Everyone misses the point that when at Barcelona he had some of the best players and THE best player in the world at his disposal. They had been through a youth system that had been working on playing that style of football since the mid 90s. Along with them the squad was supplemented with the likes of Etoo, Henry, Fabregasc etc. He also had the refs on the payroll. At City he's had a budget of £♾️.

Tugay-esque

Pep has been sussed out and he's now suffering from everyone trying to play his boring possession passing based style for the last 15 years. Players aren't developed to be creative and skilled anymore, they're just trained to pass and be disciplined to play within 'the system'.

The memory that is burned into my brain from that season was singing "Tony Parkes' Blue & White Army" with some guy yelling in between "Fuck Off Bryan Kidd!" Back when the real Blackburn Rovers existed and things like having a shit manager were sorted out before it became a major issue.

It caused me to laugh out loud at how comically shit it was.

What was the free kick for though?

I really want one of those Marshalls.

Gimme Danger and both Bad Brains tunes are absolute belters. Gimme Danger is one of my favourite tunes ever. That whole album is 11/10.

Don't forget the Bentley red card. That game was fixed. Watch back the highlights and tell me with a straight face it wasn't.

That season was absolutely brutal. At least the situation was sorted and we got the mighty Souness in to sort it out. What a great manoeuvre that was. I really do miss Blackburn Rovers F.C.

I do not live in Australia, how dare you! I lived in Mill Hill for a couple of years and refused to go then. Proximity to Ewood has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Surely we didn't have Souness in charge at the time. I'll never forget when he branded the referee as a clown. That was amazing.

I don't know what other approach we can do. For me we took the right approach against Stoke, we were attacking and created a lot of goal chances. The only changes I'd make would be to go two up front and leave two on the halfway line at corners, just basic football tactics you know. We've been failing because our squad is shit. It was a shit squad when Mowbray was here and it's just got weaker and weaker year after year. That has all been done 100% deliberately. We've sold all our best players for fuck all or let them leave for free, we have not replaced any of them. It's no coincidence that the first two people who came here and talked about getting promoted to the Premier League were gone within 18 months after their positions were made completely untenable.

To be honest the refs on the continent seem to be not too bad from what I've seen. It's mainly an English issue with them being completely gash and totally inept.

There's only one contender for that really though. That was a special moment in football history.

I might have to watch it again. I was laughing when I watched it live. I bet he couldn't do that again if he tried. Truly amazing.

Yeah he's a creative midfielder, not a fucking wizard. He's absolutely light years ahead of anyone else in the team. Not his fault that he served it up on a plate to someone who managed to head the ball down on the ground for it to then bounce over the bar, all within the six yard box. I'm still laughing about that now it was funny as fuck.

Blackburn Rovers died in 2010 mate.

Ah yes when all we needed to do was sign a striker in January and we were a shoe in for the playoffs at minimum....

Nah I'm in the 12000 strong majority that refuses to have the piss taken out of them. You won't catch me anywhere near Ewood whilst these cunts are about. Keep getting behind the lads, you're making a difference.

Sorry I forgot, everything is fine. Carry on getting behind the lads because that's done so much for us over the last 14 years.

We'll be down well before the last game of the season.

I will not be staying up to watch this one.

3-0 Cardiff without them even breaking a sweat.

I saw these cunts for exactly what they were within a couple of months. I can happily say that I've never given them a single penny and never will.