[JohnW]

Basicly, the only thing between Burnley and Bradford is the Pennine range, hardly a well populated area, mainly moorland. There are probably more people living in Scotty bl**dy Road than in 2000 square miles of Pennine moorland.

I was not crying foul, you made a statement about 'buying' the championship, if anything, that is you crying foul because you haven't won it for so long, well, never as the premiership. I was explaining that it can't be bought. Jack Walker also invested in facilities hence the very well appointed stadium for a comparatively small town team. There's always a lot more money and people in cities especially compared to the run down area of East Lancashire. The argument that the catchment area is far less populated is a valid one. There is also considerably more poverty and many people cannot afford to go to the matches at home never mind travel away to matches with all the extra cost that involves. I am very happy to be a Blackburn supporter and have no reason at all to cry foul. Neither, in the last ten years do I consider we have been the underdog.

I would be interested to hear how you know that Bob Lord had more money than the Moores family. He was a butcher I believe. The Moores owned Littlewoods pools and at that time had immense spending power. We have to remember that a Million pounds in the 1960's could buy what costs probably 50 Million or more now. 1st class footballers were being bought and sold for a couple of hundred thousand pounds. Now they're almost reaching 30 Million pounds. So yes, things were different. It would be interesting to know just how much the Moores put into Liverpool FC and if it compared, allowing for inflation, to what Jack Walker did for Blackburn. Whatever Moores did put in, you can bet your sweet life that none of the Liverpool supporters at the time encouraged him to keep his money in his pocket.