BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

6 hours ago, windymiller7 said:

I must admit, I always thought my first game was in 1983 - I knew it was the 82/83 season, however it turns out it was actually 16/10/82. A 3-0 win against Chelsea, Garner with a brace & Kevin Stonehouse. I can't find the Rovers lineup for that day but the main things I remember was being in the old Riverside stand with my Dad with the smell of pipe tobacco wafting up every few minutes and a bit of a scrap going on in the BBE, presumably with some Chelsea fans who'd got in there.

I managed to find a few details from a Chelsea site, which shows a young David Speedie in the Chelsea team that day! Attendance? a whopping 6,062!

All that really mattered to me that day was that I knew I wanted to back again. I was hooked.

Gennoe

Branagan, Barton, Fazackerly,  Rathbone,

Miller, Randall, Lowey, Brotherston

Stonehouse, Garner

Sub Hamilton for Barton.

 

 

[windymiller7]

2 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Gennoe

Branagan, Barton, Fazackerly,  Rathbone,

Miller, Randall, Lowey, Brotherston

Stonehouse, Garner

Sub Hamilton for Barton.

 

 

That definitely looks about right. Although I don't really remember Barton, it was always Glen for me in my early memories.

Thank you so much for that, & I mean that from the bottom of my heart! 🙏🫶🤝

Where the hell did you find that? I've been searching for years!

[Herbie6590]

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[Tyrone Shoelaces]

10 hours ago, windymiller7 said:

That definitely looks about right. Although I don't really remember Barton, it was always Glen for me in my early memories.

Thank you so much for that, & I mean that from the bottom of my heart! 🙏🫶🤝

Where the hell did you find that? I've been searching for years!

Mike Jackman’s “ Blackburn Rovers, a complete history “. I would have thought the club shop would have similar books. I bought that in 1990. I also have an up dated version that I bought in about 2010.

Dave Barton came on loan from Newcastle. He only played 8 games for us.

[CottonTownBoy]

Another memory that has stuck with me, of sitting behind the directors box in 1980, was before a game, the "dignitaries" came up to the directors box area. One was a man wearing what looked to me as a 9-10 year old boy, a very expensive navy blue suit, shirt and tie and a matching navy blue overcoat. I'd never seen such an immaculately dressed man before. He just screamed money and class.

My dad asked me if I knew who he was, I was thinking, captain of industry or a prime minister, no it was Trevor Francis, the first million pound footballer. Signed by Nottingham Forest, 12 months before. Boy he certainly looked a million pounds worth. 

It was nice that he made an effort to look good as he was going to Ewood Park.

[Herbie6590]

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