First match attended

[Aqualung]

81/82 season for me on the Riverside terrace. Rovers v Sheffield Wednesday league Cup tie first leg I think. 

My overriding memory of the game was Noel Brotherton missing a penalty that almost cleared the Blackburn End! 

[Aqualung]

3 hours ago, oneandycrawford said:

Charlton Athletic at home Oct(?) 74. Riverside Stand with my dad. First game of league football for me. The blue and white halves (and the win!) did it for me and never interested in supporting any other football league club from that day on. We still went all over the north-west picking the best games when Rovers were too far away. Always had a soft spot for Bury due to close family friends.

Prior to that I'd been taken all over the north-west following the great Rossendale United side of the early 70's.

One of my earliest memories of supporting Rossy is of going to Ewood and standing in the Nuttall Street paddock (I think) for a Lancashire Floodlight Cup final against Great Harwood (possibly?). Would love to hear from anyone who knows about that match as tried to look it up online but not found anything.

Having our back garden looking on to Rossies  pitch I have great memories being brought up there mid 60s till 77.

Only players I can remember from those days we're Glyn Barker, Billy Greenan (rip), Johnny Pearson and the  goalkeeper Woods. Oh! And a player they got from Airdrie called Tommy Veitch or similar. 

Great days at Dark Lane in those days especially when the drew Shrewsbury Town at home in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. 

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