Madon, can you post this photo to WMC group.

Harry 'Get Off That Pitch!' Pilling, top groundsman. The pitches went to seed (no pun intended) when LCC took over.

Waggott must be crying into his seat netting.

Legendary WMC group meeting Wednesday.

The disconnect between the club's recent executives and the fans is plain to see. No regard for fans who watched for decades from the Nuttall Street Enclosure/JW Lower or those who spent years in the Darwen End or BBE upper. Bean counters and nothing more running the club. All these changes are losing fans left, right and centre. FOV.

The Football League was created to give all clubs an income throughout the year.

Salford was derelict in the 80s.

Wankers

Alastair Campbell's son. Neville's should hang their heads in shame: club where their parents worked all their lives.

Justin Campbell.

Yep £6m. Never used it.

Dale wants em shut. Serial asset stripper.

Correct link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4480682/Who-guilty-trashing-historic-club-like-Blackburn.html Great article by Nick Harris. "One afternoon in July 2011 my phone rings. It is Mrs Desai. 'Shall we buy Raul from Schalke in Germany?' she asks. The Spaniard was available, perhaps for nothing, on around £6m a year. 'If you don't trust your manager or CEO, get replacements you do trust to help,' I told her, not for the first time." "So why was Mrs Rao asking me for transfer advice in the first place? Because her faith in highly-paid football 'experts' was destroyed within months. Anderson was one advisor, talking openly about being based at the training ground through January 2011's transfer window. He had also been involved, for a fee, in the introduction of Venky's to the Jack Walker Trust in 2010. Separately, the day that takeover was complete, a contract came into play whereby Kentaro provided Venky's with 'consultancy services' including the hiring and firing of managers and players. By spring 2011, Venky's believed they'd taken the wrong path. Anderson was put 'on the outside' and Venky's kept Kean on but embarked on a bitter secret legal dispute against Kentaro." "In March 2011 the FA had written asking who was running Blackburn. The Rovers secretary, Andrew Pincher, wrote to the FA's head of integrity, David Newton, to disclose the Kentaro contract. Pincher also confided to the FA that Venky's received consultancy services on their takeover from Brunei-based firm Crescendo Sports Limited. He wrote: 'An officer of SEM Limited, Jerome Anderson, has a connection with Crescendo.' Anderson's alleged involvement was a potential conflict of interest if acting both for a potential buyer of a club and the seller. He denied any link to Crescendo or any involvement in Kentaro's contract with Venky's. The FA considered whether Anderson contravened regulations prohibiting agents from influencing club affairs. He denied the sacking of Sam Allardyce and hiring of Kean were his ideas, and said the signing of SEM players including his son, Myles, were nothing to do with him." "As Blackburn were relegated to the Championship in 2012, Mrs Desai trusted nobody but employees from home. One of them, a trainee hatcheries manager, was even sent to France to knock on club doors to inquire about transfer targets, in order to avoid rip-off agents. The ploy failed."

There were cask pumps on the main bars.

Cask ale was sold at Ewood in the 90's/00's. I remember the pumps on the bars behind the Riverside but they were mothballed for some reason.

The vinegar taste is beer that has gone off.

Oh for the days of Stadia Catering.

Reminds me of best set pieces under Howard Kendall. Corner sent to Faz on near post, headed on and goal every time.

Can you believe they put prices up before the game and reduce them at 6pm.

The League position should be irrelevant to food and drink prices. £2 a pint at Stanley. Good cask in all bars and winners hour £1 a pint.

Comments please

Shin pads off?

Desai's Dyke!

Finally worked it out? Doesn't a lifetime in football tell anyone that? In 40 years watching Rovers, the best atmospheres home and away have been those with plenty of home and away fans close to the pitch. All this mucking about closing stands is losing home fans and moving away fans must be about money because both are doing nowt for atmosphere.