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Former Blackburn Rovers midfielder Robbie Savage cleared over Strictly Come Dancing pelvic thrusts (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Former Blackburn Rovers midfielder Robbie Savage cleared over Strictly Come Dancing pelvic thrusts
3:33pm Tuesday 24th April 2012 in News
Former Blackburn Rovers player Robbie Savage was a star of Strictly Come Dancing.
FORMER Blackburn Rovers midfielder Robbie Savage has been cleared by a watchdog over his Strictly Come Dancing pelvic thrusts.
His dancing did not breach "generally accepted guidelines" but part of the routine was at "the margins of acceptability", according to the BBC Trust.
The BBC received hundreds of complaints after the former footballer danced with partner Ola Jordan to Jackson's hit Bad last year and finished his routine by leaping on the judge's desk.
The trust's editorial standards committee (ESC) investigated the complaints and concluded the routine "did not breach the guidelines", describing the final hip thrust as "a humorous punctuation rather than something that has sexually explicit overtones".
But two viewers appealed against the ESC decision and said Savage's routine was "inappropriate... during family viewing time".
The committee ruled that some viewers might find it "tasteless and vulgar" but it "did not exceed audience expectations".
Its report, published today, concluded that "the dance routine met 'generally accepted standards', but the final hip thrust on the judges' desk was at the margins of acceptability in a programme appealing to a wide family audience".
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Comments (47)
3:37pm Tue 24 Apr 12
givet82 says...
3:41pm Tue 24 Apr 12
MxMave says...
People with no job, no lives and no brain.
Kill them all and let god sort them out.
3:52pm Tue 24 Apr 12
happycyclist says...
3:52pm Tue 24 Apr 12
useyourhead says...
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I wish that was all I had to trouble my life!
4:08pm Tue 24 Apr 12
woolywords says...
4:12pm Tue 24 Apr 12
BRFC 4 LIFE says...
ROBBIE SAVAGE IS A ROVER IS A ROVER !!!
4:22pm Tue 24 Apr 12
gudari says...
4:23pm Tue 24 Apr 12
merlinrabbit says...
4:30pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
http://ewoodpark.jim
do.com/protests-at-e
wood-park/
4:58pm Tue 24 Apr 12
beardy1967 says...
sorted for next match then . that will be my protest towards the owners .
in other words venkys (suck on this you chicken shaggers)
5:11pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
do.com/protests-at-e
wood-park/
I salute the indefatigability of the protestors. Condemn them. It does not matter. History will absolve them.
Protests at Ewood Park
This is a new page to the web site and like the rest of the web site is an ongoing project.
I can be contacted through the contact page by people who wish to provide information about the Protest Movement.
I would be very interested in some sort of chronological account of events.
For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.
Throughout this time the club have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.
THE MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND RIDDICULE SHOWN BY LARGE SECTIONS OF THE MEDIA TOWARDS THE PROTESTING FANS AND THEIR HEROIC PROTESTS AT EWOOD PARK; MUCH OF WHICH WAS ACHIEVED IN THE TEATH OF POLICE BRUTALITY, STEWARD THUGGERY AND SCAB BEHAVIOUR BY "HAPPY-CLAPPING" SYNTHETIC SUPPORTERS WHO HAVE SHOWN NOTHING BUT RISIBLE POLYESTER PASSION HAVE BEEN THE HALLMARKS OF THIS SMEAR CAMPAIN.
The dignified protestors have been smeared by the Venky's, Kean, the national media and fellow supporters opposed to the protests; these protestors have been blamed for Rovers demise, these slanderous attacks have lacked integrity, dignity and honour.
For their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performaces and bad results and labelled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".
It would appear that only fans of city slicker clubs like Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspurs can protest without such abuse both from within and without.
To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.
The protestors have had to endure much riddicule from their loyal opposites in the national media and from fans around the country - writing and phoning into national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tutiing at the "horrendous" Blackburn Rovers fans.
This is to be expected. BRFC and it's supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.
