online from the LET here but they seem to change the web pages frequently so you'll have to be quick

Seaman pushed it out. Jason McAteer pinged it back in the net.

For goodness sakes chaps. Get a grip on reality. You know how the press latch onto any little thing and blow it up out of all proportion. With you lot screaming like a Victorian housewife confronted by a mouse it's no wonder that Lucas "is rubbish," "moving to Spurs," "going to Newcastle." Or whatever. Just calm down. You've got to learn to take it easy. OK?

Thanks Florida for the links I've been to Sydney & I've lived in Blackburn. No contest. Apart from that: you lot are posting a load of tummy-rubbish. Lucas Neill has been one of our best players for a number of years, so all your comments about him being useless or going to A C Milan or Spuds are, well, more tummy-rubbish.

From Monty Python Actually a Palindrome is a word or phrase or sentence that reads the same backward. A word would be "level."A sentence would be "A man, a plan a canal: Panama." Probably the only reason that Monty Python bothered about confusing everyone about palindromes was that one of them was called Michael Palin

"3rd or 4th time" Got any reference to the first, second, or third examples? Or are we all just having a hissy-fit?

That's being very kind. 1.45 points per game for MH Anorak on and bank holiday monday on platform five of Crewe Station for me.

Just to compare our last few managers with GS... First of all lets accept that GS was a manager with us for a couple of seasons in the old division one but Since Kenny left: Brian Kidd 36 games - 38 points - 1.05 points per game Roy Hodgson 51 games - 67points - 1.31 points per game Ray Harford 48 games - 65 points -1.35 points per game Tony Parkes 47 games - 77 points - 1.64 points per game Graeme Sounesss 127 games - 253 points - 1.99 points per game Mark Hughes 71 games - 100 points - 2.70 points per game I'll get me anorak ............................. (nice warm glow about that last line though isn't it?)

Your maths is OK

That's a good article Tris, thanks for the link. I think that this thread just about describes what is wrong with attitudes to football refs. Is there any other sport (apart from baseball) where is seems to be accepted that the players, the managers, the fans, & the media to ritually abuse the ref/umpire and take it as given that it is a completley natural and acceptable part of the game? I've said this before and I'll probably say it again: it may be OK for the TV pundits to sit in judgement with the benefit of slow motion replays from five angles, but they are not out there on the pitch with 22 players who would sell their grannies to win a throw in. Just a question to ponder: If Graham Poll doesn't give us an obvious penalty is it alright to abuse him? (hint: the answer is probably "yes")If he does give us the penalty & Bellamy misses it, do we give him the same abuse? (hint: the answer is probably "no") As our American cousins would say: "Go figure." Wow! new colours for fonts

PG, probably worth having a look at this for a start campaign for real ale Thwaites do still produce some wonderful cask-conditioned beers just like you used to know, but these need a steady turnover as they don't last in the barrel. For the likes of Ewood where there may be a 2 week gap between pouring the pints (& establishments where the patrons don't have any taste, or the owners don't have the skills or desire to serve decent beer) the solution is "keg" beer which is pasturised, dead, forced from the keg in the cellar by carbon dioxide, usually chilled and, tastes like gnat's bladder discharge. It can be looked after by a cellarman who needs as much skill as as you or I do to inflate the tyres on your car. Got to agree with Phillipl that a pint of Thwaites Best Mild is the beer of the Gods. Pity he has to sup that dishwater brewed in Malta

Dillo, More brilliant photographs. Keep them coming Colin

Rev, then LD. The obvious replacement is amongst us. Bob?

Not shooting the messenger Smithy, just wondering where the "Hughes Buggered Man........" bit came from. It seems you know more detail than the Sunday Mirror and quite frankly (Mr Shankley) I find it rather disturbing

Just in case anyone missed it, after the final whistle & before the celeberatory lap of honour the PA system played this with player photos Al Pacino's Inch By Inch speech from Any Given Sunday * from here, get emotional. It works. Pretty inspired eh? Makes a big difference from the "Final Countdown." Next year we'll have Randall P MacMurphy's seminal "at least I tried" speech from "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest." We shall fight them on the beaches...........

I know what you mean. You can take a photo of something ordinary, but make the picture look really special.

Brought a tear to my eye too. From The Guardian "A wall of sound" Phil Spector, eat your heart out.

Dillo, Your photographs are wonderful. That one however is more than wonderful. If anyone from Blackburn Rovers is reading this (Lee?) that image should be plastered all over next year's promotion literature. Pay Dillo lots for the rights to use it. It just says a lot about Rovers as a family club. It'll make a change from the usual pictures of players grunting at each other. Edit: How did you get the light like that? It's in his hair & one side of his face & it's lit up the white side of the shirt and the blue side remains dark and I'm really impressed.

Sssssshhhhh! be quiet. We don't want the FA realising that the best choice for the job is in fact nowhere near Ewood Park at all, by no stretch of the imagination, and is probably not Welsh either. Keep quiet & that Brian Barwick chap will leave us alone. Mum's the word.

Dillo, I never thought that anyone could make any part of "The Aqueduct Inn" look beautiful. You have a real skill for making the ordinary look special. How did you see that light? The photo is excellent. Colin

Moral dilemma for you all: Next year, when The Dingles are at St Andrews & Brum are at Turf Moor, who will you want to lose?

Problem is, they are all rubbish. Which one of them would you want managing Rover?

It's a blur. (AKA Ewood Parklife) I remember the final whistle and the short period of hell that preceeded it. Then it was a mixture of sitting down in my seat at Anfield and thinking to myself: "We've won it, we've really won it." "We've won it, we've really won it." "We've won it, we've really won it." "We've won it, we've really won it." And sobbing like a soft git. I also remember the Liverpool fans staying to applaud us as the trophy was awarded. And the next week was my introduction to hating The Red Scum. Not one of them had the good grace to say "Well done."

I read that too and it cheesed me off to Wensleydale and back. How about "Without Roman Abramovich, Chelsea are just a mid table team" or "Without Thiery Henry Arsenal can't score many goals." Absolute meaningless nonsense.

Bloody hell Eddie FIVE! Was it: (i) the threat of violent retribution if they didn't go. (ii) hypnotism (iii) bribery (iv) your animal magnetism & charm I think we must be told.