Jolly Giraffe

Does anyone know when the Manager of the month award for October gets announced?

A colleague of mine here in scouseland has just asked me if I can remember the girl who threw the ball back in when we played Liverpool way back in the 80's in the FA Cup. The reason he is asking is that his mate is claiming to be seeing her now. I remember the incident and Jimmy Hill's classic on MOD but I cannot remember her name. Can anyone help ?

Whatever the merits of this move, it's nice to see us going for a big-name player!

Imagine Rooney's reaction... A threesome, how many's that....? Errrrr one, two.... Ah sod it, I've run out of fists to count with - have this!

Forgive me for not reading through all the previous threads but is it not Steve Archibald?

Yes, second names also.

Name 4 teams in the league who start and end in the same letter? Name a British team who have won the European Cup more times than there own league?

I work in Liverpool and a colleague of mine that regularly goes to the Blackburn away game is not going because of the timing. He was unsure about whether it was Liverpool or Rovers that were to blame and suspected it was Rovers. I told him that as far as I knew Liverpool requested the fixture be moved back to later in the day and Rovers complied. Does anyone know if that is the case? I truly believe that Rovers would agree to an alternative date if it was requested by Liverpool but I'd like to be sure of my facts before telling the whinging scouser to shut up.

Bentley played the first half on the left and was switched up front in the second half. With a performance like that he should find himself above Pongo in the pecking order. Bring on the Spuds!

What a brilliant collection of articles - thanks! The journalists of yesta-year must have been the inspiration for the way Stuart Hall commentates. Today's rabble spend the majority of match reports discussing the latest scandal rather than concentrating on the game itself. I read those articles and found myself lamenting a time when football was accessible by either walking through a turnstile or reading a match report. This weekend it was back-to-back coverage with several repeats thrown in. With the amount of modern coverage it's no wonder the modern journalist has become lazy and lost the ability to report descriptively.

My prediction for this one is that Rovers will play a different game to the one we saw On Wednesday. It will be a lot tighter with the option of a point probably too big a carrot than the prospect of a loss. Expect Tugay to drop to the bench and don't be surprised by a recall for the axe. 0 - 0

Newcastle 0 Rovers 2 Quickly followed by a celebratory meal of Chop Souey!

I'll go for 3 - 0 to the Rovers and 5 cars to the scousers.

The FA semi will work in our favour. Hughes won't have to say much to motivate the team. I'm predicting a 2-1 victory.

Uncle Jack would turn in his grave. Keano choosing Manure over Rovers after agreeing to come to us was (and still is) unforgivable. Send the back-stabbing pensioner north.