Showing as an og on the BBC sadly

Watching Namibia v Mali and it doesn't look like Ryan (number 22) is playing. Mali are leading 1-0 and at least look like they have met each other before the game which cannot be said about Namibia. A horrendous pass by the Namibian left back lead to the goal which the keeper stood and watched go past him at his near post. Mali could easily be three up had shots been on target and not narrowly wide. The Mali physio is something else. Player goes down with a foot injury and this body builder comes on and yanks the foot around through 360 degrees in both directions...

One of them most certainly doesn't.

Nick Harris' 60 minute piece highlighted how the Raos value loyalty so anyone publishing something they dislike had better have good lawyers and rock solid evidence. When it comes to SEM/Kentaro the risks are legal and a different order and magnitude. Little by little stuff comes out but I hugely doubt there will be a revelatory epiphany any time soon. And quite honestly given the natural Blackburn cynicism, some of what transpired is so bizarre, the tellers of the story would be laughed at and accused of fantasising. Certainly "where's the evidence Chaddy" would be disappointed because sources could never be revealed. I always made sure I was never the only person knowing any given titbit of information and was hugely glad I did not live in East Lancs or at an address which could easily be found. I was tailed once in Malta and it made clear to me I had been found- something I have not shared before but it is coming up for nine years ago now. I am as certain as I can be that this was not Venky's doing because of the coincidence of the timing with someone visiting the island connected with UEFA business- fortunately I was close enough then to someone with the MFA to be reassured I hadn't been brought up in their discussions and separately found out that whatever the intent had been, an innocuous low grade debt collector had been hired to do the trace and intercept on me... I initially was taken aback because homelessness and begging are illegal in Malta and for a moment I thought I was back in London when the dishevelled man approached me in the street with both hands palm up and empty.

My mistake, I thought he'd played and scored against us in another game.

Hopefully we can watch Scotland and Wales in the semi finals. At least England can't get relegated.

5 Liverpool players have suffered injury or illness during this international break. Getting concerned they may recall Harvey in January.

Michael Mifsud has just announced his retirement from football aged 38. Malta's finest always scored against Rovers as I recall..

Kaminski tested positive last Sunday didn't he. Should come out of quarantine next Friday if he remains asymptomatic.

There was a ? over the original source of some of the funds to buy Rovers. Channel 4 got to the bottom of this but couldn't get it past their legal department for a Despatches programme. I am in no doubt that all the funds injected since the acquisition have come from Venky's or been caused to come from Venky's in the case of the small State Bank of India overdraft. The Formica deal was: He was transferred from a little club in Argentina to Newell Old Boys who sold him to Red Star Belgrade (aka the Serbian mafia club) who then sold him to Kentaro to loan to Rovers. The PL persisted in asking questions until they said no to registering Formica as a Rovers player. All that had to be unpicked to make it a straightforward sale from Newell Old Boys to Rovers with even the club he started with having to be squared away as well.. The creating, unpicking and replacement of this mess was what kept Anderson occupied at Brockhall in January 2011.

Not going to make it that easy for you... https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48906359 As for evidence. OMG. He failed the Premier League's fit and proper so they might have something if you ask them Chaddy. I and others heard from different sources that some highly unorthodox means were used to shut this up.

Did you listen to the podcast?- it was all explained.

Agreed, the club has Rothwell, Johnson, Travis, Buckley, even JRC, Trybull if they extend him- all of whom are better options and should be looking for much better when awarding contracts next summer. But Corry would be a great signing for a newly promoted or bottom half Championship club looking to consolidate their place.

The wage cap makes it incredibly difficult to do loans to Leagues 1 and 2 now. Hopefully Brennan doesn't get injured playing against clod hoppers at that level and that his skills really shine through. He has consistently stood out in the under 23 games I have seen him in and he will leave a big gap in that squad.

Football editor of the Mail on Sunday.

It was posted on this message board nine years ago. I believe the guy who astonishingly was a suitor for Bolton and has disappeared from view again.

With regards to current agent affiliations. Under FA rules, agents are not allowed to 1)control or run football clubs 2)have third party player ownership or 3) have formal or informal contractual ties with other agents. You heard Nick Harris describe factually what happened about 1 and 2. Let me suggest it is difficult to find any agent who was in the football business five or more years ago who was independent of Jerome Anderson unless one of the other really big agents.

Nick Harris was out of order in the ambiguity he allowed in that comment. The fans en mass have been very clear in admirably not being racist. There had been some very nasty extremist politically motivated elements involved when other potential Asian/Middle Eastern buyers had emerged much earlier. I don't believe those people had any particular affiliation with Rovers and definitely none with any of the fans' organisations. I have heard rumours although seen no evidence to support them that Anderson had engaged with the far right himself when working to clear other potential suitors for Rovers out of the way. There were other extremely dirty tricks engaged in before Venky's were brought into the picture.

This. Glen and the team were superb in the way they handled it and took a huge amount of unfounded undeserved flak from other supporters.

My take aways: Kentaro having the contract to completely run Rovers on the day of the takeover including transfers is the root of all the problems. Podcast didn't make much of having an agent run the club was completely against PL, FA, UEFA and FIFA rules. Didn't say that Kentaro/SEM/Anderson took a deal fee from both Venky's and the Trust of nearly £5m each side. Confirmed the Venky's wealth from their businesses of £2bn ten years ago even without including their property holdings. The publicly quoted chicken company is a small part of their business empire- less than 10%. Didn't know the FA opened an inquiry during John Williams' time- obviously it didn't go anywhere. The FA were utterly un co-operative with the fans too. Perhaps because Kentaro at the time had the FA Marketing contract for the England team and organised that weird friendly against Brazil played in the Gulf. Didn't mention the Red Star Belgrade angle in the reformulated Formica deal. There were details of the audit in Spring 2011 which I wasn't previously aware of but I did know Anderson/Kentaro became persona non grata about that time. Anderson took to ringing anyone he thought might have influence to try and get himself back in and he did so that Autumn through Balaji who surprisingly gets very little mention in the podcast. Mrs D ran the transfers in the summer of 2012 and made a £20m profit if I remember correctly. The podcast skated around how evil Steve Kean was and ignored the role of Paul Agnew before 2012. It didn't go into the history of Kentaro's involvement nor the other people inside Kentaro nor the Brunei registered company set-up to be the vehicle to acquire Rovers nor the fact the Venky's weren't Anderson's first choice as buyers... I was one of the three fans who went to Westminster- we went on to see the Minister of Sport. Also had a meeting with the Chief Exec of the Premier League. Nick didn't touch any of the extensive material he has he might get sued for if he made public which I wondered if he might have at least alluded to. Not related to Venky's but there is karma because Anderson has now been in a truly horrific situation for the past four years.

And knocked out of the Cup with ease.

Starting at Luton is the phrase he missed off...

Corry Evans has been at Rovers for 7.5 years making 197 appearances and scoring 4 goals. This makes him the longest serving current player does it not? The injuries he has suffered have blighted his career but they have not been all in the same place so it is unfair to describe him as made of glass. A season ending groin tear, broken toe, massive head injury. The guy has put his body on the line for the club. This is why I had a go. As a footballer he is not someone who is going to excite the fan base but as a defensive midfielder he does his job more often than not and relies on others around him to provide the creative flair. If this is a provocative post, it is not me who has the problem.

Any covid/ injury news on the long list of players who should be back for this one?

Very much needed saying. Quite a few posts on this thread are simply disgraceful.