BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[Gav]

If you know, you know…..

If you don’t, this was social media before social media was a thing.

 

 

Edited December 10, 2023 by Gav

[simongarnerisgod]

brings back memories!!!!!!looking at the tv guide on ceefax  to see if there was any dirty movies on channel 4🤣(channel 4 being very edgy at the time)

[Gav]

Ceefax was the first place I saw the headline:

Blackburn bid for England captain Lineker.

I thought it was a typo!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Dom Matteo has a long article in today’s paper. He played all his career with an undiscovered brain tumour apparently. He had it removed not long ago and is on the mend now.

[AllRoverAsia]

This team photo came up on FB, can anyone put a date to it?

I saw my first Rovers game in September 1963 and only Douglas and Clayton from the photo featured in that game.

 

[Mattyblue]

Always makes me laugh how irate football fans get these days whenever the ‘soccer’ word gets used like it’s some modern phenomenon worming its way in from those pesky Yanks.

But as the above shows it was often used interchangeably with ‘football’ in days gone by.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

53 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

This team photo came up on FB, can anyone put a date to it?

I saw my first Rovers game in September 1963 and only Douglas and Clayton from the photo featured in that game.

 

I’d say the 1957-1958 season. Tommy Briggs left the club in March 1958.

[AllRoverAsia]

On 11/12/2023 at 02:14, Gav said:

If you know, you know…..

If you don’t, this was social media before social media was a thing.

 

 

I hated Ceefax and yearned for the return of the Teleprinter. How times change.

[wilsdenrover]

18 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I’d say the 1957-1958 season. Tommy Briggs left the club in March 1958.

Impressive knowledge…

[wilsdenrover]

19 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Always makes me laugh how irate football fans get these days whenever the ‘soccer’ word gets used like it’s some modern phenomenon worming its way in from those pesky Yanks.

But as the above shows it was often used interchangeably with ‘football’ in days gone by.

Started as a ‘posh boys’ thing…

Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus. However, “soccer” never became much more than a nickname in Great Britain

[rigger]

I seem to remember a song in the seventies with the words : 

We are the famous soccer hooligans.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

20 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

I hated Ceefax and yearned for the return of the Teleprinter. How times change.

I remember being stood outside “ Radio Rentals “ watching the scores come in on the old teleprinter on a TV in the shop window after my youth club team had played -  “ FA Cup Rnd 5  Oxford Utd 3 Blackburn Rovers 1.

I said to my mate “ That can’t be right, they must have mixed the scores up ! “

Oxford had only just come into the football league and we were up at the top of division 1. The one year I really fancied us to win the FA Cup.

Nearly as shocking as opening the first paper on my paper round to see -

“ Blackburn Rovers 1 - Workington Town 5 “.  Whaaaat ?

Edited December 14, 2023 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Wheelton Blue]

https://twitter.com/_The72/status/1735606460791341101

 

Edited December 16, 2023 by Wheelton Blue

[Mattyblue]

‘Face it Rovers are a small club, fans need to get real’.

[wilsdenrover]

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2023/december/17/king-kenny-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-award/

[Upside Down]

On 16/12/2023 at 23:50, Mattyblue said:

‘Face it Rovers are a small club, fans need to get real’.

To quote a poster on this site from the summer - "we are a small club compared to Ipswich, Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday"

Fuck off.

[rigger]

1 minute ago, Upside Down said:

To quote a poster on this site from the summer - "we are a small club compared to Ipswich, Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday"

Fuck off.

The problem is, all three have beaten us this season.

[SuperBrfc]

2 hours ago, Upside Down said:

To quote a poster on this site from the summer - "we are a small club compared to Ipswich, Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday"

Fuck off.

It's like I was saying on another thread:

Inferiority complex.

[SuperBrfc]

On this day 18 years ago:

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

7 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

On this day 18 years ago:

 

It’d be nice to have a Kuqi or a Dickov up front these days.

[Gav]

Ewood Park next stop.
 

[rigger]

7 minutes ago, Gav said:

Ewood Park next stop.
 

I used to get them buses regularly. Always tried to nick the ticket rolls, to throw on when we scored.

Edited December 22, 2023 by rigger

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

23 minutes ago, rigger said:

I used to get them buses regularly. Always tried to nick the ticket rolls, to throw on when we scored.

I usually walked from the Boulevard unless it was pissing down or I was late. I remember waiting by that bus stop near Bill Eckersley’s old shop at the ground to get autographs. Fred Pickering, Keith Newton and Mike England jumped off once. Imagine that now, First Division footballers going to the game on public transport !

 

Edited December 22, 2023 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[arbitro]

9 hours ago, Gav said:

Ewood Park next stop.
 

It was a similar picture in Darren Gav. The old red Darren Corporation buses would be queued out Woolies at the Circus and ferry supporters to Ewood. After the match the buses would be parked at the bottom of Cravens Brow for the return journey. There would always be someone with a transistor radio so we could listen to James Alexander Gordon reading the results at 5 o'clock.

[47er]

3 hours ago, arbitro said:

It was a similar picture in Darren Gav. The old red Darren Corporation buses would be queued out Woolies at the Circus and ferry supporters to Ewood. After the match the buses would be parked at the bottom of Cravens Brow for the return journey. There would always be someone with a transistor radio so we could listen to James Alexander Gordon reading the results at 5 o'clock.

Sigh! Remember it like yesterday. Chatting with strangers all the way home about the game ..

Still the best way to get to Ewood and back, none of the worries about parking, why can't that come back?