Useless But Interesting Rovers History Facts

[47er]

So we were soft even then? 

[arbitro]

Whilst playing for Rovers David Wagstaffe was the recipient of the first red card.

[Lancs Rover]

16 hours ago, JHRover said:

 

3) The only club to have founded and won both the Football League and Premier League.

I don't think Rovers founded the Premier League. We were a year too late.

We kicked off in the Premier League's first season but the founding vote came the season before. 

Another odd fact is that Notts County and Luton Town were themselves founder members of the PL but have never played in it. Relegated the season Rovers were promoted, I believe. 

 

 

[Jimbobololo]

First team to win a major cup final under closed/retractable roof -  our victory over Spurs in Cardiff

[Jimbobololo]

Longest ever undefeated FA cup run -. 24 games - a long time ago!

[JacknOry]

First club to be run by clueless chicken farmers.

First club to have a manager that must like eating dog food as he has no dog.

First (and will be the last) club to spend $1 million on Jordan Slew.

First club to claim that Coyle was ever 'the outstanding' candidate.

 

[perthblue02]

Rovers were involved in the first game on Match of the day to feature a female commentator (v Fulham away 2007)

Joint record holders for number of goals scored by one team in a FA cup Final

 

 

[sasumner]

First pitch to contain a watering hole, which on match days was covered with timber and turf

William Townley scored the first hat-trick in the history of the FA Cup Final in 1890 (Rovers 6–1 Sheffield Wednesday)

Rovers scored the most goals and got the most clean sheets in the first Premier League season

Mike Newell scored the 1,000th goal of the Premier League

[bluebruce]

4 hours ago, Jimbobololo said:

First team to win a major cup final under closed/retractable roof -  our victory over Spurs in Cardiff

Is that just in the UK though?

[Roving Mick]

Only club to host England on three different home grounds - Alexandra Meadows, The Wagtail Ground on Leamington Street and Ewood Park

[Jimbobololo]

6 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Is that just in the UK though?

Yes, probably.

[LWX]

On 18/01/2018 at 15:48, philipl said:

And still the only football club in the world to have won major honours in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries is....

Keep expecting that one to go but the clubs which could spoil our party of one by winning something are mostly in the Championship or lower. I guess the newly rich Wolves are now the most likely to join us now. 

Does the league cup really count as 'major' honours?

[Mattyblue]

Sure felt like it was at Cardiff.

[bazza]

1 hour ago, elwaxo said:

Does the league cup really count as 'major' honours?

Yes. Winning the top division (under whatever name), FA Cup and League Cup are all major honours.

[Crimpshrine]

I can remember reading somewhere that Dynamo Moscow started out as a factory team and wore Rovers shirts brought over by mill workers who moved there from Lancashire. There is a question in trivial persuit about it. 

[Roving Mick]

When Rovers won the FA Cup in 1884, the previous winners had been Blackburn Olympic.  This would mean the cup travelled the shortest distance between its winners.  It travelled from Olympic's Hole i'th Wall ground through Corporation Park to Rovers' Leamington Street ground.  This is slightly nearer than when Liverpool won the cup in 1966 and Everton were the previous holders.  I really should get out more often.

Anorak Of Fire

[Norbert Rassragr]

14 hours ago, elwaxo said:

Does the league cup really count as 'major' honours?

I seem to remember the Spuds fans boasting Hoddle will take them into Europe before the game so I guess it is.

 

[Rover_Shaun]

My memory is going these days. Was our longest league unbeaten run in 1988 21 or 24 games or something like that?

[tomphil]

23 by my reckoning

[Rover_Shaun]

http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=308&teamTabs=results

I could have just looked ??

 

So 8 more games to go to beat it assuming we don't lose today.....Feb 27th Vs Wimbledon will be game 24 if we get that far

[LWX]

Don't get me wrong I was ecstatic when rovers won it... doesnt feel like it's as important as the league or FAcup though

[West Yorks Rover]

I could be wrong, but wasn't the FA Cup tie between Rovers and Southampton back in the 80's at Ewood, the first to be shown live

on UK tv ? apart from the final of course.

I seem to remember it being on a Friday night, Rovers lost 1-0 I think and one of the Wallace brothers scored ?

[jim mk2]

1 minute ago, West Yorks Rover said:

I could be wrong, but wasn't the FA Cup tie between Rovers and Southampton back in the 80's at Ewood, the first to be shown live

on UK tv ? apart from the final of course.

I seem to remember it being on a Friday night, Rovers lost 1-0 I think and one of the Wallace brothers scored ?

 

Or was it Steve Moran ? Cracking game. We played well, but Soton had that extra bit of class. 

[West Yorks Rover]

Just now, jim mk2 said:

 

Or was it Steve Moran ? Cracking game. We played well, but Soton had that extra bit of class. 

Could have been Moran Jim, maybe I just remember Wallace playing very well ?

Yes it was a cracking game, I think there was about 15,000 on Ewood, which I suppose wasn't a bad crowd considering it was live on the BBC.

[oldjamfan1]

I was at that game and I thought it was a fellow baldie, David Armstrong, that scored?