BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[den]

  On 14/11/2023 at 11:44, den said:

1964

 

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Did anyone else go down to West Ham for the cup game that finished 3-3? This guy scored all three goals that day.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

  On 14/11/2023 at 12:16, den said:

Did anyone else go down to West Ham for the cup game that finished 3-3? This guy scored all three goals that day.

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No I didn’t but Bobby Moore said he hated playing against him. It was the same story any time Bolton played West Ham after he left Rovers.

[47er]

  On 14/11/2023 at 17:05, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

No I didn’t but Bobby Moore said he hated playing against him. It was the same story any time Bolton played West Ham after he left Rovers.

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I did! Great day especially as my flatmate was a West Ham fan! Some nasty stuff in the crowd that day, Hammers fans not exactly saints.

 

  On 14/11/2023 at 12:16, den said:

Did anyone else go down to West Ham for the cup game that finished 3-3? This guy scored all three goals that day.

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Yep---me again!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

  On 14/11/2023 at 20:11, 47er said:

I did! Great day especially as my flatmate was a West Ham fan! Some nasty stuff in the crowd that day, Hammers fans not exactly saints.

 

Yep---me again!

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For a season, after we sold Fred Pickering and gave John a go in the No 9 shirt John and Andy McEvoy were brilliant as a pair.

Season 1964-65.

Johnny - 40 league games out of 42 = 25 goals ( 2 hat tricks ) + 2 in the cups.

Andy - 40 league games out of 42 = 29 goals ( 2 hat tricks ) + 3 in the cups.

What those two would be worth today ?

I just looked at John’s record against West Ham

1961-62 H 3 goals, A 1 goal

1962-63 H 0 goals A 0 goals

1963-64 H +A not selected, Fred was No 9.

1964-65 H 3 goals A 1 goal

1965-66 H 0 goals A 0 goals - FA Cup H 1 goal A 3 goals

Edited November 14, 2023 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[jim mk2]

  On 14/11/2023 at 11:43, den said:

Queue outside Ewood Park for cup tickets against Man City 1969

 

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I woz there, but not in the queue because my dad already had tickets. 42,000 on Ewood, it was dangerous 

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

  On 14/11/2023 at 20:32, jim mk2 said:

 

I woz there, but not in the queue because my dad already had tickets. 42,000 on Ewood, it was dangerous 

 

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Yeah, it was my wife’s first and last game. She didn’t appreciate the crush in the Blackburn End but I suspect some of the blokes around her did !

[mick]

Did anyone else go down to West Ham for the cup game that finished 3-3? This guy scored all three goals that day.
 

Yes, I was there. Went down on the coach. We picked up a bunch of Burnley fans and dropped them off at WHL, as they were playing Spurs. Returned for them after the match. 
Great game. Remember Douglas got injured and limped around on the wing as there were no subs allowed back then. 
 

I did! Great day especially as my flatmate was a West Ham fan! Some nasty stuff in the crowd that day,Hammers fans not exactly saints.

 

I remember bottles flying behind the goal as rival fans clashed. Police jumped in and formed a big circle and separated the two groups. 

[den]

West Ham fans were a pretty violent bunch at that time. The atmosphere outside the ground was pretty intimidating.

[Upside Down]

Seems to be a pattern forming here between wearing claret and blue and being a brain-dead chump.

[simongarnerisgod]

  On 14/11/2023 at 20:32, jim mk2 said:

 

I woz there, but not in the queue because my dad already had tickets. 42,000 on Ewood, it was dangerous 

 

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i`ve been in crowds of 20000+ in the old ewood and in the blackburn end  you felt like a sardine in a tin,i would never imagine at crowd of 42000,they must have shoehorned you in😀even with the large terrace on the riverside

[Nuttall is lost]

Sky showing the full game of last game of the 1994/95 season at Anfield.   Remember it like it was yesterday.   Forgot how different football was back then. Much more fast paced, frantic and scrappy.  Was like watching a pinball machine.

It seems like yesterday but it really is a long time ago now.  Nearly 30 years! Bloody hell.

[47er]

  On 14/11/2023 at 22:10, mick said:

I remember bottles flying behind the goal as rival fans clashed. Police jumped in and formed a big circle and separated the two groups. 

