like a lot of people i feel that hughesy has his sights set on old trafford, can't see him at Barca or bayern, everton or southampton. Chelsea might well interest him should the special one suddenly disappear up his own rectum

Dunny only lasted 24 minutes today before his hamstring went again. taylor was up against john stead as well

got back at 3.30, what a good trip and result. on the downside a group of about 20(stragglers already late for the match) of us were held up by security after passing through the first turnstile. this was after the security checks.i got the impression they were trying to wind people up. ended up missing a sizeable chunk of the first half. Was impressed by their support and the atmosphere they created. On the whole the banter was good natured with a couple of burnley flags on display in their section.Plenty of scarf /badge swapping. Back in the town centre a group of local yobs were intent on trouble. we succesfully avoided them but others may not have been so lucky.

i have just stumbled out of my pit and just come across this computer , what a bloody good result, just avoided some local d***headss last night and must have got back to the hotel on auto pilot. setting off back in 5 minutes

FFS remember CARDIFF it was funnier then

I don't know about it being boring., its causing me some anxiety. WE ARE SECOND BEST BY A LONG WAY.

I thought it was the only move of his career

might get a mention http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,1174833,00.html

2-1 rovers with dickov almost soiling my day, oh yea and a load of people complaining that its not on sky and they missed the match, its rovers fault and their never going to go again.

a couple of days ago there were some posts on this thread regarding alternative arrangements via stansted for when neils trip went pear shaped. i have lost the number now but need it urgent has it been deleated?

E02 riverside 10 rows up. a good place to give linesmen stick when they get offsides wrong against us and laugh at them when it goes in our favour.The downside are the facilities are the worst on the ground. often change for cup matches, as close to the home dugout as possible last season.

only equalled the record apparantly, i think the other match was germany/cameroon

well apart from simuvic ending up with 4 cards, 2 blatant penaltys for australia not being given, australia's 2nd goal being offside does the forum think that graham poll has done the premier proud and shown johnny foriegner how superior we are in the standard of officiating

much as i was impressed with usa's performance against italy, today i fancy ghana 3-2 and a stack of cards from the german ref.

spent three days running round organising a sweep at work, then i also ended up with togo {or to give them their full name togohomeverysoon} thought i had done better in the club sweep, went in during the poland-ecuador match and was met with "great news about the sweep- your teams winning" [ecuador]

