Fans group granted government meeting (From Lancashire Telegraph)

hope this a start

Well done Jack. Normally I have ago at MP's using their position to tackle issues that affect their own personal lives. On this occasion I will turn a blind eye. Well done to Graham Jones too. As the mafia say its nice to have powerful friends.

The government allowed Cadbury to be bought out by foreign owners , asset stripped and jobs lost so I hardly expect any joy here i'm afraid.

so they will be meeting in regents park zoo presumably so the 6 fingered jibb monkeys can feel at home .

so they will be meeting in regents park zoo presumably so the 6 fingered jibb monkeys can feel at home .

Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Thses meetings will probably come to nothing, it's a case of looking like they may do something and then do nothing. As for the Premier League why should they care what happens to Blackburn Rovers, after all they gave Venkeys their seal of approval as fit and proper to run a football club.
Who decides which people are fit and proper to run the Premier League?

davemal wrote:
Thses meetings will probably come to nothing, it's a case of looking like they may do something and then do nothing. As for the Premier League why should they care what happens to Blackburn Rovers, after all they gave Venkeys their seal of approval as fit and proper to run a football club. Who decides which people are fit and proper to run the Premier League?

...the very fact that the BRFC Action Group have got this far and in fact have been officially endorsed as an official supporters group by the F.A. shows that they are moving in the right direction what ever happens next month.

French Rover wrote:
Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Sounds about right - Rovers fans turning up to a remote working mens club inhabited by old folk and 'turning it over'.
Rovers all over is that - the bravest - PMSL.

keep it up guys.

did you smash it? wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Sounds about right - Rovers fans turning up to a remote working mens club inhabited by old folk and 'turning it over'.
Rovers all over is that - the bravest - PMSL.

As opposed to the lionhearted Bonleh fan who chucked a coin at the players at a youth cup match.

Bravest dingle ever.

Ted Maul wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Sounds about right - Rovers fans turning up to a remote working mens club inhabited by old folk and 'turning it over'.
Rovers all over is that - the bravest - PMSL.

As opposed to the lionhearted Bonleh fan who chucked a coin at the players at a youth cup match.

Bravest dingle ever.

Agreed - the guy who threw the coin is scum pure and simple

Keep the constant pressure on the asset strippers from the third world, glasgow & india

Once again these deluded grintwums and their MP are appealing to the wrong people!! they need to talk to the Football League. They obviously haven't heard that woevers have been relegated from the premiersh*t!!! Do they not read the papers??

He's only a poor little grintwum,
his scarf is all tattered and torn,
and when he leaves Turf Moor next season,
he'll wish that he'd never been born!!!!!!

gudari wrote:
He's only a poor little grintwum,
his scarf is all tattered and torn,
and when he leaves Turf Moor next season,
he'll wish that he'd never been born!!!!!!

hi IRA Dug, still not got the plums to explain your username?

Thought not, silly little dingle terrorist sympathiser.

The other Bonleh fans on these pages must be soooo proud of you!

Ted Maul wrote:

gudari wrote:
He's only a poor little grintwum,
his scarf is all tattered and torn,
and when he leaves Turf Moor next season,
he'll wish that he'd never been born!!!!!!

hi IRA Dug, still not got the plums to explain your username?

Thought not, silly little dingle terrorist sympathiser.

The other Bonleh fans on these pages must be soooo proud of you!

Hi Ted,
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Notice that your username is an anagram of your sexual preferences:
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Lad Mute
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Just how you like them eh? unable to talk afterwards?

did you smash it? wrote:

Ted Maul wrote:

gudari wrote:
He's only a poor little grintwum,
his scarf is all tattered and torn,
and when he leaves Turf Moor next season,
he'll wish that he'd never been born!!!!!!

hi IRA Dug, still not got the plums to explain your username?

Thought not, silly little dingle terrorist sympathiser.

The other Bonleh fans on these pages must be soooo proud of you!

Hi Ted,
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Notice that your username is an anagram of your sexual preferences:
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Lad Mute
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Just how you like them eh? unable to talk afterwards?

aw bless, the ickle try hard keyboard warrior us sticking up for his ickle English hating cockpal!

Says all I need to know about you!

Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

did you smash it? wrote:

Ted Maul wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Sounds about right - Rovers fans turning up to a remote working mens club inhabited by old folk and 'turning it over'.
Rovers all over is that - the bravest - PMSL.

As opposed to the lionhearted Bonleh fan who chucked a coin at the players at a youth cup match.

Bravest dingle ever.

Agreed - the guy who threw the coin is scum pure and simple

Is your name in reference to you trying to find the guy who made you permenantly ugly?

did you smash it? wrote:
Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

Calm down princess, shouldn't you be wronging yourself off over your Danny Dyer collection?

Ted Maul wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

Calm down princess, shouldn't you be wronging yourself off over your Danny Dyer collection?

To be fair Shi Ted, Human Traffic is a quality film....

did you smash it? wrote:

Ted Maul wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

Calm down princess, shouldn't you be wronging yourself off over your Danny Dyer collection?

To be fair Shi Ted, Human Traffic is a quality film....

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

did you smash it? wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Sounds about right - Rovers fans turning up to a remote working mens club inhabited by old folk and 'turning it over'.
Rovers all over is that - the bravest - PMSL.

How about taking four sides of Turd Moor Boxing Day 1977 or taking Turd Moor apart - brick by brick with Celtic fans in 1978 or smashing you to bits in the Darwen End 1971 or trashing your train in 1988?

did you smash it? wrote:

Ted Maul wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Sounds about right - Rovers fans turning up to a remote working mens club inhabited by old folk and 'turning it over'.
Rovers all over is that - the bravest - PMSL.

As opposed to the lionhearted Bonleh fan who chucked a coin at the players at a youth cup match.

Bravest dingle ever.

Agreed - the guy who threw the coin is scum pure and simple

All B*rnley do is throw things from the safety of police cordons and perimeter fencing - have a long history of that. Ask Gennoe and Garner.

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Sounds about right - Rovers fans turning up to a remote working mens club inhabited by old folk and 'turning it over'.
Rovers all over is that - the bravest - PMSL.

How about taking four sides of Turd Moor Boxing Day 1977 or taking Turd Moor apart - brick by brick with Celtic fans in 1978 or smashing you to bits in the Darwen End 1971 or trashing your train in 1988?

Yeah because that Boxing Day myth is just that - a myth, it never happened - you had a typically decent following for a derby, but God knows where you get the notion that you had all four ends - sort yourself out man, I would say you brought 5k maximum (And that is being generous) - You seem to have perpetuated the myth and it has snowballed, behave yourself.
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There were no Rovers fans with the Celtic fans in 1978 - you simply wouldn't have dared, that is another horsesh1t story dreamed up by you simpletons.
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Can't comment on the 1971 story, but what train in 1988? And by the way, how brave of you to brick a train full of fans.
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No mention of 1983 then - home and away where you got smashed all over town?
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Silly Rovers fans

did you smash it? wrote:

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

French Rover wrote:
Bankhall? Isn't there a scruffy miners club there that Rovers fans once turned over and smashed-up before a game at the Turd?

