Wonder what they do if Derby get promoted within a couple of years. Probably force fans to fingerprint ID whenever they want to buy club merchanidise. Restrict each fan to £50 per year. Fan spending fair play.

With today's news probably only a matter of time until Derby County win promotion. Of course with FUP how much further can they go beyond that? Wolves must be the immediate example to emulate.

3 hours ago, frosty said:

Wonder if his dad will be on social media this time slagging Celtic off?

Dead.

Came across footage and remembered this thread.

14 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

20 years ago Rovers fans and shirts were everywhere in Accy. 

Is that the case now? I doubt it (though Accy residents on here can confirm) .

And are we even still the main club in other long standing Rovers strongholds in the borough? Ossy etc?

 

Accrington could make it to Premier League (lol) and there would still be more Rovers fans there.

Should bring out "free shirt fair play" see how Dolt likes that. ?

On 18/10/2020 at 15:17, Herbie6590 said:

The night after the day before...the trophy presentation...anyone recognise themselves ? 

 

"Are you watching Manchester"? I can imagine some parts were particularly the East-South side!

3 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

I know there is a long way to go, but this comment isn't currently ageing very well at all ?

...and foreign coaches have been successful in recent years in the EFL Championship. Load of ignorant rubbish.

10 hours ago, A Northern Horde... said:

Anyone else admitting to watching this utter shit right now?....

I thought it couldn't get any lower than our club being used to advertise Fried Chicken....feck me this is football's answer to dumb and dumber!

I saw the commercial for this show and thought it looked tacky which isn't a surprise for an ITV channel. All very superficial you can see why he looks up to someone like Beckham. 

Forgot to note that Lowe shows up at Salford and the manager is gone within weeks. The Jason Lowe managerial grayeyard expands to Salford. Football's ultimate misery magnet so I'm not complaining that he's ended up there!

Just now, Ewood Ace said:

Your wrong the first season when countries had more than one club qualify was 97/98. The English beneficiary that year was Newcastle.

Must have forgotten when they won it.

8 minutes ago, Stuart said:

It’s a joke that United are being invited. Still living off Fergie’s reputation.

Have to laugh though. Liverpool win the league once and suddenly they are too good for it!

If they go then they should forfeit everything. FA Cup included.

Prediction: this won’t happen and it is all to put pressure on the EFL and FA over their original plans. 18 teams and 6 English side involved along with Spain, Germany, Italy and France?

Personally I’d call their bluff and let them go. Another nail in the coffin of fans being at games.

BCD FTW!

Funniest scenario ever if they were left behind. Of course they were the first club to benefit from the "champions" league qualifying for 98/99 as runners up to Arsenal. Real fair play there UEFA!

Speaking of "left behind" Jones has been omitted from their Premier League squad (limit of 25) for rest of season.

I bet in 1989 nobody said "that Jack Walker should buy Rovers". Yet it would have made more sense than suggesting the Issas should. Jack's involvement with the club (aside from buying tickets of course) went back to at least 1979 (sponsorship) and possibly before that. Euro Garages aren't even a sponsor.

16 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

me and a mate ventured south on a sleepy saturday with apprehension as we`de never been to millwall before,they were astonishingly quite hospitable,apparently they had no "beef" with blackburn at all,not sure if they felt that way after the match,as we boarded the coach pretty sharpish!!!,the area around the den was`nt really a place to get lost in

Shouldn't believe everything the media say.

4 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

‘Founder Members Accrington Stanley’ is often trotted out, so no surprises they’ve got that wrong.

Yes THEY got it wrong. I certainly didn't! Would be rather pedantic to send him a correction on Twitter though I suppose.

5 hours ago, MCMC1875 said:

When the houses on Nuttall Street were being demolished, a body was was dug up in one of the backyards between Tweed Street and Kidder Street which briefly halted the work and led to a murder investigation. 

Jack's actions even solved a murder. What a guy!

Considering that Ewood is Jack's real legacy (alongside the title win and of course his success in business) of course it's important that the stadium be maintained. Particularly the Jack Walker stand. On the other hand it's all very superficial because people don't realise image and mentality should go hand in hand. 

3 hours ago, Ewood Ace said:

How can anyone take anything that Neville says about the finance and sustainability of the game seriously. He is part owner of a club that over the last few years have spent crazy money. People like Neville are part of the problem not part of the solution.