http://archive.lancashireeveningtelegraph..../19/810114.html above is a link to an article about the bridge collapse Just in case the link stops working this is the article originally published on the telegraph site. please delete mods if not allowed WAITING for a train can hardly have been a greater torment than that experienced by the crowd gathered at Blackburn's railway station 46 years ago tonight. They didn't want to go anywhere. Instead, the mothers, fathers, wives, sons and daughters who flocked there desperately wanted news. The silent dread that filled each one as the first of the trains approached was that it might bring tragedy to their lives. For anguished hours that Saturday night, hundreds of families in Blackburn and beyond endured the agony of not knowing as word arrived of a disaster barely a dozen miles across the county. The news travelled fast - a footbridge at Bury's Knowsley Street station had collapsed on to the tracks with hundreds of homeward-bound Blackburn Rovers fans on it. But in the aftermath, as the emergency services at Bury strove to cope with the casualties, little else was known at Blackburn. Phone lines to the hospital at Bury were jammed. The police had scant information. How many? And who? Rumour was doing its ugly work as the answers failed to come. Large numbers had been seriously injured and some killed, it said. Desperate for details of loved ones who had gone by train to join the 25,000-plus crowd at the Lancashire derby at Gigg Lane, hundreds went to the station to meet the homecoming trains. The first two were late but their arrival only added to the relatives' agony. Swinging rattles and cheering the Rovers' victory, the fans who poured from the carriages knew nothing of the accident or the scenes they had left behind at Bury. So the anguish went on as the other trains out of Bury that night were held up by the mayhem at Knowsley Street. Because of the delay, many fans who went by rail took buses home and, of those who eventually rode back on the held-up trains home and had witnessed the bridge collapse, most were still too shocked to impart information to the waiting crowd at Blackburn and only wanted to get home. Meantime, a special bus brought home 50 who had been slightly injured. But where were the rest? The names of those kept in hospital came through "with maddening slowness," the Northern Daily Telegraph reported. And it was 10pm before the crowd at the station was told that the rest of the injured, not kept in hospital, would be sent home by ambulance during the night. It was not until the day after that the extent of the disaster became clear. More than 200 fans were on the wooden footbridge when it fell 20 feet on to the track; 175 were injured; 120 of them taken to Bury General Hospital and 37 detained with injuries ranging from fractures to spinal injuries. Ambulances from eight towns were needed and buses, taxis and private cars also carried fans to the hospital where almost every ward filled with injured, some lying on mattresses on the floor. One man - a 66-year-old retired weaver - died soon afterwards. Another 52-year-old man, who had fractured his ribs and collar bone, died 16 days later after being admitted to hospital in Blackburn for an operation. Yet the disaster could have been an even greater tragedy. For as scores of injured lay on the tracks - among them our reporter who, despite a broken leg, asked helpers to call his paper with news of the accident - a special train was heading for the station. But a porter, later hailed as a hero at an official inquiry, quickly realised the danger and dashed to phone the signal boxes on either side of the station to get them to block all the lines to it and the in-bound train was halted 200 yards from the scene. What had gone wrong? The inquest into the first victim's death heard three days afterwards from a British Railways bridge inspector that metal straps on the bridge were "very badly corroded" and had been 10 to 15 years in reaching that condition. Railways officials had also partially reconstructed the bridge from the wreckage and found that that its central member was missing so that instead of having three upright supports, it only had two. The inquest jury, delivering a "misadventure" verdict, concluded that the bridge had not been adequately inspected for a number of years. At the public inquiry 10 days after the accident, a British Railways engineer said the 70-year-old bridge had been officially inspected in 1944 and 1948. But a consulting engineer called as a witness claimed there had been no proper inspection for upwards for upwards of 10 years and probably 25 years. "It was a bridge of which our forefathers would have been proud. "But it was liable to rot," he said. Yet why had so many been on the bridge - more than 200 people, packed five and six deep? And for so long - for up to 20 minutes while gates to the station platforms were locked? Ironically, as the inquest was told, it was for safety reasons - to avoid overcrowding on the platforms. That premiss was blasted away in an instant that awful Saturday evening - as one of the injured, Blackburn policeman PC F Haythornthwaite, told afterwards. "There was a terrific crack and the bridge dropped about two feet and then it crashed to the ground," he said. "There was a deathly silence at first, then people began to scream." Among the fans who rushed to help the injured from the tracks that day was one in his early 20s - Jack Walker, now the Rovers owner, and his brother Fred. 'Spite' wall riddle EVER heard of a wall whose foundations were spite? Reader Jack Dickinson, of Cherry Lea, Blackburn, remains intrigued by just such a wall - though it's more than 50 years since he first came across it. Then a young apprentice painter and decorator, he was working at the time at the Grove private maternity clinic at the top end of Knowsley Road, Wilpshire, close to the nearby Methodist church. At the end of the day, he and his workmates caught the bus at a stop in Ribchester Road, opposite a large house known as Clayton Grange - across from which stood a curious wall, around 10ft long and a few feet high. "It was built of rubble, old tiles, half-bricks and the like," he said. "On inquiring, I was told it was a 'spite' wall. "It seems that, many years before, the owner of the big house realised he could be seen inside his home by the occupants of the house across and ordered them to build a wall at their own expense to prevent them from looking in. "And they did - using all this old material. "I assume he was able to make them build it because it was all his land in any case." The wall, says Jack, was rebuilt years ago but he asks: does anyone else remember it and the story? Let me know me if you do. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion. Archive Home From the Lancashire Evening Telegraph http://www.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk © Newsquest Media Group 1998

just said that it is not as bad as first thought, here's hoping

did anyone else see the linesman snub bellamy at the final whistle. bellers went and offered him a handshake and he just brushed him away. i've got used to petulant players but officials! a great performance from us but could not understand boro's attitude at times trailing 3-2 and leaving three men at the back to mark bellers despite having the extra man. the one positive from savage's sending off is that parts of the media are now portraying as hard done too on a regular basis, a far cry from last season.

best idea yet should be a voting option

I Was quite happy watching him suffer every week and listening to the stick the fans were giving him. I will just have to make the most of todays phone in's

gally has just put stoke 1 up v preston

no but he got booked for a go at danny mills and he impressed chris waddle who was commentating on radio 5

1 chelsea 2 arsenal 3 liverpool 4 man utd 5 m'boro 6 spuds 7 everton 8 villa 9 rovers 10 bolton 11 newcastle 12 charlton 13 man city 14 brum 15 fulham 16 sunderland 17 wigan 18 west brom 19 portsmouth 20 west ham I'll be having bets on semi final and final places for us to offset the sting in the wallet should sparky do it again.

remember him well , looked more like jimmy edwards than a footballer. he was credited with scoring the fastest ever league goal [4 seconds while playing for bradford pa]. the only goals i remember him scoring was the one in the cup against city and two against birmingham, i think we won 3-2. He went on to be a card dealer in las vegas.

stated off by watching the reserves 63/64. first 1st team match stoke city at home, 1st away game, the 5-3 win at preston in 67. season ticket holder apart from 2 or 3 seasons inthe 70's since 66.