Sounds about right - Rovers fans turning up to a remote working mens club inhabited by old folk and 'turning it over'.
Rovers all over is that - the bravest - PMSL.

How about taking four sides of Turd Moor Boxing Day 1977 or taking Turd Moor apart - brick by brick with Celtic fans in 1978 or smashing you to bits in the Darwen End 1971 or trashing your train in 1988?

Yeah because that Boxing Day myth is just that - a myth, it never happened - you had a typically decent following for a derby, but God knows where you get the notion that you had all four ends - sort yourself out man, I would say you brought 5k maximum (And that is being generous) - You seem to have perpetuated the myth and it has snowballed, behave yourself.
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There were no Rovers fans with the Celtic fans in 1978 - you simply wouldn't have dared, that is another horsesh1t story dreamed up by you simpletons.
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Can't comment on the 1971 story, but what train in 1988? And by the way, how brave of you to brick a train full of fans.
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No mention of 1983 then - home and away where you got smashed all over town?
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Silly Rovers fans

hISTORICALLY, A VERY ACCURATE ARTICLE AT:


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Ewood Park: Crowd Trouble - Background, Racism, Burnley Rivalry, Blackburn Youth and the Future.

Background.
Crowd trouble at football matches are far from a modern phenomenon. Blackburn Rovers have a number of local Lancashire rivalries, due to being the most successful of all the town clubs in Lancashire and England and due to the relative proximity of numerous other town clubs such as Burnley, Preston North End, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic, along with Lancashire city clubs such as Liverpool, Everton, Manchester United and Manchester City.

The local rivalry between Blackburn Rovers and Preston North End goes back over one hundred years. In 1888 Preston refused to play a match against Blackburn due to their reception by the Blackburn fans. Whether this was at Ewood Park or not is unclear as Rovers did not take up permanent residence at Ewood Park until 1890.

On Christmas Day 1890 during Rovers first season at Ewood Park, Blackburn Rovers played local rivals Darwen. Rovers were due to play Wolverhampton Wandereres the following day and so fielded a weakened team. This infuriated the fans, particularly as ticket prices had been increased for the game. When the Darwen team appeared, the fans urged them to leave the pitch, which they did, later re-emerging with their second eleven. Eventually, Blackburn and Darwen fans invaded the pitch, pulling up the goal posts and threatening to wreck the press box. The police intervened and finally managed to control the situation.

Lancashire derbies can always be heated affairs and on 27.11.1926, during a Division 1 fixture, Blackburn Rovers v Manchester United saw ugly scenes of crowd trouble immediately after the final whistle was blown. Rovers player, 'our' Sid Puddefoot was seen by many Rovers fans to be lying on the ground after the final whistle. The Rovers fans believed he had been hit by a United player and began a pitch invasion. This led to a dangerous situation in which the Manchester United players were surrounded by hundreds of angry Rovers fans. The police intervened for the safety of the players and managed to clear a path to the player’s tunnel. However, hundreds of Rovers fans remained on the pitch and many efforts were made to attack the United players. Once inside their changing room, the United players locked the door in fear. Soon after, the police managed to disperse the crowd. Rovers won the game 2-1.

Blackburn Rovers did have an active hooligan following in the late 1960's to the late 1970's, seeing the town of Blackburn and Ewood Park develop a particularly fearsome reputation. From the mid 1960's to the late 1970's Rovers began to fall into decline, eventually being relegated to Division 3 at the end of the 1970-1971 season for the first time in their history, remaining there until promotion as Division 3 champions during their centenary year at the end of the 1974-1975 season. From the late 1970's onwards, Ewood Park began to lose its fearsome reputation.

As early as 1963 there were reports in the national media of fighting between Blackburn and Liverpool fans at Ewood Park. From the late 1960's to the early 1970's, Blackburn's hooligan following was led mainly by Hells Angel's from Darwen. In the 1970's, skin head gangs from the Little Harwood, Queens Park and Audley areas of Blackburn began to follow the club. During this period, there were hooligan mobs in the Darwen End, Blackburn End and Riverside terrace which occasionally resulted in serious out breaks of crowd trouble with Manchester City, Bolton Wanderers and Burnley hooligans both inside and outside Ewood Park.

Other early influential hooligan mobs that followed Blackburn Rovers came from the Mill Hill and Higher Croft areas of Blackburn, known as the Mill Hill Mob and H Division. However, there were often battles between these two rival gangs in Blackburn town centre.

During a game against London club Queens Park Rangers, 17.09.1969 a Rovers fan ran onto the pitch from the Blackburn End and attacked the Queens Park Rangers Goal Keeper. He avoided police detection but was arrested some weeks later. Although incidences of individual fans encroaching the Ewood Park field of play and attacking or attempting to attack players, match officials or opposing fans is rare, this kind of incident has been known to happen; a fan ran on the pitch to attack
the Burnley Goal Keeper in a fixture at Ewood Park during the 1965-1966 season before being intercepted and a fan ran onto the pitch, again from the Riverside Stand to remonstrate with the referee during a 1996-1997 season fixture. However, the QPR Goal Keeper attack is interesting, as it was one of the first, some believe to be the first incident in English football, were a fan ran onto the pitch and physically assaulted a player. Rovers lost the game 0-1.

Racism.
The National Front had a presence at Ewood Park from the 1970's to the mid 1980's. The NF youth paper, ‘Bulldog’ was also occasionally on sale outside Ewood Park. One of the things that perhaps acted as the glue that that bound together hooligan mobs/organised casual'sfirms in the area was the NF. On one occasion in 1978, the target of racist abuse at Ewood Park was a Crystal Palace player Vince Hilaire, the first established black players in English football, who was given a volley of monkey chants and foul abuse coupled with National Front support which indicated that there was something more sinister taking place

During the Manchester City game at Ewood Park on 02.03.1985 which ended 0-1 loss for Rovers, Alex Williams the Manchester City Goal Keeper, was showered with bananas, apples, monkey chants and other racist abuse at the beginning of the second half as he ran towards the Blackburn End to take up position in City's goal. Williams was awarded the MBE in the 2002 New Years Honours list for his services to young people.

A very large Union Flag with, "BLACKBURN NF" emblazoned along the middle was also highlighted on national TV news in the mid 1980's during a news report on racism at England matches. This kind of menace was certainly not uncommon at football grounds in England at the time and Ewood Park in the late 1970s and early-mid 1980s was no different, it went with the experience of attending games at Ewood Park.

The Burnley Rivalry.
Both Blackburn Rovers and Burnley have established a rivalry older than the likes of Everton and Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester City, Newcastle United and Sunderland and Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers.

The pre-League rivalry sratred in 1882 when Burnley were threashed 0 - 10 by Blackburn Rovers.

The League rivalry started in 1888, the year the Football League was formed. It consisted of six clubs from Lancashire : Blackburn Rovers, Burnley, Preston North End, Accrington, Bolton Wanderers and Everton and six from the Midlands: Aston Villa, Derby County, Nott's County, Stoke, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Therefore, when the towns and valleys of Lancashire played host to a revolution in sporting competition and the birth of league football, Blackburn Rovers and Burnley were both founding members of The Football League

The two East Lancashire towns of Blackburn and Burnley also played a key role in Britain’s industrial revolution at the end of the 19th century. Blackburn became one of the firstindustrialised towns in the world, while Burnley became one of the biggest producers of cotton in the world.

