Episode 9 Late Kick Off North East and Cumbria

Good evening, welcome to Late Kick Off. We look at the impact of

Twitter on football. It is another way of having a dressing-room

banter. Overall I am not obviously an agreement with that. We're back

down memory lane. Amazing to see a piece of the old posts. Be Here and

Now, the weekend action. Did we have any winners on a words might?

Tonight, you'll hear from managers and players from all of our league

clubs. And all of our Football League clubs are represented on the

sofa. I'm delighted to welcome back the former Hartlepool defender Phil

Brown, Carlisle captain Paul Thirlwell plus the one time

Middlesbrough midfielder Craig Hignett. The players here have to

be very careful. It can be expensive. It has taken off, it has

become part of the culture night. It is getting to the point at now a

where most footballers are on there and have an account. It has become

important for the modern-day footballer. Hundreds of them now

embrace the Twitter and it gives them direct access to fans, to get

a message across to what they have been doing in their lives. People

say, I just got up this morning. Well, that is fantastic! I have set

up a feed so I will chat to a lot of the fans on that and they always

give me encouragement. Especially in the last few weeks, there has

been a lot about footballers being detached from reality and not been

in touch with the working-class man. These vehicles, I think you can

actually show the human element and show there are real people behind

the players. Aid is another way of having dressing-room banter. Now

you can do it on an evening or on an away trip. It is a bit of fun at

the end of the day. Nobody will divulge anything about what goes on

at the training ground, that is to be kept of Twitter. Critical things

like criticising other teams and officials, it is really important.

I have had some abuse, it is just somebody's opinion. You didn't play

very well, that's it of they're and I tend to ignore it. Just finishing

up an interview, getting abuse of the lads. It is nice to know what

is happening with the players. We get to know that the bus has broken

down or whether they will be home from an away match. Invaluable

stuff. Or you big Twitter user? Twitter? I have heard of it! I have

heard of people and tweeting but I don't know how to do it. A lot of

idle gossip. I am obsessed with them when they are wearing a blue

and white shirt but I don't really want to know what music they listen

to or what car they are driving. And not that much of an obsessive,

only on a Saturday afternoon. don't know what he wants to do

today or tomorrow and I don't care. It is a load of rubbish. It should

be taken off because it is people airing their own personal views,

end of story. You've got to be careful with what you put on their.

According our players are up slowly beginning to realise how important

it can be added can be expensive. It annoys me when one of my players

says something stupid. At our club we have had a sit-down discussion

just on Twitter to make them a where it is public information. You

may as well say it on TV to the watching audience. Barton has been

tweeting. One of them is, imagine if I had stamped on song, the

Nineties would be calling for my execution. Julie is overstepping

the mark saying that newspapers are dead. We still sell millions. The

internet sites that we also right for which the Twitter helps to

promote. Twitter has given our jobs as journalists are a whole new

dimension to report on. Now it when I read the story, I know I will be

directly accountable for the way I have ordered every phrase in that

story because of byword it wrong, I'll be told on Twitter by the fans.

The power of Twitter is what the players because they don't feel

that they have to speak to the journalists any more because they

can manipulate the situation, they can get across their sign of the

story without having any comeback from a superpower is very much with

the player and going away from the journalist and as a result of that,

the journalists are now using the quotes from Twitter but without

that natural conversation that would take place. Overall, I am not

in agreement with it. The players might make a derogatory comment

about the opposition or worse, about me. That is a joke!

It is now a part of a football culture. You love it! I wouldn't

say love it, I would have said that I am a big advocate of modern

technology. There is a place in the world for Twitter but where

football changing rooms are concerned, they are at inner

sanctums. We have all been there and we know what it is like when a

manager loses the plot with a player and we know that cannot get

out. Communication, for me, is important. We cannot play the game

of football without communication but when it comes to confidential

communication, that has remained in house. The counter argument is that

some of that stuff comes out anyway. But they do it to us making it up

to a journalist, it has been happening and is more accountable

now? That is the beauty of it so for me, is about education. I don't

know what it is about but how can you use it as a tool to go forward?

The world is all about going forwards. If it is not going away,

how can we use it as a tool for us to succeed and for us to be better

as managers? We do increasingly get sanitised soundbites from players,

they are careful what they say. This is a way they can have an

almost a forum with the public? had this conversation before

earlier. Sometimes if you are left out of the team or or if something

happens you are not happy with, it is so easy to do something and then

it is too late. It happens a lot so that is the dangerous side of it.