But what about fellow Rovers ''fans''? The Rovers protestors have been sneered at, scoffed at, mimmicked, mocked and treated with dismissive disdain not only from without - but from within - The Enemy Within - those Rovers ''fans'' that are still - to this today - perfectly happy with The Venky's, Kean and Jerome Anderson and their continued stewardship of the club.
These Rovers ''fans'' post regularly on the Lancashire Telegraph message forums.
Over the past season they have physically assaulted protestors; threatened to report individuals to the police; attempted to have contributers to message forums banned; questioned the mental health of those that are opposed to the current Blackburn Rovers regime and engaged in slander.
These are NAZI tactics that Hitlers Brown Shirts would have been proud of.
Is it little wonder that the Venky's engaged in fascistic behaviour when they bannded banners criticizing them at Ewood Park?
"The Enemy Wihtin" - otherwise knows as - "The Flat-Earthers"; "The Zealots"; "The Thought Police"; "The Happy-Clappers"; "The Plastics"; "The Drones"; "The Kooks" "The Cranks".
It is time to set the record straight.
5:20pm Tue 24 Apr 12
chris283 says...
5:20pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Good call says...
5:24pm Tue 24 Apr 12
did you smash it? says...
.
Get a grip, do you think you have some kind of divine right to Premier League football?
Blackburn Rovers have been in freefall for years, Venkys came in and were guilt of under-estimating the stagnancy at Ewood, the smell of defeat was already in the air.
You gambled with the foreign owners, youl aughed at Burnley fans with your 'Champions League' jibes and Parties when we went down, it has all failed, you are three games away from financial meltdown, deal with it you moaning queers.
Safe in the knowledge thatt we Clarets fans will be watching and laughing from down the M65 in our position of relative financial stability.
5:47pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
Did something similar not happen at the Breezblock due to further cowardly police brutality?
5:55pm Tue 24 Apr 12
riversidefan says...
6:06pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the best run football clubs - not just in English football - but world football. A model football club, a model to emulate and immitate.
This was not a football club that was in free-fall, this was not a football club that was in decline. This was a football club that was steady and progressive.
Blackburn Rovers were a shining example of a well run football club with excellant lines of open communication as well as a symbol of pride to the community it represents - as well as to other football clubs that represent small fan bases.
Blackburn Rovers were regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope.
That was the perception within the game - not so without. Without the game the club is despised by neutral fans and the media alike. Jealous hatred of their success and heratige the cause of much outrage.
:-)
6:13pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
http://ewoodpark.jim
do.com/protests-at-e
wood-park/
Protests at Ewood Park
This is a new page to the web site and like the rest of the web site is an ongoing project.
I can be contacted through the contact page by people who wish to provide information about the Protest Movement.
I would be very interested in some sort of chronological account of events.
Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the best run football clubs - not just in English football - but world football. A model football club, a model to emulate and immitate.
This was not a football club that was in free-fall, this was not a football club that was in decline. This was a football club that was steady and progressive.
Blackburn Rovers were a shining example of a well run football club with excellant lines of open communication as well as a symbol of pride to the community it represents - as well as to other football clubs that represent small fan bases.
Blackburn Rovers were regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope.
That was the perception within the game - not so without. Without the game the club is despised by neutral fans and the media alike. Jealous hatred of their success and heratige the cause of much outrage.
For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.
Throughout this time the club have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.
THE MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND RIDDICULE SHOWN BY LARGE SECTIONS OF THE MEDIA TOWARDS THE PROTESTING FANS AND THEIR HEROIC PROTESTS AT EWOOD PARK; MUCH OF WHICH WAS ACHIEVED IN THE TEATH OF POLICE BRUTALITY, STEWARD THUGGERY AND SCAB BEHAVIOUR BY "HAPPY-CLAPPING" SYNTHETIC SUPPORTERS WHO HAVE SHOWN NOTHING BUT RISIBLE POLYESTER PASSION HAVE BEEN THE HALLMARKS OF THIS SMEAR CAMPAIN.