It is widely rumoured among Burnley fans that the animosity began in the 1890s, after Blackburn Rovers complained to the Football League about Burnley's illegal number of Scottish players. It is also rumoured that Blackburn won a large cotton contract ahead of Burnley meaning employment and wages in Blackburn and unemployment and semi-starvation in Burnley. This is not just a football rivalry, it is a town rivalry and it is ancient.

Anyone who disputes the antagonism surrounding this fixture should speak to former Blackburn striker Simon Garner. Garner once emerged from the Turf Moor dressing room having scored the winner only to be confronted by a Burnley fan brandishing a meat cleaver and asking where he was. One has to question why the Burnley fan did not recognise Simon Garner; posturing? Bluster? A meaningless gesture of bitterness and defiance? Who knows. Maybe read the autobiography of Stan Ternent, the former Burnley manager. Ternant remembers Accrington, the border town between Blackburn and Burnley, being “a Berlin wall of terraced houses, where petty comments can spark full-scale riots”.

Some feel that the rivalry between Blackburn and Burnley used to be lively but good natured with some cracking banter up until Rovers knocked Burnley out the FA Cup thus preventing a Burnley League and Cup Double in 1960.

In the 1959-60 season, when Burnley won the League Championship, Rovers played Burnley at Turf Moor in the 6th Round of the FA Cup. 0-0 at Half Time. Burnley scored 3 goals in a 15 minute period early in the 2nd half. Rovers were awarded a penalty and Blackburn boy Brian Douglas put the penalty away. Three min's later, Peter Dobbing scored a 25 yarder. With 4 min's remaining, MacGrath scored for Rovers sending their huge away following ballistic.

The replay at Ewood Park was played in front of another full house; Rovers totally outplayed Burnley to win 2-0 and went all the way to Wembley.
In 1971 Burnley fans arrived early at Ewood Park for a "friendly" fixture and hurried into the Darwen End. At this time the terracing at Ewood Park was un-sectioned from the Blackburn End all the way round to the Darwen End. At half-time the fans behind the goal would sometimes exchange ends.

For the 1971 "friendly" Burnley fixture, the Police forced some Rovers fans to enter the Blackburn End and then would not let them past the wall barrier next to Riverside terracing. With Rovers winning 2-0, Terry Eccles, a player who had progressed through Rovers youth ranks scoring both goals, the Blackburn End suddenly started to empty of a large mob of fans. They climbed the wall separating the Blackburn End from the Riverside terrace and made their way along The Riverside towards the Darwen End where the Burnley fans were standing.

Shortly later crowd trouble broke out in the Darwen End as the Blackburn End mob entered the Darwen End along with Rovers mobs from The Riverside joining in; fighting broke out with those Burnley fans that had not run out of the far side of the Darwen End. Eventually, the Burnley fans were routed and thrown over the wall at front of the Darwen End, which also collapsed. Also for this fixture, Rovers lads went in one's and two's into the middle of the Burnley fans in the Darwen End before the start of the game, approximately 30 then joined together as soon as the final whistle went before launching a surprising attack on the Burnley fans. The police later escorted Rovers fans out of the Darwen End and towards the Blackburn End. This incident made the front page of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph for several days.

Memories of a strong Rovers away support taking four sides of Turf Moor during a Boxing Day 1977 fixture after drinking heavily in Burnley town centre and Turf Moor pubs also burned in the collective memory of the Burnley support.

Boxing Day 1977, Burnley v Rovers, Turf Moor: Cricket Field Stand (Away End) gates shut at 1:15 - 1:30pm. The gatemen and police on the outside were extremely anxious as there were a lot of angry Rovers fans left outside to deal with. Given the Cricket Field stand was all ticket, that left 1.5 hours of Rovers fans on Boxing Day arriving and heading for the Burnley home sections.

On one half of Turf Moor’s Longside Stand (Home stand), it is estimated that there were approximately: 6 - 7,000 Rovers fans; the Open End had approximately 4,000 Rovers fans packed in; in the Bob Lord Stand there were approximately 250 Rovers fans and in the Cricket Field Stand: 5,500 Rovers fans. Rovers fans where all over Turf Moor.

Estimates of Rovers Away following that day vary from 11,000 – 15,000. It was Burnley’s biggest gate for fifty years and the biggest ever Away following between the two clubs before or since.

The Open End erupted when Rovers scored their first goal with the Rovers fans wildly celebrating. The police then made a barrier between the Open End and the home section of the Longside Stand. Rovers were in the top two of Division 2 at the time. The game itself was played out in an electric atmosphere created by Rovers away following, with Rovers building up a 0-3 lead in the first half which could have been 0-4 but for a brilliant penalty save by Stevenson. Burnley then forced their way back with goals by Noble and Ingham, leaving Rovers clinging on for a 2 - 3 win, in seven minutes of injury time.

Outside the ground there were large scale disturbances involving many Rovers fans in running fights with Burnley fans and the police along with their dogs. Rovers’ fans scattered in packs all over the Burnley town centre and on the main roads out of Burnley back to Accrington and Blackburn. These were serious disturbances caused by the inadequate policing of an admittedly massive Rovers away following.

For the return fixture on 27.03.1978, Burnley did not bring that many to Ewood Park; approximately 5,000. There were disturbances in Blackburn town centre and more seriously after the game as a big Burnley contingent travelling by train were confronted by a Blackburn End/Riverside group on the way back to Mill Hill train station. Blackburn lost the game 0 – 1.

In the late 1960's to late 1970's Ewood Park had a bad reputation for violence. The Rovers hooligans felt that they could take most grounds and most crews. Millwall’s notorious hooligans were beaten in 1977 at Ewood Park and admit it in an F-Troop documentary that can be seen on You Tube.

Memories of Turf Moor being ‘taken’ from all four corners by Celtic and Rovers hooligans during a Burnley versus Celtic, Anglo-Scottish Cup match on 12.09.1978 still lingered too. There were 15,000 Burnley fans packed into Turf Moor with 10,000 Celtic and Rovers fans for the game. The main trouble started twelve minutes from the end of the game. The Celtic/Rovers fans in the away section of the Longside terrace broke through railings that had been used to create a ‘no-man’s land’ and began to take Turf Moor apart. Many claim to have never seen anything like it before or since and it is regarded by some hooligans from that era to be the quickest they have ever seen an entire away ground being ‘taken’.

It was incidents like the above, coupled with Rovers results on the pitch that would lead to a near terminal decline of Burnley FC and in turn to individual and small scale acts of vindictiveness by Burnley fans at Ewood Park and Turf Moor in the first part of the 1980's. As former Rovers Goal Keeper, the mild mannered Terry Gennoe said, “I don't know how far back the rivalry goes and I don't know if it's more than just the closeness of the two towns but it's like gang warfare. It's been known for cars to be turned over and set on fire. There was the Lancs-Manx Cup game. The Blackburn bus was parked outside Turf Moor and a chunk of concrete came crashing through the window. It was a pre-season tournament.”

