Thought he'd already found the solution?

THE FINAL ISSUE OF THE SEASON HERE!! To order your copy please visit our ONLINE SHOP or purchase through eBay by CLICKING HERE. It's only £1.50 and postage is still 75p for first class delivery. It will also be available to buy on Kidder Street from an hour before kick-off at the April home matches.

Issue 96 includes: Alternative Hall of Fame, From The Terraces, Next Season Starts Here?, All Rover The World, Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?, Did You See That?!!, Witless Tributes, Voice From The Valleys, Who Were You? #10, Venky's Sleeping Pods Plan, The Borehamwood Zizou, The Naming of the Shrewd, Top Of The Pops, Cartoon, Quizzes, Crossword, The Second Coming XI plus much more! 

Finally, it's been another strong year for the fanzine with over 1500 copies sold and almost £400 raised for charity, so thanks for your interest if you've purchased any this season. Onwards to 2019/20!

Just to round this post off, we ended up selling 300 copies of Issue 95, raising £300 for local charities so thank you very much to everyone who bought it.

The next issue will be on sale before the Stoke City match in April - please email any contributions to roversfanzine@gmail.com before the end of the month! Thanks again for supporting the fanzine - 30 years old this summer!

We've already sold 210 copies of Issue 95 in the first week. Thanks to everyone who has purchased so far this month. Plenty more still available via the links above and from noon on Kidder Street before the Middlesbrough match. It's £1 to charity for each one sold - so that's £210 raised already for the likes of East Lancs Hospice and Nightsafe. Cheers!

WE'RE BACK WITH A BRAND NEW ISSUE!! To order your copy of the fanzine please visit our ONLINE SHOP or purchase through eBay by CLICKING HERE. It's still only £1.50 and postage is 75p for first class delivery. Please note that a full £1 from each issue sold will be donated to local charities. We do this whenever we can if sales have been healthy enough to put us into profit. If you prefer grabbing a copy in person, the fanzine will be sold outside Ewood before the forthcoming home matches from an hour before kick-off (at the bottom of Kidder Street). Thanks for your interest!

Issue 95 contains: We Spy On Who We Want!, Waggott Woes, The Brereton Enigma - Solved!, Tactics and Humility, Overheard in the Blues Bar, Kit Stories - 1960 FA Cup Final, Reffin' Hell, Sliding Doors #3, Voice From The Valleys, Who Were You? #9, There's Only One Simon Garner, The Evolving Nature of Fandom, Film Poster, Our Boy Dunn Good, Quizzes, Crossword, Tartan Army XI plus much more!

44 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

What do they get, a sentence each ?

When we played Glencirbigli away I dashed home from work to watch the game on TV. I missed the first minute or so and I didn't know who was playing. After about 5 minutes I'd figured out 10 of the team but I couldn't figure out the 11th player. Then about 30 minutes into the game Baggio finally touched the ball and I realised he was playing !

Haha, incredibly there's 2 to 4 pages on each of them.... depsite the lack of appearances at Ewood!

Just now, Tom said:

Get one of this man done, a wrongfully persecuted legend 

 

Coincidentally enough the next one in February is someone from that same season who played in the same position as Sebastian Perez.... who of course gets a few mentions!!

Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

What a good article, very interesting.

Thanks....we've also had Dino Baggio, Richard Brown, Johann Vogel, Alan Fettis and Javier de Pedro featured in the past - always brings back stories which are barely remembered!!

1 hour ago, Rogerb said:

Was a Roy Hodgson signing I think. Think an Italian Jason Lowe. Games seemed to pass him by. Not up to the speed and intensity of the Premier League

Another forgotten man who was featured recently in our excellent "Who Were You?" series. Raises the possibility that he was actually underrated and underused in 98/99. Another from that era coming in this February's Issue 95!

On 03/12/2018 at 23:13, Blue n whites said:

Ordered the 5 issues 92 to 96 although it didn't ask for postage even thou I'm in dunfermline Scotland. 

If there's any problems reply and I will sort it out.

I Would order 2 ninja badges when in stock again. 

 

Yep, the £10 season subscription already includes postage costs - issues 92 to 94 should be with you on Thursday! Thanks for ordering.

Thanks to everyone who has purchased so far!  Already sold over 200 copies in the first weekend.  Plenty more still available to order via the links above?

THE DECEMBER ISSUE IS HERE!! To order your copy please visit our ONLINE SHOP or purchase through eBay by CLICKING HERE. It's still only £1.50 and postage is 75p for first class delivery. 

If you haven't already heard, we managed to get ourselves shortlisted for the Football Supporters' Federation "Fanzine of the Year" Award which reflects how much we've improved it over the last 18 months and, of course, the continued excellent contributions by fans. We reckon that makes it amazing value for just £1.50!

Issue 94 contains: Filling Our Fortress, Unrecognised Strikers, "Heart, Scarf and Soul" - A play starring a Rovers fan, Roque's Santa Cruise, Voice From The Valleys, Pre-Match Superstitions, The Ginger Ninja Appreciation Society, Rovers' Last Battlefield, Support As Performance - Not Everything is Mental, European Hangovers, Fabulous Faz!, Who Were You? #8 Dino Baggio, BRFCS Goes To Brockhall, Quizzes, Crossword, Boozers XI and many more shenanigans.

If you prefer grabbing a copy in person, the fanzine will be sold outside Ewood before the forthcoming December matches from an hour before kick-off (at the bottom of Kidder Street). Thanks for your interest and support this year! COYB!

54 minutes ago, DaveyB said:

It would be so easy to solve if there was any real appetite to do so, but ultimately time wasting only really negatively affects the paying public and we all know that the authorities don’t care one jot about them. 

