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A personal, potted history.... walking through centre turnstile on riverside to a packed Ewood for the first time. Awestruck at the scarves, rattles. marching band. seeing Ronnie Clayton lea

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Without doubt, better to have tasted the riches. For me personally Venkys changed the way I saw Rovers. It shouldn’t have done, but it did. Things they can never do though. They can’t take away t

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Rovers fans have a lot to be thankful to Bill Fox for. An often forgotten figure in our ascendancy but the man who laid the foundations. While the rest of our traditional rivals were applying for re-e

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  On 21/06/2024 at 17:01, simongarnerisgod said:

brazil 1982 for me,got done by a bunch of italian animals and their own attacking instincts😩

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Always had a sneaking respect for the Italians in 1982 (to be fair that was helped by having them in the school sweepstake!). They started terribly and then managed to get through a group of 3 with Argentina and Brazil! Ok they were rough but played (just!!!) within the rules of the game at that time. Brazil of '82 forgot that you have to be able to defend to win things. From what I've seen (which isn't much) the Brazil of 1970 had a decent defence.

I can't think of any major tournament win where the winning team hasn't had a good defence (not necessarily great but at least with one or two top class players in it). Holland in the 70's were brilliant going forward but lost two WC finals conceding 5 goals in the two games whereas in 88 they won the Euros with players like Rijkard and Koeman at the back.

Then you have Greece winning the Euro's on the basis of score one goal and keep a clean sheet. Always love the irony that some people on here moan about that but (presumably) love the Kendall side that got promoted from Div3 largely on the same basis.

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  On 24/06/2024 at 08:34, oneandycrawford said:

Brazil of '82 forgot that you have to be able to defend to win things. From what I've seen (which isn't much) the Brazil of 1970 had a decent defence.

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they had an absolute donkey up front called serginho,if careca had`nt been injured and roberto dinamate been fit,they would have outscored everybody and most likely have been compared to brazil 1970,zico,socrates and falcao were great but the best player was left winger eder (aka the cannon),he was absolutely brilliant,his left footed chip over the scottish keeper alan rough,had me on the top field for hours trying to replicate it😁

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  On 14/07/2024 at 14:05, SuperBrfc said:

Brad being Brad:

 

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Ref absolutely couldn't wait to give that. Well in Brad. Unlucky to lose on the night, but a great record against United that season (won two, drawn one, lost one). Great times.

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He must have been worth a dozen points a season.

Still criminally underrated, barely gets a mention in Premier League top keepers. There is only probably pre-injury Cech who I'd put in same World Class category during his era.

Hands like bin lids too. 

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He must have been worth a dozen points a season.

Still criminally underrated, barely gets a mention in Premier League top keepers. There is only probably pre-injury Cech who I'd put in same World Class category during his era.

Hands like bin lids too. 

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I always thought he was worth a goal start. I never went into a game thinking we were going to lose when he was in goal for us.

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I went on all four trips, Salzburg, Feyernoord, Krakow and Leverkusen.

Just fantastic memories, especially when we were no longer a club with particularly large resources by 06/07, just a superbly run football club, I rue the day the Walkers sold us down the river.

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  On 16/07/2024 at 09:26, Mattyblue said:

I went on all four trips, Salzburg, Feyernoord, Krakow and Leverkusen.

Just fantastic memories, especially when we were no longer a club with particularly large resources by 06/07, just a superbly run football club, I rue the day the Walkers sold us down the river.

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i was supposed to go on the feyenoord trip but i endup up with flu😷,my mate said the feyenoord fans were a bunch of lunatics and rovers fans were fenced in like cattle!!!! didn`nt  morton gamst get a pint of beer thrown over him when he was taking a throw in😁

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  On 16/07/2024 at 16:53, simongarnerisgod said:

i was supposed to go on the feyenoord trip but i endup up with flu😷,my mate said the feyenoord fans were a bunch of lunatics and rovers fans were fenced in like cattle!!!! didn`nt  morton gamst get a pint of beer thrown over him when he was taking a throw in😁

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We took our largest away following in Europe to Feyenoord, maybe thats why he felt penned in. It was a segregated area of course, our seats were in the top tier, its was fenced in with perspex. the bottom was more open.

All the European away trips are a little over the top on the policing front and segregation, but the most trouble I've seen was Rovers fighting Rovers in Leverkusen and some handbags with the police in Lyon.

Great trips, great memories, those bastards in Pune can't take those away.

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