The good side it is, you can City fans what is happening but what the

game was like. You don't have to say what the team is going to be

next week or who is injured. There is a way of doing it and it is all

about education and educating the players. Are you passing that on at

Academy level? It is coming into that a lot. Certainly, Twitter has

been mentioned. And mobile phones banned from the dressing room area

anyway? Yes but what difference does it make? As soon as you go

into the car, you can pick your mobile phone up. The dangers thing

is, not everyone is nice to you on Twitter and they can make up a

profile and say nasty things and that is when you get problems. I am

not sure if I was high profile that I would have a Twitter account.

you have want and how much is that Than it -- it depends who you fall

off. I liked to follow deal Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney. So you

are selling as on the appeal of it? Of following certain people? I

hated, myself. I you getting guidelines from the club? State

secrets that mustn't be late? Does Greg get you together and say, let

me make this clear, Knoll weeks from here. Like Phil says, managers

can see it as a hindrance. We have all had our guidelines and her

sheets with bullet points on it. Things regarding injuries and teams

elections. You do not want to give anything away to opponents. Has it

given power to the players? To tweets order, to some extent, the

journalists are not getting these kids any more? I do not mind power

to the players. Players are not powerful in modern-day society. We

learned the right to be in the inner sanctum. As a player or coach,

you earn the right to play football. That is a respect. They are, if

someone sends a tweed, everyone gets into the changing room. If you

go back 50 years, players would go down to the pub with fans before

the match. Players have become more remote. This is a way to engage

with the lifeblood of the game, the supporters. The lifeblood of the

game must be engaged with, but the only way to do that is to be the

best players and do it on a Saturday between the four white

lines. Utter Shermans and owners to be active to what happens online? -

- party chairman's and owners. not think so. You will get the lot

chairman who will do that, but on the whole I think the chairman know

the score. I think Twitter does have a part to play. If you have

seen the Queen's Park Rangers documentary, you can see the extent

of that. It does not happen in football welly Nellie. I wish that

was still on BBC iPlayer. Once you have the right the deal

further than sweaters, you can also reach us on Twitter and Facebook.

From hashtag to history, or we are heading down memory lane tonight.

Now, you might remember a few weeks ago we featured Middlesbrough's 90-

year-old recruitment co-ordinator, Jack Watson had been skating for 50

years. Sadly, he passed away on Saturday. He was vice-president of

Carlisle and also work for Sunderland, Darlington and

Hartlepool. Over the years, I have been on

every ground in Scotland, except one or two of the new ones. I have

been on most of the grounds in England, yes. Jack seems to me as

if he has a photographic memory. The people in here are wonderful, I

Our thoughts are with a man who you paid tribute to a few weeks ago.

is just desperately sad news. And also for his family and friends. He

always makes you with a big grin and smiled. He was a fantastic

script, still working at 19 years of age. There was a minute's

applause for him. -- working at 90 he years of age.

What is going on at Riverside Stadium? They just did not get

going yesterday. They were poor with to the ball. Really, Leeds

deserved to win. They close them down very quickly. Middlesbrough

could not get any kind of tempo going to the game. Leeds deserved

the win. The sea a sending off here. Barrie Robson. If the referee does

his job properly, he will called for a foul when he is getting cold

and topped. Two red cards or two yellow cards, to me it is not a red

card To the man who has the ball. E-fit goes into the Birdcage.

not think anyone was gathering around the rest of the or insisting

four red cards. -- the foot goes into the ribcage. I must ask about

but a's disciplinary record. A lovely ball plain side has five

sendings-off in the past nine week -- league games. He will not be too

bothered about players getting sent off, it is about whether people

played good football. Tony loves football playing the right way.

They did not get the game going. That will frustrate him most -- the

most. Out of five, three where difficult. Kevin Thomson has been

sent off. That was a joke. Some of the refereeing has been awful.

well-known Aussie soap theme could be applied. I am talking about

home-and-away. There you go, you win at home with a keyless a record,

but come tenth September away from home, you are rubbish.

I will let you off because you are wearing a nice cardigan. We have

not been too good away from home. On Saturday we went a goal down. We

always feel at home and try to score goals. We managed to get four.

One of the papers mentioned that there had been a few boos about a

substitution. The sub scored what was the winning goal. Did you hear

the bruised? I did not. All I could hear was the call for substitution.

He came on in the 70th minute and for 12 minutes he was fantastic and

scored. Jack Watson was obviously the person who advised that we

Miller. He has made a big contribution. Having a proper

centre-forward can make a huge difference. We thanked him for that.

Everyone involved appreciates the job he has done. His debut at

Leyton Orient and scoring, he has continued to do so for the rest of

the season. We will get the boring bit out of

the way. Neale Cooper described the game at Walsall. The machine that

films the match broke down because it would not record such a bad

match. Here is the incident. That is it. And there is Hartlepool.