During the 1979-1980 season, Rovers were promoted from Division 3 - while Burnley were relegated to Division 3.

During the 1994-1995 season, Rovers won the Premier League title and were crowned Champions of England - while Burnley were relegated to Division 3.

On 04.04.1983 during a Blackburn Rovers v Burnley Division 2 fixture, protected by the police and the recently erected perimeter fencing, two or three Burnley fans clambered onto the Darwen End roof, ripped 3 or 4 tiles off it, struggling to throw them onto the pitch and instead hitting their own supporters, huddled behind the goal. This was done in attempt to get the game abandoned. The game was stopped and the Burnley manager came onto the pitch to address the Burnley fans in an attempt to instill some calm. Order was restored and the game restarted.

Simon Garner stood to take a penalty and a brick was thrown from the Burnley fans that landed at his feet. Garner scored from the penalty. A coin and a whisky bottle were also thrown at Terry Gennoe.

A solitary Burnley fan had also taken the care to weld together two darts so that the weapon had a double-headed spike. It was smuggled into Ewood Park and hurled into the Blackburn Rovers penalty area. This particularly cowardly individual attack from the terraces on a lone Goal Keeper came when Terry Gennoe was the goalkeeper in a Blackburn Rovers side inflicting a defeat on Burnley that would help send them down from the Division 2 and into a spiral of decline whereby they would not play Blackburn Rovers again competitively in the league for 17 years.

This game was to be remembered by the Burnley fans for many years, developing into a legendary mythological totem around which these supporters could rally as their club descended into near oblivion, from which it has never fully recovered.

The game ending in a win for Blackburn Rovers; to the delight of the jubilant Rovers fans thoroughly enjoying another victory of their oldest foe, taking great pleasure in significantly contributing to Burnley's downfall and eventual demise that would last for more than two decades, though of course no one at the time realised just how significant that particular defeat at Ewood Park would be. Rovers won the game 2-1.

On 22.05.1991, when Burnley lost a Fourth Division play-off semi-final to Torquay United and were consigned to another season of fighting for their league status, and financial survival as a result, a plane flew over Turf Moor carrying a banner that read, "Staying down forever luv Rovers Ha Ha Ha". Rovers’ fans also had T-shirt printed with an image of the plane and its banner with the legend, “Blackburn Rovers flying squad” emblazoned underneath.

Simon Garner, Blackburn Rovers legend and record goal scorer, is rumored to have been the money behind the prank that rubbed Burnley noses in the dirt. Garner scored in every game he ever played against Burnley. In Simon Garners book, “There's Only One Simon Garner: An Autobiography”, he says say that contrary to popular rumour, he was not wearing a Rovers shirt under his WBA shirt when he scored against Burnley; Garner is supposed to have lifted his WBA shirt to kiss it, revealing a Rovers shirt beneath. Garner moved to WBA in 1992 after twenty four loyal years as a Rovers lead scorer.

Burnley's response came when Blackburn were beaten in Europe by part-timers Trelleborgs in 1994. A Burnley fan went to the boundary of Burnley and put up signs, "Twinned with Trelleborgs". He then rang the Blackburn local paper in mock outrage. This helped to make it front page news – otherwise, no one in Blackburn would really have heard of it, - or cared.

4,000 Rovers fans made the trip to Turf Moor on 08.08.1989 for a pre-season Lancashire Manx Cup game. Rovers won the game 0 – 2, taunting the Burnley fans throughout the game with a chant the reverberated along The Longside, “Where the **** are Suicide?!” In reference to Burnley’s organized hooligan firm, Burnley Suicide Squad.

Burnley have been Blackburn Rovers rivals for much of Rovers history but some fans, particularly newer, younger fans simply ignored Burnley in the 1990's, dismissing claims that Burnley have always been seen as Rovers main rivals.

In the 2000's hostilities renewed to some extent and now many fans believe they should be seen as Rovers main rivals once more. In The Championship on April fool’s Day, 01.04.2001, Rovers won convincingly against Burnley, 5 – 0. The score line flattered Burnley, Rovers had two blatant penalties turned down and hit the woodwork three times. For the previous game at Turf Moor on 17.12.2000, Rovers won 0 – 2. Kevin Ball was sent off for Burnley after a two footed lunge on Blackburn boy David Dunn. Kevin Ball was then paraded around Turf Moor as a hero before a game against Rovers on 28.03.2010, Rovers won the game 0 – 1, all but sealing Burnley’s fate to relegation, again. During that game, a Burnley fan ran onto the pitch to attack Robbie Savage, but soon cowered when Rovers players confronted him. Rovers fans also ripped up seats and smashed many of the facilities beneath the Cricket Field stand before during and after the game. In the FA Cup, 01.03.2005, Rovers comfortably knocked Burnley out of the FA Cup at Ewood Park after a tense 0 – 0 draw at Turf Moor on 20.02.2005. Rovers fans wore T-Shirts emblazoned with the 5 – 0 score line for the game in reference to the April fool’s day humiliation in 2001.

There have been minor disturbances inside Ewood Park with Manchester United, Manchester City and Bolton Wanderers fans during the 1990s and 2000s but the long awaited 19.10.2009 Ewood Park fixture with Burnley, the first in the top flight of English league football for 43 years, resulted in a major police operation mounted by the Lancashire constabulary similar to the kind seen in Scottish football at Glasgow Celtic v Glasgow Rangers matches; reinforcing the popular view amongst Rovers fans of Burnley as the, "Poor man’s Millwall of the North".

Many Burnley fans felt that the police operation put in place for the game was an overreaction as Burnley fans could only travel to the game from Turf Moor and could only travel on official transport provided by the club leaving Turf Moor at about 07:30 for a 13:00 early kick off. One example being of a Burnley fan having to leave Ewood Park, Blackburn for Turf Moor, Burnley, travelling back to Ewood Park, Blackburn for the game, then returning to Burnley after the game before making another return journey to his home in Blackburn later that evening; a journey of approximately twelve hours and forty miles when the supporter in question only lived a 5 minute walk from the Ewood Park.

However, the fear of serious crowd trouble was considered very real by the police; memories of the 1970's and Burnley hype from the 1980's still lingers on; Blackburn v Burnley is the oldest derby in English football and arguably the greatest rivalry in the game. There has been a long history of crowd trouble when these two clubs have met. It is the sort of game in which passions can become so intense that not only hooligan mobs or organised casuals but fans, nick named "scarfers" by casuals, can also become involved.

The view amongst some Rovers fans was that though unnecessary, the police operation was an inevitable outcome of a curious combination of decades of exaggeration, half truths and Burnley folk-lore. This was the culture of the Burnley bogey-man myth; involving dare-and-do invasions of Blackburn town centre, Ewood Park and attacks upon meek Rovers fans, which can be traced back to the pubs, school yards and terraced streets of Burnley. One theory to this phenomenon is that such tales of extravagance were the consequence of Burnley followers attempting to maintain their profile and that of Burnley FC as their club plummeted to new depths of lower league mediocrity during the 1980's, which began with their defeat to Rovers during the Easter, 1983 fixture at Ewood Park.

