hello From Egypt !

I've just clicked on what WUM stands for, duhhhh

 

Welcome to yourself mate, we all look forward to seeing Mido, his reputation preceeds him. You must be the first of our Egyptian following, welcome to the Barnsley FC foreign legion.

 

Welcome aboard, Only One Mido! Nice to see some other non-English people here.

I'm quite excited about this signing too, hopefully there won't be any problems with Mido's attitude or any dressing room drama...
Could this be our biggest name signing since... erm... Dean Gorre?

 

Hi Tomi, what's your connection to the reds then mate?

 

I didn't really have any kind of a connection to begin with, I suppose I just jumped on the Premiership bandwagon like a lot of other fans.
They used to show Premier League games on TV here in Finland back then, the first Barnsley match that I ever saw was the 7-0 defeat against Manchester United. Maybe it was the masochist in me, or the fact that I've always liked to support the underdogs, but I really wanted Barnsley to survive after that, so I started following them. Well, they didn't survive, but luckily for me, the Finnish TV station lost the rights to Premier League games after that season, and started showing Division One games instead... so I was able to watch quite a few Barnsley matches again the following season!

I joined a Barnsley FC mailing list around that time, that was a great way to stay informed before the age of twitter and facebook etc... The mailing list is of course long gone now, but some of the people from the list actually still post on this BBS. Some of those people have helped me a lot over the years, and for that I'll be eternally grateful, and I can't think of a single bad thing to say about Barnsley fans... except that they can be such a miserable bunch of people sometimes, but that's a different story!

Even though I was already quite mad about Barnsley FC, there was one more funny coincidence that made sure that Barnsley would be my team for the rest of my life. In July 2000 Barnsley came to Finland during their pre-season tour, and they played a friendly match against my small local team...! (I think they may have been the first "big" foreign team to ever come here) I went to see them training the day before the match, and got to talk to Dave Bassett and all the players. Barnsley won the game 4-0 with Bruce Dyer scoring first, and then the super-sub Neil Shipperley scoring a 2nd half hat-trick...

I visited England and Barnsley for the first time in 2002, my first match at Oakwell was Norwich at home... yes, the game that sent us down to Division Two! Not the best possible timing perhaps for my first game, but again, in some sick and twisted way I'm happy that I was there that day, haha. I was a bit of a celebrity for a day too, as Barnsley Chronicle wanted to write a "little story about my visit to Barnsley", and to my surprise there was a huge photo of me with the story on the front page of the Chronicle the next day!

The promotion at the Millennium Stadium felt so much better after witnessing the rather abysmal performance that got us relegated (I had visited Barnsley a few times in between those two games - I felt that I had to mention that to prove that I don't only show up for the big games! ) and the depressing time during the administration. Nick Colgan's penalty save in the play-off final is still my favourite football related memory, and Barnsley have provided me with quite a few happy memories.

 

You're the complete opposite

Of a glory hunter fan Tomi, old mate.

 

You were at the supporter's club meeting a few days before the Norwich game weren't you?

 

Thats brilliant mate, I always find it amazing that someone with no connection to the club becomes a fan, cheers for that Tomi

 

Re: You're the complete opposite

Misery hunter?!

 

I was indeed! How on earth can you remember?! haha
In addition to meeting people from the BFC mailing list, I met John Hendrie (who was the guest speaker) and got some photos taken with him, and I also had a rather long and somewhat confusing conversation with Benny Hill (the journalist, not the comedian). Oh, the nice supporter's club folks gave me a football signed by the whole Barnsley team as a souvenir... Ten years later the ball still has an honorary place in my living room.

 

Re: You're the complete opposite

Haha, I like that!

 

Great read

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look mate
it's all about Hassan Shehata " Zamalek Coach " who clashed with Mido in 2006
he dont like him and didnt get hiam a chance at zamalek
and didn't help him to regain his fitness

about the Chairman Part
Mido sit with Mr Mamdouh Abbas and offered him bussiness for the club which will bring alot of money to the club
and in the end of this meeting Mido ask Abbas for the money ( his salary )
but Abbas tell him " u r rich , why u ask for money !!!! "
that's it , mido furstrated and then Abbas said to him to get out his office

u have to know that Mido is the only player that didnt take any salary since he sign for Zamalek coz he know that we have a very big financial problem , so he told the board to pay the other players their salaries and he'll wait for his money
coz he is Zamalek son and can wait for his Childhood club but the other players wont !

 

Another thing i wanna say

this is the last Chance for Mido to save His career
the last chance to prove that he is a perfect player
last chance to get his reputation back
last chance to said to Hassan Shehata that u will regret by letting me go
last chance to say to his fans that i'll still Only One Mido
last chance to prove all his haters wrong

so he will f**k the net of next season

 

Re: Facenbook

I noticed that too, quite a lot have posted on Official BFC facebook page.

 

Re: Facenbook

would u post the link here plz ?

 

Re: Facenbook

Here you go

http://www.facebook.com/barnsleyfootballclub

 

Re: Facenbook

thnx mate