I'm looking for this boy. I want to say thank you and send printed photo. Does anyone know him(or his family), please pass the word. Thanks. a friend of this guy mailed me. ============================================= Now, i'm checking all my photos to make " how to get to Ewood park" for japanes rovers fans on my web. some photos (taken Nov.2004) http://dillo-h.com/armadillo/brfc/0411/ =============================================

the book looks like that... It's temporary book ad for Rovers fans, http://dillo-h.com/armadillo/zrzr/indexen.html (temporary... the publisher and Amazon make more further details about the book) We request to sell it on Amazon.co.uk/Amazon.com. Now, I don't know Amazon.co.uk turn over my book, The publishern on a negotiating process.. The decision rests with them. --- I didn't know that shipping fee!! from japan to other countries.Terribly expensive!!! http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/tg/bro...2#international please request to sell it on amazon co.uk e-mail:amazon.co.uk, http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/contact-us...4409677-0709240 I have managed the Japanese site of Rovers. However, it is then difficult to raise the acknowledgment level of Rovers to the football fan of Japan. This mascot's book is preparations to make my results, and to publish the book on Rovers. It endeavors for this book to succeed to publish the book of Rovers. I really want to published "Behind the Rovers" book. I need more local Rovers fans cooperation to next step to "Behind the rovers" project. I appriciate your help. I'm planning to next step "Behind the Rovers" project . If you know the person who work with Blackburn and Darwen tourist information depepertment. let me know about it. Thanks. --- I was planning to visit Blackburn in September, But sadly. It's difficult. I can visit there if I get some sponser. but I think It's realistically difficult.

I can't describe it well ..... Do you understand it my short description of that?? It's sweet music to me! Thanks.

I interviewd some mascot wearers on my book.... These are REALLY interesting stories. [abr] "Poacher the Imp, Lincoln City " ----- Are you a life-long supporter? How about your parents, grannies and grandpas ? "I am a lifelong supporter, thanks mainly to both my Grandad and my Dad. My Dad has been going since the late sixties and I attended my first game in 1986. I'm led to believe my Grandad first attended matches in the 1940s. In fact my grandad was very much defined by his love of the club, and we even buried him in a Lincoln City scarf. " "Alice the Eagle & Pete the Eagle, Crystal Palace" ----- What do you do to cheer up supporters when the team loses? "If we've not done too well in recent games, it's so important to get the fans behind the team. So lots of bouncing around to get people smiling again is needed! " Alice ----- What's the most difficult thing about being a mascot? "Trying to cheer up supporters when the team loses! When the crowd is quiet I stand in front of them until they make noise! I've even sat on the pitch in front of one stand in protest because they were too quiet!" Alice ----- What's the main thing you do to make people belive in a mascot ? "Just †generally act the same at most games, remember faces and remember †conversations. Seeing the joy on people's faces when they see us mascots means we're doing a good job." Pete "Elvis J Eel ,Southend United" ----- How did you become a mascot wearer and when? "I am a life long supporter of Southend United. They are nothing big but they are my local team and I would not swap them for the world." "I actually first dressed up as a mascot at the age of 13. Performing as a mascot at the age of 13 in front of 5000 was a bit scary, but I soon got used to it. ...I wanted to get to more matches because as a 13 year old I didn’t have enough money to see every game. So my dad and I asked the club if there was anything we could do on a matchday. To our complete amazement they asked if we wanted to become mascots! I jumped at the chance as you could imagine and I haven’t looked back since."

Roar : blackburn Rovers pages pubs

The book about English(UK) football culture , view through from Football's furry mascots. (Text is Japanese only) 144pages / Full color / price ¥1,554-(in tax) cover contents

7th Jul., release my first book. It's included some of "Behind the Rovers" photos. see this page>>> http://dillo-h.com/armadillo/zrzr/indexen.html pre-order start at Amazon.co.jp http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4...8877823-6646702

[Heartwarming story ] to use to reason of transfer example of use 1) " It's a dream come true to sign for the club I SUPPORTED AS A BOY." 2) " I'm a homebody. I wanto to live near my parents's home. "

Enjoy the game! I'm still working !! cheers!

Maybe most Japanese keep deram. ... but I don't. I'm NOT interesting in World-Cup. though, I need to win of Japanese Nat'l team & England win the cup for me. It bring me some money.

Hum.... OK..... COME ON BRAZIL!!!!

YES!!!! KAwaguchi! You're the Man!!!

Japan 3-2 Croatia (Takahara, Ono, Ooguro)

ordinary game both side. I thought Japan 1-2 Soccoroo, 'cause We have no bright side pre World Cup friendly. though 1-3.... The matter is a lot more worse than I thought.

I'm worry about Lucas's card. We play TOO MUCH neat and orderly. He could be get a card/cards/sent-off.

1-2 to Waltzing Matildas. We'll lose 2 goals from set plays.

Thank you guys. Accy = ACCORINGTON Ossy = OSWALDTWISTLE ? Hyndburn... Where?? Which area?? --->I knew it. "Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Accrington. The district is named after the River Hyndburn. It was formed in 1974 by the amalgamation of the Borough of Accrington, the Urban Districts of Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood, Oswaldtwistle and Rishton, and part of the Burnley Rural District." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyndburn

There are a lot of post Sagesshou of description. Oppositely Is there a peculiar name to Rovers's special praised words? I'm a new comer on this forum. maybe You feel so "Why are you asking about it?" sorry. but , I'd like to know , many of things I understand clearly. thak you for your help! How do you explain about News papers LET , Sun, Mirror, Times, Guardian....etc...

