27th May, 2013
1. Buriram United striker Carmelo Gonzalez (pictured) played the part of Jimmy the Perv in the hit BBC TV sitcom The Office.
2. Buriram United’s chairman Newin Chidchob, and his wife Karuna, are so reluctant to draw attention to themselves, they often go to games in disguise so they can mingle with the ordinary fans.
3. The New I-Mobile Stadium is one of the oldest football grounds in Thailand. It was designed by architect Archibald Leitch in the early 1900’s and is a listed building.
4.Buriram United coach Scott Cooper is one of the most successful coaches in Thai football. He has won the Ashby de la Zouch United Biscuits Under 13 Girls Challenge Cup three times, the Blackfordby (pronounced Blofferby) Under 11s (Mixed) Invitational Cup on two occasions and the Coalville Miners Welfare Kiddies Cup once. He was also voted as The Walkers Crisps Coach Most Likely To in 2009.
5. Certain elements of the fans' high pitched screeching, which is a feature at all Buriram United home games, can only be heard by dogs.
6. Four Buriram United players recently appeared on the highbrow Thai TV show, Chalart Maak, to discuss philosophy. During the course of the programme CharylChappuis proffered, "The concept that mind or spirit manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other."
Adisak Kraisorn argued, "That all the preparations of reason, therefore, in what may be called pure philosophy, are in reality directed to three problems only (God, the soul, and freedom). However, these three elements in themselves still hold independent, proportional, objective weight individually. Moreover, in a collective relational context; namely, to know what ought to be done: if the will is free, if there is a God, and if there is a future world. As this concerns our actions with reference to the highest aims of life, we see that the ultimate intention of nature in her wise provision was really, in the constitution of our reason, directed to moral interests only."
Goalkeeper Sivaruck Tedsungnoen stated, "Despotism is an acceptable form of government for those societies that are "backward", as long as the despot has the best interests of the people at heart, because of the barriers to spontaneous progress."
And Suchao Nutnum suggested that "sausages should be accepted as legal currency."
7. Hunchback radio and A bad choir chunk are both anagrams of Karuna Chidchob.
8. Fans of other Thai clubs consider Buriram United to be their “Second Team”, because we all love plucky AFC underdogs. We also recognise what they've achieved whilst working with a small, inexperienced squad and a limited budget.
9. Buriram United is the world’s oldest football club. It was founded on 23rd October, 1857. One day before Sheffield FC.
10. The club’s Thunder Castle nickname was inspired by two of the chairman’s boyhood heroes – ex New York Doll Johnny Thunders and late BBC TV presenter and jazz trumpeter Roy Castle.
11. Buriram United’s celebrity fans include Kim Jong Un, Clint Eastwood, Shebby Singh, Phil Collins, Jeremy Clarkson and Keith Chegwin.
12. Before settling on the suffix United, the club considered and rejected a number of other options. The full list of names discussed can be seen below. The reason for their rejection is in brackets.
Buriram Bo (too violent)
Buriram Alama – ding – dong (too frivolous)
Buriram Rods (too suggestive)
Buriram Bam – thank – you – mam (too silly)
Buriram Blingrose (too fey)
Buriram Ifications (too contrived)
Buriram Jam (too obscure – 70’s rock reference)
Buriram Ones (pronounced owns) (as above)
Buriram Onvega (too ridiculous)
Buriram Seymacdonald (too political)
Buriram City (too dull)
Buriram Raiders (Oooh. That's good. I don't why they rejected this?)
They also considered:
The Crazy World of Newin Chidchob
Newin Chidchob’s Flying Circus
The Newin Chidchob Experience
Newin Chidchob’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Newin Chidchob and the Spiders From Mars
13. Buriram United’s kit is based on Hannibal Lecter’s prison uniform in Silence of the Lambs (pictured)
14. Suree Sukha bakes all his own bread and supplies his team mates with fresh tuna mayonnaise sandwiches every away trip.
15. Midfielder Attapong Nooprom is the host on Thai radio’s popular A Book at Bedtime show. He is currently reading Franz Kafka’s The Trail to his listeners at 11:00pm each weeknight. He translates all the books featured on the programme himself.
16. Buriram United had to change from their original name Buriram PEA, after complaints from the local Buriram Public Enemy Appreciation Society. Fans of the American rappers were constantly being contacted by football fans wanting to know what time kick off would be and asking if Suchao had recovered from his thigh injury, rather than enquiring as to what Terminator X is up to these days.
17. The Old I-Mobile Stadium is now being used as an ostrich stud farm, coincidentally owned by Terminator X.
18. Husband and wife team Newin and Karuna Chidchob have recorded an album of soppy love duets. The disc is set for a June release and the tracklisting is as follows:
Up Where We Belong
Tonight, I Celebrate My Love
Endless Love
With You I’m Born Again
Cinderella, Rockerfella
You’re My Little Choochy Face (from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Save Your Love
I Got You Babe
Love Is Strange
Leaving It (All) Up To You
The first 1,000 copies come with two bonus tracks:
My Karuna by Newin Chidchob (a version of The Knack’s My Sharona)
And
There’s A Guy Called Newin Chidchob Swears He’s Elvis by Karuna Chidchob (a version of Kirsty MacColl’s There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis)
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