After supporting this club for 26 years (yes, first season I started supporting was when we came 4th and as a boy of 10 i felt the kit and emblem was cool and worth supporting a club for), I will finally have a chance to venture to the North of England and visit Ewood Park. : ) The club offers stadium tours for groups of 6 or more, so for a single traveler like myself what can i expect to see over there? Is Ewood Park completely closed on a non-match day (will be sometime in mid July). I am guessing there will be a merchandise store open, but what else should I be able to see if the stadium itself is closed? Thank you for all replies : )

Before the match I was sure that Alves' suspension was a blessing in disguise for Barca, and I think I was right. Puyol was spectacular, and made sure Rooney never got too much time to make his forward runs. Alves on the other hand would very likely have given away free kicks/penalties as his defensive game is very dodgy....

Both sides were evenly matched, Chelsea had 1 shot on target in Nou Camp, and Barcelona had one shot on target at Stamford Bridge.....Barcelona with 10 men dominated against Chelsea with 11, at the most, we can say they were evenly matched. Parking the bus in both legs doesnt make a team "deserve" to get through. ...... as for refereeing decisions, when Barcelona complained about Ballack not geing sent off in the 1st leg, or Henry getting a penalty, they were "whinging, moaning, sore losers". Not that the referee screws Chelsea up for a change, they are rightly aggrieved, and Barcelona dont deserve to go through.........

He is by far the worlds best midfielder, and Chelsea didnt win the league last season only because he was injured, and this season they would have been on top if he hadnt missed 6 months through torn ligaments

The perfect foil for someone like McCarthy is a player like Bellamy, someone fast who would be able to predict McCarthy's flick-ons and backheels.

Thanks Sparky for the 4 years.... What is really getting up my nerves are comments to the tune of "Good move for Hughes, City are a much better team than Blackburn, and are in Europe next season......."

I was quite scared that Martins would be brushed by either of them, and the subsequent fall/dive would earn Tugay or Savage another red card.. It was a blessing he scored instead of earning a red card for either of our central midfield players

I would have thought he meant Tugay

I am not quite sure why his facial expression resembled that of someone having his nails plucked out.........

Zurab misses a clean header from 5 yards

Lets look at it this way, of all the teams Man Utd have played over the last 3 seasons, Blackburn is the one they have the worst record against........ so they have a win overdue against us

The best penalty takers generally follow the following technique: hit it hard into one of the top corners, Zidane and Shearer both followed it. Cheeky chips and hitting it Jeffers style will help in the rare case, but you cant hit every penalty liek that.

Never was this sure about a prediction this season .......WH 2 Rovers 0 And the media to start jumping on how WH are "back", and will finish top 6

Guess who scores for Pool, that too with a header

I think thats the Palestinian flag, and not the Pakistani one

2-1!!!!!!!!!! McCarthy!!!!!!!

Pogatetz clattered into McCarthy , and not even a whistle blown by Poll Benni limps off the field, Hugh es isnt happy, doesnt look good......

Sheffield Utd. 2 Rovers 1 A dirty game with the Blades being much dirtier than us, Savage to be sent off......

Rovers 1 Chelsea 2 We will miss a hatful of chances while they will score off a penalty or Lampard deflection

Heres my preedictions whilst trying to ignore this weeks results as much as possible, 1. Chelsea 2. Liverpool 3. Man U 4. Arsenal 5. Spurs 6. Newcastle 7. Boro 8. Blackburn 9. Aston Villa 10. Everton 11. West Ham 12. Bolton 13. Portsmouth 14. Man City 15. Charlton 16. Wigan 17. Sheff Utd 18. Fulham 19. Reading 20. Watford

1-0 Mccaaaaaarthyyyyyyyyy Took it very well just inside the penalty box.

1-1 McCarthy to score

Ivory Coast: Would have qualified from any other group Ghana: Beat Czech Republic as comfortably as Italy did. Undone by bad refereeing in 2nd round Tunisia: Were better than Ukraine, again the referee ignored a Ukranian HB and gave a penalty for a Shevchenko dive. Angola: Held Mexico to a draw and lost only to Portugal (just like England ) Togo: Worst African team here and the results showed, still had plenty of battle in them. Contrast that with teams like Serbia, Poland, and Ukraine, all of whom qualified comfortably from Europe but were not good at all.

farcical decision. Probably the Zidane worshipping journalists skewed the decision. He had 2 good games in the whole Cup FFS !

I was being sarcastic. After seeing the one-sided abuse (scumbag, gay, f*****t) being dished out here by some members towards Ronaldo , I just thought of being the Devil's Advocate.