Watch: Students stop traffic in Newcastle with Toure chant
16 Oct 2013 16:20
Traffic in Newcastle city centre was stopped bizarrely in the early hours of Wednesday morning as students singing about Manchester City player Yaya Toure and his brother and ex-Blue Kolo blocked the streets.
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HUGE: The chanting apparently lasted for ten minutes
It's not the Etihad, it's not Mary Ds - it's not even Manchester.
But Collingwood Street, in Newcastle city centre, was bizarrely turned Blue for ten, traffic-stopping minutes in the early hours of Wednesday morning thanks to a City terrace anthem.
At around 3am dozens of sozzled students spilled out of nightclubs and launched into the Yaya and Kolo Toure chant - leaving furious taxi drivers beeping their horns and viewers of the bizarre video below scratching their heads.
The M.E.N. tracked down the man who took the footage and all became (just about) clear.
City fan Joe Friar, 20, is currently studying sports coaching at Northumbria University.
He explained: "One of my flatmates is a Chelsea fan and he loves the Yaya/Kolo Toure chant and the actions after seeing me do it.
"We came out of a club and he started doing it in the middle of the road for some reason.
"I'd had a few so I joined in, being a Blue, and then loads of other people who were coming out of clubs started doing it as well and it seemed to catch on. It's pretty easy to pick up.
"It ended up going on for about 10 minutes - it was bizarre."
Joe, from Sale, added: "I'm the only City fan on my course so it was mental to see all these people in the middle of Newcastle doing a City chant."
Yaya Toure has responded to the video on Twitter in French, thanking the people of Newcastle for their dedication.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/students-stop-traffic-newcastle-manchester-6195362?
16 Oct 2013 16:20
Traffic in Newcastle city centre was stopped bizarrely in the early hours of Wednesday morning as students singing about Manchester City player Yaya Toure and his brother and ex-Blue Kolo blocked the streets.
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It's not the Etihad, it's not Mary Ds - it's not even Manchester.
But Collingwood Street, in Newcastle city centre, was bizarrely turned Blue for ten, traffic-stopping minutes in the early hours of Wednesday morning thanks to a City terrace anthem.
At around 3am dozens of sozzled students spilled out of nightclubs and launched into the Yaya and Kolo Toure chant - leaving furious taxi drivers beeping their horns and viewers of the bizarre video below scratching their heads.
The M.E.N. tracked down the man who took the footage and all became (just about) clear.
City fan Joe Friar, 20, is currently studying sports coaching at Northumbria University.
He explained: "One of my flatmates is a Chelsea fan and he loves the Yaya/Kolo Toure chant and the actions after seeing me do it.
"We came out of a club and he started doing it in the middle of the road for some reason.
"I'd had a few so I joined in, being a Blue, and then loads of other people who were coming out of clubs started doing it as well and it seemed to catch on. It's pretty easy to pick up.
"It ended up going on for about 10 minutes - it was bizarre."
Joe, from Sale, added: "I'm the only City fan on my course so it was mental to see all these people in the middle of Newcastle doing a City chant."
Yaya Toure has responded to the video on Twitter in French, thanking the people of Newcastle for their dedication.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/students-stop-traffic-newcastle-manchester-6195362?