The feeling amongst Rovers fans was that this kind of bankrupt boasting had led to a self fulfilling prophecy in which Burnley fans and their Premier League era hangers on had talked themselves into their own awkward situation, to the obvious despair of the Burnley fans, although faint amusement of many Rovers fans.

Rovers fans also feel that as Burnley is a very small football club and as Blackburn Rovers has always historically been a far more successful football club than Burnley with a national and international profile befitting the historical stature of Blackburn Rovers, that the bitterness and resentment towards Rovers fans by Burnley fans may also be more intense for these same reasons; this resentment particularly inflamed by small club jealousy of Rovers' Premier League and League cup triumphs in 1995 and 2002 respectively.

As already mentioned, Burnley fans and mobs also took beatings in Blackburn and at Ewood Park (also in Burnley and at Turf Moor) during the 60's and 70's while thereafter very rarely having the opportunity to return to Ewood Park for more than a quarter of a century; anger and bitterness at such humiliations being passed from father to son, uncle to nephew.

Both clubs moved in opposite directions during the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's, with Blackburn Rovers, despite intense media hostility and professional snobbery coupled with the jealous hatred of neutral supporters, going on to make history and achieve glory with their Premier League triumph at the end of the 1994-1995 season; while Burnley very narrowly avoided relegation to non league football on the last day of the 1986-1987, only eight years previously.

For the long 43 year awaited top flight fixture with Burnley at Ewood Park, the Burnley fans were given half of the Darwen End, and a very heavy police and steward presence for the protection of the Burnley fans.

Despite a long history of loathing between the supporters the clubs have tried to maintain a friendly working relationship but even this was tested in the build-up to the game. Owen Coyle, the then Burnley manager, fed up having team talks drowned out by a stand full of away supporters, urged his chairman to get more Burnley followers into the Cricket Field stand which is the Away stand but where the Home and Away changing rooms are also located. Splitting the Cricket Field Stand in half to allow more home fans in a stadium with a limited 22,400 capacity and reducing away tickets to a couple of thousand probably sounds reasonable. Less so in the context of a derby game which usually sees Burnley given the entire 7,500 seats of Ewood Park's Darwen End and Rovers a reciprocal - if still derisory - 4,000.

As soon as Burnley chairman Barry Kilby announced the changes Blackburn fans bombarded Ewood Park with emails and phone calls demanding ticket parity, desperate for the chance to get to Turf Moor. Rovers, making positive strides at reclaiming lost supporters, were particularly sensitive to a fan backlash and desperate to be seen to be acting on their behalf. So, when it came to talks between the clubs and police over derby planning, a normally simple discussion turned as fractious as negotiations between two warring countries. After weeks of haggling the solution saw 3,000 Burnley in a split Darwen End restricted to season ticketed Rovers fans, with hundreds of empty seats and both sets of supporters unhappy.

Before the game, Burnley fans snuck into Ewood Park and dressed up the statue of former Blackburn owner Jack Walker in a Burnley kit. This led to retaliation by Blackburn fans a few days later when they through blue and white paint on the walls of one of the Turf Moor stands and dressed a cone with a Blackburn shirt. Also, the Blackburn fans hung banners over motorway bridges, one reading “Your Mum’s Your Dad, Inbred Bastards”, when Burnley fans were travelling Ewood Park.

The game ended without incident and a convincing 3-2 victory for Rovers, though flattering score line for Burnley.

After the game, in the Cherry Tree area of Blackburn, there were aapproximately 80 Blackburn Youth and supporters waiting in The Station and The Beehive pubs - the "chosen battleground" for violence between Blackburn and Burnley firms - having discreetly made their way to the pub in two's and three's so as not to alert the police.

The Burnley contingent finally arrived at a nearby petrol station at around 6pm and ran towards the two pubs, shouting and chanting "Suicide Squad", alerting the police. Most of the Burnley firm stopped when they saw the police horses approach.

A number of Blackburn Youth then turned their anger on the police, throwing bottles at officers and had to be locked inside one of the pubs until they could be dispersed.

Seven of the Blackburn firm were jailed for between six and 16 months at Preston Crown Court after admitting affray.

Blackburn Youth.
During a Division 2 game against Chelsea on 18.10.1980 which ended 1-1, there were brief crowd disturbances along the Riverside Stand terracing and Blackburn End terracing as the Chelsea fans attempted to ‘take’ the Blackburn End. Some of the young fans involved in the crowd trouble went on to form an organised hooligan firm, the Blackburn Youth, which emerged in 1982 as Blackburn Rovers first casuals firm. As Blackburn lies in East Lancashire just north of the major Lancashire cities of Liverpool and Manchester, Blackburn has historically been strongly influenced by their causal trends in music and clothes much earlier than other Lancashire towns; for example, to this day Rovers fans or 'scarfers' and casuals refer to Burnley ‘scarfers’ and casuals as, "the scruffs".

Blackburn's catchment area includes Darwen, Accrington, Rishton, Great Harwood and Clitheroe and there has often been an uneasy relationship between the firms/mobs from each of these places, as well as from within the town itself. More recently this has included trouble between followers from Blackburn and Darwen and Clitheroe and Accrington; these tensions explaining Blackburn's inability to organise a consistently active hooligan firm. Also, Blackburn's neighbouring satellite towns include small firms from the so-called “bigger” clubs such as Manchester United, Manchester City and Leeds United.

During a Division 2 Away game against Carlisle United on 23/12/1984 a Blackburn fan admitted throwing a brick which hit a rival supporter on the head, killing him. This came in the context of approximately one hundred Carlisle United fans charging a group of Blackburn Rovers fans. The Carlisle fan died in hospital four days after being struck by the brick. Rovers won the game 0 – 1.

For a Division 2 game at Ewood Park on 08.11.1986, up to forty Blackburn Youth were involved in clashes with Sheffield United fans in Blackburn Boulevard, which is where the town’s bus and train stations are located; this has long been a flash point for football hooliganism. A group of about fifty Sheffield hooligans stood outside the Adelphi Hotel charged a group of about 40 Blackburn Youth who were approaching from Railway Road. There was a brief skirmish which resulted in a Blackburn arrest for a serious assault on a Sheffield United fan. Rovers lost the game 0 – 2.

During an FA Cup game involving Chorley (classed as the home team) and Preston North End on 06.12.1986 there were ugly scenes of crowd trouble when the Blackburn End erupted in violence. Police arrested eight Blackburn people from Blackburn along with twenty four others. Organised elements of Blackburn Rovers, Chorley and Preston North End were involved in “three cornered clashes”; arrests came before, during and after the game. Most of the trouble came in Blackburn Town Centre, along Bolton Road as well as inside Ewood Park (Blackburn End) and outside the Ewood Park.

On 04.04.1988, group of approximately 20 Blackburn Youth ambushed a train full of Burnley fans returning from a Division 4 match at Bolton Wanderers, throwing bottles and bricks at it. The train momentarily stopped before continuing, at Blackburn train station the police ordered the train to continue straight through to Burnley. Rovers were playing at home that day against Shrewsbury Town and it was common knowledge in the Blackburn End that a train full of Burnley fans was to be ambushed. At the time Rovers were challenging for a place in the play-offs, drawing the game against Shrewsbury Town 2 – 2.

