Get Mr Lennox round to yours for a brew Andy. Just up the road.

I know it, Andy. Drove right through it last month, the day after the game, but didn’t realise that it was a Protestant area.

I believe there is a Rangers pub, relatively close to Celtic Park, but I’ve never seen it. I used to go up to Celtic a fair bit in the 1980s with a lad from Chorley who was a keen Celtic supporter who had a soft spot for Rovers. I was the other way round. We always went in the Springfield Vaults, an absolute rough hole, on the corner of Springfield Road and London Road, two minutes from the ground. The regulars were spot on, though, and we never had or saw any bother. I was surprised to see that it was still there, when I went in April, but it looked in a sorry state. Once went up to Hampden for an evening semi final and went in what was an obvious Rangers pub before the game. We were made to take off any Celtic colours and were given them back on the way out. There was a real tension in the place and I was glad to sup up and get out of there. They’re a decent set of supporters these days and I don’t think that Rovers fans will have any problems, either inside or outside the ground. Wearing colours in the local pubs should be ok as well.

Nothing yet on the Celtic website. For anyone driving up on the day, there should be ample free parking at the Forge Shopping Centre, which is just a quarter of a mile north of the stadium, off the Gallowgate. In April, I watched the Celtic v St Johnstone game and parked there. The Gallowgate is a long road, running east out of the city centre and finishes just beyond the Parkhead district, before becoming Tollcross Road. Plenty of decent pubs along its route. The stadium is roughly three miles east of the city centre, easily walkable from Glasgow Central, which is what our group did when we played Celtic in 2003.

I thought I was bad..😆

Wouldn’t want any of those three. Dunny, in particular, would have us relegated to non league level in record time.

Yeah, there was a Giants fan in our hotel, near Ware, a few miles north of the M25. As we were leaving on Sunday morning, we had a few words and he revealed a Town shirt under his jumper. I wished him the best of luck saying that it would be a bummer if they lost as well…ouch!

Yeah, cracking pass by Tommy L. Watched the game again, last night, on catchup. Stopped it at the point where Smith kicked the grubber and Marshall was a good 3-4 feet behind Smith, so well onside. It was a much better watch on tv, even the first half where I thought, at the game, that Wigan were poor. Huddersfield played a very safe, percentages game, trying to stifle us. Had that last try not happened, I suppose you could say that their tactics had been spot on, but with our flair players, we always have a moment of magic in us. The attendances at Challenge Cup Finals have dipped over the last few seasons, after having been generally 75k+ for some time. With Tottenham’s capacity being 62k, it would be a good fit for future finals but it’s back to Wembley again next year. The attendance yesterday was just over 51k and that was tickets bought for both games. Not sure how many tickets Huddersfield sold but it couldn’t have been more than 8-10k.

Staying over in Hertfordshire after having watched the Warriors edge out Huddersfield in today’s Challenge Cup Final at the Tottenham Stadium. What a venue. Superb stadium, the majority of the Wigan fans were packed into the single tier South Stand and it made for a great atmosphere. It usually does when you win. Hope it was a good watch for the neutral. A tight, close affair where Huddersfield probably deserved something from the game but it wasn’t to be for them and Wigan brought home the cup for the twentieth time. For me, probably the best stadium in England, I would urge anyone to visit, given the opportunity. Made up for our new Head Coach, Matty Peet, who has delivered in his first season. You could see in his celebrations after the final hooter that it really meant something to him.

From what I understand, it was a glitch in the system. They were offering a couple of hundred tickets to armed services personnel etc. and for a short while, anyone else was able to buy the tickets for nowt. Since been sorted. 😆

The Challenge Cup Final is at Spurs’ new stadium this year, instead of Wembley. I’ve been to the new Wembley on three occasions, all Challenge Cup Finals watching Wigan and I’ve got to say, I think the stadium is superb. Wembley, the area of London, is a grade A sh!thole though. From what I’ve seen of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on tv, it looks very nice and I’m looking forward to visiting. Probably the best stadium in the country in my opinion, certainly of the new builds.

Yep, forgot about Wigan. Can’t see them selling less than us, on the back of their promotion. More than likely, the first time in our history that Wigan will have equalled, or outsold, us. Over to you swag.

Burnley had sold 12k+ a week or so ago, with Bolton also having gone through the 10k barrier. Blackpool at 4.6k, not sure about Preston. Burnley may well end up selling 15k and I wouldn’t be surprised if Bolton come close to that as well. I reckon Blackpool and us will be somewhere around 6-8k with Preston marginally higher. Sh!t show.

Been down in Dorset all week. A cliff top walk today, where we’ve been able to look across Poole Harbour to Premier League AFC Bournemouth.. One in, one out and it’s Bonleh that are out. Poor things, they must be distraught. Never thought I’d hear myself say this but I feel quite sorry for them. Mmmmmmphwoahhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahaha!!!

Villa scored, now 1-1. Just need a winner now.

We play Celtic, at Celtic Park on Saturday 16 July.

Been confirmed by Celtic this morning that Tom Rogic (and Nir Bitton) will leave the club at the end of this season when their contracts expire. Reading between the lines, it would appear that both players have orchestrated this in order to get regular first team football.

Celtic generally play 4-3-3 and up front use a main striker with two wide men/wingers. Kyogo, signed from the J-League in Japan, hit the ground running, scoring 16 or so prior to getting injured in January. His ‘replacement’ Giakoumakis is more than useful and has scored around 16 himself. Kyogo is now on 18, I think. So yes, Celtic have shared the goals around. A bit of a problem because both men warrant a place in the starting eleven but the way they play only allows one. Tony M would have no doubt played one of them out wide.

Always love it when a perceived ‘big’ club goes down, so I wouldn’t object to it being Leeds. Obviously want the Dingles to drop. Never expected Everton to get relegated, too much about them. It’s between Leeds and the Clarettes but too close to call.

At my last place of work, a phrase used almost daly was, ‘assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.’ 😆 If Brereton were to be sold for £15m, I reckon we’d be lucky to see £3-5m of it. I’d certainly go along with that.

Thanks. Yes, it was close. Saints are the benchmark at the moment, so a win against them has to go down as a good win. Especially when it gets you to a cup final.

Any other football club in our situation would have addressed matters by now. Mowbray would have been paid up/sent home on gardening leave and a replacement manager installed in order that we can hit the ground running come the start of the season. Meanwhile, I can picture Waggott in his office at Ewood, leant back in his big, fancy, executive chair, feet up on the desk, attempting to get his fifteenth paper aeroplane to land in the bin. On the other side of the world, the Barry White lookalike will be hungover after his twenty second party in the last seven days, trying to remember how many birds he has screwed and equally trying to remember the name of the English football club he owns. These wankers are ruining our club and the sooner ALL Blackburn Rovers supporters know the FULL details of what has happened since the takeover in 2010, the better.

Has he cleared his desk yet?