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I remember a pole with barbed wire wrapped round it being thrown at us. Went over my head ( so to speak).

[47er]

  On 15/11/2023 at 18:57, simongarnerisgod said:

i`ve been in crowds of 20000+ in the old ewood and in the blackburn end  you felt like a sardine in a tin,i would never imagine at crowd of 42000,they must have shoehorned you in😀even with the large terrace on the riverside

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Well how would you fancy 52000 at the old ground? Twice in 4 days!

But for some reason the City game was more scary. Big sway on the Riverside!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

  On 16/11/2023 at 23:49, Nuttall is lost said:

Sky showing the full game of last game of the 1994/95 season at Anfield.   Remember it like it was yesterday.   Forgot how different football was back then. Much more fast paced, frantic and scrappy.  Was like watching a pinball machine.

It seems like yesterday but it really is a long time ago now.  Nearly 30 years! Bloody hell.

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I think the word is - “ exciting “.

[simongarnerisgod]

i do miss "blood and thunder football" two teams going hard but fair at it,it`s all a bit staid now,man city,despite their obvious class leave me stone cold,there is absolutely nothing to like or dislike about them,at least when utd were winning everything you could rant at the telly about their antics

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

  On 17/11/2023 at 08:33, 47er said:

Well how would you fancy 52000 at the old ground? Twice in 4 days!

But for some reason the City game was more scary. Big sway on the Riverside!

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Would have loved to have been on Ewood and witnessed a crowd like that...

 

[Gav]

Look at The Riverside, amazing to see it packed to the rafters. 

[den]

Fantastic footage.

[broadsword]

Hi guys, I've tried to get a cigarette card collection together of rovers players of yesteryear. Thought it would be nice to have on the wall, I wouldn't have seen any of these play, but it's just something nice that is pre venkys.

 

What do you reckon, any good? There's only some players you can get, done that I wanted don't even exist at all. I really wanted Billy garbutt, he's revered in Italy because he managed there. But no doing sadly.

 

 

[Upside Down]

  On 23/11/2023 at 18:51, broadsword said:

Hi guys, I've tried to get a cigarette card collection together of rovers players of yesteryear. Thought it would be nice to have on the wall, I wouldn't have seen any of these play, but it's just something nice that is pre venkys.

 

What do you reckon, any good? There's only some players you can get, done that I wanted don't even exist at all. I really wanted Billy garbutt, he's revered in Italy because he managed there. But no doing sadly.

 

 

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That's awesome.

 

[broadsword]

Thanks mate.

 

Found this also

 

https://youtu.be/WCZ_8HbuvIk?si=F7t9zsWgEKkFjheY

[berkshireblue]

  On 14/11/2023 at 20:32, jim mk2 said:

 

I woz there, but not in the queue because my dad already had tickets. 42,000 on Ewood, it was dangerous 

 

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Yes my Dad took my Mum to that she said she was scared

She boycotted for over a decade

Her next game afterwards was the Div 3 end of season clash night clash in 79/80 May v Sheff Wednesday we lost 1 nil I think, just before we took 8k away to Bury

[den]

Look at the attendances.

 

[Mattyblue]

Great corrective that to when folk say ‘’well we had shit crowds in the 80s in this league, just how it is here without Jack”.

Pretty much everybody had shit gates then, just like pretty much everybody’s gates are at a decades high now… with a very notable exception.

Football crowds in this country are booming at all levels, from the PL through to non league, alas the mismanagement of this football club means we have somehow missed out entirely.

[simongarnerisgod]

  On 24/11/2023 at 16:39, Mattyblue said:

Great corrective that to when folk say ‘’well we had shit crowds in the 80s in this league, just how it is here without Jack”.

Pretty much everybody had shit gates then, just like pretty much everybody’s gates are at a decades high now… with a very notable exception.

Football crowds in this country are booming at all levels, from the PL through to non league, alas the mismanagement of this football club means we have somehow missed out entirely.

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getting your head kicked in or being hit by a flying coin possibly had something to do with it😉,it was`nt socially acceptable to be a football fan in the 80`s,personally i thought it was great,providing you avoided the trouble,the football was better,the atmosphere was better and the game was`nt stopped every five minutes by the ref booking someone