Elvis Biro

We're only a point off the play-offs!

It's a nap! I'm happy.

I can see the headline in the old Sports Pink - "Misery for Burnley as Rovers go nap!! hopefully, Match report by Alf Thornton, obvs.

Do you remember them back in the 60's when they used to have a mascot dressed as a sailor wandering round the touchline? He always seemed to be pissed as well.

Would that be Reg Varney? "I 'ate you, Butler"

Takes me back to those days - my other half wanted to get two new pet cats. I wasn't that keen, but was allowed to name them as a bit of a sweetener. Hence my kids growing up wondering why our cats were called Howard and Scott.

Currently 5/1 on Wm Hill

Lionel Messi has just become available on a 'free'. Is he the sort of prospect we should be looking at?

Nice to see a perimeter advert for Tommy Ball's shoe emporium. Used to live just round the corner from there.

Ammonia.

Just had a call from my sister who lives in Lower Darwen. She was having a stroll around and bumped into this oldish guy she'd talked to a few times before. He got chatting and said he'd just been for a walk around Ewood Park. My sister said 'My brother's a massive Rovers fan'. He said 'I used to play for them -send him my best wishes'. Turned out to be Bobby Svarc. Sis said he looked as fit as a fiddle and is a really nice bloke. Remember seeing him play, but according to Jackman it was a brief Rovers career.

So what did I have a bet on? Both teams score and a Bayern win. Why do I bother? I think they are laughing at me behind their masks every time I go into William Hills. Fair do's really.

Badly spelt shite. Are you being ironic?

Would that be Billy the Fish from Viz? Great keeper - suit the Rovers perfectly as he doesn't actually exist.

What about the old, probably apocryphal one that Tommy Docherty used to tell - When he was a kid he got signed up by Preston when they still had Tom Finney playing for them. At some point later on he was offered the fantastic salary of 20 quid a week in the season and 10 quid a week in the close season (used to happen then, kids). He said 'No, I want 20 quid a season and 20 quid close season' The manager said 'Only Tom Finney gets 20 quid a week in the close season, and he's a much better player than you'. Docherty said 'Not in the close season, he's not'.