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Wonder what became of that KFC

Don't remember this chapter in Shakespeare 😂

Also, I will add, as I fear they may get lost slightly amongst the rightful onslaught that hopefully comes the Club's way, my thoughts are with the Women's players and backroom staff who have just been utterly shafted by the bastards who run our once fine and proud Football Club. The days these fuckers no longer darken our door should be celebrated more vociferously than May 1995.

Quote from the Rovers News release - This decision follows a comprehensive review of the evolving demands placed on second tier clubs, which have become unsustainable under our current model... Presumably this means 'Run by utter gobshites?'

Reading Women went from the second tier to fifth this time last year I think. Presuming a similar trajectory for us, this means (according to Wikipedia) the North West Women's Regional Football League (Premier), in the illustrious company of Darwen, FC United, and Wythenshawe. Give it a few more years and the Men's team will be playing the same, no doubt. Edit - not even Wythenshawe, who appear to have been promoted. Let's say Curzon Ashton instead...

Well, a cursory glance at the Serie A table shows that, with two games to play: - One of two teams can still be crowned champions, with a play off to determine who still a possibility. - Two points separate 4th from 7th, which includes the final CL spot and singular spots for the Europa and Conference Leagues. 7th get nothing. - Two from (realistically) three teams at the bottom are still to be relegated. Italy might not have the snazzy packaging of the Premier League or allure of Pep or Salah or whatever shite Sky are peddling this week, but if I wanted to look at something pretty I'd go for a wallk in the country. 'Perfection' does not necessarily equal 'Intrigue' or 'Entertainment'.

Bloody hell football can't come back soon enough

Now that Wembley is paid off there or thereabouts, I wouldn't be surprised if word of the Community Shield moving to America or the Middle East starts. Spain have had theirs in Saudi for years now, and of course it is a four-team tournament instead of a standalone fixture. Amazon Cannons (AKA Arsenal) v. Tesla Blues (AKA Chelsea) to kick off the inaugural 2030 English Super Cup Championship at some field in the desert near Riyadh at 0230 GMT on Boxing Day morning.

The thing could be played in the middle of Siberia at 4am on a Tuesday and we'd be being told it is for the best to capture the global audience. Any true and proper Palace fan would get there as they must realise some fella in a flat in Beijing has yearned to see them in the Cup final since he started following football duting Covid is of equal importance to the equation.

Seems to be a lot of gobshites like that at gigs these days. Don't understand it myself, if you want to drink and chat to your mates all night just go to the pub, or at least skulk around the back where it is quieter and people are generally less invested in the gig. Some poor sod may have waited years or shelled out hundreds to be there and all they get is some inane, drunken dirge from the arsehole next to them. Worst I have actually ever had was at an Americana/country gig of all things, at Band on the Wall in Manchester. They left after about an hour - thank god - but not before they had acted like pricks for half of the evening. Blokes shouting their own lyrics over the chorus and their girlfriends trying to sit on their shoulders etc. after six pints.

I appreciate lives were shorter back then, but I wonder how many of the old boys there will have been around for the first League fixture just 62 years beforehand! Perhaps even the FA Cup glories in the years leading up to that...

I am sure fixtures used to be released in the morning, not at noon. Probably a request from various employers so the massive drop in productivity nationwide for the hour afterwards coincides with everyone's lunch break.

The first I have any recollection of is the home tie v. Preston in Division 1 as was in 2000-01.

Aye but he's a United fan so it's objectively very funny

Mine landed this morning. Love the feature across the middle pages, less so the data contained within it!

That's Cornwall gone from League 1. Suppose we were due a folding since it has been at least six months since the last one. All the 'good news' of Goole joining the set up and here we are again with the same stories time after time. Perhaps it is time for Bedford and Attleborough to dust off their application forms again, or maybe they can take the vacated franchise to more new territories... St. Kilda, perhaps?

I would be in a very strong position to be 'Last Rovers fan left alive from their 1994-95 title winning season', were it not for the club subsequently taking decades off me already. Speaking of which, I wonder how many Blackburnians are still around that would have been alive for our FA Cup win in 1928?

Considering its modest size, Chorley is a superb town for drinking in. Puts places three or four times as big to absolute shame. With the exception of the Masons Arms, all within a drunken stagger of each other too! Noting your name, I am also fond of the Red Lion too. Less so that I once accidentally timed one visit with some folk club matinee gig. Preston is also very good for ale. The Black Horse is utterly wonderful, a Desert Island disc of a place.

This has been a wonderful read for someone who was alive at the time but far too young to experience any of it. I have seen all the footage from the match and all the subsequent interviews and documentaries and whatever, but seldom if ever read about it from the fans' point of view. Thanks all.

Crumble!

Different sort of inept. He may show up but has his name painted in the seats on one of the stands and tried to ban unofficial merch being worn inside the ground. Only thing worth reading on Reddit these days. Actual cerebral football fans too.

Their version of Forever Young with Bob Dylan on The Last Waltz is one of my Desert Island discs. Utterly wonderful group.

Last time Queen's Park beat Rangers in the Scottish Cup, crossbars weren't mandatory. Davidson has pedigree in this competition already, he was in charge when St Johnstone did the Cups double in 2020-21. They won both games 1-0 with the same player scoring a header in the 32nd minute. Craig Conway played in the League Cup final but was only on the bench for the Scottish Cup one.

Alias account IMO

Stoke away now Wed 12th March at 2000. My local away day, but had made other plans for that night on the basis that midweeks I am sure were only ever really fiddled for KO times 😑 Mind, it is the modern way and I must accept that the hoards in Tashkent and Windhoek are more invested in Rovers than I.