17.11.2001, Blackburn Rovers v Liverpool, in the evening after the game around 30 Liverpool hooligans fought with about 30 from Blackburn in a town centre pub with glasses and stools used as weapons. The Liverpool group was put on a train but managed to return to Blackburn and there was further serious disorder in another pub. One of the Liverpool group suffered a severe glass wound.

09.02.2002, Wigan Athletic v Blackburn Rovers, about 20 fans from both clubs fought at the train station. Later, a man was injured after clashes between rival hooligans outside the Talbot Inn in Chester. The pub’s windows were smashed and one man, who was not involved in the incident, was injured by flying debris.

The modern Ewood Park
As football hooliganism inside Ewood Park slowly went into decline from the late 1970's onwards and as Rovers gates had continued to fall since the 1960’s and football hooliganism had become more organized and moved away from Ewood Park.

Blackburn Rovers also made increased efforts to defeat the problem and make Ewood Park and Blackburn Rovers more family oriented. One campaign in the early 1980’s revolved around encouraging the already passionate Rovers fans to keep up the vocal support but keep down the foul language. Blackburn Rovers also attempted to attract more of the sizeable local Asian population to Ewood Park in the 1980's with representatives of the club speaking on local radio about their desire for more Asian people to attend matches at Ewood Park. Sadly, this appears to have had little success.

During the 1980s, there was also an aggressive policing policy inside the ground which in itself could lead to minor disturbances and an iron perimeter fence was erected around the pitch in the early 1980s.

From the 1990s onwards, most of the mainly partisan pubs outside Ewood Park have been strictly for home supporters only.

As already pointed out, from the late 1970’s and early 1980s Rovers fortunes slowly progressed relative to their nearest Lancashire town rivals Burnley, Blackpool, Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic, which gradually seems to have been reflected in the behavior of the fans inside Ewood Park, with the oraganised element, Blackburn Youth, mainly active away from Ewood Park.

The 1980s witnessed several events that were also to change football as a spectator sport: the Bradford City Fire Disaster (1985); the Hysell Stadium Tragedy (1985); The Hillsborough Disaster (1989) and the Taylor Report (1989) the latter resulting in standing terracing in England being phased out, replaced by all-seater stadiums, in some cases completely new stadiums being built.

During the 1990s, the face of football stadia in England began to change and with it the type of atmosphere inside the stadia and the type spectator clubs were now attempting to attract. This meant pricing policies that deliberately out priced and alienated working-class supporters; this was done in the belief that by attracting more women, families and middle-class consumers that football stadiums would become safer places. Setting aside the moral question of social prejudice through the deliberate policy of out pricing working-class supporters, it is not a sensible business measure for football clubs to out price working-class fans when those clubs represent working-class areas. However, there is no doubt that these measures had some success but how much, is open to debate.

Added to these measures local Blackburn born business man and life-long Rovers fan Jack Walker bought the club in 1991 and Rovers eventually gained promotion to the Premier League during the 1991-1992 season. Ewood Park was then rebuilt between between 1993-1994, with its official reopening in 1995.

Despite the occasional incident or perceived threat, it would now seem that any form of serious crowd trouble at this famous old footballing venue would thankfully appear to be a thing of the past.

'Estimates of Rovers Away following that day vary from 11,000 – 15,000. It was Burnley’s biggest gate for fifty years and the biggest ever Away following between the two clubs before or since. '

Well I stopped reading at this point, as it proved what a fantasy it is - there were 27k on the game in question, Burnley had 35k three years earlier against Liverpool and topped 30k several times in the 60's including 52k against Bradford in the Cup.
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Selective history, obviously meant for your average none-too-bright Rovers fan.

bankhall wrote:
so they will be meeting in regents park zoo presumably so the 6 fingered jibb monkeys can feel at home .

Why........ Are there any Dingles going?

did you smash it? wrote:
Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

Inbreds'.... They are dingles aren't they?

Harwoodstblue wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

Inbreds'.... They are dingles aren't they?

Who the Rovers fans?

Why yes they are Harwood

did you smash it? wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

Inbreds'.... They are dingles aren't they?

Who the Rovers fans?

Why yes they are Harwood

We all know who the Dingles are, don't we Zac.

did you smash it? wrote:
'Estimates of Rovers Away following that day vary from 11,000 – 15,000. It was Burnley’s biggest gate for fifty years and the biggest ever Away following between the two clubs before or since. ' Well I stopped reading at this point, as it proved what a fantasy it is - there were 27k on the game in question, Burnley had 35k three years earlier against Liverpool and topped 30k several times in the 60's including 52k against Bradford in the Cup. . Selective history, obviously meant for your average none-too-bright Rovers fan.

listen shitehawk nobodys interested in your 1970's history lesson I am nearly 40 years old and its all ancient history that was well before I was old enough to start going matches as an football rivary aware individual.

As far back as I can remember your club has always been viewed as **** and has always played second fiddle to BRFC so get over it and grow up you turd your boring :)

Harwoodstblue wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

Inbreds'.... They are dingles aren't they?

Who the Rovers fans?

Why yes they are Harwood

We all know who the Dingles are, don't we Zac.

Yes, they are a fictional family from a soap opera set in Yorkshire.
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Any other questions you need answering? (Tip, try Google next time).

did you smash it? wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
Silly silly Ted, you are just an embarrasment to your fellow inbred Blackburn fans, tell me is your full name Shi Ted Maul?

Inbreds'.... They are dingles aren't they?

Who the Rovers fans?

Why yes they are Harwood

We all know who the Dingles are, don't we Zac.

Yes, they are a fictional family from a soap opera set in Yorkshire.
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Any other questions you need answering? (Tip, try Google next time).

Sounds like B*rnley then.

did you smash it? wrote:
'Estimates of Rovers Away following that day vary from 11,000 – 15,000. It was Burnley’s biggest gate for fifty years and the biggest ever Away following between the two clubs before or since. '

Well I stopped reading at this point, as it proved what a fantasy it is - there were 27k on the game in question, Burnley had 35k three years earlier against Liverpool and topped 30k several times in the 60's including 52k against Bradford in the Cup.
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Selective history, obviously meant for your average none-too-bright Rovers fan.

Awwww, put yer dummy back in you big B*rnley bed wetter.

Russ ov the rovers wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
'Estimates of Rovers Away following that day vary from 11,000 – 15,000. It was Burnley’s biggest gate for fifty years and the biggest ever Away following between the two clubs before or since. ' Well I stopped reading at this point, as it proved what a fantasy it is - there were 27k on the game in question, Burnley had 35k three years earlier against Liverpool and topped 30k several times in the 60's including 52k against Bradford in the Cup. . Selective history, obviously meant for your average none-too-bright Rovers fan.

listen shitehawk nobodys interested in your 1970's history lesson I am nearly 40 years old and its all ancient history that was well before I was old enough to start going matches as an football rivary aware individual.

As far back as I can remember your club has always been viewed as **** and has always played second fiddle to BRFC so get over it and grow up you turd your boring :)

Very eruditely put.

I can't better it, so i won't try.

