Mattyblue

That’s a bit of a muddled take. Yes, there are complete cretins that follow England, but last year’s final aside it’s absolutely nothing compared to the 70s and 80s when it was the Union Jack draped hooligans causing real havoc across Europe. Since the St George’s flag replaced the Union Jack at Euro 96 it has become more more tame with thousands of families following the team home and away, something that was unheard of in the dark old days. ‘Extreme right’ etc is very hyperbolic when the trouble you still do see is largely just immature young lads with a few days off work behaving just like they do in their local town centre on a Friday night. Does that excuse it? No, but binge drinking and cocaine snorting, acting like a twat type behaviour is a major issue for a subset of our society, and football is just another outlet for it.

Well, the ‘big 6’ fans mainly.

You best knock this one on the head here ‘99. Obviously the maths lessons on percentages, fractions etc were missed 😀

Indeed, a nonsensical comment. Our worst managers have also been English - Keegan, McLaren, Hodgson, Taylor. So by that barometer we should only have foreign managers…

Only Rovers are allowed the club badge on corner flags…

Forums will always contain the collection of people we have on here. They are full of folk that spend their days banging on about the minutiae of their club, their car, their obscure hobby.

If you think brfcs is a uniquely ‘negative’ place, you mustn’t spend much time on other forums. They are *all* like this.

Ray Wilkins spent the last twenty years of his life in Wilpshire and was captain of the Rising Sun’s darts team.

The thing is most club fans pay absolutely no attention to their international side for months on end until the game is right there on the screen, so they just comment on what they see. So if it’s a load of ‘turgid, unimaginative’ shite (to coin a phrase) then that’s what they’ll remark. Then they forget about it until the next one. It certainly isn’t a ‘negative brfcs’ phenomenon…

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/steve-waggott-tony-parkes-blackburn-17706368.amp Just the two and a half *years* on… Does Swag need help looking for it in the long grass he kicked it in to? Bet we’ll find all sorts in there.

Won’t somebody think about the xG!

He was originally out of contract after Qatar. But luckily for him he bagged himself an extension to December 2024 just before this horror run got underway…

Probably spotted sharing a booth in San Carlo’s…

As was John O’Shea…

An international game in a few midweeks with domestic football continuing was the case up to the mid 90s. It is only since then it was decided by the authorities to invent the two worst words in football; ‘international break’

International football has been based on tournament football for nearly a 100 years. Just the way it is and inventing a ‘league’ in 2016 isn’t going to change that. I’d personally only have tournaments and their qualifiers, plus tournament warm up games. All in one block of fixtures and not a constant break up of the season. Though as I largely don’t give a shite about international football anyway. (I.è I’d probably choose Rovers winning next Saturday then England win the WC), I’m probably not the target market and I’ll leave you NL fanboys to it 😁

Just organise friendlies against top sides then, no? Which to be fair to the FA, they largely were doing in the couple of years before the NL was set up.

Friendlies are now also five. Plus, we’ve lost plenty of friendlies away from home against teams like this. If you think they are ‘competitive’ and mean something, fair enough. But in reality the whole ‘league’ and who played who, who won it will all be forgotten by this time next year. Whilst the WC/Euros go into folklore. That’s just the structure of international football, everything builds up to those tournaments, this means very, very little.

Not sure what I’m supposed to be seeing that makes it any different to if friendlies were just organised with teams like Italy or Germany. And as for subs, you can make just as many in these games. UEFA can call them ‘competitive’ all they like and can provide a naff little trophy that is awarded after a convoluted set of games taking about 18 months, but as the players and managers themselves only see them as glorified friendlies, they simply aren’t.

It’ll be reight, we’ve been told for decades that it’s tired bodies in June that costs us, so a mid season tournament will see us walk it…

‘Interesting and sensible’, just what you want from your day out at a match.

Does it, how? How is this any different than just organising a friendly with Italy?

Jimmy Armfield. Spoken and written word. What a career in football he had.

Yeah but at least it’s cheap for them to watch their club tread water for eternity…

It’s the players and managers that have animosity towards it. Personally I’d play all internationals (qualifiers) in one block per season. And some pre tournament warm ups, and that would be it. So we wouldn’t need either an invented ‘competitive’ competition or friendlies attempting to fill up endless international breaks through the year.