2 quick suggestions -

1) when the ball goes out of play you have 20secs to get it back in play again. Failure to do so means a booking for the player closest to the restart. Goes for throw-ins, goal-kicks, corners, free-kicks. Any action to impede the restart, e.g kicking the ball away, picking the ball up and walking away etc  is an automatic yellow card

2) For substitutions you have 30secs before play starts again. If your player is still walking off or the sub isn’t in position, tough. 

For both the time could be displayed as a countdown on the scoreboard/screen, in the same way as the NFL have the play clock, so that it is completely transparent and not down to the refs interpretation.

Both would be fairly simple to implement and both would improve the current situation imo

Believe the authorities do care about improving the game for supporters. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) have recently spelled out their strategy to develop the Laws of the Game to improve football – with time-wasting being a key issue. IFAB have debated a wholesale change to timekeeping by employing a stop-start clock, in the manner of sports such as basketball and rugby union. Given that 60 minutes is seen as a good match with respect to the amount of ball-in-play time, halves would become 30 minutes apiece with the clock – clearly displayed within the stadium – stopped whenever there was a break in play. Such a radical change will inevitably never be allowed to oust the longstanding 45-minutes-each-way tradition of the game. A more likely improvement would be persisting with normal length halves, which would continue past 45 and 90 minutes until a separate clock shows that 30 minutes of actual playing time has been attained in the half. Then there would be no point to cynical time-wasting.

Radio Rovers was launched 25 years ago today! Huge credit to Gerald, Wendy, Alan and the rest for the memories. Some great nostalgia in these videos:

1 hour ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Did this happen ? , Any links to articles, interviews, audioboomage or whatever ?

Yes! There was a feature from about 11:45am to noon on Friday on BBC Radio 5 Live (Chiles on Friday show). Catch up here:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000vgh

As 4000 Holes reported on the Coffin Raising in Issue 92, the show producer approached us and we managed to get them in touch with the "Bishop of Brig" who conducted the ceremony. He makes an appearance on the show. Simon Garner is also on the phone.

Already sold almost 200 copies of the October issue - thanks for buying. Plenty more available on Kidder Street before the match tonight. Also still available to order online (see above). 

22 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Is it available to buy in person today?

Yes! From 2pm at the bottom of Kidder Streeet by the corner of the small car park. Thanks.

ISSUE 93 HAS ARRIVED!! For £1.50, we've got the usual full colour 36-page fanzine containing lots of great features (see below for more details). To order your copy please visit our ONLINE SHOP, or to purchase through eBay CLICK HERE. Postage is only 75p for first class delivery in the UK. And if you prefer grabbing a copy in person, the fanzine will be sold outside Ewood before the forthcoming home games from an hour before kick-off (at the bottom of Kidder Street). 

Issue 93 includes: An extensive history of Rovers conceding late goals, Financing Football the Waggott Way, Unpopular Opinions – Half-and-half scarves are great, History of the Rovers in Five Shirts - 1990/91, The Oxford Enigma, Sky Sports Leeds, Rhodri the Dragon’s “Voice From The Valleys”, Those Were The Days!, Who Were You? #7 – Dario Marcolin, From Bad to Worse, Arte et Lahore, Which player leaving Rovers hurt the most?, A Northern Joke, The Actors vs The Sitcom Stand-ups, From The Terraces, Quizzes and Crossword, Tash Force XI plus lots more!

Now that the international break is over, we'll be getting off the sunbed and preparing ISSUE 93 soon! Deadline for contributions is Sunday 23rd September.... please get writing in to roversfanzine@gmail.com if you've got anything on your mind. Newbies always welcome! Meanwhile, a handful of Issue 92 copies are still available if you didn't manage to get one last month.

Final reminder about Issue 92 - available to purchase from 2pm on Kidder Street today. Lots of great feedback so far this year. Thanks again to everyone who has already bought/subscribed - we should have hit 300 copies sold after today? 

If you're not at Ewood, copies are always available to order online.

We've already shifted over 100 copies of the new issue... plenty more available on Kidder Street before kick-off for just £1.50. Also still available to order online. Thanks for the support?

ISSUE 92 IS HERE!! For just £1.50, we've got a full colour 36-page fanzine containing lots of new features to keep you entertained – plus a continuation of some old favourites! 

To order your copy, visit our ONLINE SHOP, where full-season subscriptions are also available at just £10 for five issues. Alternatively, to purchase through eBay CLICK HERE. Postage is only 75p for first class delivery in the UK.  

And if you prefer grabbing a copy in person, the fanzine will be sold outside Ewood before the forthcoming home games in August from an hour before kick-off (at the bottom of Kidder Street). 

Issue 92 includes: Blue Is The Colour – but which one?, From The Terraces, The Rovers Resurrection!, Rhodri the Dragon’s “Voice From The Valleys”, Review of 2017/18, The Pearl of Pune, A Short History of the Rovers in Five Shirts, "Who Were You?" #6, Deja vu all over again, Football Kits – I Love ‘Em!, Three cracking quizzes, Crossword, Cartoon, Promotion Heroes XI, plus many more irreverent shenanigans!  

17 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

Done, hopefully!

 

Thank you! The first issue of the season will be in the post to Cornwall tomorrow!!

Final plug for season subscriptions which are available for just £10 via THIS LINK (five issues). Thanks to all the people who have supported the fanzine either by signing up for the full season or buying individual copies - you all help to keep it going!

Usual price per issue is £1.50 (+75p P&P if delivered). Issue 92 will be available to buy before the Reading, Brentford and Lincoln home matches.