GHR

This is probably the best sentence I have ever read on here. I am stealing that phrase!

Aye, don't mind them but ain't my scene. Just wish they'd sing fucking songs about the Rovers.

I clearly don't, I was also clearly going off what you implied by what you said ffs.

It probably isn't if it's inhabited by the likes of you and those attitudes tbh

Nope, leave all that carry on to the coked up pissheads who usually do it.

This is beginning to do annoy me at Rovers. Not been to Ewood in a while, but at Norwich and then at Stoke yesterday, despite our brilliant performances on the pitch, our most popular song was that '[Kompany] playing football the Burnley way...' chant, and all you could hear stood outside the bet65 beforehand was some anti-Burnley stuff. I'm here to support our boys, ffs.

Did I? Seldom gets mentioned 😁

I did not. Started watching Rovers early 00s. My opinion from my experiences.

'Anticipating contact' wasn't invented then

You can have Banks, Yashin, Schmichel, Casillas, Buffon, Kahn, Taffarel, Dida, Toldo, Seaman, van der Sar, Cech and whoever else, we had super Brad. Not a kid played football in Blackburn for the best part of a decade without pretending they were him in nets. I loved him then and I love him now. He and Tugay are my two favourite Rovers ever by a country mile.

I had a Greek flatmate at the time that was all getting tweaked (the renaming, not the dissolution of Yugoslavia!). He wasn't short of opinions on the matter, and you can imagine what they were. It actually transpired that he wasn't too keen on any of Greece's neighbours except for Bulgaria. Lost hours of my life accidentally setting him off on stuff like that. Like saying the V word to a Rovers fan, but worse.

Righto

Interested as to your problems with Dan. Appreciate the genre isn't for everyone but their compositions were utterly watertight.

In which case all discussion should have ceased after someone said Lennon-McCartney!

All this songwriter chat and no-one mentioned Donald Fagen/Walter Becker. Disgusting IMO.

I mean surely we all know by now that a lot of the rules and regulations and their executors in the highest levels of football are weak as piss. Man City can afford pretty much an endless line of the best legal representatives in the world; anything that does get filed will come with a comparative slap on the wrist and a fine any given member of their first team could pay instantaneously. Fit and proper, FFP, all this shite; it's all bollocks. As ever, it is only the ones without mummy and daddy on hand who shall be punished.

As someone from the slightly newer generation (*) who only really remembers from the League Cup victory onwards, my hierarchy of dislike was always Burnley, then Man United, then Bolton. I'm nowhere near as frequent an attendee as I was as a kid these days, but the reasons perhaps Preston never really land on my radar is that for just over a decade we never played them (unless I've missed some odd Cup tie somewhere). Ditto Blackpool, Wigan in similar regards. Funnily enough mind, my very first Rovers memory is from the 00-01 season when we went 3-0 at home to PNE in about 20 mins. (*) - at Watford away this season I clocked from their programme notes on us that I am indeed older than every current Rovers player . That was an eye opener!

Bolton Wanderers landed me in hospital a couple of years ago. Thought they were going bust and I detached a lung laughing.

Currently en-route to Norwich to make a long weekend of this. Lovely city though it is I really hope Rovers make it a worthwhile trip!

To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens: If you gave them an enema, they'd fit in a matchbox.

Yes, Man United staying in this seeming drunken stagger of an existence is fine by me too. Them losing will never not be funny and the fact that their transfer policies of the last few years have gone about as badly as was possible is the cherry atop a mighty fine cake. Them winning the League Cup last year to seemingly steady their ship and instead just sinking again makes it that bit sweeter really. TL;DR: Fuck Man United

Should be a statue of John Coleman outside Accrington Town Hall, worked beyond miracles at that club for well over two decades all in.

That went well.

Wore the number 1 shirt, and apparently to be called 'Sir' whilst there.

August '19? I was there too with a friend who lives down that way. Lovely ground and Harvey's ales on tap were upsides to a rather depressing 5-1 loss; but thankfully it wasn't too much of an indicator of the coming years! I have since seen the Ladies/Women a few times since and hope to be up at Leyland next week. I must admit I find it a bit hard to get drawn to the fixtures played at Ewood, Bramall Lane, Madejski etc. whilst attendances don't necessarily justify it - much more engaging and atmospheric when you're packed into the smaller venues I find (see Bamber Bridge, Durham, Lewes, Palace before moving to Sutton etc.).