Tyrone Shoelaces

I was lucky growing up in the 1960’s. Three of the sports I love, and took part in to a greater or lesser extent, football - cricket - boxing were dominated by the three best I ever saw. Pele, Mohammed Ali and Gary Sobers.

Fred Pickering was doing that before Cruyff.

His attitude stinks and it has done all the time he’s been in the team. He must be the most petulant player I’ve ever seen in my time watching Rovers. I can’t recall him ever being carded for a proper tackle. It’s always snidey, sly, childish stuff. However part of the problem lies with the management at the club. They should have eradicated his attitude early on in his career. Can you see Souey, Sparky or Big Sam putting up with an absolutely ridiculously long series of pointless yellow cards ? I remember my only sending off. It was in an interdepartmental game and I got frustrated and took it out on the guy who was marking me. Next morning I was called up before the Works Engineer ( God in the engineering industry ) to got a bollocking for letting the department and myself down. I learnt from that episode. Will John Buckley.

The Tugay one was crackers. Maybe he needed to be somewhere else. The Andy Todd on Dugarry was pointless but very funny. The most pointless one I ever saw was in Rovers favour. We were playing Utd at Old Trafford in the relegation season of 1965-66. We were losing 2-0 and playing like real no-hopers. At that time we were fielding Mike England as a centre forward and he must have done something to rile Harry Gregg in the Utd goal. Gregg was notorious for having a short fuse. Late in the second half Rovers got a corner and as it was swung in Gregg came running out of his goal and punched England square on the side of the head with a right hook. The ball was yards away. Gregg just carried on walking to the changing rooms. He didn’t look around at the ref or Mike England who was laid out on the ground. He must have thought the game was over. Of course Mike Harrison scored from the resulting penalty. Striker David Herd was the stand in goalie, no sub goalies then. He actually tried to run along the line to stop the ball - no chance. After that it was game on. Rovers actually equalised with an equally comical free kick which hit the wall and looped over the hapless Herd in the Utd goal. It gave me hope that we might avoid the drop but it wasn’t to be.

The Tugay one was crackers. Maybe he needed to be somewhere else. The Andy Todd on Dugarry was pointless but very funny.

What makes you think they care one way or another ? Most of them are equally petulant at times. There’s hardly a real man amongst them.

The World Cup showed how to referee games. Thinking back to the final the referee did a great job keeping 22 on the pitch. If that had have been a Premier League game half of the players would have had cards. Our guys don’t see it in the same light. They just referee with the rule book in hand. Having said that it’s obvious that opposition players now know Buckley is a petulant moron and are going to do their best to let him prove it.

We are exceeding my expectations regarding our league position. However I was hoping to see a bit of cut and thrust football and an exciting team now and again. In that respect we are underachieving.

Or the ones that keep telling me we’re third in the league.

Until he does get a side he “ actually believes in “ he better get the lot he took over playing better than this.

What more can I say ? The lad is a liability. If he hasn’t learned after tonight he never will.

The best I ever saw. He was capable of jaw dropping moments of skill. So good the government wouldn’t let him leave the country to play for a European team.

Around halfway.

Halifax are still playing.

If there’s any other club interested you can forget it.

At least he got good odds.

I see the current England woman's team wear shorter shorts. Back in the day when shorts were really short I remember seeing Glen Hoddle wearing his shirt outside his shorts and you couldn’t see his shorts at all. I suppose the clue is in the name - shorts.

From what I recall of the Portsmouth highlights reel lots of his goals came from him “ attacking “ balls played in front of him for him to run on to. Exactly what you want as a striker. Exactly the sort of balls you see about once a game at Rovers.

“ Surely a backwards looking methodology “ , definitely, if you’re trying to hold on to you job.

Has he ever been carded for putting a “ quietner “ in ? Usually it’s for childish shit like kicking the ball away or ankle tapping from behind.

Inexplicable, which ever way you look at it.

As long as this shower own Rovers it’ll just be more of the same with the only route out of this league through the trap door. I just hope I live long enough to see them gone.

A decade of pure shite with very little exception has decimated the fan base. I know blokes who were die hard Rovers fans who wouldn’t go if you gave them a free season ticket now. It’s not just the results or the football it’s the feeling of complete alienation from the club. Nothing we can do or say will effect anything of what goes on at Ewood. We count for nothing. Absolutely nothing. We’re totally dis-connected from Blackburn Rovers. We exist in a parallel universe to the Chicken Chokers. Short of getting on a plane to Pune and lobbing a brick through their window that is. I was there when we were playing and losing to Rochdale in the old Div 3 and I didn’t have this feeling of powerlessness that I have now. I’ve said it before but I feel like I’m a passenger on that plane that the pilot decided to fly into a mountain.

Congratulations, that makes you officially “ old ”.

Their plan is never going to happen. Neither is JDT’s. We haven’t the money to buy players of the quality needed to play keep ball. The sooner he realises that the better.