From his bio there Arezzo are his 13th club in 14 seasons, which possibly explains Corrado's glum expression. Hope his form recovers though.

Ah - that's fantastic! Thanks for that link, brought it all back... 'Where's all yer Norvern talk nah, Eh?' Hoho

In the latest must-win encounter for freefalling Rovers against Leeds, Souness saw his big names again flop, leading to boos and jeers at the final whistle echoing around Ewood Park which is fast becoming a millstone to the club's hopes of survival. 2003-04 season was one of those years for Rovers - a slow start, a few key injuries, some dodgy defending - and all too soon we were at the wrong end of the table. With only a month of the season to play, we'd just suffered three straight defeats. In fact, I think we may even have been in the relegation zone with Leicester and Wolves, or maybe a place above. At any rate, we needed a win to give us some confidence - the pundits were giving us the usual 'too good to go down?' questions (apart from Lawro, he had probably already relegated us). Next up was a midweek trip to Loftus Road, the temporary home of Fulham. I'd never been there before, but turned up with my brother expecting a scrappy dull game, hopeful that we might get a win (I'm a Rovers optimist rather than a Rovers pessimist). The away part was under a shed-type stand behind one goal, and there were probably 300-400 Blackburn fans there, out of a sparse 14,000 crowd. We soon had something to cheer, as a majestic long diagonal pass from Tugay ( ) found Andy Cole, and he thumped it past Edwin van der Sar. I didn't really see it, as I was watching Souness berate the officials, but I did see Fulham equalise two minutes later, a short range tap in after some goalmouth confusion from our defence. It soon got worse, as right on halftime Collins John scored his second sending us in 2-1 down, and no doubt Souness stripped the paint off the dressing room walls. But after halftime and a plastic cup of appalling tea, Jonathan Douglas scored for us - his first and only for Rovers - to put us level. Just a couple of minutes later, we got a free kick 25yds from the goal were were all behind. Tugay and Amoruso were standing over it, and I turned to my brother and said "It can't be Amoruso. He's ****ing rubbish at free kic.." in the same instant, Amoruso smashed the ball into the top corner of the net - cue lots of jumping around. 3-2 to Rovers. However, this is Blackburn, and a incredible long run by Louise Boa Morte - I think he went 3/4 of the pitch - ended with him sliding one past Friedel and into the corner of the far goal, pulling Fulham back level at 3-3. There was still half an hour to go, but anything could have happened. Thankfully, super Johnny Stead picked up the ball after a defensive error by Zat Knight, and belted one past a despairing van der Sar fifteen minutes later to put us up 4-3, and the small band of Rovers fans went daft once again. Some last-ditch defending, and we held out for the win - probably one of the best games of football I've seen, certainly one of the best Rovers games. Afterwards I went to the toilet and realised while I was drying my hands that they were still shaking. Another fan was standing there with a dazed look, blew out his cheeks and said simply "****ing hell." "Yeah," I replied. Graeme Souness's post match comments - "It was a big win for us, in a cracking game of football. We'll see how important it was at the end of the season. I don't know if it will ease our nerves, but I hope it gives us the confidence to get into safety zone." As it was, we recovered brilliantly and went on something of a run, winning a few of our final games and eventually finishing 15th on 44pts in the year Arsenal went the entire season undefeated. BRFC - Friedel, Neill, Amoruso, Short, Gresko, Andresen, Flitcroft, Tugay, Douglas, Cole, Stead. Fulham - Van der Sar, Volz, Djetou, Goma, Bocanegra, Davis, Legwinski, Knight, Malbranque, John, Boa Morte. Match Report

Also Handbags, we'll be hoping you have a glittering 3rd round win in the FA Cup come January...

It's always tremendous when a team obviously playing for a draw gets undone right at the death. Even sweeter when it involves the Rovers, of course.

Maybe it's time to switch to a 5-man midfield then. Put Savage in front of the centre halves, let Tugay push forward more with another central midfielder offering support (although I can't think of anyone, unless it could be Sav, with Mokoena at the back). Only play one upfront. Negative, but we need to create more from midfield to stop the two forwards standing ten yards apart and heading the ball to each other before losing posession. Charlton were almost as inept as we were, but they put several shots on goal - I think we had one, maybe two at most. I lost count of the numer of times we would give the ball away then they'd give it back, causing both sets of fans to start shouting. As to the person who asked how many Rovers fans were there, apparently 5Live said about 500, but I reckon we had a few more than that - 700/800 maybe.

It was an incredibly frustrating match to watch, both teams gave the ball away a ridiculous amount. To be honest, I'm amazed they didn't get a penalty when Lucas Neill bundled over a striker, maybe he got a foot on the ball - the stadium screen had no replays. It had 0-0 written all over it, but a dodgy wall placement gave them a tap-in free kick right at the death. Forget the score for the moment, it was the performance that was the worst part. When Tugay came on at h-t he lifted the team straight away, Gallacher on the other hand was terrible (although admittedly playing out of position). Nonda and McCarthy were rubbish, especially Nonda. I was laughing when he gave up on that ball, then had a quick sprint, then gave up again and watched it go out for a throw in. At that point I looked at Mark Hughes and he turned from the pitch and thumped the roof of the dugout. The only positives were the centre halves - Ooijer and Henchoz were great I thought, most of Charlton's attacking came down the flanks. They dealt with aerial balls well, and Henchoz particularly put in some great tackles. Newcastle game is a must-win.

Me and my brother will be there, should hopefully be a good game. I'll go for 2-1 to Rovers.

Handball!!

Roma ticket prices for their CL game with Olympiakos, Phil. Prices ranged from €15 - €85. Seems you can get a decent spot for €25 (£16.70).

I wondered what that was about. No place for it in the game, UEFA will hopefully come down hard on the player(s) involved.

YES!!

I think all Rovers fans can relate to that...

Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but according to my TV guide tonight on C5 the Dutch football match is Feyenoord against NAC Breda. Might be a good chance to see what we're up against.

It's about a hundred miles East of Paris, I think. On the way to Strasbourg. Should be able to fly to Paris and get a train over.