Which are the two in La Liga? Madrid and presumably reigning champions Atletico? But then they're way down in 5th this year. Sevilla and Betis in the top 4 is also good to see. Italy's got the best title race out of the top leagues and Juve - presumably one of your two - were miles away last year. Bundesliga correct. Ligue Un too (Lille winning last season was great, but an anomaly).

There have been some poor sides at Ewood this season but Swansea stand out with their daft 'play it out from the back at all costs' approach. That was on the opening day and we won 2-1 (we should have had more), but if we'd have faced them like that in November or December we'd have absolutely thumped them with the form we were in then. Haven't seen Swansea since that game so not sure if they're any better now but their league position, with mainly only the stragglers below them, wouldn't suggest so. Have to be going there to win this one.

I’ve always wondered why he begins every word with a capital letter. Looks odd and must make it unnecessarily hard work when typing too….

Take that. 9 clean sheets in 11 is it? That's superb and our defence alone should keep us up there. Though we can't afford to have games where we have that 11 that ended the game or anything close to it....

They’ve been terrible for ages West Brom, even in beating Peterborough their goals came very late on. Barely won any apart from that for ages. Unless something changes there, eg Ismael leaving, we should definitely finish above them.

One of my favourite accounts that I follow, definitely. Great content all round. Also enjoy Adam Hurrey (@FootballCliches) and Duncan Alexander (@oilysailor) but yep, the account you mention is brilliant.

I really don’t think ‘he almost went to Leeds’, as she’s claiming. There’d have been mention of that here at some point if so, but there’s been nothing of the sort. I get the impression that in Chile they just like linking him with transfers.

If Football Manager is anything to go by (and it usually is), you register 25 players for the Premier League but youngsters aged 20 (or 21 - one of the two) or under don’t have to be registered and can just play whenever. You can register some if you like, if they help with meeting the home-grown quota or anything similar, but yeah they don’t need to be. Didn’t Leeds have a 15 year old on the bench against Arsenal a few weeks ago? There’s no way he would have been on any registration list they submitted back in the summer.

Ferguson long-term would surely be a disaster, if they had him as caretaker until the end of the season then I’m sure he’d do just about okay and like last time after Silva left he’d probably get an instant reaction and pick up some results, as many caretakers do, through being a different voice if nothing else. Long-term though I just don’t see him as managerial material and, while I’m sure cliches such as ‘he knows the club’ and ‘he just gets it’ would get wheeled out, let’s not forget he’s been on the coaching staff and part of the last few coaching set ups that have mainly failed or at least underperformed.

I don't see how JRC could be used in any position more advanced than RWB in a 3-5-2, there's only the three CMs and two forwards ahead of him. To be honest even if he was able to stay fully fit I don't think I've seen enough from him to suggest he could be effective in any advanced position. Backup RWB only for me (when he's fit).

There is no way Barcelona or Real Madrid want Brereton, surely. I've always thought even Sevilla - who win the Europa League whenever they feel like it and are otherwise fairly regular in the Champions League - would be a remarkable move. The guy at FFT is a Rovers fan and has done loads of pieces about BBD and tweets about him tons, so doubt it gives any more credibility to the link, but it makes for a great headline. If he did end up at either though - maddest transfer of all time.

Agreed, thought the exact same. After BBD’s winner against Barnsley he announced the goalscorer as just ‘Brereton Diaz’ - never heard a stadium announcer refer to a goalscorer by only his surname before. Unless of course he thought ‘Brereton’ is his first name which wouldn’t surprise me….

It’s on the 2nd, not new year’s day! Tough game, good result for them tonight. Just praying we can grind out one more win and then we’ll be ready for a two-week breather from the Championship.

As superb as Jansen was, he 'only' scored 23 all season that season. I was thinking Armstrong last year as he was mega prolific early on, but the season started in mid-September so won't be him....

Genuinely unbelievable this, seeing us one point off automatics and 8 points clear of 7th place (our former glass ceiling) is crazy. Well done Rovers!

The below four are off plus Cardiff-Derby. I didn’t realise there were that many either.

That penalty and second yellow in the Arsenal-West Ham game was a dreadful decision. They mentioned the follow through but there was none. From what I've seen follow through normally refers to if a player wins the ball but, say, his studs are up and ends up catching his opponent dangerously. Here there was literally 'contact' (hate that word but fits here) after Coufal clearly took the ball. Terrible.

Difference is last summer we lost players that should have gone years ago, Evans and Bennett etc.....I always said we'd never do anything in this league while we still had those kind of players, i.e. 30+ and happy to play out the remaining years of their career in mid-table of the Championship. Younger, hungrier players is the way to go. This time we'd be losing key first-team players who've shown they're capable of getting us in a play-off position at least and hopefully cementing us there.

Can't believe this is actually happening, we just haven't got results like that since we came down almost a decade ago. Brilliant, well done Rovers, keep it up ⚽

Looks like it could be Ryan Lowe.

The first few rows of that stand behind the left goal as the camera looks are very sparse too nowadays. Must all be sat on Pendle Hill. Edit - same thinking as renrag!

Grayson was the go-to League 1 manager for a while to get a promotion, and did alright at Leeds and Preston after getting them into the Championship. His last few jobs have been poor though so maybe he's had his day (though he's still relatively young at 51). Everything Dunn gets involved with manager/coach-wise though seems to go downhill......

So this is the first Championship game against Peterborough since one of many low points we've had since our PL relegation, the home defeat against them in 12/13. 0-3 down at HT and a good few chancers wearing the shirt - thankfully the odious Orr and Murphy were hauled off at half time and, if I remember correctly, neither were seen again thank god. 2-0 Rovers after being 0-0 at HT.

There’ll be a big break next winter for the World Cup won’t there? I’d imagine that’d be the case for at least PL and Championship just like the current international breaks. So he wouldn’t miss any hopefully.

Absolutely piss poor that is. The former players can get in the bin as well (Cairney and Tosin obviously excused).