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Yes I would buy something similar to that shown on the picture of Crompton. I very rarely buy shirts these days but was hoping to get the anniversary shirt as a one off. However I wouldnt even have that white monstrosity (which doesnt even represent Club Colours) as a gift. You could do far worse than reproduce faithfully that first known strip from the Alexandra Meadows photo in 1878. It's quite quirky with the different coloured sleeves, the correctly proportioned Maltese Cross and the small numbering on the front of the shirt. And of course blue and white halves.

You wouldnt reproduce a picture with a bloke in it who was never actually the groom either.

He did score one of the best goals I've ever seen at QPR! If that was by a Premier league player it would be shown endlessly.

On Hedges. He’s far from a world beater but I don’t share the very negative slant adopted by some posters. I share the view of each of our last 4 regarded pro manager/coaches Mowbray JDT Eustace and Ismail who undoubtedly trust/ed him to do the team player job that he never appears to shirk.

Shows how easy it is to con people, (initially at least) From what I can see Plainfield Asset Management was set up in 2004 to manage funds of other people's money. Whether the Company itself had any actual intrinsic value, or connection to the person purporting to be Dan Williams, or potential involvment in a Rovers takeover ,who knows, but in any event as I posted earlier they were declared insolvent and wound up in 2013 and as early as 2008 (when negotiations were still supposedly ongoing) there were deemed "93% illiquid" and investors were barred from taking their money out.

There's a few different possible variations of him "existing". a) He actually was Dan Williams an American Businessman who was genuinely minted and who could afford to take over the Club but who backed out of any deal because the terms weren't right for him. b) He actually was Dan Williams an American businessman but someone who in reality didnt have a pot to piss in. c) He was someone who for a laugh invented the persona "Dan Williams" - lifelong Rovers fan hailing from Lytham St Annes turned American multimillionaire (who no-one's ever previously come across or heard of) - and invented any personal link with potential backers some of whom might have existed. I can't decide between b) and c) myself but I'd be incredibly surprised if it was a). Still not a scrap of info about him on the Internet to this day apart from the alleged attempts to take over Rovers and the Rhinos neither of which came to fruition Going back to Nixon (which was the original point) he backed this bloke like he was Shaikh Mansour even though he was almost certainly b) or c). Which again leads to suspicions that he is open to promoting agendas for cash, however vacuous they may be.

You'd assume Wolves wouldn't have made a formal approach unless they'd been given an indication Edwards is interested. Not sure if he has a release clause or whether Boro can reject Wolves' advances irrespective.

Yes---they talk to each other and our player finds out he's earning way less than anyone else!

I think he was part of the group looking at buying Rovers but he wasn't the main finance guy and its was financial institutions being the main backing and I think their wealth went due to the 2008 financial crash. I think @philipl has more info as I seem to remember having a conversation about him previously FORMER Blackburn Rovers vice chairman Walter Hubert today insisted Daniel Williams is the right man to protect Jack Walker's legacy. Dan's the real deal | Lancashire Telegraph MAJOR American investors Plainfield Asset Management are today revealed as the big-money partners of Blackburn Rovers takeover bidder Daniel Williams. The company is based in Greenwich, Connecticut and have about #2.5 billion already tied up with businesses in the States, including a massive stake in top racecourses. They were formed just two years ago by a financier called Max Holmes, who has quickly completed a handful of top deals. A two-man delegation from Plainfield were in England last week to meet Blackburn chairman John Williams and hammer out the deal as Dan Williams's business partners. ROVERS: THE MAX FACTOR - World News - Mirror Online I also spoke to him via Email.

I (as another former marketing professional) agree. The 150th anniversary is the anniversary of our founding, not of all the bits inbetween. It’s a celebration of what happened 150 years ago, just like a wedding anniversary is a celebration of the wedding day. If, to pick a completely random example 🙄, the groom had a moustache at the wedding 40 years ago but shaved it off a couple of years later, looks better without it and virtually everyone only knows him without it, that wouldn’t justify airbrushing it out of the wedding photo reprinted for the occasion.

Pay rise, opportunity to save a team in trouble, better squad and probably assurances that he will get to rebuild in the championship. Would be foolish not to at least consider it.

seems a pointless move for Edwards. Wolves squad need massive investment in January in order to stay up, Not sure its a wise move for him. or for any promising head coach. Its a job I wouldn't be rushing taking it

my team Pears Miller Carter McLoughlin Alebiosu TGH Montgomery Hedges Morishita Ohashi Gudjohnsen

Is this true? If so, they should have given him a ritual head shave!

Depends on who was doing the selling to a degree - better owners may have out there but discouraged to bid because the party contracted by the Walkers to conduct the sale were not considered ”sound” by serious Investors…

My concern is how opposition teams were very blatantly targeting him as our weak spot, prior to him finally being dropped. Think of Derby away last season, for example. The hope is that other teams have forgotten how poor he actually is. Though with Eustace coming up on Saturday, there is an air of inevitability.

Interesting piece on 1800s football kits https://www.pendlesportswear.co.uk/blog/football-kit-design-1880s-90s/?srsltid=AfmBOoour5zUDJQ0sV7NKyqaGPOZoWj8rLnzUhJIZCTNLiKhO27jienh I suggested this earlier today on wearing white😃 (rather proud of my own logic 😃😃😃) only just found this article too

He definitely existed - I can't remember the specifics now, but I tracked him down and exchanged a few emails with him at the time. But I would suggest that he fell within the 'fantasist' bracket more than anything.

Technically it's a quartered shirt as the shirt is split into four panels but more commonly it is referred to as halves as the focus is always the front. It seems that quarters was used quite frequently as the description in the 1800s and changed somewhere along the way to halves.

Two professional football clubs in Blackburn would have been brilliant. Valshaw (??) Olympic had two teams in Blackburn combination decades ago. Was told their name was dedicated to the former Blackburn Olympic name. Can claim to have done the Revidge run a few times. Pubs not outstanding but being close together made it easier in bad weather.

Yep that my next thought! Seems they're 5th favourites at around 11/1. Morocco heavy favourites at a shade over 2/1.

Should like we've rushed Carter back. Wouldn't be surprised if he started and broke down after 20mins

You'd expect Nigeria to go deep in the competition as well.

We were probably up for sale at the worst possible time and even V's were only brought to the table when the price dropped about 20 million.

Sadly there are barely any pubs left to crawl between these days.