The dignified protestors have been smeared by the Venky's, Kean, the national media and fellow supporters opposed to the protests; these protestors have been blamed for Rovers demise, these slanderous attacks have lacked integrity, dignity and honour.
For their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performaces and bad results and labelled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".
It would appear that only fans of city slicker clubs like Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspurs can protest without such abuse both from within and without.
To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.
The protestors have had to endure much riddicule from their loyal opposites in the national media and from fans around the country - writing and phoning into national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tutiing at the "horrendous" Blackburn Rovers fans.
This is to be expected. BRFC and it's supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.
But what about fellow Rovers ''fans''? The Rovers protestors have been sneered at, scoffed at, mimmicked, mocked and treated with dismissive disdain not only from without - but from within - The Enemy Within - those Rovers ''fans'' that are still - to this today - perfectly happy with The Venky's, Kean and Jerome Anderson and their continued stewardship of the club.
These Rovers ''fans'' post regularly on the Lancashire Telegraph message forums.
Over the past season they have physically assaulted protestors; threatened to report individuals to the police; attempted to have contributers to message forums banned; questioned the mental health of those that are opposed to the current Blackburn Rovers regime and engaged in slander.
These are NAZI tactics that Hitlers Brown Shirts would have been proud of.
Is it little wonder that the Venky's engaged in fascistic behaviour when they bannded banners criticizing them at Ewood Park?
"The Enemy Wihtin" - otherwise knows as - "The Flat-Earthers"; "The Zealots"; "The Thought Police"; "The Happy-Clappers"; "The Plastics"; "The Drones"; "The Kooks" "The Cranks".
It is time to set the record straight.
6:35pm Tue 24 Apr 12
General Jumbo says...
6:36pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Harwoodian says...
6:38pm Tue 24 Apr 12
beardy1967 says...
7:28pm Tue 24 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
Blackburn is the new Jerusalem.
( no nazis etc welcome )
www.brsit.co.uk
Arte et Labore.
7:59pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Troy McCLur says...
8:23pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
:-)
8:44pm Tue 24 Apr 12
icannotrace says...
8:51pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
10:05pm Tue 24 Apr 12
icannotrace says...
10:26pm Tue 24 Apr 12
nontetleydrinker says...
10:30pm Tue 24 Apr 12
happycyclist says...
10:39pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Iiii1111 says...
11:10pm Tue 24 Apr 12
hunter3062 says...
...the bloody bastards !!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:35pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
How's this for research... 1979-1980 Rovers promoted - B*rnley relegated; 1986-1987 Rovers win Full Members Cup - B*rnley narrowly avoid relegation into non league football last day of the season (ooooooh, nearly);1994-1995 Rovers crowned Champions of England - B*rnley relegated...
... i mean, shy the f*ck do you lot even bother trying to wind us up?
Silly C*nts.
11:40pm Tue 24 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the best run football clubs - not just in English football - but world football. A model football club, a model to emulate and immitate.
This was not a football club that was in free-fall, this was not a football club that was in decline. This was a football club that was steady and progressive.
Blackburn Rovers were a shining example of a well run football club with excellant lines of open communication as well as a symbol of pride to the community it represents - as well as to other football clubs that represent small fan bases.
Blackburn Rovers were regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope.
Stop spouting bitter B*rnley fantasies.
How f*cking tragic that you lot measure your ''success'' by Rovers lack of it.
You know nothing about footy.
12:45am Wed 25 Apr 12
Jimmy Jambone says...
Can you confirm your sources, prove data or are you willing to define any terms?
'Blackburn Rovers were regarded as one of the best run football clubs in world football'.
By whom? Specifically who said this? Are you able to prove it?
'A model to emulate and imitate'.
Really? Where exactly and by whom was this ever said or suggested? Can you prove this?
12:53am Wed 25 Apr 12
Keep Darwen Green says...
1:11am Wed 25 Apr 12
Melblue says...
Get a life - it's a game of football - and change your medication!
6:51am Wed 25 Apr 12
LanghoDAN says...
