Leonard Venkhater

I remember TP, himself, telling a story about Le Brat. Coming off training one day, Tony was going to catch one of the balls, when a player knocked it away from him towards Le Brat, who headed it further away from Tony. Tony made some dry remark about it being the first time Le Brat had headed a ball all season, whereupon Le Brat felt shown up and became aggressive, squaring up to Tony, (muttering "Hold me back!"). OK, the bit in brackets I made up, but Tony did say other players pulled Le Brat back. As you can see, I am not at all one sided. FOLS...

Maybe, but what I was referring to was the informal approach from one of the 'pool directors. He wanted to go "home"...

Agreed. And we know Dalglish actually wanted to return to Liverpool before we won the title..

Take a bow for that comment, sir.

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Love it!

Haha....Reminds me of an Evertonian, who told a story about his Dad in the early 70's. Son and father where on a bus, which had stopped, when they noticed "Liverpool hard-man", Tommy Smith, standing on the pavement on the other side of the bus window. The father banged hard on the window to get Smith's attention and then smashed his fist into his hand, while Smith was looking at them. I think the lad was relieved, as the bus pulled away.

Ah, yes...his comments before a game v Charlton..., in his view, we were favourites due to our "Northern grit"...We all loved him too...Gutted, when I read that he had gone to Newcastle!

The football know-how/the in depth knowledge of the league we were in etc. To think he knew where to find what he wanted and put the team together very quickly. I do remember him being very unpopular at first though-sales of favourite players, Lambert-style, miserable performances at the end of that 73-4 season...

And before that too. In the depths of my own Field grief in early '74, an older gentleman neighbour, who had not been to Ewood since the 1960 ticket scandal, told me I'd better to get used to it. He cited Fred Pickering.... We didn't know it then, but I guess Gordon Lee used some of the Field money -£80,000 from memory-to build his own championship winning team the following season.

Yes, indeed... "His name is Eamonn Rogers, we call him the king of the land... ..........with a blue and white band"

Well, what do you expect.." We're gonna give this lot a right good stuffing"..?

..or the naught..£50 million to the dirty book men from WHU...

Profits of slavery!

"How can you rise anew, if you have not first become ashes?"

Good to see them battling back. There must be a concern, though, about the growing number of abject halves in games.

They've been reading BigDog's posts on here!

I know people have a need to move on, but I must confess I do get irritated, when others attempt to re-write history.

Blimey, I'm with you. To be honest, I thought "Get behind the lads FFS" was ironic -to apply to those who accept the unacceptable . Personally, I can back the team on a match day, whilst remaining highly critical of the way the club has been mismanaged.

Rovers RIP?

And he is going....isn't he....

How troll?

Harsh, but true, I guess. Still, Tony Field and Johnny Price remain two of my favourite Rovers players ever.... Third Division Rubbish...indeed....

Just waiting for a picture of Father Christmas and Jeff Bezos in a Rovers shirt!

Like listening to a sex offender in the police station... "Oh, poor, poor me!....Why does nobody understand what it was like?"etc