GARY Bowyer hopes tomorrow’s FA Cup tie with Liverpool will give Blackburn Rovers supporters a taste of what they used to have.

The quarter-final replay will attract the biggest Ewood Park crowd since May 2011 when a controversial Wayne Rooney penalty secured Manchester United’s record-breaking 19th top-flight title.

Rovers, then under the control of the deeply unpopular Steve Kean, survived by the skin of their teeth by winning their final game of the campaign at Wolves.

But Kean took the club down the following season as its 11-year stay in the Premier League came to an ignominious end.

Rovers have spent the past three years in the Championship.

And current boss Bowyer said: “I am pleased for the supporters more than anybody to have the opportunity to bring Liverpool back to Ewood Park.

“It’s a chance to get Ewood Park rocking and it should remind us all of the Premiership days.

“It will bring back fond memories. The Premiership is the place where everybody wants to be and this will be a little taster for us.”

Liverpool will be the fourth Premier League team to visit Ewood in the past 15 months after Rovers drew 1-1 at home to Manchester City in the FA Cup third round last season and after they beat Swansea City 3-1 and Stoke City 4-1 in the third fourth and fifth rounds this season.

Bowyer said: “We’ve done particularly well at home to Premiership clubs in the FA Cup and hopefully there will be a real buzz around Ewood Park come kick-off time.

“There’s certainly a buzz already around the town because the Premiership big boys are coming and it’s an FA Cup quarter-final replay.

“It’ll be a big occasion.”