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A personal, potted history.... walking through centre turnstile on riverside to a packed Ewood for the first time. Awestruck at the scarves, rattles. marching band. seeing Ronnie Clayton lea

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Without doubt, better to have tasted the riches. For me personally Venkys changed the way I saw Rovers. It shouldn’t have done, but it did. Things they can never do though. They can’t take away t

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Rovers fans have a lot to be thankful to Bill Fox for. An often forgotten figure in our ascendancy but the man who laid the foundations. While the rest of our traditional rivals were applying for re-e

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18 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Tomorrow will be shorter (as long as you remember to put your clocks forward!)

I had thought it would be next weekend; but having seen the BBC News & weather forecast, I'm up to speed, thanks @wilsdenrover

As I'll need to be in the morning for my weekly verbal joust with my Burnleh-supporting old schoolmate in NZ!! (It'll be strange with no weekend games to discuss; but I'm sure we'll find some points of disagreement!

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1 hour ago, R0verb0y said:

Incidentally, perhaps it was a bit too much of a "niche" statistic; but I was a bit surprised not to have heard any of the commentators last weekend mention that both of the grandfathers of Tommy Booth played for City in that 5th Round game.

They did mention it, at least once 

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3 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Man City in the FACup in the late 1960’s was the last 40,000 plus gate. Yes, it was packed.

 

It was downright dangerous. We were sat safely in the Nuttall Street stand but I can still see the crowd on the Riverside now swaying back and forth. It only needed one of those barriers to collapse

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10 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Man City in the FACup in the late 1960’s was the last 40,000 plus gate. Yes, it was packed.

Fans queuing for those precious City tickets Tyrone:

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46 minutes ago, Gav said:

Fans queuing for those precious City tickets Tyrone:

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I was probably back home and in bed by the time those photos were taken. Me and my pal Alec had queued up all night to get our tickets along with another half a dozen fools. 
When the game was originally scheduled we’d a full compliment of players to choose from. The game was postponed at least once because of the weather and when it was actually played both Billy Wilson our first choice left back and Eamon Rogers our midfield dynamo were suspended. Both were badly missed on the night. Unfortunately that was City’s best performance in the whole cup run and we couldn’t live with them. Their transition from attack to defence was really rapid, nothing like the pass-pass-pass of the Pep teams today.

The saddest thing for me to see the great Bryan Douglas coming on as sub when the game was pretty much gone. He was unable to affect the game against the new style of midfield player in City’s Colin Bell. It was like the changing of the guard - out with the ball players and in with the hard running athletes.

The team that night -

Blacklaw

Newton, Coddington, Mulvaney, Calloway

Metcalfe, Sharples, Martin, Connelly

Darling, Fryatt

Sub. Douglas.

 

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17 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I was probably back home and in bed by the time those photos were taken. Me and my pal Alec had queued up all night to get our tickets along with another half a dozen fools. 
When the game was originally scheduled we’d a full compliment of players to choose from. The game was postponed at least once because of the weather and when it was actually played both Billy Wilson our first choice left back and Eamon Rogers our midfield dynamo were suspended. Both were badly missed on the night. Unfortunately that was City’s best performance in the whole cup run and we couldn’t live with them. Their transition from attack to defence was really rapid, nothing like the pass-pass-pass of the Pep teams today.

The saddest thing for me to see the great Bryan Douglas coming on as sub when the game was pretty much gone. He was unable to affect the game against the new style of midfield player in City’s Colin Bell. It was like the changing of the guard - out with the ball players and in with the hard running athletes.

The team that night -

Blacklaw

Newton, Coddington, Mulvaney, Calloway

Metcalfe, Sharples, Martin, Connelly

Darling, Fryatt

Sub. Douglas.

 

Who would have gone in goal if Blacklaw had been injured?

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36 minutes ago, renrag said:

Liverpool FA Cup 1948/49 or 49/50, the abandoned Burnley FA Cup game 1959 and the Bolton v Preston 2nd replay 1959 are others I remember attending, as well as all those you have listed

Edit There was also a Burnley v Liverpool semi final at Ewood in 1947. I wasn’t there but I expect that would be over 50,000

Yes, you’re right about the Liverpool game in Jan 1950 - 52,468 at a 0-0 draw. 52,221 at the replay at Anfield. That was a 2-1 defeat. 
I’ve no means of knowing about games that don’t directly involve Rovers. Sorry.

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Rovers record attendances

https://ewoodpark.jimdofree.com/attendances-record-attendances-1929-1960/

Record Attendance
61,783 v Bolton Wanderers  2 March 1929 FA Cup 6th Round

Highest in the FA Cup at Ewood Park

60,011 v  Blackpool 4 March 1925 FA Cup 4th Round
54,400 v Huddersfield Town 9 March 1939 FA Cup 6th Round [replay]
53,889 v Burnley 16 March 1960 FA Cup 6th Round [replay]
53,000  v  Everton 25 January 1930 FA Cup 4th Round
52,920  v Burnley 8 March 1952 FA Cup 6th Round
52,468  v  Liverpool 7 January 1950 FA Cup 3rd Round
51,223 v  Blackpool 30 January 1960 FA Cup 4th Round
51,177  v  West Bromwich Albion 23 February 1952 FA Cup 5th Round
51,000 v  Liverpool 1 March 1958 FA Cup 6th Round
Highest in the Football League at Ewood Park 
52,656 v Preston North End 26 December 1921  Division 1 (Level 1)
48,000 v  Burnley 1 January 1914 Division 1 (Level 1)
46,847 v Preston North End 4 October 1947 Division 1 (Level 1)
45,521  v  Leicester City 16 April 1954 Division 2 (Level 2)
44,612 v  Preston North End 4 November 1950  Division 2 (Level 2)
43,192 v  Wolverhampton Wanderers 13 September 1958 Division 1 (Level 1)
42,891 v  Preston North End 7 April 1950 Division 2 (Level 2)
42,000 v  Burnley 16 October 1926 Division 1 (Level 1)
41,830 v  Tottenham Hotspur 30 August 1958 Division 1 (Level 1)
41,789 v  Liverpool 22 February 1958 Division 2 (Level 2)
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On 26/03/2023 at 17:10, renrag said:

Windy is a common nickname for Millers in the armed services. I suppose it comes from when flour was milled in windmills

This is correct historically, Camblewick Green got it from there, so anyone called Miller got their nickname from millers of wheat etc., not from some kids programme. 

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