No need to be ashamed on my part ARA. I’m not a midget.

Midget? You mean “Person of short stature” can’t even call my favourite sweets midget gems anymore.

What ! No meat and potato pies?

He’s a Nobbend fan.

Great to see Grant McCann slashing it into his own net.

Strange choice of referee given that he’s from the other side of Preston.

Everybody sending screenshots of the table to their Dingle acquaintances, remember to point out to their Manc mates that we are only one place behind them 😀😀

Thank you everyone who has posted on this thread. I was having a heart attack but everyone saved me. What a performance from the team. Is this 1995 revisited. Scrappy wins make champions

He’s lucky not to be called Gerbil then 😀

As a young player what would you rather hear? The Mogadon outlook “Your good enough but your too young.”. Or the JDT outlook. “Your good enough and I have total faith in you, your playing”. which of those do you think would do more for the confidence of all the young players at Rovers.

BBC to bring back old childrens TV programme but renaming it as Rag,Tag, and Hag

Just think if todays refs did that. The nimbys of today would be complaining about ruining their mascara.

Everton fans wouldn’t know a player of potential if he hit them in the face, I think McNeil might be a a success, let’s wait and see. Good business for Burnley nevertheless. O’Hare talks fallen through according to Coventry press.

“They missed many glorious chances and Abbes leapt across his goal like a demented frog,” Try getting away with that comment these days.

Match Report by Mike Payne England came back from their home defeat against the Irish with a superb victory over France which sowed the seeds of promise for the following year's World Cup finals in Sweden. Everyone felt that this England team must surely provide the nucleus of the Party for that tournament unless there was a major lapse in fitness or form. The big success in this game was the outstanding play of Bryan Douglas. Since the great Stanley Matthews left the international arena there had been a void which nobody had yet been able to fill. But the great man himself would have been proud of Douglas' performance against the French. He teased and and tormented the visiting defenders from the start and in the first half England were able to build up an impregnable 3-0 lead, thanks mainly to the wing wizardry of the Blackburn star. It was worth recording that for the first time Douglas had a proper inside-forward alongside him and Bobby Robson's performance was almost as impressive. The partnership certainly promised a great deal. The rout began as early as the third minute. Robson fed Douglas and the winger cleverly went round Kaelbel to centre. Tommy Taylor, under pressure from Tylinksi, timed his jump perfectly at the near post to beat Abbes superbly with a looping header to the far corner. In the 24th minute England notched a second. Again it was Douglas the provider as he received a good pass from Don Howe and then jinked his way past several challenges before only Abbes blocked his path to goal. The 'keeper dived one way and Douglas went the other before pulling the ball square, giving Robson the easiest of chances to score. Johnny Haynes was also in top form and he sprayed passes all over the lush Wembley turf. On the half-hour he sent a glorious through-ball for Taylor to run on to and the game was virtually all over at 3-0 to England. The French tried bravely to rally themselves early in the second half and Wisnieski was unlucky with one effort which struck the base of Eddie Hopkinson's post. This attempt at a revival was short-lived, though, and England soon regained control to dominate the rest of the game. They missed many glorious chances and Abbes leapt across his goal like a demented frog, getting in the way of several close-range attempts. Taylor, Haynes, Tom Finney, Robson and Douglas all missed straight forward chances and Abbes was by far the busiest player on the field. In the last 23 minutes, no less than 18 shots rained in on the French goal but miraculously for them only one more counted. That came with five minutes to go and was the icing on the cake. A superb seven-man move began with Duncan Edwards. Eventually, and inevitably, Douglas made the final pass, once again setting up Robson for goal number four. A damp and grey November dy had definitely been brightened up by a splendid England performance that augured well for the future and excited the crowd.

Thanks for that Den, a great watch. In the team: 3 Busby babes who would all lose their lives the following February. 2 from Blackburn Rovers, 2 from West Brom, and 1 each from Bolton, Wolves, PNE, and Fulham. Didn't matter which club you played for in those days. Duggie making three of the four goals, what a player.

Are kick ins being suggested instead of throw ins because most referees these days don’t recognise a foul throw if it hit them in the face.

Has he signed up yet or are the Loons stalling because they’ve seen that Pochettino is available 😃😃 Past history tells us anything can happen yet.

JDT’s Blue and White Army maybe? pity his initials aren’t DDT, we could do with some insecticide around Ewood. Does it have any effect on maggots?

Even Mogadon had a 51% win ratio at Celtic and he was only there for a year before he was binned.

He’s cryptic because like the rest of us he knows the square root of bugger all.

Of course it is but no different to any other posts. My point was that if, as we are now being told, that they want someone with championship experience who is still in work, then between Warne and Ainsworth who have very similar CV’s then I should have thought that Ainsworth would have been the choice. Anyway it is what it is if Warne is the choice.

But not as much passion as Ainsworth would generate sadly.

Ainsworth must have turned us down then

So Ancelotti wanted Ferguson to follow him to Real Madrid but Duncan wanted to stay loyal to Everton. He will ditch Everton though to come to Ewood ! You couldn’t make it up