Answer to this problem is new government regulation that means no football club can be owned by more than 49% by foreign owners, that pretty much fixes the problem.
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The Chinese economy is growing at great rates with this same policy, only 49% ownership of any of their companies.
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Why does our government allow foreign investors to come here and destroy the live blood of football in the community?
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Lets see some action from our politicians. I wont hold my breath.

I hope the discussions mentions this radical policy I have explained. No foreign owners can own more than 49% of a football club. Football is a national industry in the national interest and deserves special dispensation.

Ted Maul wrote:

gudari wrote:
He's only a poor little grintwum,
his scarf is all tattered and torn,
and when he leaves Turf Moor next season,
he'll wish that he'd never been born!!!!!!

hi IRA Dug, still not got the plums to explain your username?

Thought not, silly little dingle terrorist sympathiser.

The other Bonleh fans on these pages must be soooo proud of you!

If you could read and write ya pr*ck, you'd be able to look it up! Now go and get yer Uncle Jeanette to give you a hand.............or three!!

VENKYS - GET THE FK OUT OF MY CLUB, TOWN AND COUNTRY - YOU PROFITEERING BANDITS. YOU ARE NEVER EVER WELCOME HERE AGAIN.


MRS D AND KEAN SHOULD BE OWNERS OF A BROTHEL NOT A ONCE RESPECTFUL FC

RIP BRFC

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
'Estimates of Rovers Away following that day vary from 11,000 – 15,000. It was Burnley’s biggest gate for fifty years and the biggest ever Away following between the two clubs before or since. '

Well I stopped reading at this point, as it proved what a fantasy it is - there were 27k on the game in question, Burnley had 35k three years earlier against Liverpool and topped 30k several times in the 60's including 52k against Bradford in the Cup.
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Selective history, obviously meant for your average none-too-bright Rovers fan.

Awwww, put yer dummy back in you big B*rnley bed wetter.

What a measured and throughtful response - no comment as to the fact that your entire article was fantasy then?
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D1ck

did you smash it? wrote:

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
'Estimates of Rovers Away following that day vary from 11,000 – 15,000. It was Burnley’s biggest gate for fifty years and the biggest ever Away following between the two clubs before or since. '

Well I stopped reading at this point, as it proved what a fantasy it is - there were 27k on the game in question, Burnley had 35k three years earlier against Liverpool and topped 30k several times in the 60's including 52k against Bradford in the Cup.
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Selective history, obviously meant for your average none-too-bright Rovers fan.

Awwww, put yer dummy back in you big B*rnley bed wetter.

What a measured and throughtful response - no comment as to the fact that your entire article was fantasy then?
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D1ck

Don't thieve the moral high ground.

By pretending to be calm and dignified.

You'r posts read like immature scribble, how old are you?

You're are a gutter snipe.

I already command the moral high ground my deluded Rovers inbred chum as YOU were the one who thought it was pertinant to copy and paste a load of fantasy hooliganism acheivements that Blackburn's 'boys' have committed over the years - in an effort to attempt to score points in this debate.
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It was uneccessary and made you look like a middle aged thug attempting to brag in a boozer about his 'acomplishments'.
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Grow up

did you smash it? wrote:
I already command the moral high ground my deluded Rovers inbred chum as YOU were the one who thought it was pertinant to copy and paste a load of fantasy hooliganism acheivements that Blackburn's 'boys' have committed over the years - in an effort to attempt to score points in this debate.
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It was uneccessary and made you look like a middle aged thug attempting to brag in a boozer about his 'acomplishments'.
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Grow up

Your a B*rnley bed wetter

I'm 42, B*rnley have never been top dogs since i was old enough to understand the rivalry with you losers.

Now go change your bed sheets.

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
I already command the moral high ground my deluded Rovers inbred chum as YOU were the one who thought it was pertinant to copy and paste a load of fantasy hooliganism acheivements that Blackburn's 'boys' have committed over the years - in an effort to attempt to score points in this debate.
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It was uneccessary and made you look like a middle aged thug attempting to brag in a boozer about his 'acomplishments'.
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Grow up

Your a B*rnley bed wetter

I'm 42, B*rnley have never been top dogs since i was old enough to understand the rivalry with you losers.

Now go change your bed sheets.

What is the matter with you?
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Have you got some kind of persecution complex?
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Are you soooo worried about little old Burnley spanking your collective inbred ar5es on and off the pitch next season that you have made up a load of what has proved to be absolute rubbish on an internet forum?
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Why are you telling me your age - I couldn't care less (Although I have to say I am surprised that you are 42 with your immature outbursts), are you trying to hit on me?
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Now run along because it's time to bang one off to Green Street and dream of when Rovers were, as you say 'top dogs' you absolute no-mark inbred gimp.

did you smash it? wrote:

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
I already command the moral high ground my deluded Rovers inbred chum as YOU were the one who thought it was pertinant to copy and paste a load of fantasy hooliganism acheivements that Blackburn's 'boys' have committed over the years - in an effort to attempt to score points in this debate.
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It was uneccessary and made you look like a middle aged thug attempting to brag in a boozer about his 'acomplishments'.
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Grow up

Your a B*rnley bed wetter

I'm 42, B*rnley have never been top dogs since i was old enough to understand the rivalry with you losers.

Now go change your bed sheets.

What is the matter with you?
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Have you got some kind of persecution complex?
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Are you soooo worried about little old Burnley spanking your collective inbred ar5es on and off the pitch next season that you have made up a load of what has proved to be absolute rubbish on an internet forum?
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Why are you telling me your age - I couldn't care less (Although I have to say I am surprised that you are 42 with your immature outbursts), are you trying to hit on me?
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Now run along because it's time to bang one off to Green Street and dream of when Rovers were, as you say 'top dogs' you absolute no-mark inbred gimp.

Put your dummy back in you big baby.

You've been brought up in B*rnley myths.

B*rnley have never taken Ewood Park or Blackburn town centre - Rovers have marched through your dump many times and taken all four stands at Turd Moor, your non league ground.

Problem is, you're too young to remember.

Your older brother, uncle and father (same person) have brainwashed you with mythological legends.

It's all there on the web site.

FACTS FACTS FACTS.
NOT MYTH MYTH MYTH.

B*RNLEY - ever won as many trophies, rarely had better support, never taken Ewood or Blackburn and had nothing but sh*te managing your club since 1977.

We dared to dream - and along came every B*rnley manager since 1977. Doesn't rhyme but it's true.

Rovers played 28 games in Europe and only lost 8, but you talk about 1 game 20 years ago against Trelleborgs. Sad f*ckers.

Blackburn Rovers are inter-national; B*rnlet are inter-bred.

Now f*ck off home shitehawk, B*rnley have been nothing my entire footballing, life.

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
I already command the moral high ground my deluded Rovers inbred chum as YOU were the one who thought it was pertinant to copy and paste a load of fantasy hooliganism acheivements that Blackburn's 'boys' have committed over the years - in an effort to attempt to score points in this debate.
.
It was uneccessary and made you look like a middle aged thug attempting to brag in a boozer about his 'acomplishments'.
.
Grow up

Your a B*rnley bed wetter

I'm 42, B*rnley have never been top dogs since i was old enough to understand the rivalry with you losers.

Now go change your bed sheets.

