Rovers at Goodison:

There's a famous saying in Jamaican culture that translates as: "He who does not listen, must feel". No matter what their yes men try to portray over here, it's obvious they are starting to "feel" over in India.

The Guardian had a great description of his laid-back style a week or 2 back. Their reporter described him as "playing like he had both hands in his pocket." Perfect!

I was at that game! Fantastic win. Very Sparton surroundings for us visitors though!

i try to erase that day from my memory,tuned in to the game on radio lancs and from that day on,iv`e never been able to listen to a game on the radio,it scarred me for life,losing semi finals,losing games to burnley,last minutes goals against us ,nothing will ever be as bad as that game in south london

I like both of this season gone's shirts, but couldn't bring myself to buy/wear anything with Venkys on the shoulder.

Sorry, you are wrong. I’m a Darwen baker’s son, and grew up in a bakery. A tea cake in this part of Lancashire has currants in it, one without is a plain teacake.

I’ll have to break it to my Rovers-mad nephew that having 3 ‘Wharton’ shirts (Rovers, England, and Palace) that he’s ‘tinpot’, ‘a bit cringe’, ‘not a real fan’, and whatever other nonsense is being said. There is nothing wrong with following a player’s career and wishing them every success. Idolising a local lad and fellow fan, is just fine. In fact, I would argue it’s something admirable that has been lost from real football fandom, rather than something to be derided. Hellfire, we had a decent circle jerk about Raya performing superbly against Real Madrid in the Champions League semi only a couple of weeks ago and nobody started lashing out at other fans for that. And Raya’s neither a local nor a fan. I’d be interested to know that long list of talented academy products who were alleged Rovers fans that went on to do better than Rovers. I can think of Phil Jones, and… Well maybe Dunny, but he was established and moved sideways. Derbyshire? Gally? Who else? Nobody on Wharton’s level, that’s for sure, and nobody that went up the ladder so easily.

I don’t know but it wouldn’t surprise me.

I'll never forget Courtney's face when he came out the next time he reffed us at Bradford.

The Police - Walking On The Moon

He was 18 in March

Michalski is the best young keeper we got. England under 18's international keeper

Willie Tee - Walking Up A One Way Sreet

They are looking into it.

The Who - Out In The Street

That's the nature of the Academy - you have to play with the hand you are dealt. Michalski is meant to be talented, but he's 17.

You can't teach talent. You can however teach your goalkeeper that when a cross comes into the six yard box you fucking catch it!

Ahhh thankyou, Brilliant well done to all involved! Was wearing my Rovers shirt today anyway and give them a few hooks all down Livesey Branch road

There seems to be just as much overreaction from those saying it’s an overreaction. This thread has largely been bemoaning the disgraceful behaviour of the regime (so like most threads on here) over the sale. There has then been a sprinkling of posts discussing him as a player. I’m really struggling to see what’s ‘tinpot’ about it.

Agree with this 100%. It's small time and tinpot. Embarrassing really. I don't give two fucks about Crystal Palace, they're a complete non entity. I can understand a very minor interest in how Wharton is getting on but this whole thread is just completely embarrassing. We are Blackburn Rovers. Former Premier League champions and the tenth most successful club in England. Wharton should have stayed and forced the club to run out of money to bring on administration, that would have been a great thing for him to do. He ain't a Rovers player anymore so I couldn't give a toss. What are you all going to do if he scores against us? Start cheering, waving your Palace or whatever other shit club he's playing for, scarves over your heads? As I said before, a real Rovers fan wouldn't have allowed themselves to be shoved out the door like that. And one more thing, a tea cake doesn't have fucking currants in it!

Didn't someone from WATR say that Venky's quite literally told them they don't need or want to hear what the fans think?

The context was a club that had failed to make the final step in 1981 on goal difference and one that had faded away from promotion positions to 5th more than once afterwards, including the previous season's huge ,final stage collapse from automatic promotion position with Archibald, Ardiles et al. This was an awful, awful weekend. The weekend of Tiananmen Square massacre too. Rovers arrived with a 3-1 advantage from the first leg with the frustration of Howard Gayle's missed penalty. The Rovers fans were crammed in a tiny corner. It felt much more restricted than my previous visits to Selhurst. The Palace crowd were already wound up and their stadium managers were clever at placing speakers to blast out the way contingent, so we could hardly hear ourselves speak in the 20 minutes before kick off. The team bloody froze. Nothing went right from the first kick of the ball....and yet, we still could have done it. We only needed to score once. Courtney allowed Wright and Bright to get away with fouling over physicality from the start...Think of it, as a cross between Old Trafford and Escape to Victory! Then, the penalty that never was -in the 2nd half at 0-0. None of us knew why it had been given. Even Ian Wright agreed, albeit 25 years later. From memory, the Palace attack was actually finished and the ball was moving out of our area at the time. Finally, the last few minutes were a joke when Courtney allowed play to continue while hundreds of Palace fans, spilled onto the side of the pitch along the touchline.. The final whistle and the Dave Clark fcking Five...

When do we find out the retained list?

Isn't she Frank Fielding's mum?