BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[Mattyblue]

I like how the ‘early 80s’ is referring to the 1880s.

[jim mk2]

One of the all-time Ewood greats and the best strip bar none

Take me back

[rigger]

1 hour ago, jim mk2 said:

One of the all-time Ewood greats and the best strip bar none

Take me back

I would have been on the Blackburn end

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 minutes ago, rigger said:

I would have been on the Blackburn end

10/10

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, jim mk2 said:

One of the all-time Ewood greats and the best strip bar none

Take me back

10/10. He would have been equally good today as a wing back. A Rolls-Royce of a player. I tried to model myself as a full back on Keith. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

7 minutes ago, rigger said:

I would have been on the Blackburn end

That’s a great kit, probably my favourite. The previous one with the vee neck and short sleeves was a bit cold in winter. A young Eamon Rogers in the background before he let his hair grow. 

[rigger]

5 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

That’s a great kit, probably my favourite. The previous one with the vee neck and short sleeves was a bit cold in winter. A young Eamon Rogers in the background before he let his hair grow. 

His hair hangs over his shoulders ,

tied up with a blue and white band

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[Gav]

Former Rovers player Ally Macleod trying to explain Scotlands loss to Peru in the opening game in World Cup 1978 

 

Edited Sunday at 15:43 by Gav

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, Gav said:

Former Rovers player Ally Macleod trying to explain Scotlands loss to Peru in the opening game in World Cup 1978 

 

Cubillas was World class for Peru that night. We had a Scottish welder that was giving it large before the comp started. We didn’t see him again for a month !

[rigger]

3 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Cubillas was World class for Peru that night. We had a Scottish welder that was giving it large before the comp started. We didn’t see him again for a month !

What a free-kick.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

25 minutes ago, rigger said:

What a free-kick.

I just watched it again on YouTube. Brilliant free kick bent around the wall with the outside of his right foot right into the near top corner. It’s really hard to get power into the shot using that technique but Cubillas did. The goal he  scored earlier in the game wasn’t too shabby either. A right foot thunderbolt from 20 odd yards out into the same top corner.

Edited Sunday at 18:59 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Gav]

I’m told this is the official programme of last Football League match played on Christmas Day in England (1965)

@Tyrone Shoelaces Over to you pal 👍

Edited 23 hours ago by Gav

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4 hours ago, Gav said:

I’m told this is the official programme of last Football League match played on Christmas Day in England (1965)

@Tyrone Shoelaces Over to you pal 👍

Tis very true!

Liverpool also carry a bizarre festive record playing Christmas day, Boxing day and the following day consecutively, with Rovers drawing  them 3-3 on the final of their triple run of fixtures!

[doctorryan]

6 hours ago, Gav said:

I’m told this is the official programme of last Football League match played on Christmas Day in England (1965)

@Tyrone Shoelaces Over to you pal 👍

I have that one.

[den]

13 hours ago, Gav said:

I’m told this is the official programme of last Football League match played on Christmas Day in England (1965)

@Tyrone Shoelaces Over to you pal 👍

I was at the game Gav. Mum and Dad weren’t too pleased with me rushing Xmas dinner down and doing a flier.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

14 hours ago, Gav said:

I’m told this is the official programme of last Football League match played on Christmas Day in England (1965)

@Tyrone Shoelaces Over to you pal 👍

OK Gav - The Rovers team in a 4-2 defeat. Scorers for Rovers - George Jones and Mike England. Attendance.20,851.

Else

Wilson, England Mulvaney, Newton

Clayton, Joyce

Darling, Byrom, McEvoy, Harrison

sub Jones

A strange team in my opinion. No wonder we were struggling.

[den]

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

OK Gav - The Rovers team in a 4-2 defeat. Scorers for Rovers - George Jones and Mike England. Attendance.20,851.

Else

Wilson, England Mulvaney, Newton

Clayton, Joyce

Darling, Byrom, McEvoy, Harrison

sub Jones

A strange team in my opinion. No wonder we were struggling.

I often think that just three years earlier Rovers had what was - IMO- the best rovers team I’ve ever seen. How the mighty fell. 
 

three years earlier. Spot the changes

Else

Bray Newton.

Clayton England McGrath.

Ferguson McEvoy Pickering Douglas Harrison.

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4 hours ago, den said:

I was at the game Gav. Mum and Dad weren’t too pleased with me rushing Xmas dinner down and doing a flier.

Fantastic 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

To go with Gav's Programme and Den's memories...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cj69djzyjx6o

Edited 4 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[aletheia]

You’ve probably covered it before but Xmas in the past was busy:

25 December 1959 Rovers v Blackpool 1-0

26 December 1959 Blackpool v Rovers 1-0

24 December 1960 Blackpool v Rovers 2-0

27 December 1960 Rovers v Blackpool 2-0

[Cherry Blue]

2 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

To go with Gav's Programme and Den's memories...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cj69djzyjx6o

Mike England and a packed Riverside.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

17 minutes ago, Cherry Blue said:

Mike England and a packed Riverside.

Mick McGrath behind him.