We had a benefactor that funded the team in the Premiership - Jack Walker. The dingles had a benefactor that funded the team in the Premiership - SKY and Murdoch in the old days. What’s the difference ? Is the money a different colour ? Does it buy more ?

Well funded club wins a trophy. Shock horror ! It shouldn’t be allowed !

What did it for me with Ronaldo was when Portugal played France in the European Cup Final. He limped off about 20 minutes without having down much. The rest of the team battled like Trojans through normal time and then extra time to win 1-0. When it comes the time to pick up the trophy who should step up but Ronaldo. I played a good while and captained teams. If that would have been me I would have said to whoever took over the arm band “ You’ve won this cup, go and pick it up “. In all honesty I couldn’t have done what Ronaldo did. Had he not won enough in his career by then ? Great player but a complete egotist.

Plenty of teams have spent loads of money and won nothing.

I’d swap our owners for Putin.

“ No one at the club was available for comment “ . I’m shocked.

A pedant writes - The Rugby League Challenge Cup that Hornets won a century ago is the exact same trophy as the one that teams play for today. That doesn’t apply to the cups top level football teams play for today. The Premier League winners trophy is a stand alone trophy and only 7 teams have won it. Rovers being one.

But, look in the record books. Leeds have never won the Premier League. To pretend otherwise is really re-writing history.

We were hardly the first team to spend a bit of money. Most teams that have won things in the recent past have spent money. You have to go back to the old maximum wage days to find clubs that didn’t.

No, it’s just the Premier League trophy. Of which there is a replica on display in the trophy cabinet at Ewood.

Don’t be silly. Clubs have been buying players as long as organised football has existed. You’ve spent more money than us recently. Am I bitter ? Not at all, it’s the way of the football world. We had plenty of good players taken off us in the past. When Jack came along it was our turn.

That’s the Premier League trophy. We’ve won it once and you haven’t won it at all. The old First Division trophy is a different kettle of fish. I would maintain they were both hard to win but the Premier League trophy was harder. Look at the teams that won the First Division back in the day Ipswich, Forest, Villa, Everton, Leeds etc. Nobody dominated the old First Division as Utd did in the early days of the Premier League.

Do you really that Sam would have set us like that last Sunday ? Not a chance.

You were what you were. Nobody had deliberately sabotaged your club. Mistakes had been made but not because people didn’t care., they just got things wrong. Were your owners/directors at Ewood that afternoon ? Where were our “ owners” last Sunday ? Probably watching the cricket back in India. That is why we’re like a cancer patient. My analogy is we are like the passengers on that plane were the pilot decided to end it all and flew into a mountain. We can’t get off and we can’t influence the flight path. There is honestly no comparison.

Not with that trophy.

That’s a good analysis of where we’re going wrong.

Hold your hand up matey, you were gutted when we won the big one. You’ve never got over it and you never will.

Crazy modern football ideas. When I first started going to Rovers we’d four regular first team fullbacks. Three of them could, and did, play on either wing. If you can’t pass successfully with either foot and tackle equally well off either side you shouldn’t be playing pro football.

I’d say it’s more like going into a boxing match with one hand tied behind your back.

I moan a lot about how we play. It’s called constructive criticism and it’s about the things we are getting wrong. The things we get right take care of themselves. Just my opinion of course. We got things wrong when we won the Prem, I’d be moaning then but at least there was plenty to praise them for.

Yeah, that started on Sunday afternoon.

Rovers withdrawal ? After Sunday ? Speaking personally I’m glad of the break.

We’ve got a good defence because with the exception of the two strikers everybody is playing in there.

Too many nice lads, we need some bad losers in the team.

Looks like Ronaldo has kicked his last ball for Utd. He’s been a great player but as a man he’s a bit of an arse. Everything has to be about him.