This. Jack was almost certainly a bit of everything. Thankfully he loved his football club enough to do what he did, that's all I really care about now.

How many league goals did Sutton score in 13 games that season? I'll give you a clue, it was the same amount Paul McKinnon scored for the club. Had that been Ashley Ward/Kevin Davies/Chris Brown/insert your own choice of dud striker here* the fans would have been all over them (and not in a good way!) Dropping an out of form/unfit player (which is what Sutty was at that point) is a manager's lot. Newell and Shearer was actually a decent partnership for us. And yeah, I'm not surprised Sutton wasn't happy about it - I wouldn't expect him to be. Selling a player is what 'actually' split up the SAS, the player in question being Shearer.

No but I'd actually quite like to see you try and justify why Rangers should 'fight' the decision to call the season and award the title to the team that are 13 points clear with 8 games to go. As an aside do you think Celtic fans are happy at potentially having an asterisk against ten in a row next season? Believe me they would rather have completed the season on the pitch. (As it happens I don't necessarily think that was the right way to go, I would rather have waited and finished the season properly when it was safe to do so but the clubs went through a process to decide how they were dealing with it and now have to abide by it)

You're missing the point though. Quelle surprise.........

Ha ha nice one Lennie. I'm not a fan of either of the old firm but I do pay my taxes - a lot of them - and always have done and if anyone thinks Rangers would have been bothered to 'fight it all the way' if Motherwell were being crowned champions and not Celtic then wakey wakey.

Of all the nonsense you've posted today this takes the biscuit. Even Steven Gerrard will admit that Celtic deserve to be crowned champions (although he obviously has one eye on England when he says that!). You're obviously a big fan of tax dodgers. First Jack Walker, now The Glasgow Rangers 2010 or whatever they are fucking called these days?

It isn't rubbish. If you are going to credit Jack with buying players then he carries the can for selling them too. He sold Shearer, ergo he split the SAS up!

I remember that Tony. I'm sure deep down and now that they are both in their advanced years, they have a grudging respect for each other but there was absolutely no love lost back in the day. Its almost certainly a Glasgow and Liverpool/Manchester thing.

Note he didn't say "Make Alex Ferguson look cheap". You are viewing things through a lens of Fergie winning the league year after year. At that time United weren't even the top dogs, Liverpool were.

Blondie - The Tide is High

What does the bit in bold even mean? Also, your big hero Jack split up the SAS, not Ray Harford.

Ferguson was Dalglish's enemy, not Jack's. He hadn't even won one league title when Jack took over at Rovers, he was probably an irrelevance to Jack then, just another football manager. You are reinventing history to suit your vendetta now.

I was there that day - suffering from vertigo like all the other Rovers fans. I seem to remember Michael Owen missing a few chances for them but the buzz when the winner went in was fantastic!

The one Shearer missed he would have scored about 95 times out of 100 as well (albeit a more difficult chance than Sutty's)

I should really leave it alone but I'm going to bite anyway. You appear to be the only person comparing Jack with Fergie, nobody else has done unless I missed it, and in a similar vein nobody on here anyway has described Jack in the terms you have used, highlighted above. Its just he wasn't the saint that you want to think of him as. As for firing Mackay; I don't actually agree with you on that either. The Don was very popular with fans, and Jack knew it. To sack him straight away might have put Jack on the back foot a little bit and he was nothing if not shrewd. Plus Dalglish becoming available was a game changer and ultimately Jack's pursuit of him had to involve a vacant manager's office. To ask people to 'name names' in respect of Jack's Walkersteel employees is bizarre, but there are now two people on here telling a similar story of Jack's ruthlessness - and why wouldn't he be, that's how people get to own huge companies - I love the man for what he did for Rovers, and have no axe to grind with him or his memory Nor am I a Fergie defender. All we are saying is things are never quite as black-and-white as they seem, especially when you don't personally know/knew any of the people involved.

Prefab Sprout - Carnival 2000

I don't remember him coming on here but he was all over the Twitter and Facebook sites defending his lad (which you would expect I suppose, whatever we thought of his behaviour at the end of his time at Ewood). He would have been better advised to stay away from all that and I'm sure the 'passionate' way he went about it wouldn't have been good for his health. I assume he died of a heart attack or stroke as it was very sudden, and 53 is no age. RIP.

Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again, Naturally

Starsailor - Four To The Floor

Most football fans could only dream of experiencing what we did, and I don't know about anyone else but because I'd lived through the late 60s and all that followed, I relished and thoroughly took in every single minute of it at the time. I consider myself so lucky to have been a small part of it.

The Human league - Don't You Want Me

Personally I wouldn't really look at it that way mate. If you can afford it and you want it, go ahead - it must benefit the club in some way if brought through the official shop. Venkys don't profit from Rovers, i think we can surely all agree on that much?

I think if you read big Hendry's article in FourFourTwo (someone has posted the link on this thread) he makes a thinly veiled swipe at Sherwood's captaincy.

I reckon that's a pretty fair assessment Mark tbh

Four particular things make me smile when I think about that day: 1. My mate Paddy O’Callaghan throwing his trannie radio about 100ft into the Anfield sky when the final whistle went at Upton Park. (RIP Paddy) 2. Two scousers knocking fuck out of each other in the pub after the game. I have no idea what they were arguing about but it was like a scene from Harry Enfield. 3. A big banner hung on a farmhouse aside the M61 that said “Well done Rovers, from BWFC fans” (classy!) 4. As each car or minibus full of fans approached Ewood on the way back from the game, the thousands of fans that were outside the ground cheered us as we went past - you’d think we were the returning heroes ha ha. Nobody can ever take that day away from us ????✊?✊???