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  1. I hope Howard Kendall gets the recognition from the club that his achievements truly deserves. But for those two seasons of his we would have ended up like the other Lancashire clubs. Nothing will ever beat that night at Bury. And I include Anfield 95 which was comparable but didn't beat it because how can anything beat total and utter jubilation? I remember vividly their wooden stand bouncing to the tune of 'one man went to mow' ... with our 'five minutes to go and then we're in the second' chant ... by the time it got to 'one minute to go' - man it was absolutely out of this world. Even when we win the champions league in 2030 it won't top that. Nothing can beat 100%. The scenes around Gigg Lane after that match was my Fever Pitch moment. I was the ten yr old kid in the film simply awestruck by the excitement, passions and camaraderie I was witnessing. Stuck in the huge traffic jam hypnotised by this middle aged Rovers fan pouring plastic cups of beer from a keg he was carrying and dishing them out to all and sundry, folk getting out of their cars and hugging him, people on top of bus shelters... That season's 15 match unbeaten run (14 wins) and basically the whole of the next season was something else. Two years earlier we were going down the pan with the rest of them. He gave us so much. His involvement with Junior Rovers and the local community speaks volumes for the man. His name deserves to be preserved as a Rovers Legend. May he rest in peace.
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