Claytons Left Boot

Every fecker and his dog down at Ewood on easy street. The players. The manager. Waggott and his posse behind the scenes. And talking of behind the scenes, our invisible billionaire owners, haemorrhaging money like there’s no tomorrow. So laid back, they’re more horizontal than horizontal. If only we had a plan. That’s what is so frustrating. There’s only us fans that are remotely bothered.

Leeds lad so intent on playing the modern way, he plays it back to where the ball had come from but got it so wrong. Hoilett still had a lot to do and took it well. If you get the ball played up to you in midfield, trap the thing, get it under control, turn and go forward with it.

Great post and best on here for some considerable time. It should be printed off and slapped down on Waggott’s desk, with a copy framed and stuck up on his wall as a reminder as to what he should be aiming for.

I can’t remember who got MOTM but, for me, it was Super Atko. He was immense on what was a very difficult day due to the heat. So often the scapegoat as well. I never understood some fans reaction towards him.

That’s my Norwegian mate Bjarte. He was a mad keen Rovers fan for years and helped set up the Norwegian supporters club. Haven’t seen him in years and I don’t think he has any interest at all now. Used to post on here under the name pennyduff. Duffer was his favourite player. (I’m the slaphead to his left in the shades ?)

Haha, yep. That was in the centre of the city, mid day before the game that evening. The night before we tried to get taxis into Ankara but the first taxi driver basically pulled a gun on those in his car and kicked them out. All a bit scary, so we ended up staying in the hotel ? We stuck together in that group and, if I remember correctly, Gav and Debs joined us on day two.

Rovers away in Ankara v Genclerbirligi, Sept 2003 and a 3-1 defeat.

Well found Gav. If I remember correctly the original fixture was called off due to the weather conditions, only a couple of hours before kick off. We were in a transit, inching over Snake Pass in the snow. We later found Out that the game was off, diverted to Rotherham because they were at home, only to have a puncture, so we missed that game as well. One of them days ?

And what a bargain if I may say so lol. Paperback version going for just over £7.

Cracking news mate, chuffed to bits for you and your family. Reading that just brings home home serious this virus is. As we all know, some get a very mild dose (my lad for example) and others, like yourself, suffer badly with it. Glad you’re over the worst and now on the mend.

Here’s hoping o2G!

Twin was mentioned recently as a good watch. Eight episode series set on Lofoten in Norway. Crime thriller with a difference as they actually get away with it. In Norwegian with English subtitles. Couldn’t stop watching it. It was left fairly open at the end and it would be great if there was to be a follow up. I have Googled for information on a second series but can’t come up with anything, unfortunately.

I replied to this Stuart but my post appears to have been removed. I thought the photo was on a Blackburn Facebook site but it was actually on Darwen Now and Then.

Well, I did think about that Stuart but this was a Facebook site re old photos of Blackburn and the surrounding area. The admin of that site had just posted a photo of the Grey Mare. Not an advert and couldn’t possibly have been because I had been reading a tribute to Mick Heaton.

I finished the above post and went to look for something on Facebook. The first thing from my feed that was staring at me was a picture of the Grey Mare, where the above accident took place. Now that is spooky.

I had forgotten the circumstances surrounding the accident and his death. How ironic that, after all those years away from East Lancs, the accident happened only a few minutes up the road from Ewood. A great read and tribute to a fine player. And by all accounts, a thoroughly decent bloke.

A framed photo found in the loft of the 1969-70 squad. It was actually the inside spread of the Football League Review that, for some time, was included with your match day programme. Three years after I started going to Ewood. I love everything about this era. The uncluttered, superb kit, simple green keeper’s jersey, white match ball, black boots with dubbin and the ground. Still some good players on show but relegation was around the corner.

Just finished watching the final two episodes. To be fair to Charlie, I’m pretty sure he has Sunderland’s best wishes at heart. I’m also sure that the stresses and strains of that last campaign will have got to him. Even more so, they will have got to the owner, Stewart Donald, who has seemed on the verge of a heart attack on more than one occasion. Who would run a football club? I’m almost starting to feel sorry for the Sunderland supporters as well. Almost.

Hi Tony - The photos can only be accessed from the Facebook site as far as I know. The admins/those that run the site add photos periodically and also members of the group can add any as well. I think that with the lockdown, folk are rummaging in their lofts etc and finding stuff. If you pm me on here with your email address, I could send you photos if I think they would be of interest to you. Probably won’t be that often as sometimes weeks can go by before I find something that relates to our year or that I find particularly interesting.

Best wishes mate. Hope you pull through.

No, but I’m a member of a Facebook group called ‘All Aboard Spam’s Bus.’ Not sure if any of you do Facebook but that group turns up loads of photos plus stories, reminiscing etc and I’ve simply saved them from there.

Terrible news. Let’s hope the symptoms are mild and that he pulls through. Best of luck Kenny.

For the first twenty years of my working life, I worked in the finance industry. There were plenty like Charlie. Bullying, bullsh!ting, back stabbing b*stards that were full of themselves. No one stood up to them. Or if you did, you were on your way. Where I worked for the next twenty years of my working life, any one of a dozen of our blokes would have sparked him out flat.

After watching the first series, I today watched the first four episodes of this. Charlie boy is certainly an odious character and the owner appears to be out of his depth. Just had a look on Wikipedia and his net worth, two years ago, was only £8.4m. Nowhere near enough to bring any sort of ‘glory days’ back to that part of the north east. Shows the sort of pressure they are putting themselves through though. Why bother?