Featured game on MOTD coming up on OUR #RoversRewind - we're off to Boundary Park & a frozen pitch...

The lovable, fluffy lads from Wimbledon arrived at Ewood...hang on, no, that’s the Wombles...this is the Crazy Gang...watch out for those elbows...

Some Coca Cola Cup action from January 1993 here...and the precise moment the season's aspirations were downgraded...

There was an IFAB rule “ye olde back in’t day” but not quite as described...More club v country ?? http://www.goalkeepersaredifferent.com/keepers/getting-shirty.html

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I took a load at his last game....if any of these take your fancy knock yourself out...?? https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0ZJqWzChGIq96G

1993 opens up with a home FA cup tie to Bournemouth whose goalkeeper is rumoured to be on Kenny Dalglish's shopping list...

1992 draws to a close with a tricky away trip to Ipswich Town...no Alan Shearer in the line-up...

The guy who used to run Coventry seems to know what he’s on about...? https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/financial-fair-play-league-one-8560150.amp

Well...yes & no...it depends on precisely what question you asked & perhaps also what question he thought you asked... A relegated club from the Championship is as you say still bound by the FFP rules until it has confirmed that it was compliant under that regime i.e. its accounts are signed off I guess. Once that obligation is discharged, then the following season’s performance in L1 is calibrated using SCMP. If the club stays in L1/2 no problem. Rovers make for an interesting case study therefore by dint of having won promotion in one season. Rovers rolling three year results include one season under the auspices of SCMP but of course now, we are subject once again to FFP. I attach the regulation from the EFL website which interestingly doesn’t quote the case of a team promoted from L1 to the Championship...perhaps because the EFL aren’t sure how to handle it ! Call me a cynic. it seems innately unfair (& possibly illegal) to presume Rovers would be charged with breaking a regulation that didn’t apply to them for one season & as that season was especially costly, m’learned friends could I’m sure have a field day with it. That we are talking about Finance & law rather than football is of course the real tragedy here...?

For clarity - FFP losses are not calculated simply by adding up the combined losses in the P&L - the FFP calculation allows expenditure on items such as infrastructure, academy, ladies team etc & so on. The FFP figure discounts these expenses. That said, we must be sailing pretty close to the wind and post-COVID football finance I suspect is going to be a fundamentally different place. Our season in League One also muddies the water because SCMP rules apply there not FFP. If Venky's core business takes a hit the discretionary funding of Rovers may well come under the spotlight. Many "benevolent funder" owned clubs will find themselves waking up with a start over the next 12 months, Derby County for one. Watch what happens to TV companies for a lead indicator - if the Sky/BT subscriber numbers take a hit because people have lost jobs &/or found another use for the time/money then the PL gravy train is over. That will impact all the way down the food chain but those lower-division clubs who are breaking even on today's model (i.e. not reliant on TV, gate money covers the wage bill) will be best placed to take advantage. The likes of Rotherham Utd & Accrington Stanley may well be the winners.

Here's today's instalment - it's Boxing Day 1992 & Leeds are in town - though interestingly YouTube algorithms think it's WBA v Stoke & so they've blocked one of the goals... Anyhow - make the most of that lad Shearer that's all I'll say....

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery & their use of our hashtag means more people will see our videos so all good in reality...though they could at least have the decency to follow us on Twitter...?

Last home league game before Christmas & the Blades are in town....

Accounts are prepared at a single point in time. Overdraft usage will fluctuate during the cycle of a month, quarter, season etc. The best way to calculate average usage is to look at total interest charges & interest rate charged & calculate average balance. a single figure on a single day is essentially meaningless.

The Club Show from Sky in 1992 - Part 2

The Club Show from Sky in 1992 - Part 1

Some screen grabs of the key elements of the accounts here - the economics of the (Championship) madhouse...

And here is Part 2....

After a brief interlude....let’s get back to 1992/3 & now Kenny returns to Anfield for the first time with Rovers... Part 1

The English Premier League Game...

A slight change of tack...it's time for some cup football, Coca Cola Cup football to be precise...

I don’t have this one in my archive so added it (out of sequence) simply so we can all say “the ref wouldn’t allow that today...”

December 1992 & Rovers take Stuart Ripley back to Ayresome Park...for a bit at least...

After a wretched few weeks, Rovers loss of form has allowed those big city boys from...er *checks notes*...Norwich, to open up a 5 point gap - this despite giving them a right gubbing at the beginning of October...