I wasn't there (I worked Saturdays back then) but got home before full-time. The wind was blowing in the right direction (from Ewood to Mill Hill) and I heard the cheers, it felt like every 5 minutes. Remember this was the Norwich who had pulled off a famous victory at Bayern Munich midweek!

Great article from Gally. Hopefully the boo-boys will take heed and wait for Benni's reaction before getting the knives out.

Every player has drops in form. If that's what this is and Benni responds in a positive way we've a very strong strikeforce.

If not, we've Roque, Roberts, Derbyshire and maybe more to come in January.

Ive just done the maths and Nelsen earns more than £50,000 a week, surely this isnt right?

And worth every penny!

listened to century last night and the utd fans were moaning like fook,its a disgrace what the glaziers have done,and there puppet mikey thomas still backs the club

That scheme has to be one of the nastiest ways to fleece supporters ever devised.

I've no sympathy though. They've all sold their souls as far as I'm concerned and deserve everything they get.

united away, worthington cup final i only could get 1 ticket, do i need to go on, i see some of these supporters walking around now in chelsea shirts that really p----- me off

I think this "real fans" vs glory-hunters thing is a bit of a wazzing contest anyway.

If you've got a season ticket you're first in the queue for any away/Euro/cup final tickets. If you don't then you take your chances with the rest of them, so phone the ticket office early.

the stay away fans will be at ewood if we were top of the league all the time though won't they, there are to many glory hunters these days thats the main problem

If we want to sell out every home game we need more glory hunters. Sorry but that's the truth. If it were just the hard core turning up we'd not fill half the ground.

I now have the time 00/02 new in bag!

can anyone tell me about the 87-88 88-90 shirts, were they the same??? = ?

I can't keep asking him questions, he'll get sus

thanks

The badge changed. 1989 was the year the current club badge debuted.

This page is a useful history of our kit.

Even after last nights debacle?( I won't call it "football," cos we didn't bother playing any) There's faith and then there's BLIND faith!

Sparky is as fallible as the rest of us, he makes mistakes too, we saw that last night. Do you still believe in the easter bunny too?

No I don't. Nor do I believe that a single terrible result means a good manager and team have turned to shyte almost overnight.

Yes Sparky makes mistakes (e.g. Bruno Berner) but very few.

wheres all the faith in hughsie gone???

if hughsie picks him then hughsie thinks hes good enough same mgp....i think sir mark has more of clue than us mere mortals on message board.

That's the most sensible comment I've read here this week.

I think you are wrong there, Dickov got plenty of stick on here when he was here.

Difference being Dickov, for all his running couldn't hit a horses arse with a banjo. Benni was the 2nd highest scorer in the League last year and still gets slated.

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Why, what time do the Pubs close in Brum?

Being local I also like the 5.15 kick offs. It gives you all day do to any family type stuff you have to do and then 7.30 is a great time to hit the Pub for Saturday night out afterwards!

In my area, it's often when the last punter leaves It's just hard to get out straight after a 2 hour (if I'm lucky) drive. At least a 3pm start gives me a bit of fett-up time.

Still little sense my moaning about it when the Sky (and Sultana) money is worth more to the club than a few out-o-town STHs.

I prefer the 5.15 also. It is a great opportunity to get an extra 5 or 6 pints in before the game and then upset the rest of the old boys on my row in the JW when I get in just on kick-off and then need to get up for the odd jimmie or two.

Of course it's all subjective: I for one can't stand the 5:15 kick-offs. I don't get home til gone 9, so each KO is another missed Saturday night on the razz.

They've also a good deal on for Big Club fans at the Carling Cup games (I read it a BCFC programme on Saturday). Their season ticket holders get in for a tenner, same as ours do.

You're absolutely right.

We need to get the drummers up at the back of NO1

How about the Darwen End, so they can knacker the away fans singing?

On my latest regular trip to the local library I picked up "Floodlight Dreams: How To Save A Football Club" by Ian Ridley.

Sounds like a winner. I'll look out for that one.

I recommend "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel which tells the story of a boy (the lone human survivor) shipwrecked along with a hyena, an orang utang and a Bengal tiger. Very well written and captivating in my opinion.

Agree fully. A brilliant read.

I'm part way through For Whom the Bell Tolls. I've had Hemmingway on the "to read" list for some years and I'm most impressed. I'll be enjoying more Hemmingway before the year's out.

I'm just surprised they spelled his name right.

Give 'em some credit, anyone can manage 'A-X-E'

Nope, not that but I do love the Nutty Boys

Morten Gamst Pedersen, which almost fits the chorus of House of Fun.

Morten Gamst Pedersen,

Best winger in the land!

Morten Gamst Pedersen,

He's in a bo-oy band!

Pedders, Pedders, they call him Pedders?

Why exactly does there need to be an alternative to the drummers. Other teams manage to get an atmosphere going without a drum.

My suggestion if we need to keeps drums would be to have one drummer and one only. Also for the drummer to be up at the back of the Blackburn end with the singers. This way they would be more in tune and with the majority of the vocal fans.

You wouldn't say that if you sat at the back

Sheril Crow is magig,

she likes to play with nobs

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There was a car-load singing that outside St Andrews last time we were there (Sav scored but we lost).

The Brummies were seething! Wasn't you by any chance?

Cheekster, we'll have to disagree over Welsh, I cant stand his prose, I really cant.

I'm you on this one Flopster It's nothing to do with the Edinburgh dialect either, W##sh is just bobbins!

That's amusing...someone's surname is now an obscenity on this forum!

How the #### did that happen.

I'll risk a ban and spell it out: D-a-w-k-i-n-s.

Risque stuff eh?

The beeb have now acknowledged the club's rubbishing of their story, albeit in a backhanded way.

Quite how an outright denial is playing down speculation is beyond me but here's the revised story.

I've just finished Richard #########' The God Delusion. A quite amusing, thoroughly well researched and wonderfully written debunking of/attack on religion by a prominent scientist and aetheist.

In my case it's preaching to the (de)converted (raised a Catholic, thought about it, decided it was cobblers, had a lot of arguments at school) but still worth the read. His arguments against religion go further than my own but are hard to fault.

The book ends almost as an ode to science. Setting out the narrowness of our view of the world without science. How our narrow perception of the light spectrum is also true of matter, distance, etc. How our perception of rocks and walls as solid is meaningless to a neutrino, our appreciation of brownian motion is insignificant compared to a bacterium's and of water's suface tension is insignificant compared to a pond skater's. That is almost worth the price of the book alone.

Terrific stuff!