MTU players in Thailand squad

A report of yesterday's game will appear soon. Meanwhile, courtesy of the Thai Port blog - which is always good for news of the national team - here is the squad for the totally pointless friendly between Thailand and Leicester that is taking place purely as part of King Power's takeover of the Foxes. I can't imagine anyone is too thrilled about this match taking place. Leicester are less than a quarter of the way into their season and will most likely send a reserve side over to play, MTU play Army just twenty four hours beforehand and even the Leicester City ex-pats I know are not too fussed about seeing this match.

Presumably the idea is to promote Leicester amongst Thai fans, but the problem is that while Leicester are a reasonably big club with a long history, they have been out of the Premier League - and therefore Thai TV stations - for a while. One friendly match is not going to boost their fanbase by very much at all.

Hopefully someone will see sense and rest the MTU players.

THAILAND SQUAD FOR LEICESTER CITY MATCH

GOALKEEPERS

Kawin Thamsatchanon - Muangthong United

Sintaweechai Hathairattanakool - Chonburi


DEFENDERS

Panupong Wongsa - Muangthong United

Nattapon Phanrit - Muangthong United

Suree Sukha - Chonburi

Nattapong Samana - Chonburi

Suttinan Phukhom - Chonburi

Chonlatit Jantakam - Chonburi

Ponlawat Wangkahadt - TOT

Teeratorn Boonmatan - Buriram PEA


MIDFIELDERS

Pichitpong Choichieu - Muangthong United

Datsakorn Thonglao - Muangthong United

Narongchai Vachiraban - Muangthong United

Puritat Jarikanon - Chonburi

Wichaya Dechmitr - Bangkok Glass

Peter Laeng - Bangkok Glass

Suchao Nuchnum - Buriram PEA

Rangsan Vivatchaichok - Buriram PEA


STRIKERS

Teerasil Dangda - Muangthong United

Sarayoot Chaikamdee - Thai Port

Keerati Kaewsombat - Buriram PEA

Teeratep Winothai - BEC Tero

Army game confirmed for Friday

photo credit: thaiarmyfc.com

The rescheduled game against Army FC is confirmed for this Friday. Kick off time TBA. I did make a late effort for a fan interview but Army's website requires a username and password.....without the opportunity to register. I also got a message that: ' A warning has been sent to the webmaster. You are denied access".

Never mind lads, Kawin or Phanphipat will be doing some "access denial" of their own on Friday night.  If you get close enough :-)

Updates

In keeping with the times, I have - as you can see - set up a Twitter account with a feed here for smaller and quicker updates.

You can sign up to updates by clicking the box in the right side column or simply visiting http://twitter.com/MTUTD_blog

I've also installed a share widget so at the bottom of each post so articles can be emailed, blogged or shared on Facebook etc. with one click.

Now there really is no excuse not to keep up with the latest news and for Thai fans to practise their English!

Muangthong United Vs Al-Ittihad Aleppo -preview

The bratwurst boys at thai-fussball.de have a very good preview of tomorrow's big game. All readers are ordered to take a look right now. Resistance is futile.

Meet the 'n-zone' army

MTU face the first leg of their AFC Cup semi-final clash tomorrow against Syrian side Al-Ittihad. Rest assured a full report will appear here. However, I am finally enjoying a well-deserved holiday that will include two getaways so I may miss some games. News-flashes will still appear here, though.

Muangthong are best known for their 'Ultras' fan group. That's the large, colourful and friendly crowd that fill the South Stand at home games and produce a tremendous noise. But with the growth of the club and the stadium, a smaller but equally passionate and slightly more inebriated bunch known as the 'n-zone' group have also made themselves known for noise, passion and friendliness.

I like the 'n-zone' crowd because their behaviour and nature is slightly closer to that of European fans, but without the thuggish side of such culture. Meet them here......

Scarf waving

I do smile sometimes,  especially when Portsmouth lose.

When the shirts are off, it usually means we are winning.

At half time

Not a fairweather fan.

Rough but friendly 1

Rough but friendly2

The twelfth man

Photo credits
First photo: ♥ JoEisM ณ เมืองทองat mtufc.com
Second photo: unknown (please inform)
All other photos: คุณชายนิว ณ เมืองทอง at mtufc.com

MTU Vs Army rained off

 

Photo credit: jokerman at mtufc.net 

MTU's game with Army was called off after a few moments due to a heavy downpour.

The only surprise is that this doesn't happen more often, however a large number of games this season have been hindered and punishing to more talented sides due to waterlogged surfaces.

I wonder why the Thai FA schedules a season to cover rainy season but not cool season (November, December).

MTU hope to re-schedule the game ASAP. At least this mean your blogger will be able to attend the match and report next time. Yesterday I was a few miles away at Chula United and luckily the storm had dwindled to a shower by the time it passed.

Happy birthday to the blog

Actually it was three weeks ago, but I only just noticed! I can't believe how quickly the time has flown but I've now been churning out reports and daft ideas on this blog for one year.

It's been a very enjoyable hobby and because it is only a hobby I don't worry too much about readership or standardisation but it seems I am now getting over one hundred unique hits per day, which is good.

With both Muangthong and my own life playing such a hectic schedule right now I don't want to stop and reflect just yet, but when the season ends I will make some plans to improve the blog for the following season.

For now let me just say "thanks" to anyone who has read my nonsense here and extra special "thanks" to my inside man.

I hope this blog has helped create at least one new Thai football fan. One thing's for sure - it's certainly more fun blogging for Muangthong United than it is for UKIP.