Which is Accy Stan? We don't care catergory? ---off topic I heard from friend of Tokyo Rovers . He said "that's VERY famous TVCM! Everybody know it !" Is that right? You know? 80's Milk Ad on TV Milk?! .... u-ugh!! It's what Ian Rush drinks! Ian Rush?!!! Yeah, and he said if I don't drink lots of milk I'll only ever be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley. Accrington Stanley? Who're they? Ex-a-a-a-ctly!

rectified it! Is that OK? Which is Accy Stan? We don't care catergory?

It's a full story in LET's article. It's not on LET's web-version. +++++++++++++++++ Why it's my kinda town Japanese artist fell in love with Rovers, and then Blackburn. A JAPANESE artist who is mad about Blackburn Rovers is running a photography exhibition to show her compatriots the 'beauty' of the town. Armadillo Hidaka, 36(*1), of Tokoyo, already runs the club's only Japenese website. Now she is running the exhibition on her website to give Japanese people a taste of Blackburn. Ian Singleton reports. SHE has a passion which puts many Rovers fans to shame - and Armadillo Hidaka's love affair with the club has ignited her talent for photography. The club is famed for fans leaving games early to beat the traffic back to their East Lancashire homes. Yet Dillo, as she is known, completes an 11,000-mile round journey just to watch one game She started supporting Rovers about four seasons ago by chance - flicking through television stations one night, she started watching a team in blue and white take on a team in red. She said: "Japanese CS TV broadcasts a lot of oversees football for free.(*2) I had no information about English football, about which club is popular, famous, strong etc. "I was neutral about it. I saw Rovers draw 2-2 against Manchester United and it was very exciting. From then on I was a Rovers fan. "At the time I didn't realise the game was a re-run, not live. So I now have to stay up all night to watch a football game. "I also did not know how difficult it was to watch Rovers on Japanese television. "They broadcast Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea every week and Fulham and West Bromwich Albion if Japanese players Inamoto and Nakata play, but not Blackburn very much." After that first game, she endeavoured to find out more about Rovers and fell in love with the club. She was enamoured by the romance of Rovers being a town club and punching above its weight with the big cities in the Premiership. Dillo said: "Rovers is a miraculous, valiant small club in the world's top league." Since then, Dillo has made the long and costly trek to Blackburn once a season. She typically watches three games and a reserve match before heading back. And during her visits she found that she also fell in love with the town. She added: "Blackburn has a strong originality and locality. The big cities have already lost it.(*3) "Blackburn is a beautiful, charming town, same as Rovers are as a club. "Blackburn has a really beautiful landscape, especially the hills and town houses on the hills." In a bid to share this passion with her compatriots, Dillo decided to do the exhibition. While she was in Blackburn last month, she photographed landmarks in the areas, including the train station, cathedral, Ewood Park and Darwen Tower. She took snaps of fans and their matchday haunts, including the Uncle Jacks and Aqueduct pubs. Armadillo also ventured into Accrington and photographed Stanley's promotion celebration. She said: "I have taken these photos for Japanese Rovers fans who have not been to Blackburn. "My website is the only Japanese one about Blackburn Rovers, and I get a lot of questions from people who are interested in visiting Blackburn and want to know how to get to Ewood Park. "I'd like to show to them what kind of town Blackburn is." She has given a preview of her work on Rovers' official website message board.(*4) And fans on the internet have given her photos the thumbs up. One said: "You've even picked some of the 'beautiful' bits and made them look quite good!". Armadillo added: "I'm not a word person. I'm a visual person. I watched well, gazed, stared at something that grabbed my heart. "Then I'm painting pictures or taking a photo. "I'm really surprised the residents of Blackburn area are interested in my photos. I feel so strange. Blackburn is a charming town. "The football club equals the players and manager - really? I don't think so. "The football club equals the whole things that surround the club: the supporters, the town, the players, manager and staff. "I want to be a recorder of what happens behind the Rovers." +++++++++++++++++ (*1) I'm 36 years old? Really? I didn't know about it! (*2) Why CSTV broadcasted it free? That's World-Cup year. It's a CSTV's promotional program. (*3)Big cities and Big,---arrogant, bill collection from all over the world fans--- Club has already lost it. sold their soul to money. (*4) Sorry, I'm not often visit official message borad....

Thanks I didn't know him.

It's not Rovers's words directly, thought I want to know about ... " Lancashire accent " You often pronounce "U"="O", .... I heard like that .... example) David Dunn => David Donn Pub => Pob and, speaking SO fast... Anybody tell about it, PLEASE! If I know the tips of listeninig "Lancashire Accent", It might be helps me!

Why Lilly?

Sorry guys. my post offended you.... but, I felt the hurt ! I pondered I posted it or not, I decided to post it at the time. First time I heard it, really surprised and felt fear. especially some teenagers jeer at me. though, now, I don't mind. I wont it. (I've got it at least once a day. and I never heard it at Manchester and Swansea.) I know well they're just a little bit of residents. Sometimes I thought they think "It's nice joke". It gives me a chance "Why are they saying? " then, I'd like to know people living this town" I'm not miss a trick. they fired one of my bouncebackability. (Bouncebackability ©Ian Dowie/sambo >>see "Rovers Words Dictionaly" thread)