It's the hypocrisy and the nerve of Neville to compare himself to Jack Walker that's the problem. All likes of Neville did (that is people associated with Man United) was sneer at Jack and moaned about "buying the title". Lim's the guy putting the big money in what exactly have Neville and the other prats contributed besides media publicity? 

Wonder if Ferguson, Moyes, Redknapp, etc have sent any messages. Not as deserving of sympathy as Kean I guess. 

53 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

I have to laugh at all these millionaire owners including the Tory at Fleetwood supporting redistribution of wealth. Also I don't remember Mr Pilley speaking out about redistribution of wealth when Fleetwood were going through the non-league system spending sums of money that other clubs at those levels could only dream.

If I were in charge of a Premiership club I wouldn't give the EFL a penny until the odious Rick Parry is removed from office. How he is still in a job is beyond me, he's only been in office about a year and has already seen one club go to the wall and another go into administration. Not to mention the video that emerged of him in regards to Wigan. The EFL has been offered money for a stake in it but he never even told the clubs because no doubt he stands to do very well out of 'Big Picture'. Also he has failed to secure any government funding. When money has been chucked out left right and centre to industries he hasn't got anything, that just shows you how useless he is.

I'm staggered that so many EFL clubs appeared to have been bought by what is nothing more than a bung, it offers them no security, once the big clubs get what they want then they can and probably will jettison the payments straight away. All EFL clubs would be doing if they accept this (although hopefully it doesn't get as far as them voting) is kicking the can down the road for another day. Do they really think that the Glazer's and Henry could give a toss about EFL clubs, EFL clubs are just their useful idiots to get them absolute power of the English game.

Maybe Wigan won't be on board with this brazen plot then? Can guarantee they would have with that FUP backing hypocrite Whelan in charge.

Salford City another example of downright hypocrisy given their obvious link.

1 hour ago, AllRoverAsia said:

If Ridsdale is in favour it must be worse and more corrupt than I thought.

As if Leeds fans don't hate him enough already.

27 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

I feel dirty...I’m in agreement with Martin Samuel. MARTIN SAMUEL....?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8829033/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Liverpool-Man-Uniteds-Project-Big-Picture-disgusting-Big-Six-power-grab.html

He's spoken out against FUP in past as well. Mentioned Jack Walker unlike most people on here when the subject comes up.

1 hour ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

As pointed out above these proposals will require 14 Premier League clubs to vote in favour. I doubt if that will happen.

It appears that this is being driven by Liverpool; interesting to see what the likes of Klopp and Dalglish will say; you'd like to think they will be against it.

He's said nothing about FUP so why would he say anything about this? Not to mention disparaging Jack in his (latest) autobiography.

Wonder if that's why Rashford was on front page of Sun other day. All part of a PR game. That club don't do anything charitable without a self serving reason. Not surprised they would try to exploit the Coronavirus situation either. Liverpool not much better.

It does not explain why Al-Khelaifi (and his cousin at Malaga where FUP has killed any major ambition) didn't buy another English club. It also does not explain why the club wasn't sold to them in 2010 other than the Walkers might have tried to grasp more money out of them because of their evident wealth. Or for that matter considered them "too good" compared to people who didn't know what relegation was. Relegation scenarios clearly terrified the Walkers at that point (no wonder considering their influence over trustees staving the club) but once they were out of the way it wouldn't have posed a problem. Indeed I don't doubt for one moment they were cracking open the champagne in 2012.

If the club came out and said Covid could be an advantage they would be a laughing stock. Not to mention it would offend a lot of people.

As for intimidation. I think it's fair to say that at many clubs someone would have assaulted Kean long before he departed. On the other hand how many Championship venues are intimidating? Millwall aside and they will be first to admit you can't win promotion on that alone.

Blackburn the HQ of Euro Garages and now Accrington will be getting some publicity in "the city".

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/18778652.accrington-pie-owners-sell-biscuit-brand-ferrero-giants-whopping-246million/

Two huge local deals (albeit not on the Issas Asda scale) less than 14 days apart. Maybe I'm (possibly) moving away at the wrong time!

Should point out that the Issas donated 20 million via their foundation last year. It will be interesting to see if the figures are equal or higher in 12 months given what a huge step they have taken. That's not to say long term failure is my prediction as few seem to be betting against them right now. Using admittedly basic inflation techniques (and no expertise on the steel industry) my calculations for Walkersteel was over 800 million.