why?every time juve attacked the linesman flagged....chelsea ?mmmm the whole ball over the line ??/tonight penalty gerrard dived...and smicer ,ac shouldve of had free kick for offside before smicer scored...and in pens jesey pudyak was blocking penalites by doing the foxtrot on the penalty spot ...cheats lucky whatever . 318545[/snapback] Yeah yeah yeah, and Liverpool should have had a penalty for handball and Crespo was offside for Milans second goal. Yak Yak Yak

He was very good at digging those crosses out from the left. He used to dummy to cross, take an extra touch to the byeline and chip the ball back. He set up several like that. My fave was the one he set up for Shearer in the 94th minute against Leeds to win 2-1 after a large scummy section of the visiting Yorkshiremen had disgraced the Busby minutes silence.

I found the quote by United fans that they "feel completely betrayed by Magnier and McManus" on the BBC report quite amusing. It wasn't long ago that United fans were threatening to disrupt the Cheltenham festival because of the Irish duo. PMSL

I'm with Jim. Rovers bang out of form at the minute, can't score and nothing to play for. Tottenham have to beat us and will. 3-0 I'm not one normally to bet on Rovers losing but the 4/6 available on Tottenham at Betfair looks very tempting.

I sincerely hope this isn't true. Kenny, even accounting for the cash spent, has worked wonders since he come. I feel he's happy here and is enjoying having less pressure than his latter years at Anfield despite still challenging at the peak of English football. If he does leave it would be very worrying. Top managers aren't easily replaced. Look at Liverpool - since Kenny left there they seemed to have gone backwards under Graeme Souness.

To cover old ground the thing that griped me was we allowed Shearer to have his op in late 95/96 season purely so he would be fit for Euro 96. Ultimately he missed a couple of games and we finished a couple of points short of a European spot. The club basically gave up (or lessened the chance of) a UEFA spot just so he could be fit for that tournament. It matters not that we would basically have treated the comp like a 3rd rate competition as we always do. Shearer, after having a storiming Euro 96, left. That to me was not fair on the club. If the club (or Jack) had known of his intentions would they have let him have the op? No Way. It's ludicrous to suggest that Rovers wanted him to play in Euro96 to get his price up as both Shearer and Jack Walker openly stated that Jack tried to do everything in his power to keep him at Ewood. That is why I feel Shearer cannot complain at the reception he recieved from Rovers fans on his return. I also think that he should have looked at himself before he gave the quote of "Theres no loyalty in football" aimed at the Rovers fans after his first visit. However time is a healer and I'll welcome him back. It's TP's night and Shearer obviously wants to turn up both for Tony and the club. He's still the best player I've seen for Rovers and maybe ever will. Anyway, where's Moran and Speedie?

This might be an apt time to ask how are the site finances holding up?

I don't recall neither us nor Savage saying we were a bigger clubs Iz. I believe that line came from one of your chairman.

We'll have to agree to disagree Eddie. Ask any City fans who their most creative midfielder since they returned to the Prem has been and a hell of a lot will say Berkovic.

Sorry to disagree FourLanBlue (and I know I should have posted this on the other Tugs thread) but Tugay is not that creative anymore and IMO should not be in the side. He gives away far to many stray passes and doesnt often play a great forward pass. Everyone remembers the ball he played through for Cole away at Fulham last year but apart from that I can't remember him genuinely creating anything with a bit of magic for a few years now. Whichever message board member said "In thirty years of watching Rovers he is undoubtedly far and away the best creative midfielder I have seen don the blue and white" as quoted on the front page of this site is either Tugay's dad or has been drinking too much Turkish beer. If were talking creative as in creating goals Berkovic was miles better.

Nor does singing about Burnley but that seems to be on your list of not likes. By your logic when we next play Newcastle we wouldn't be able to give any stick to Souness or his team because that would stir them on - Agreed?

Fair enough Jan but how does singing Souness songs support the team and thus try and help us to improve our financial future?

The one gripe I have with Safari is the fact the google search box built into the toolbar only searches Google.com Try as I might I can't find a plug-in or setting to change it so it will only search UK sites through google.co.uk which, when I search for a lot of stuff, is what I use. Apart from that since version 1.2 it's been excellent.

I presumeradio lancashire will be UK only like radio 5 but I can't get neither of them to work for me.

So did I. Thats why I included the Van Nistelrooy incident in my post. However as the Bolton / Charlton incidents were internal issues I don't know if the FA ever got involved. Therefore it should have no bearing on any charges being levelled against Todd.

Have a look at this article. Why don't they include the words thug, animal, disgraceful and hooligan like all the reactions to Todd did. Pay special attention to the line:- Since 1999 (only stats I could find) Todd - 126 app , 23 bookings , 1 sending off , (1 booking every 5.4 games) Lauren - 194 app , 40 bookings , 1 sending off , (1 booking every 4.85 games) Considerably better Edit - remember the digraceful scenes at the end of the game at Old Trafford as couplke of years back. Which player got the biggest punishment. Keown? Viera? No, it was the Angel Lauren. Clicky Clicky But of course, his disciplinary record is considerably better than Todds. Not that I'm bitter!

We're away at birmingham next Saturday and all inidcations are that, contarary to Birminghams wishes, Savage is eligable to play. At what point during next week will Sullivan, Gould, Brady and Bruce start bitching ???

Just watching Football First and the matteo challenge on SWP was definately a pen.

It would have been very interesting to see peoples reactions had we got to the final. £65 would have been ridiculous, especially as we'd sat in the same seats a few weeks before for £45. All the usual suspects would have been on here saying 'but it's the FA cup final , it'll be a disgrace if we don't sell xxxxx ', but there's a limit. Personally I'd probably have gone but it's not far off my limit. £75 I'd have said no way, sat in the pub, spent a tenner on ale, watched it on the TV and have put the other £65 to next years season ticket rather than feeding the fat faces of the FA. I believe its already agreed that as well as the finals the semis will also be hosted at Wembley for the next 5 or 10 years. How long before the average price of a cup final ticket to the public is pushing £100. Swivel.

Why are the BBC blowing up an 'incident' of Savage running off the pitch and bumping into Routledge when there is the most minimal of contact?

Big Club example one Big Club example two If so called experts are split down the middle and fans are split down the middle as to whether or not Todds contact is deliberate surely he has to get the benefit of the doubt. I really hope for our own sake Rovers and Todd fight this.

I can absolutely prove that Todd did not nail Van Persie. Take a look at BBC's virtual replay of the goal here.. If you view the action from Andy Todd's perspective you'll see that he's nowhere near Van persie!!! According to the BBC it was Ryan Nelson all along. However what is even more conclusive is if you watch it from Van Persie's view on 3rd person perspective. If you slow it down and advance a frame at a time you'll see that after he scored he doesn't touch the Rovers player at all. He gets quite close to him and just dives. Cheat. Must have had fake blood in his mouth to make it look worse.

Whereas on 'You're on Sky Sports' last night Steve Claridge said it was completely accidental and Peter Beagrie sat on the fence. I can't see how the FA can charge him when it's so unclear. Well done to the 2 guys that phoned in to Sky to defend Rovers last night.

Same straight after the game at cardiff Central. Train to London had so many coaches I couldn't see the end of it. Train up North had two.

At least for 85 minutes of our semi-final it was still a game. The Mancs had todays match sewn up by half time.