Neale Cooper played the answers. That is very encouraging from any

manager's point of view. I believe someone was injured in the warm-up,

and the 17-year-old made his debut. There were 17-year-old, 18-year-old

Sand 19-year-old. Platt -- fantastic play in the league

football, great to see. At the Football League awards last night,

I was costing again. This is me before the skinful I had in the

middle of the night. Not a lot on our patch apart from Hartlepool

winning best marketing campaign for their argue coming to pull's

initiative? -- are equally to Poole's? Initiative. Come to pools!

Come tipples! You can spend your money smartly when you come to

pools! Altogether now!

I had not seen that. I saw it for the first time yesterday. What a

great initiative. In one of the most deprived and depressed areas

of the country. The season ticket sales have gone up by, what, 30%?

It was brilliant. Many people took them up on the offer. It was a pity

the home form was not great. It was the or 4,000 to drop off and

stopped going, but hopefully they will come back. Earlier, we had the

whole new ball game of Twitter, and now to an old football favourite.

Memorabilia. You have around one month if you want to get down to

the museum to see but a's back from the big exhibition, which

celebrates the club's anniversary. The lead singer of Max Moore Park

is a huge fan and is here to check out his club's greatest had.

What we have here is an exhibition that has its starting point in 1986,

when Middlesbrough came 37 minutes from going out of business

altogether. We're then celebrating the 25 years that came after that,

what he would have missed. Life would have been poorer without it.

This is a collection from Van's loft and the Football Club.

Everything has been put together. It is great to see it has been

recognised as being so important. It is quite quaint. I all of a

local municipal galleries and museums where people are trying to

keep something alive from the local area and I guess it is an act of

devotion on their part. This brings us into an even of

football that is kind of dying out now. Just this giant metal thing

reminds me of going to the old This item was a complete surprise

to me. I knew nothing about it. A papal blessing. And also, a lot of

the players who have been were really surprised by it. It is an

incredible thing, because there will was just an amazing player,

the golden boy who came from -- the local lad. He was the George Best

of his ear. Here we had a blessing It is amazing to see a piece of the

old post from the park. Middlesbrough now, when you see it,

you do not really thinks so much of the park, and that was my first

experience of going to a football match. Walking through the town on

the way to a game, you do not know what is going to happen. It was a

romantic old ground. I particularly like this case

because it is the seven hat-trick ball will bear nicely done. I do

not suppose too many footballers have scored this many hat-tricks

for their club. We have medals Barnard, you have Tony Mowbray at

the helm now. -- with Middlesbrough. You can only inspire other people

to come down and take an interest in with -- in were the club has

come from and Brevett might going in the future. -- and where it

You just come in here and you preach in the sounds and the site.

-- and you breathe aim of the sounds and the sites. That is a

passion rather than an obsession. It means a lot to people, they live

their lives outside of that. It is a common bond. It brings people

People like to keep their expedience somehow. We all have

memories. We all invest so much in football. If you are a fan, for 90

minutes you go through the wringer of emotions, High and Low. You want

to remember that, you do not want I do not know what it is about

Middlesbrough players and papal blessings, because if I remember,

Bernard's lay them got one. That must be like a walk through your

life. Have you been yet? I have not, but I will go very soon. I spoke to

Gary Pallister and he said it was really good. The way that the stuff

gets pulled together, we thought we would be well a little something

for you. Have a look at this! What about that? Gorgeous! And you still

have the sit, obviously you do not have the hair. I would not fit in

the side now. They have a corker of you now. All my lords, that is me

on the left-hand side. If you want to come on this

programme again that is enough! It looks like a wet, doesn't it?

in a music band, they beat combo. That was the publicity photo that

accompany it. Some backing vocals and the car.

Can we talk about Sunderland their? Going for a place in the FA; -- FA

Cup semi-finals. What a brilliant job the manager has done. This

could be a real touch paper moment. If they can get over their Berti

form at Goodison Park. They could get themselves a place in the FA

Cup. I do not think it is so much the form at Goodison Park. Everton

will be on the back of the Wandel victory at Tottenham. Tottenham

battered them in the second half. - - the back of a won't snow victory.

I have a sneaking fancy for Sunderland to go all the way this

year. What about Michael Turner, that you know from your time at

whole? We mentioned Martin O'Neill, Steve Bruce need to take some

credit for bringing the players in. Where Michael is concerned, he

always had the ambition to play for a bigger club than whole city. That

is not being disrespectful to the Tigers, but he had his head turned

by clubs like Liverpool and Manchester United. He was knocking

on the door of the England team. Sunderland came along and he jumped

at the chance to make that next progression, that transition to a

bigger club. He is having a fantastic season. He is playing

alongside a class player, John O'Shea. He is going well at the

moment. Paul, for clean sheets at the moment. Only seven goals

conceded in the past eight games, and that is not, isn't it? It is.

It has been a fantastic start since Martin has gone in. In 2004 be got

to the semi-finals, hopefully we can take it that step further and