What is the matter with you?
.
Have you got some kind of persecution complex?
.
Are you soooo worried about little old Burnley spanking your collective inbred ar5es on and off the pitch next season that you have made up a load of what has proved to be absolute rubbish on an internet forum?
.
Why are you telling me your age - I couldn't care less (Although I have to say I am surprised that you are 42 with your immature outbursts), are you trying to hit on me?
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Now run along because it's time to bang one off to Green Street and dream of when Rovers were, as you say 'top dogs' you absolute no-mark inbred gimp.

Put your dummy back in you big baby.

You've been brought up in B*rnley myths.

B*rnley have never taken Ewood Park or Blackburn town centre - Rovers have marched through your dump many times and taken all four stands at Turd Moor, your non league ground.

Problem is, you're too young to remember.

Your older brother, uncle and father (same person) have brainwashed you with mythological legends.

It's all there on the web site.

FACTS FACTS FACTS.
NOT MYTH MYTH MYTH.

B*RNLEY - ever won as many trophies, rarely had better support, never taken Ewood or Blackburn and had nothing but sh*te managing your club since 1977.

We dared to dream - and along came every B*rnley manager since 1977. Doesn't rhyme but it's true.

Rovers played 28 games in Europe and only lost 8, but you talk about 1 game 20 years ago against Trelleborgs. Sad f*ckers.

Blackburn Rovers are inter-national; B*rnlet are inter-bred.

Now f*ck off home shitehawk, B*rnley have been nothing my entire footballing, life.

Oh dear - look everyone it's Danny Fecking Dyer isn't it treacle.
You are proper nawwty you Blackburn boys, I can see how jealous you must have been when Burnley were featured on The Real Football Factories. And yet for some reason Blackburn who (According to you) have marched through Burnley many times and taken all four ends at Turf Moor yadda yadda yadda, didn't even warrant a mention, not even a postscript.
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Has anyone ever been run off a Blackburn firm? Really?
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For the record I am of a similar age to you sunshine and as we both know, none of what you say ever happened - it is pure inbred fantasy passed down from father to son, whispered as you were biting the pillow and trying not to scream every night during your 'formative years'.
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Now please go away, it is like shooting chickens in a barrel, far too easy.

did you smash it? wrote:

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:

Cold Side Of The Pillow wrote:

did you smash it? wrote:
I already command the moral high ground my deluded Rovers inbred chum as YOU were the one who thought it was pertinant to copy and paste a load of fantasy hooliganism acheivements that Blackburn's 'boys' have committed over the years - in an effort to attempt to score points in this debate.
.
It was uneccessary and made you look like a middle aged thug attempting to brag in a boozer about his 'acomplishments'.
.
Grow up

Your a B*rnley bed wetter

I'm 42, B*rnley have never been top dogs since i was old enough to understand the rivalry with you losers.

Now go change your bed sheets.

What is the matter with you?
.
Have you got some kind of persecution complex?
.
Are you soooo worried about little old Burnley spanking your collective inbred ar5es on and off the pitch next season that you have made up a load of what has proved to be absolute rubbish on an internet forum?
.
Why are you telling me your age - I couldn't care less (Although I have to say I am surprised that you are 42 with your immature outbursts), are you trying to hit on me?
.
Now run along because it's time to bang one off to Green Street and dream of when Rovers were, as you say 'top dogs' you absolute no-mark inbred gimp.

Put your dummy back in you big baby.

You've been brought up in B*rnley myths.

B*rnley have never taken Ewood Park or Blackburn town centre - Rovers have marched through your dump many times and taken all four stands at Turd Moor, your non league ground.

Problem is, you're too young to remember.

Your older brother, uncle and father (same person) have brainwashed you with mythological legends.

It's all there on the web site.

FACTS FACTS FACTS.
NOT MYTH MYTH MYTH.

B*RNLEY - ever won as many trophies, rarely had better support, never taken Ewood or Blackburn and had nothing but sh*te managing your club since 1977.

We dared to dream - and along came every B*rnley manager since 1977. Doesn't rhyme but it's true.

Rovers played 28 games in Europe and only lost 8, but you talk about 1 game 20 years ago against Trelleborgs. Sad f*ckers.

Blackburn Rovers are inter-national; B*rnlet are inter-bred.

Now f*ck off home shitehawk, B*rnley have been nothing my entire footballing, life.

Oh dear - look everyone it's Danny Fecking Dyer isn't it treacle.
You are proper nawwty you Blackburn boys, I can see how jealous you must have been when Burnley were featured on The Real Football Factories. And yet for some reason Blackburn who (According to you) have marched through Burnley many times and taken all four ends at Turf Moor yadda yadda yadda, didn't even warrant a mention, not even a postscript.
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Has anyone ever been run off a Blackburn firm? Really?
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For the record I am of a similar age to you sunshine and as we both know, none of what you say ever happened - it is pure inbred fantasy passed down from father to son, whispered as you were biting the pillow and trying not to scream every night during your 'formative years'.
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Now please go away, it is like shooting chickens in a barrel, far too easy.

You are an irritating itchy bum hole, do you know that?

Instead of telling me - a Rover fan - to get off a Rovers message board - why don't you - a B*rnley shitehawk - f*ck off home?

42, and i've never seen B*rnley beat Rovers - on or off the pitch - so if you're a similar age to me (sunshine), you will know that. Less of the 1970's history lessons your Uncle's passed down to you.

My age... yeah right, a man-child - your posts read like f*cking 12 year old has written them.

You're sh*t and what's more, you know you are.

Brilliant response Danny - you getting Iwate? You ready to facking ramble wiv me?
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Looks like you will get your wish of finally seeing the mighty Clarets polish off you chicken plucking inbreds this season - that is if you don't go bust before we get a chance to find out.
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You have been abysmal all season - you even made sh1tty Wigan look like Barcelona when you played them recently - God only knows what are you going to be like when the mass exodus begins?.
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Can't wait for the people's champion Mr Steven Kean to be given the chance to build you a squad capable of surviving in The toughest league in the world to get out of.
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The first Premier League Champions to be relegated to League One? It's on the cards Danny - then you will be able to get propa nawwty with the likes of Preston all over again.
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did you smash it? wrote:
Brilliant response Danny - you getting Iwate? You ready to facking ramble wiv me?
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Looks like you will get your wish of finally seeing the mighty Clarets polish off you chicken plucking inbreds this season - that is if you don't go bust before we get a chance to find out.
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You have been abysmal all season - you even made sh1tty Wigan look like Barcelona when you played them recently - God only knows what are you going to be like when the mass exodus begins?.
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Can't wait for the people's champion Mr Steven Kean to be given the chance to build you a squad capable of surviving in The toughest league in the world to get out of.
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The first Premier League Champions to be relegated to League One? It's on the cards Danny - then you will be able to get propa nawwty with the likes of Preston all over again.
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HERE'S A GOOD ONE:

Blackburn Rovers: The only Football Club to be founder members of the Premier League and Football League and Champions of both.

Y'see, one has to have been the Premier league champions in the first place... in order to be the first Premier League Champions to be relegated to League One... but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

B*rnley are plop.

Wow 51 comments, good to see passion for your local clubs