Now we are talking! 5) Burnley 0 Rovers 2. December 2000. So much build up and hype, but we then gave them a lesson. Ball being sent off for that lunge and doing the walk of shame to the Rovers fans topped it off! 4) PNE 0 Rovers 1. May 2001. Rovers fans packed in to the paddock terrace going potty when Jansen scored, Flitcroft saying 'we did it for Jack' on his tshirt. 'Rovers are back, Rovers are back hello hello1' 3) Rovers 4 Derby county 2. May 1992. Two nill down after 10 minutes, blokes in the Riverside walking out, others almost in tears as it would be 3 play off failures in 4 years. Then Sellars, Newell and 2 from Speedie got us in control! 2) Rovers 1 Newcastle 0. May 1995. Ive never known tension like it, Newcastle bossed the game, Flowers had 'bottle', Shearer got the goal. Almost there! 1) Liverpool 2 rovers 1. May 1995. The away end was a nighmare, people shouting 'Cole's missed a penalty', 'United are winning' etc etc, Redknapp scored.... blur. Greatest day of my life.

One season only but he totally galvanised the side. It was my first year as a season ticket holder and he was my hero! A clinical finisher that had a field day in that division. His hat trick against Newcastle as their Messiah mk1 returned is still one of my favourite Ewood memories, jumping on the Darwen End fence and giving some to the deluded ones. Another hat trick at Plymouth to get us in to the play offs, his goals against Derby in the semi to get us a 4-2 win after being two down, 'buying' that penalty at Wembley- great days with more to come.

About renaming a stand. Of course, that would be fantastic, but alternatively someone has posted on the LT website a suggestion of sprucing up the gates around the Jack Walker stand and renaming them the Clayton Gates.

Beating Stoke in the cup in 1962: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=41929 Blackpool away: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=67422 Bolton Cup Semi: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=37831 more on British Pathe

Rovers TV are usually pretty good at putting tributes together, just hope they have the time before kick off tomorrow.

Radio Lancs will be having a mini tribute to him on the Sport show tonight- just started.

Sad news, true Rovers man. A few weeks back a couple of videos of him and Dougie were posted, holding court in the Nuttall Street. Part of the very fabric of the club. Proper player, proper fan, proper fella. RIP

West Ham home, October 1993, a young Mattyblue was mascot. 2-0 defeat, that Lee Chapman had me crying all over my signed shirt.

Queued up in the early hours for a ticket, my mate was about 20 people behind me- they sold out before he got to the counter! What a day, went with the Des & Phil 007 Darwen Blues bus. Think we stopped in Ormskirk on the way down, the tension was unbearable in the boozers. On the ground, constant rumours went up 'Andy Cole's missed a penalty' 'West Ham are down to 10 men' all rollocks of course! To see the tears of the grown men around me will stay with me forever, as will the reception all the coaches got when they returned to Ewood, streets were packed! Think I was a little too young to truly appreciate it and I think we all expected more success. But still, the greatest day.

Ive said it many times, I just look to players and management to get a winning formula going on the pitch and to move the club forward while they are here. I've long since stopped looking for 'heroes', the club is all that matters to me.

SSN Daniel Craig says it's McCarthy's 'dream move', just like Lucash!

I am sure he had some essence of normality at Boro, but maybe I just didnt notice?! Think the England experience has caused his marbles to be well and truely lost.

'you scored the greatest goal EVER against Manchester' Looked like Birmingham City to me but the details arent important! 'He comes direct from the Norfolk club, in the north east of England' Soccer will make it big in the US of A!

How frightfully cynical of you

Watching him for both Chelsea and Newcastle, he seems to have completely lost his ability to take on players to such an extent I wonder what his game is actually supposed to be about. Ryan Giggs has lost pace but has added many other qualities to his game, Duffer, lets just remember the good times.

You know what den I think it is, the media are that institutionally biased they probably won't een realise.

On the drummer though, the commentator had it one, tuneless and out of time banging on a drum does not help the atmosphere, but just makes us look like lower league nomarks.

To me there can only be one. PHIL THOMPSON. He’s the most arrogant, condescending, big club biased, one eyed plonker on television, radio or press. The ribbing he was getting on Soccer Saturday as Havant & Waterlooville went 1-0 and 2-1 was up was priceless.

I got about 10 txts in about 5 mons from Rovers and non Rovers fans! Innocent mistake, I think not! Ive said it before and I'll say it again, a small town club in the 'greatest sports competition' in the world is a massive irritation to the powers that be.

I like AESF posts normally but there seems to be a contradiction, you complained that last year Zara Philips won only because of her Royal connections- as 'old Britain' and non-liberal media as you can get. Yet now you say Hamilton would have only won because of his 'new Britian' and liberal media popularity? Which one is it?

top stuff whittle blue. Just a reminder if anyone thought Rovers fan or not that Garns was just some run of the mill lower league player, well now you know better!

Yeah I think Juve arent massively supported in Turin but across Italy, yet it seems that the Sardinia Branch of their supporters club etc dont bother with the day trips like the Torquay Branch of the Manure fan club. Also their fans have never taken to the Stadio Deli Alpi (sp!) as its a crap ground on the edge of the city

My dad made a compilation tape of all Rovers Tv appearences from the City 4-0 in 1989 to the Liverpool cup game of 91. The Palace play off first leg still makes me go for f*** sake Howard put the penalty away!!! Garner at full time being interviewed with no teeth, 'its only half time, weve got to finish the job down there' then cuts to Rovers fans queing for tickets. Im sure I used to cry when I watched it as a kid! Talking of followings, that very tape showed I think an Ian Miller penalty from 1989/90 season away at Stoke, looked a massive following. Still I wouldnt swap what we had then for wht we have now, nostalgia is just that