This lighter shade of blue is ok the odd year in ten, fifteen or twenty. For the greater part of our history, we have played in royal blue. That’s the colour it needs to be.

On that theme, Jim, train tracks instead of railway lines. Both my kids, 30yrs and 36yrs say, ‘can I get’ instead of may I have...

Quite agree Mick. They’re the same sort of people who have started making their voices rise at the end of their sentence (like Australians have always done). They come out with what should be a statement but, with the atonement in their voices, it now sounds like a question and that they are unsure of what they are saying.

Yet another Americanism that’s creeping in is the way numbers are said. I’ve heard on the news several times now, ‘one hundred fifty’ instead of one hundred AND fifty. I just think, why? I love America and (most) Americans, by the way. I just wish that over here we would keep to our British brand of English.

Agree with most of those, especially The One Show which must be the biggest bag of cack on tv.

People who say ‘lay down’ instead of lie down. Another Americanism that has crept into the Queen’s English. Twenty five years ago, when my lad played Junior League football, a bloke with a dog at a game, was saying to it, ‘lay down....lay down...’ The dog just sat there and looked at him. I whispered to the guy next to me, ‘if he tells it to lie down, it may well do it.’ To re-emphasise a few football phrases from above, ones that do my head in are baller (Americanism), false nine and in the whole.

I’ve posted this before but a mate of mine, once in a blue moon, gets invited to corporate in the Jack Walker stand. Not too long after we signed Brereton, my friend was there with a couple of Forest fans at the Forest game. They couldn’t believe the fee we paid and reckoned it was one of the best pieces of business they had ever done.

I think you’re right with Tommy Gemmell, TS. My first guess for the other player was Terry Paine but Bobby Moncur seems to fit the bill.

It’s a fecking joke Nick or at least I wish it was!

Final picture shows both Training Centres looking more or less south.

This picture shows the current Senior Training Centre, the one to be sold for housing.

Not sure if anyone has posted these images before but I have taken them from Google Earth. This picture shows the current Junior Training Centre, the one that Waggott & Co wish to develop into the main facility.

I have this book. A friend of mine saw it, I think at a car boot sale, and bought it for me. It’s in poor condition but still readable with care.

Never been a massive Dire Straits fan but, again, the collector in me meant a couple of years ago, I bought the last two albums to complete the studio album set. I only have one of Mark Knopfler’s solo albums (Get Lucky) but, after listening to plenty of stuff on YouTube, he ain’t too bad. There are some nice instrumental compilations on there.

You need to calm down a bit mate. I don’t know 1864 personally but he has been posting on here for a good twenty years or more. That doesn’t, of course, mean he is a better or more articulate poster than others but, over that period of time, you form a pretty accurate opinion of someone. Where their loyalties lie, the games they have been to, the length of time they have supported the lads and not least, their ‘love for all things Blackburn Rovers.’ You are totally wrong in this instance and your above comments are making yourself look rather stupid.

Struggling remembering this but I think the original game was called off due to a frozen pitch. About a dozen of us travelled over in a Ford Transit van. The Snake Pass was covered in snow, we inched along, stopped for a p!ss break, I jumped over a wall into a field and sank up to my waist in snow. Later on, we found the game had been called off. We diverted to Rotherham as they were at home, only to then get a puncture and miss that game as well. We had earlier had a few beers in Owd Bett’s above Rochdale so we’re were happy enough. 😆

You’re right Andy but I think it’s the ‘collector syndrome’ in me. I have six or seven albums of his early stuff, so I have given Archives Vol 1 a miss. I was looking though at an eBay mint second hand copy a few weeks ago at silly money. I think he was a quite shy guy in his twenties but has certainly developed into a difficult so and so. I’ve seen one or two interviews with him on YouTube and he’s certainly given the interviewer a tough time!

Neil Young’s Archives Vol 2 arrived last week. Going to enjoy listening to the ten albums. An interesting artist.

Given the abject, passive, ‘couldn’t give a feck’ response from 95% of our support once it became clear we were being rinsed and raped by unscrupulous two hats back in 2010-2012, I have every confidence in the Coventry Three causing untold damage and pulling off this scam.

It doesn’t really affect me either. I reckon I’ve got it at 3-4 out of 10 on a sort of scale. I understand one or two that have had it at full pelt have committed suicide. For a few weeks, one of my mates was getting seriously desperate but then the level of his reduced to a similar level to that of mine.

Careful with the headphones chaps, or at least the volume setting. I used to go to gigs with three of my mates, mainly modern prog rock bands. Loud, very loud. We used to also listen to our albums, often through headphones with the volume turned up to the highest setting. All four of us have been left with tinnitus 😢

Pretty sure it was on the Yesterday channel TS. Channel 155 on our Sky set up.

Spot on 👍

Just watching Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo. Preston to Rochdale, via Hebden Bridge. Featured Preston, Hoghton Tower, got off at Pleasington, got off at Church & Oswaldtwitle for a stay at the Dunkenhalgh, back on at Accy then on to Rochdale. Neither showed nor mentioned Blackburn once.

Exiled in Toronto, Arbitro and I are two or three years older than you Nick, I think. The first game I remember playing was at your place and finished 7-7! Sky would have called it the Corporation Park derby 😆