The dingle version of this thread...

Echoing rigger, is it too much to dream the Premier League team will be Blackburn Rovers?

Is that Ayala on the right touchline at 4' 33"? Fleeting glimpse of a tall clean shaven player. Don't think he is in the group of players on the touchline greeting Dack at the end. Bennett still on crutches. Dack's touch and ball control look to be all there but still ponderous moving off the ball in those clips.

Congratulations on the promotion. Malta took the lead and were in a promotion slot for all of 15 minutes but couldn't handle the power of the Faroe Islanders so they advance. We had been winning in Vigar in the opposite leg and conceded two injury time goals to lose 3-2! Still it is a novelty for Malta to be on an unbeaten run in all matches since then.

I just want him playing in the Championship and getting us promoted.

Ended 6-0. Frightening to think what Spain would do to England. The substitute Fabian Ruiz looks one hell of a player- Germany had no answer for his ball control and surging runs. Liverpool are reportedly looking to buy him from Napoli. If they get him, he would be a block to Elliott's route into the first team.

It worked. Wasn't Beasant one of of only two PL keepers to score a goal. The other being....

First Half Spain v Germany Possession 65-35 Shots 14-1 On Target 6-0

England will be in good company sitting this one out. Spain are taking Germany apart. 3-0 not a good reflection of how dominant they are.

Showing as an og on the BBC sadly

Watching Namibia v Mali and it doesn't look like Ryan (number 22) is playing. Mali are leading 1-0 and at least look like they have met each other before the game which cannot be said about Namibia. A horrendous pass by the Namibian left back lead to the goal which the keeper stood and watched go past him at his near post. Mali could easily be three up had shots been on target and not narrowly wide. The Mali physio is something else. Player goes down with a foot injury and this body builder comes on and yanks the foot around through 360 degrees in both directions...

One of them most certainly doesn't.

Nick Harris' 60 minute piece highlighted how the Raos value loyalty so anyone publishing something they dislike had better have good lawyers and rock solid evidence. When it comes to SEM/Kentaro the risks are legal and a different order and magnitude. Little by little stuff comes out but I hugely doubt there will be a revelatory epiphany any time soon. And quite honestly given the natural Blackburn cynicism, some of what transpired is so bizarre, the tellers of the story would be laughed at and accused of fantasising. Certainly "where's the evidence Chaddy" would be disappointed because sources could never be revealed. I always made sure I was never the only person knowing any given titbit of information and was hugely glad I did not live in East Lancs or at an address which could easily be found. I was tailed once in Malta and it made clear to me I had been found- something I have not shared before but it is coming up for nine years ago now. I am as certain as I can be that this was not Venky's doing because of the coincidence of the timing with someone visiting the island connected with UEFA business- fortunately I was close enough then to someone with the MFA to be reassured I hadn't been brought up in their discussions and separately found out that whatever the intent had been, an innocuous low grade debt collector had been hired to do the trace and intercept on me... I initially was taken aback because homelessness and begging are illegal in Malta and for a moment I thought I was back in London when the dishevelled man approached me in the street with both hands palm up and empty.

My mistake, I thought he'd played and scored against us in another game.

Hopefully we can watch Scotland and Wales in the semi finals. At least England can't get relegated.

5 Liverpool players have suffered injury or illness during this international break. Getting concerned they may recall Harvey in January.

Michael Mifsud has just announced his retirement from football aged 38. Malta's finest always scored against Rovers as I recall..

Kaminski tested positive last Sunday didn't he. Should come out of quarantine next Friday if he remains asymptomatic.

There was a ? over the original source of some of the funds to buy Rovers. Channel 4 got to the bottom of this but couldn't get it past their legal department for a Despatches programme. I am in no doubt that all the funds injected since the acquisition have come from Venky's or been caused to come from Venky's in the case of the small State Bank of India overdraft. The Formica deal was: He was transferred from a little club in Argentina to Newell Old Boys who sold him to Red Star Belgrade (aka the Serbian mafia club) who then sold him to Kentaro to loan to Rovers. The PL persisted in asking questions until they said no to registering Formica as a Rovers player. All that had to be unpicked to make it a straightforward sale from Newell Old Boys to Rovers with even the club he started with having to be squared away as well.. The creating, unpicking and replacement of this mess was what kept Anderson occupied at Brockhall in January 2011.

Not going to make it that easy for you... https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48906359 As for evidence. OMG. He failed the Premier League's fit and proper so they might have something if you ask them Chaddy. I and others heard from different sources that some highly unorthodox means were used to shut this up.

Did you listen to the podcast?- it was all explained.

Agreed, the club has Rothwell, Johnson, Travis, Buckley, even JRC, Trybull if they extend him- all of whom are better options and should be looking for much better when awarding contracts next summer. But Corry would be a great signing for a newly promoted or bottom half Championship club looking to consolidate their place.

The wage cap makes it incredibly difficult to do loans to Leagues 1 and 2 now. Hopefully Brennan doesn't get injured playing against clod hoppers at that level and that his skills really shine through. He has consistently stood out in the under 23 games I have seen him in and he will leave a big gap in that squad.

Football editor of the Mail on Sunday.

It was posted on this message board nine years ago. I believe the guy who astonishingly was a suitor for Bolton and has disappeared from view again.