Hi Den, I think you mean John Sissons not Peter ( news reader ? ) In the return game at Ewood Rovers were unchanged, West Ham brought in Bovington ( a tenacious man-marker to mark Dougie) but apart from that I think they were unchanged. We played like we'd been celebrating since the first match and never really got going , West Ham were 2-0  up early in the second half when Andy McEvoy raced through to put us back in the game, 5 minutes later we allowed the Hammers a sloppy goal and it was game over.

As for the 7-2 game with Spurs-

Rovers fielded the same team as in the West Ham games -

Scorers- Andy McEvoy 4, Bryan Douglas 1, Mike England 1, Fred Pickering 1

Spurs - Brown,  Baker,  Henry,  Blanchflower,  Norman,  Mackay,  Saul,  White,  Smith,  Greaves,  Dyson.

Scorers- Jimmy Greaves1,Dave Mackay1.

Attendence 20,949.

Other great games I witnessed at that time were the 5-5 draw with Arsenal and another thrashing of Spurs in the last match of the season 1962/63, Spurs had just won the Cup-Winners Cup and paraded the trophy around the ground before the game. Rovers took them apart that night winning 3-0, our 8-9-10  for that game was Ferguson, Pickering and Byrom, all local kids who seemingly had the football world at their feet.

Like you said without a doubt the best Rovers team I've ever seen, I'll die happy having seen them at their best.

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