Queued up in the early hours for a ticket, my mate was about 20 people behind me- they sold out before he got to the counter! What a day, went with the Des & Phil 007 Darwen Blues bus. Think we stopped in Ormskirk on the way down, the tension was unbearable in the boozers. On the ground, constant rumours went up 'Andy Cole's missed a penalty' 'West Ham are down to 10 men' all rollocks of course! To see the tears of the grown men around me will stay with me forever, as will the reception all the coaches got when they returned to Ewood, streets were packed! Think I was a little too young to truly appreciate it and I think we all expected more success. But still, the greatest day.

Ive said it many times, I just look to players and management to get a winning formula going on the pitch and to move the club forward while they are here. I've long since stopped looking for 'heroes', the club is all that matters to me.

SSN Daniel Craig says it's McCarthy's 'dream move', just like Lucash!

I am sure he had some essence of normality at Boro, but maybe I just didnt notice?! Think the England experience has caused his marbles to be well and truely lost.

'you scored the greatest goal EVER against Manchester' Looked like Birmingham City to me but the details arent important! 'He comes direct from the Norfolk club, in the north east of England' Soccer will make it big in the US of A!

How frightfully cynical of you

Watching him for both Chelsea and Newcastle, he seems to have completely lost his ability to take on players to such an extent I wonder what his game is actually supposed to be about. Ryan Giggs has lost pace but has added many other qualities to his game, Duffer, lets just remember the good times.

You know what den I think it is, the media are that institutionally biased they probably won't een realise.

On the drummer though, the commentator had it one, tuneless and out of time banging on a drum does not help the atmosphere, but just makes us look like lower league nomarks.

To me there can only be one. PHIL THOMPSON. He’s the most arrogant, condescending, big club biased, one eyed plonker on television, radio or press. The ribbing he was getting on Soccer Saturday as Havant & Waterlooville went 1-0 and 2-1 was up was priceless.

I got about 10 txts in about 5 mons from Rovers and non Rovers fans! Innocent mistake, I think not! Ive said it before and I'll say it again, a small town club in the 'greatest sports competition' in the world is a massive irritation to the powers that be.

I like AESF posts normally but there seems to be a contradiction, you complained that last year Zara Philips won only because of her Royal connections- as 'old Britain' and non-liberal media as you can get. Yet now you say Hamilton would have only won because of his 'new Britian' and liberal media popularity? Which one is it?

top stuff whittle blue. Just a reminder if anyone thought Rovers fan or not that Garns was just some run of the mill lower league player, well now you know better!

Yeah I think Juve arent massively supported in Turin but across Italy, yet it seems that the Sardinia Branch of their supporters club etc dont bother with the day trips like the Torquay Branch of the Manure fan club. Also their fans have never taken to the Stadio Deli Alpi (sp!) as its a crap ground on the edge of the city

My dad made a compilation tape of all Rovers Tv appearences from the City 4-0 in 1989 to the Liverpool cup game of 91. The Palace play off first leg still makes me go for f*** sake Howard put the penalty away!!! Garner at full time being interviewed with no teeth, 'its only half time, weve got to finish the job down there' then cuts to Rovers fans queing for tickets. Im sure I used to cry when I watched it as a kid! Talking of followings, that very tape showed I think an Ian Miller penalty from 1989/90 season away at Stoke, looked a massive following. Still I wouldnt swap what we had then for wht we have now, nostalgia is just that

Im happy with the increase in attendance, 3 thousand up in one summer, did we honestly expect an extra 6/7 thousand etc? Ive said it before, we have a small population to garner our fans from, our attendances are superb, doesnt mean much in a league of big cities though. However what worries me that in our core areas of Blackburn and Darwen, I feel the Rovers are becoming less pivotal to the residents. We have an Asian population who love football, but Arsenal, Man U etc. The same can be said for the young white population, walk around Blackburn and Darwen town centres on a Saturday afternoon, non rovers shirts are seriously outnumbered, if we lose our core areas the club is in terminal decline

Just getting into the Boss himself Bruce Springsteen, didnt think id enjoy the Joe Americaness of it all but what can I say, cant listen to dancing in the dark though without thinking of Courtney Cox dancing like a grandma at a wedding!

We talking about Hitler or Campbell?

Just got the Dave Clarke World Service Series, absolutey superb collection of Techno and Electro. Also if you are into your Trance, get the Trance Energy 2007 CD, likes of Marcel Woods, Cosmic Gate etc- top notch! If you are into your Hard Trance, get the Tidy Resonate series, especially 1 to 4. Class. Going Ibiza for the summer on 21st May, back just in time for Tidy Weekender 12! havent been yet but looks pretty messy!

The whole article was a direct copy from the Rovers programme on Saturday. Another BBC exclusive!

Agreed Paul, what exactly can the club do a day before the game? The club would have done their upmost if their was enough time, talk about the modern football fan being spoilt.

I can not believe the bleating I am reading, in 15 years we have had THREE games called off at Ewood, this being the first one due to the cold, it happens, its part of being a football fan, the analagy of the fridge failing at Tesco sums up precisely the problem we have got at Blackburn Rovers, we are not a conveyer belt business where all products are always at maximum efficency, things go wrong you get over it. Those who have made a long journey I feel for you but its not exactly a regular occurence. Get behind the club and any floating fans get back for the rematch.

Great performance from a side that are on the verge of something big. There will be blips (Fulham away etc) as we are building but Hughes has installed a spine through the side that is very hard to get the better of. Frightening levels of fitness and power, increased technical ability and in Friedel, Nelsen, Tugay and Bellamy, 4 players who would walk into nearly every Premiership side. MH has done an amazing job in just 14 months, the dark days are now a fading memory.

Are you lot mad? Little Accy Stanley etc. The North West and our part of it in particular is overflowing with league clubs, Rovers need another league club 5 miles away like a hole in the head. If Accy come up and attract another 1k on the gate that is a potential Rovers fanbase gone, our clubs future is on the line and excuse me for my Scrooge mentality but the days when every town in Lancashire could have a league club and get good attendances are long gone-concentrate on the ROVERS, we need your support!

Tough it was a Carling Cup 4th round game, as that 3rd goal went in I lost it more than I have done for a long time, as did Stuwiliky as he came bounding down 4 rows of seats to me! We were out of the game completely at 2-0 until a Hughes masterstroke with the subs came along. Brilliant comeback and a brilliant atmosphere. Just brilliant.