Earl Jean- I’m Into Something Good

Shirley Ellis - The Name Game

Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely

Jerry Butler And The Impressions - Sweet Was The Wine

Paul, Ritchie And The Crying Shames - Please Stay Joe Meek’s final hit.

The 1910 Fruit Gum Company - Simon Says

Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown

The Count Five - Pyschotic Reaction

There’s also that O’Riordan lad who’s out on loan at the moment.

The Beatles - I Call Your Name

Elvis Presley - I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone

I remember going to Rovers v Charlton back in the 1960’s. It was a day just like this. The river at the back of the Riverside was a raging torrent. They kicked off at 3-00 but it wasn’t long before pools of standing water started to appear and passing the ball became a lottery. There was a really funny moment. Rovers were attacking the Darwen End and Mike Ferguson put in a great cross around the penalty spot. Alan Gilliver was playing up front and as he took an almighty swipe at the ball, a gust of wind came up a blew the ball away like a toy yacht. He missed the ball completely, did a pirouette, and fell into a large puddle. Everybody was laughing, even the ref. Anyway Charlton scored just before half time to make it 0-1 but the ref called it off at half time. I used to have the programme. It was pretty bedraggled and rain damaged and it was in my inside pocket !

Would you be coming by canoe Chaddy ?

We might have been if it was a 12-30 KO.

God knows what state the pitch would have been in at 4-55.

That was on the first LP I ever bought. “ Little Richard Volume 2 “. The Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know.

Rochdale v Oldham just been called off. Anybody fancy a meat pie ? Going cheap ?

To be more nefarious characters than the Venkies they’d have to be serving long jail sentences.

I used to work with a bloke who’d been a tail gunner on Lancasters. He could tell some stories ! The one about how they got attacked by an ME 163 rocket fighter was really funny. He saw the speck in the distance and thought it was an ordinary prop powered aircraft so he just kept scanning for other aircraft. When he finally looked back again the ME was right on top of them. Luckily the German pilot didn’t fire, maybe his guns jammed. He was shaking for the rest of the day. Howard & Bulloughs we’re in a large conglomerant with Tweedale & Smalley of Rochdale and Platt Brothers of Oldham. When times got bad in the textile engineering game in early 1960’s one of them had to go and it was Tweedales. About 1,500 people lost their jobs. The other two followed them eventually. I played as a young player on Tweedale’s pitch. It was brilliant, they had first class facilities.

The forecast is pretty atrocious. Fair play to anyone travelling from Portsmouth tomorrow. Real fans.

Good question.

There’s no loyalty in football anymore. Sonny Liston once said “ You Can’t Put Friends In The Bank “, but it could have been said by anybody involved in modern day football. Blackburn Rovers is a stopping off club. You just stay here until something better comes along.

Lazy Lester - I’m A Lover Not A Fighter

Tony Orlando - Halfway To Paradise

Yes, Yorkshire St. You can’t drive up that bit any more.