BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[Herbie6590]

& here is part 2 of 2000-1 season review...

 

[simongarnerisgod]

the bolton away game is up there in the top ten favourite matches,fantastic away support,freezing cold night and playing the notlobs off the park,best jansen goal as well?

[Elvis Biro]

Matt Jansen, Mark Hughes, Damien Duff, Brad Friedel, Henning Berg,David Dunn. What a team - which Division were they playing in? Oh yeah, the same one we are playing in now.

I think that's what you call a 'sobering thought'.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

33 minutes ago, Elvis Biro said:

Matt Jansen, Mark Hughes, Damien Duff, Brad Friedel, Henning Berg,David Dunn. What a team - which Division were they playing in? Oh yeah, the same one we are playing in now.

I think that's what you call a 'sobering thought'.

That team would walk this Division. If they played our current 11 it'd be like the Dingle rout,  5-0.

Edited July 12, 2020 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Mattyblue]

And Gillespie, Flitcroft, Berkovic, Short, Hignett, Bjornebye, McAteer, Damien Johnson.

Some squad that for the second tier, and no wonder the core of it won cups and qualified for Europe in future seasons.

Edited July 13, 2020 by Mattyblue

[Herbie6590]

Some Worthington Cup memories coming up...first of all, the road to Cardiff...

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

13 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Some Worthington Cup memories coming up...first of all, the road to Cardiff...

 

Some great football in those games. It makes what we are seeing now look like a different game altogether.

[A Northern Horde...]

On 06/07/2020 at 19:37, Gav said:

A picture for some of the older posters, taken from Blackburn now and then, Easter fair with Ewood in the background 1972 

What a superb and iconic picture...memories.

[simongarnerisgod]

5 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Some great football in those games. It makes what we are seeing now look like a different game altogether.

rovers had far better players and a manager who let them express themselves,the souness era had us playing some fantastic stuff,till he lost the plot and started to fall out with everybody and anybody,souness is  the type of bloke who`d kick the monopoly board across the room if he landed on mayfair with a hotel on it

[frosty]

Way before my time but these brief highlights popped up on Twitter earlier:

 

[Riversider28]

2 hours ago, frosty said:

Way before my time but these brief highlights popped up on Twitter earlier:

 

What a goal. What a player. The King Of Ewood Park. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

25 minutes ago, Riversider28 said:

What a goal. What a player. The King Of Ewood Park. 

What a pitch ! 

[A Northern Horde...]

Rovers v Huddersfield FA Cup 1939....54,000+ at Ewood as the Union Jack flys proudly from the packed Riverside.

 

 

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, A Northern Horde... said:

Rovers v Huddersfield FA Cup 1939....54,000+ at Ewood as the Union Jack flys proudly from the packed Riverside.

 

 

great photo,never ever seen the blackburn end without it`s roof,when was it erected??

[A Northern Horde...]

Early 1960's I believe.

[Exiled in Toronto]

3 hours ago, A Northern Horde... said:

Rovers v Huddersfield FA Cup 1939....54,000+ at Ewood as the Union Jack flys proudly from the packed Riverside.

 

 

Was the grounds man drunk when he painted the touch line?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

great photo,never ever seen the blackburn end without it`s roof,when was it erected??

The money from the 1959-60 FA Cup run paid for it.

[Riversider28]

The Easter Fair was the best two weeks of the year each and every year when I was young, both on the old market and then on the “bottom field “as we who lived around Ewood called it. Magic memories. 

[Gav]

On 25/07/2020 at 14:11, frosty said:

Way before my time but these brief highlights popped up on Twitter earlier:

 

Rovers fans on the Darwen End? it was years after the fences went up?

Maybe an early initiative to get the fans behind the team from both ends and stick the away fans in the enclosure?

Great atmosphere and superb shirt.

Edited July 29, 2020 by Gav

[A Northern Horde...]

The grand old Riverside stand and Terrace...

 

 

[Riversider28]

1 hour ago, A Northern Horde... said:

The grand old Riverside stand and Terrace...

 

 

My earliest memory of attending Ewood was the FA Youth Cup Final of 1959. My grandad was a steward in the Riverside stand and got me and my dad in and we sat close to the front towards the Darwen End. I don’t remember the game  much, just the atmosphere of 28,000 + supporters and cheering the players with the cup at the end. 
Reading about the game in later years, Moore and Hurst for West Ham and them missing a pen and Newton, Pickering and England for us and winning it in extra time made me realise that this was the defining moment I became a Rovers supporter, and still am, 60 years on. It’s been one hell of a roller coaster ride. 

[Gav]

Great picture that, its where I started my Rovers obsession.

I don't know about anyone else but I still get excited at the sight of a football ground, driving around the country I'll often make detours to see a ground I've never seen before, even driving down M66 and seeing the Breezeblock gives me a buzz!

My lad, not so much, he couldn't care less to be honest, whilst me and the Mrs are jumping around like kids at Christmas.........much simpler times years ago I guess.

[simongarnerisgod]

2 hours ago, Gav said:

Great picture that, its where I started my Rovers obsession.

I don't know about anyone else but I still get excited at the sight of a football ground, driving around the country I'll often make detours to see a ground I've never seen before, even driving down M66 and seeing the Breezeblock gives me a buzz!

My lad, not so much, he couldn't care less to be honest, whilst me and the Mrs are jumping around like kids at Christmas.........much simpler times years ago I guess.

i know what you mean,i still get a buzz when i see floodlights in the distance!!!!!!!,i suppose when i was growing up there was barely any live maches on tv so saturday afternoon was sacred

[Herbie6590]

The Worthington Cup Final - 2002

 

[Hoochie Bloochie Mama]

On 24/06/2020 at 19:13, Atko's Engine said:

That was at Plymouth after his hat trick down there wasn't it, to get us into the playoffs?

Speeeeeeedie

Edited August 16, 2020 by Hoochie Bloochie Mama