Yes and according to what I've read the Italian Health Service had more Urgent Care beds than the NHS.

If we aren't careful we'll find ourselves in a situation were doctors will have to be choosing who will live and who will die. " Put the over 70's outside, they've had a good run ".

I was intending to go but now I've chickened out. I'm a bit " chesty " at the best of times courtesy of breathing in all sorts of dust and crap in my engineering career so getting the virus would be really bad news for me.

I'm 71 on Saturday ( PM me if you want to send me gifts, cards, money etc ) and I get the impression that there are plenty of other people around my age on this site. I would have thought there are plenty at Ewood on match days as well. We don't want to lose any of our long time supporters so let's be sensible about this matter.

He'd have to learn there's more to heading the ball than just getting your head to it first.

If he'd been an academy graduate he be at Barrow with the other lads.

I've only seen him in the flesh once but I liked his demeanor. He wasn't a showy goalkeeper but he looked wide awake and agile. I wouldn't be jumping up and down if we signed him but I wouldn't be worried either.

As most people realise the average goalkeeper can normally have a longer career than the average out field player. I thought that was obvious.

We've got a decent season out of Downing but next season he could be over the hill and down the other side just like Mulgrew was this season. When you hit the wall it can come up really suddenly. Speaking from personal experience. In April/May I was going great, the following August/September I was seriously off the pace.

Signing players that age is a big gamble. There are more failures than success stories usually.

Yeah, he wasn't very big. We've had a few " New Bryan Douglas's ". My pal really rated Daly highly when they were lads, he was one of the few who could give Nobby Stiles the run around in schools football. My pal also played against Stiles and he reckoned getting tackled off Nobby was like getting an electric shock up your leg !

Not having Mulgrew at least on the bench yesterday was a very strange decision.

Kalanic had more footballing ability in his left testicle than Brererton has in his whole body.

Or Northern Italy.

Griffiths Wells, Pickering England, Newton Leech Ratcliffe, Bradshaw, Jervis, Daly, Mulvey Barry Ratcliffe played a good few first team games for Rovers but when Ferguson and Harrison came along that was that. Vinnie Leech had a good career at Bury and Rochdale. I played against his younger brother John, he was top amateur midfielder. David Wells was doing really well at Rochdale when he broke his leg.That finished him. Alan Bradshaw was a stalwart of the Rovers Central League team for years with the odd first team appearance. Jervis, Daly and Mulvey had a few games for various teams in the old Fourth Division. A old pal of mine played with Daly for Manchester School boys. He was doing some scouting for City years later and came across Paddy Daly still playing amateur football when he was about 45 and he was still running the game. Barry Griffiths just drifted out of football.

To answer the question. No, we won't be getting promoted. This season was our best chance and it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Other more ambitious clubs will be in for our better players in the close season and I expect us to start next season with a weaker team than we have now. Sorry I couldn't paint a more rosy picture but it is what it is.

Nice finish to the the video. Maybe they would slaughter them but do they entertain us like the old teams Phil ? I'd say not even slightly. Greaves would be a star in any era, he was a one off. Watching that what's missing is the knee slides, team dances, corner flag kicking etc. Maybe that's what passes for entertainment these days.

I think we dodged a bullet there. I'm not a big fan either.

That's him, probably a good coach but not manager material.

Then you have Jay Bothroyd getting an England cap ! I'd rather have Sam Gallagher, at least he tries.

Rochdale did a similar thing with Fred Eyre's lad who was a top youth coach at City. Totally out of his depth in men's football. He didn't last the season out.

That's what's wrong with the " modern game ",

Typical thunderbolt from Puskas there.

Who would you rather play in that midfield role ?

I've finally got around to starting the book. It's a good read, well worth buying. One thing that amazed me was he had a deal with Adidas were he would get £1 million if he made his debut for England ! Football's gone mad.