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.

And I think we all know what it means,

Elvis Presley - Little Sister

I hope not.

Frankie Ford - Sea Cruise

Rovers are what we used to call in engineering a “ stopping off shop”. It was a job you took until something better came along. Just a temporary arrangement until you got a better offer.

Edmundson looks decent but I don’t think he's the next Phillips. Powell ditto but is he any better than Gent or Batty were ? After that, the rest don’t impress. Tyjon and Duru must be decent but I’m reserving judgement at the moment.

My wife bought me - “ Football History told through Newspaper Headlines - Blackburn Rovers “ for Xmas a few years ago. It’s a similar sort of thing. It wasn’t cheap though. At the moment it’s £54.99 less 25% discount. It’s not worth that. £25 would be about right.

The 20 minute poor man’s David Speedie. Great goal though.

The Valentino’s - Lookin’ For A Love

Vanilla Fudge - Take Me For A Little While

That’s why you shouldn’t buy cheap yellow cards. The one in the first half for Scales put him on a knife edge. Game over once the pen went in.

That was like having teeth pulled. Moving the ball way too slow. Back to walking football.

Yep. He was pissed again when he fired us.

The Rolling Stones - Sittin’ On A Fence

My workmate and myself got fired for flying it the wrong way up on the main building of the place we were both working at. The Royal Navy representatives were visiting and one of the officers spotted it. The MD fired us but the works manager said - Don’t worry about it lads, just go on nights for a couple of shifts, he’ll have forgotten by then “.

11,328 at Stockport County yesterday.

I hope you’re flying it the right way up.