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Elvis Biro

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  1. One hopeful thing may be that Watford have only scored 3 (three) goals this season. Three 1-0 wins, a 0-0 draw and a 0-1 defeat. Amazing to only score that number of goals and still have 10 points.
  2. Surprisingly, Rovers have drifted out slightly to 11/2 at Hill's for promotion.
  3. Well, three and a numeral, strictly speaking. Yours pedantically, Elvis Biro
  4. Didn't matter though, did it , Tyrone? Seeing Rovers actually win something was dreamland for a young lad who'd only seen two relegations before that.
  5. That's exactly how I feel. Watching the mighty Rovers drop into Div 3 for the first time in their history in 1971 was gut-wrenching - but at least it was for purely football reasons: we were skint (so were the vast majority of other clubs), we'd made some rotten managerial choices, couldn't hang on to our better players. It was a bitter pill to swallow but fair dos - we couldn't blame anybody but ourselves. So we had to dig deep and remember that 'We've won the cup three times on the run, been champions of division one" as we used to sing when we visited those 3rd tier shitholes for the first time. At least then we were all in it together - club, fans, board, the whole town. That's the worst thing that these people have done - disconnected me from my club, our club. I don't think it can ever have been like this in the 135 years before they took over. God damn their eyes.
  6. 19th Century Fox, we used to call him. Still have him back as opposed the current shower of shit, however.
  7. I was at that Notlob match. We were on our way back to the station when someone shouted 'They've come back on again' and we all ran back in. Still lost though.
  8. Rochdale away in the old 3rd Division, early 1970's. Rovers fans stood behind one goal. Rochdale scored and ran off to re-start - however the netting wasn't properly pegged down and someone fished the ball out and passed it on to Birdy. He gave it to Sir Roger Jones with a big wink - Roger then called over the ref and said it didn't go in because it's just been handed back to me by the crowd: Ref disallows it! Rochdale players proceed to go bonkers and the ref sends one (or even two) off. Someone must have fessed up eventually as he later re-allowed the goal and then let the sent-off player(s) back on! The ref was genuinely Courtneyesque - I've never seen one get so many things wrong in one game. Bloody good laugh, though. Anyone else remember this? The more I think about it about it, the more it seems like a surreal dream
  9. I once went to watch Rovers play at Oldham back in the 80's round about Xmas time. Seems like Boundary park only had one turnstile open for away fans so it took ages to get in - queuing up i heard a big shout -Rovers 1-0 up, then another - Rovers 2-0 up! Finally got in and dashed straight to the gents, having had the obligatory few pints, and heard another shout from our end... We won 3-0 (I think) and I never saw a goal!
  10. The headline in the Telegraph the next day was 'Ewood's Night of Shame' with a picture (probably by Wally Talbot) of a young nutter trying to kick their goalie in the nuts.
  11. I didn't hear him too many times, but our own Brad Friedel was an astonishingly good radio co-commentator. Proper analysis and real expert insights.
  12. Was watching the scores come in on the telly in the pub this aft next to a Newcastle fan. I'd just mentioned to him that we seem to have stolen this lad Dolan for nothing and he could be a bit of a cracker and he replied that he, and a lot of fellow Toon fans, are saying the same thing about Armstrong.
  13. Picked up and old Rovers programme today from a market stall - Rovers V Derby County Dec 26th 1967. Rovers team: Adam Blacklaw Keith Newton Billy Wilson George Sharples Bryan Coddington Barry Hole Eamon Rogers Malcolm Darling Mick Ferguson Alan Gilliver John Connelly Derby team included Kevin Hector, Alan Durban and Bobby Saxton, McFarland CH and O'Hare CF I must have been there but I can't remember it for the life of me. We ended up winning 3-0 with goals from Fergie, Darling and Gilliver. Att.17,902 We then played them away 4 days later, as we often did with Xmas matches in those days, if memory serves. (West Ham!) If you wanted to follow the lads away it was 13/9 for a ticket on Ribblesdale. "Departs Rishton, Gt Harwood, Clayton amd Accrington approx. 10.00am, Church and Ossy approx 10.15 etc etc. Happy days.
  14. I can see the headline in the old Sports Pink - "Misery for Burnley as Rovers go nap!! hopefully, Match report by Alf Thornton, obvs.
  15. Do you remember them back in the 60's when they used to have a mascot dressed as a sailor wandering round the touchline? He always seemed to be pissed as well.
  16. Takes me back to those days - my other half wanted to get two new pet cats. I wasn't that keen, but was allowed to name them as a bit of a sweetener. Hence my kids growing up wondering why our cats were called Howard and Scott.
  17. Lionel Messi has just become available on a 'free'. Is he the sort of prospect we should be looking at?
  18. Nice to see a perimeter advert for Tommy Ball's shoe emporium. Used to live just round the corner from there.
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