BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[Gav]

Crewe away 92

 

Coventry away 95

 

Derby at home 87

 

 

[wilsdenrover]

How many of the 94/95 squad can you remember…

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/may/14/quiz--representing-rovers-in-1994-95-/

I got 100% 😀 - I doubt I’d get 50% of the 23/24 squad 😄😄

[Gav]

Grimsby v Rovers under Howard Kendall, footage I’ve never seen before and an away shirt I don’t recognise either!

Starts around 2.50mins in.

 

Edited May 22, 2024 by Gav

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, Gav said:

Grimsby v Rovers under Howard Kendall, footage I’ve never seen before and an away shirt I don’t recognise either!

Starts around 2.50mins in.

 

Nice to hear Howard’s voice again. What about that pitch ! I’ve played on worse but not many though.

Edited May 22, 2024 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[simongarnerisgod]

48 minutes ago, Gav said:

Grimsby v Rovers under Howard Kendall, footage I’ve never seen before and an away shirt I don’t recognise either!

Starts around 2.50mins in.

 

great memories from my childhood,kendall was a fantastic organiser of defences and  that pitch🤣

[Gav]

Gallagher and Le Saux debuts, I remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[Mattyblue]

‘Screened live in Norway’ (as full of plastic Scousers, Scandì style), so Ewood was all Norwegian advertising… which made a change from Tommy Balls and Matthew Brown 😅

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Burnley v Rovers 1989 Lancashire Manx Cup

I used to deliver the Papers to Burnley Keeper Chris Pearce's House...he lived around Ewood!

 

[Darrenbot]

14 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Burnley v Rovers 1989 Lancashire Manx Cup

I used to deliver the Papers to Burnley Keeper Chris Pearce's House...he lived around Ewood!

 

First derby game i saw,confirmed my hatred for Burnley and their fans,i was 15 and  trying to get back home  safely after the match was nearly as eventful as the match 😀

[rigger]

37 minutes ago, Darrenbot said:

First derby game i saw,confirmed my hatred for Burnley and their fans,i was 15 and  trying to get back home  safely after the match was nearly as eventful as the match 😀

Bolton away 70's/80's was a lot worse.

[simongarnerisgod]

6 minutes ago, rigger said:

Bolton away 70's/80's was a lot worse.

burnden park was evil

[SuperBrfc]

One of many match winning displays from Brad. Arsenal away 2002/03:

 

[Cherry Blue]

On 26/05/2024 at 14:34, simongarnerisgod said:

burnden park was evil

Memories of Rovers fans signing when we arrived via train at Bolton station. 

Had to keep your head down coming out the tunnel approaching Darwen on return journey. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

42 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

One of many match winning displays from Brad. Arsenal away 2002/03:

 

He had a similar performance in the FA Cup down there also.

[SuperBrfc]

Yep, that game against City. How did we end up losing this?

 

[SuperBrfc]

Tugay making it look like man against boys:

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

Tugay making it look like man against boys:

 

That bit where he sends that opponent to buy a pie was brilliant.

[Upside Down]

2 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

That bit where he sends that opponent to buy a pie was brilliant.

And then Andy Cole sends the keeper off to get a brew as well.

[jim mk2]

Excellent photo available free of charge to the first person who contacts me with their address.

Photo is dated 2nd February 1960 and is of 5 Rovers players - John Bray, Harry Leyland, Matt Woods, Louis Bimpson and Mike McGrath - relaxing at the Washington Hotel, London, on the morning of their FA Cup tie against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane (Rovers reached the final that year - the last time we did so).

 

[Mike E]

This guy gets it. Superb little doc:

https://youtu.be/KDZij6eYZbc?si=2xn-ikiKiuTQwOYb

[RoversTilliDie]

On 26/05/2024 at 14:26, rigger said:

Bolton away 70's/80's was a lot worse.

Never truer words I went to a couple of Bolton v Blackburn Rovers games in the 80s. You were dodging darts being thrown at you waiting at the turnstiles, and building bricks coming over the wall in the open end, the good old days.

[RoversTilliDie]

Who remembers this priceless penalty from Mike Newell against Leicester City in 1993.

PA-38210.webp

[simongarnerisgod]

17 hours ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Never truer words I went to a couple of Bolton v Blackburn Rovers games in the 80s. You were dodging darts being thrown at you waiting at the turnstiles, and building bricks coming over the wall in the open end, the good old days.

you were safer in the burnden end paddock,just keep your head down and watch the carnage going on in the embankment😄

[Gordon Ottershaw]

I looked up the Fulham home game from 2002 as I needed the date and remembered being at Ewood that day. Just look at that attendance! It actually makes me feel quite sad.

 

Edited June 10, 2024 by Gordon Ottershaw

[Upside Down]

33 minutes ago, Gordon Ottershaw said:

I looked up the Fulham home game from 2002 as I needed the date and remembered being at Ewood that day. Just look at that attendance! It actually makes me feel quite sad.

 

I guess Ewood Park isn't too big for us after all.