7:05am Wed 25 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
I saw it first in an article immediately published when we won the Premiership ( don't remember who by ).....and it was just meaning in Footy terms.
Times change......it's more important than that now.
Blackburn is the new Jerusalem.
www.brsit.co.uk
Arte et Labore.
ps. Ewood is the ONLY premiership ground with a multifaith prayer room
7:28am Wed 25 Apr 12
alphajono says...
y not, Aston Villa have been pulled into it now and are in Free fall I cannot see them getting any more points this season with the ginger one in charge. We on the other hand need to keep winning like we did last weekend my six fingered dingle freak and we will avoid the drop, tell me what was the score against Blackpool
8:27am Wed 25 Apr 12
craftandgraft says...
You don't care about that either.
www.brsit.co.uk
Arte et Labore
2:25pm Wed 25 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
... you like KDG are a bunch of whining neurotics.
2:29pm Wed 25 Apr 12
Melanie :-) says...
...just another ''hater'' that despises everything BRFC.
11:28pm Wed 25 Apr 12
hunter3062 says...
9:33am Thu 26 Apr 12
Shear_Brilliance says...
United have been lucky to qualify for Champions League this year marginally winning each game with no outstanding players besides the desperate return of Scholes.
City have had a good 5 or 6 outstanding players and have been unlucky they'll prove their dominance on Monday.
You may have the better team but when was the last time you truly enjoyed a football match?
For us the highs are amazing the lows are horrid but I'd take that than expecting to win every single match.
Your boredom is proven by the fact that you feel the need to come on a Blackburn Rovers messaging board.
When Fergie's gone (no disrespect to Fergie) you'll be an average mid-table team and you're famous(/fickle) 'world wide support' will dissapear.
What can you really expect? Nobody could do what Fergie has done for United with so little investment (for Uniteds standards) and I can put money on the whole country backing United when the Americans screw you over.
Remind you of anybody? Ironic isn't it? If the country had an uproar about the atrosities that is going on at Ewood or rather India something would be done about Venky's and possibly rules would be put in place about ownership which would help with Uniteds inevitable downfall.
I'll be laughing on this day and so will everybody else in the Premier League.
11:10am Thu 26 Apr 12
hunter3062 says...
o funny how the mighty have fallen.see you all at accy stanley in a couple of seasons. have fun i know the burnley fans are..
12:07pm Thu 26 Apr 12
Shear_Brilliance says...
Ok even if Blackburn do end up in administration and fall into football abyss:
- We still have better facilities/academy/s
tadium/larger support which will enable us to bounce back.
- We still have more trophies in our cabinet than you will ever have.
- Let's be honest you will always be the dirty Yorkshire sheep sh*ging, inbred, dingle, six fingered tw*ts that you always have been football doesn't change that.
- If this was to happen to Burnley they wouldn't have a fighting chance in hell of retaining profession/semi-prof
essional status.
- Just face it this is BLACKBURN and this is 6um13y (just in case your actually from Burnley that was not an actual typing error by the way that's how you daft tw*ts spell over there using license plate from passing motorway to learn how to read).
- Burnley fans are laughing seriously? When we see Burnley we cry we feel sorry for your poor kind and take part in a rivalry with you to make you feel better about yourselves because realistically there is light years between Blackburn and Burnley.
12:22pm Thu 26 Apr 12
Shear_Brilliance says...
Finger lickin' chicken chasers that's what you are. (Rather that than Sheep f*cking mother chasers).
Boycott the club. You cannot compare yourself to the titanic as you are sinking as fast as a hot air balloon. (Sorry is this seriously coming from someone in the same country as us?)
I find this funny because I have no comical sense and an imagination of a 2 year old. (Grow up seriously. 'Hunter' enough said)
You will be playing in Accrington Stanley's division in a couple of seasons (Which is impossible because a couple implies 2 the furthest we could mathematically have fallen by then is League 1).
Have fun I know Burnley are (despite the fact they play in a rusted worn down stadium with players that have no potential to reach any higher than mid-table in the Championship and due to a lack of funds and facilities can only be heading in one direction).