BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[Elvis Biro]

Brighton deserved to lose because of that hideous kit - that's one of the worst I've ever seen! 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

That looked a lively game. You didn't see two players getting carded in the same game very often back then. Two of the most obvious pens you'll ever see.

[LeftWinger]

Fairly recent compared to a lot of the stuff being shared on here, but still a good memory.

We went 3-0 up away and it finished 3-3 and we went through on away goals. Cracking goals from Thompson and Duff. Thompson was a top player, very unfortunate with injuries. I'm not sure who it is that plays the path through for Duff's goal (due to the poor quality of the picture), but I suspect it's Dunn or Tugay. Wonderful pass.

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Some good Rovers goals there. If that penalty had have been a bit better Brad would have saved it.

[simongarnerisgod]

17 hours ago, Elvis Biro said:

Brighton deserved to lose because of that hideous kit - that's one of the worst I've ever seen! 

check out coventry`s away kit from the early 80`s,it was a mix of cream and brown,truly horrible

[Herbie6590]

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

check out coventry`s away kit from the early 80`s,it was a mix of cream and brown,truly horrible

As memorably worn at Ewood with yellow socks...

[philipl]

Just now, Herbie6590 said:

As memorably worn at Ewood with yellow socks...

And knocked out of the Cup with ease.

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, philipl said:

And knocked out of the Cup with ease.

andy crawford with the winner,got a perfect view sat on my dads shoulders!!!!!!!!

[Herbie6590]

Roots Hall yields F All 

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Hard to believe when you look where Southend are now. That was a real bad day at the office.

[Gav]

12 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

Fairly recent compared to a lot of the stuff being shared on here, but still a good memory.

We went 3-0 up away and it finished 3-3 and we went through on away goals. Cracking goals from Thompson and Duff. Thompson was a top player, very unfortunate with injuries. I'm not sure who it is that plays the path through for Duff's goal (due to the poor quality of the picture), but I suspect it's Dunn or Tugay. Wonderful pass.

 

The football was a side show, the trip was brilliant, most Rovers fans stayed in a hotel with a strip club on the top floor, I never saw the Mrs for 3 days.......

2 of our party missed the flight home, got stopped from boarding because the plane was full, took them 2 days to get home.

I could go on.

Great times, they can't take away our memories.

[darrenrover]

19 hours ago, Gav said:

The football was a side show, the trip was brilliant, most Rovers fans stayed in a hotel with a strip club on the top floor, I never saw the Mrs for 3 days.......

2 of our party missed the flight home, got stopped from boarding because the plane was full, took them 2 days to get home.

I could go on.

Great times, they can't take away our memories.

What happened in Sofia..

[Gav]

57 minutes ago, darrenrover said:

What happened in Sofia..

Stays in Sofia...

Strip club, dancing bears, Ewood blues suitcases full of soap, Secret police, Waggy (once of this parish) - Great trip darrenrover, it really was.

But to be honest all the European away games were fantastic, I missed one or two towards the end and I'm gutted that I did.

Lyon, Bulgaria, Germany a few times, but the best of the lot was probably Feyenoord, Amsterdam in the days leading up to the game was like nights out in Blackburn late 80's early 90's, the place was rocking with Rovers, I'm getting goose bumps just typing this.

[Mattyblue]

I went to all four that season (Salzburg, Krakow, Feyernoord and Leverkusen).

I couldn’t make Larissa in Athens the season after, remember saying to my mate, ‘we’ll go to the next one’... still waiting 

[Gav]

I missed Larissa and Krakow, went to all the rest, I think.

I'd forgotten Salzburg, what a place that is! Savage free kick, Trapattoni and The Sound of Music 

We stayed in Salzburg before the England game in Germany when we beat them 5-1 - Another superb trip, this time watching the national side.

[Herbie6590]

Scooter & Speedie step up...

 

[darrenrover]

2 hours ago, Gav said:

Stays in Sofia...

Strip club, dancing bears, Ewood blues suitcases full of soap, Secret police, Waggy (once of this parish) - Great trip darrenrover, it really was.

But to be honest all the European away games were fantastic, I missed one or two towards the end and I'm gutted that I did.

Lyon, Bulgaria, Germany a few times, but the best of the lot was probably Feyenoord, Amsterdam in the days leading up to the game was like nights out in Blackburn late 80's early 90's, the place was rocking with Rovers, I'm getting goose bumps just typing this.

I know Gav, I was in Sofia too which was kinda my point, along with many others in Europe like yourself.

Funnily enough the one with the longest lasting memory for different reasons, was Krakow, where we managed to fit in a full day trip to both Auswitz camps. That did leave true goose bumps but for different reasons. 

Great trips all Gav, probably never to be repeated and even if they were to be, would never be the same somehow. (Age being one thing!)

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

What wouldn't you give for a Speedie and a Sellars today ? A great bit of play from Sellars for the first goal and a lovely little inside ball to set up play for the second. A terrific leap from Speedie to hit the bar with a header at the end. He could give Gallagher and Brererton a 10 inches start and still out jump them !

[oldjamfan1]

4 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

What wouldn't you give for a Speedie and a Sellars today ? A great bit of play from Sellars for the first goal and a lovely little inside ball to set up play for the second. A terrific leap from Speedie to hit the bar with a header at the end. He could give Gallagher and Brererton a 10 inches start and still out jump them !

Speedie would grab a game by the scruff of its neck on many an occasion. Scottie was superb on his day but a bit inconsistent. I know which of them I would pick first.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 minutes ago, oldjamfan1 said:

Speedie would grab a game by the scruff of its neck on many an occasion. Scottie was superb on his day but a bit inconsistent. I know which of them I would pick first.

Me too. Nobody ever questioned Speedie's  commitment to the cause.

[Darrenbot]

40 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Me too. Nobody ever questioned Speedie's  commitment to the cause.

I wonder what a Speedie /Shearer forward line would have looked like if we didnt let him go.

[philipl]

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

 

[frosty]

^ Crikey, Berner, Rigters and Keith Treacy? No wonder we lost.

Shame as that turned out to be our final cup match under Hughes. The squads we had from 05-08 were definitely good enough to win something - unfortunately we just couldn't get past teams from the 'big four', as they were then, when facing them in semi finals.

[Herbie6590]

Nov 91  - signings reviewed...

 

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