[Archived] On This Date 14 Years Ago....

[j166429]

On this date 14 years ago we were celebrating being champions...how times change. It feels like it was only yesterday!!

[OhmiBRFC]

I was going to make a topic, then I realised there's loads of Dingles floating around on here recently so and I don't want to give them ammunition about being stuck in the past.

FINAL TABLE

P W D L F A PTS

1 Blackburn 42 27 8 7 80 39 89

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2 Man Utd 42 26 10 6 77 28 88

3 Nott'm Forest 42 22 11 9 72 43 77

4 Liverpool 42 21 11 10 65 37 74

5 Leeds Utd 42 20 13 9 59 38 73

6 Newcastle Utd 42 20 12 10 67 47 72

7 Tottenham H 42 16 14 12 66 58 62

8 QPR 42 17 9 16 61 59 60

9 Wimbledon 42 15 11 16 48 65 56

10 Southampton 42 12 18 12 61 63 54

11 Chelsea 42 13 15 14 50 55 54

12 Arsenal 42 13 12 17 52 49 51

13 Sheff Wed 42 13 12 17 49 57 51

14 West Ham 42 13 11 18 44 48 50

15 Everton 42 11 17 14 44 51 50

16 Coventry City 42 12 14 16 44 62 50

17 Man City 42 12 13 17 53 64 49

18 Aston Villa 42 11 15 16 51 56 48

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19 Crystal Pal 42 11 12 19 34 49 45

20 Norwich City 42 10 13 19 37 54 43

21 Leicester C 42 6 11 25 45 80 29

22 Ipswich Town 42 7 6 29 36 93 27

[RibbleValleyRover]

Doesn't feel that long ago.

Still one of four sides to lift that trophy, immensely proud to be part of that exclusive club.

[Blue n White Rover]

Just watched the full game again courtesy of LFC TV, what a nail-biting finish!

For a town the size of Blackburn, it is a great honour to be only 1 of 4 clubs to have won the trophy.

There's only ONE Jack Walker!

Remeber him bringing the trophy up the stairs in Anfield, he was shattered after that climb

Legend!

[SouthAussieRover]

10 years ago we were relegated.

May 12th was the day http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/1999/ma...ewsstory.sport4

I landed in Singapore en route to Australia and discovered our fate.

I can't relax until we are mathematically safe this time.

[dave birch]

And 11 of the teams in Ohmi's table are no longer there.

Sobering thought.

[Rover Down Under]

That long already!

Must say though I know every time I mention our very proud achievement, as I will do many times next week to the legions of Liverpool supporting twits round here, I am always met with the "Yeah but you bought the title" line.

The other amazing achievement at that time was how the press/TV single handedly managed to brain wash an entire population with the "Rovers bought the title" crap and totally belittle our title win to the level of a "blip" in the league they were trying to, and have finally, manufactured into the most predictable, boring, expensive (how ironic!), generic, fickle-supporter-loving, corrupt, money-printing-machine that it is today.

I actually now look back on 14/5/95 with a tinge of sadness, we should have gone on to upset the apple cart more but then got relegated 3 years later and allowed the forces of money making mediocrity to cement their position. Look at that '95 table!!! Forest third, Leeds fifth - where are they now?! Wimbledon, they don't even exist anymore, shared a ground with relegated Palace, Norwich - the Rovers of the midlands, relegated, Southampton - now in administration.

We are perhaps the only team that punches above its weight that is still here. Others just yo-yo between the Prem and Champonship. Remember in '95 when we could pronounce both teams players names easily? The cracking goals, all teams getting a fair go on MoTD, also in Shoot, Match, 4-4-2, etc, refs making shockingly bad decisions every 20 games (GERALD ASHBY!) not every game, tackles that didn't result in cards, no Ronaldo-like diving, even Klinsmann didn't act like a wet blouse when he got kicked, in fact the only violence was Cantona at Palace, teams had and spent money relative to each other - 1 or 2m here, 3 or 4m for a "big" player ...I look at what we have now and what the PL has become with a heavy heart, especially as it will only get worse. Still at least we won it when the league was at its best!

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Acknowledged by most honest football fans as one of,if not THE most exciting Premierleague season ever.....little 'old Rovers taking on and beating the mean Red machine.

I'm afraid now it has become nothing more than a farse where only the biggest clubs can compete for the honour.

NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN(Except in Burnley!)