I'm not around for the home game, Cyprus booked many moons ago, but I'd certainly be in the darwen end for this one and not because I'm considering a 1 man assault over no mans land into the burnley fans. ****I recall being told a story about a lad that used to drink in the Clifton arms and later worked in the Jubilee that jumped the fence in the corner of the riverside late 70’s, he ran alone into the burnley fans in the darwen end, they backed off, must have thought he was carrying a grenade! Then he was saved by the police, fined and they had a whip round in the pub to pay his fine**** The atmosphere in the darwen end section for this game will be excellent and I’d give up my season ticket and buy a darwen end ticket just to be close to the away fans. I wonder how many more would do the same, in fact I’m now canceling the holiday to Cyprus, Debs calling the travel agent!

Listened to the new Arctic Monkeys album on Monday, not bad at all, but very different from the other two. Collaboration from Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age fame. Read a review recently: "No foot tapping tunes this time, which should get rid of the chavs that seem to attached themselves to the band"

Remember the game well, our tactics that night: Get the ball wide to Miller who’ll cross the ball over for 5.6” Simon Garner to challenge in the air against the 6.2” beast of a man called Micky Droy…… As a side issue to this, a mate of my dads, who’d been supporting Rovers home and away since the early 60’s, got a kicking of the Boro fans the Saturday before. He was admitted to hospital, but signed himself out on the Tuesday for the Palace game. He hobbled down to Ewood with his foot in plaster to watch the Mickey Droy show and swore never to go again, and he never did!

Just watched Neil Young play Glastonbury from last night and he was fantastic, we also got a mention as he finished with "A day in the life" Why don't we have that as a song on the terraces?

Got to say that I think Barton has been badly treated in relation to the Alonso sending off. Yes he went right through him, but would the media have jumped on this if it hadn't been Barton? He’s also alleged to have told Shearer that he has no idea about tactics or players, which is a tad worse that the sending off in my book. Sadly as a club we’re in the market for such players, if we can get Barton back to his form of a few seasons ago he’d be a good asset. Whilst I still believe Diouf is the devil, Barton isn’t far behind him in my book and not someone we’d chose to play for the club, but that’s the market we find ourselves in becuase we're skint.

I had no such trouble

Yes I agree SG, never been in the Blackburn end when I was as full as that. The celebration when we scored is something you can only dream about these days. Happy days, but nowhere near as successful as today, says allot really.

Just brightened up my day

Cabin End? I recall pom-poms being given out in the Blacknurn end, NEVER TOOK ANY THOUGH United had 5-6k in the Darwen end and 2k in the enclosure, so gate could have been right. But I know what you mean about the riverside.

God its like yesterday, and I still have the ticket somewhere also. Great Stuff

At the time I went, I couldn't afford to pay for your family as well as mine!

I don't mind paying for good food but that place is disgracefully over priced. Plenty of better places at a fraction of the price.

Best of the bunch in no particular order: Thyme Three fishes (until yesterday when i had lancs hotpot and it was poor) Olive press Bolton Fence gate San Carlo manchester Sylhet Bangla Restaurant Langho Anaz best indian in Darwen! Sakura Teppenyaki Preston was great and different

Great memories remember it like it was yesterday, although looking at it now it was brutal from our boys.

Went to see the cribs last night at Manchester academy, very good, but the highlight of the evening was them being joined on stage by Johnny Marr and doing The Smiths classic Panic. Saw Richard hawley on Friday night in Hebdon Bridge, 200 seater picture house with no ale. Still the gig was good.

Not a Garner link but a look at the old Ewood even though we get beat.

They're very much in the Ashley Cole mould of out of touch with genuine fans, I could start a list but I'll not bother. I can hardly bring myself to support England because of the three of them

Here we have Cole whose sole motivation is money, did a TV series visiting his old haunts and meeting his old mates in a Bentley continental, how far detracted from reality can the guy be? He's a disgusting individual who deserves nothing, but unfortunately has everything. God I hate Ashley Cole, and Lampard and Terry

By the way, this is Debs not GAV! I can't be bothered logging out and in again as me.

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy recommended by Debs A brief description: I've read it. I thought it was fantastic although very disturbing. I've read most of Cormac McCarthy's books and this one is very different, being set in a post apocolyptic world. Some of the themes and grittiness are similar to his earlier books, as is his writing style, which I love but I know it's not to everyone's taste +++ This is a story about a father and his child travelling along a road searching for some sort of better world in a burning post apocolyptic USA. There is no explaination in the book about what caused the end of the world, and suprisingly that doesn't matter. The story focuses on the relationship between the two of them and particularly the father's desire to protect his son both physically and morally from other desperate survivors driven to gruesome acts to stay alive. I found it a very disturbing and thought provoking book.

If memory serves me correctly it was 4k at Stoke that day. The following at Stoke that ended the unbeaten run of 20+ games was massive, many Rovers fans locked out that day and I DIDN'T GO........ decided to go to Plymouth instead........Reports said 5-6k but I wasn't there, SG194??????

Yours if memory serves me correctly Or maybe I was stood on the big step towards the riverside, who remembers the big step, I know Debs and Giddygoat do.

Don't think I can ever remember the Blackburn end being as full as it was for the Villa match, wonderful scenes and great memories. My VHS tape snapped some years ago, I had all this stuff, great to see it again.

Yes agreed and a few words from John Bond thrown in also

Still not as good as we're seeing currently, but we did see some good football with Duff, Dunn and Jansen in full flow. Look at the players we have now, some of them would grace any top four side without any problem, but we have them at ewood and for that we should be grateful.