[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Come on Barrie were not the Dingles, or as we call um at Ewood the near men, they were nearly a prem team, and unfortunately Jack Walker died the only true football supporter who has owned a Premiership Club, he didn't sink Rovers into £800,000,000 of debt and milked the fans like some yanks are doing

Sorry Jay, but it was 5 years between Rovers winning the Premiership and Jack Walker's death. He also broke the British transfer record twice, so there is some truth in the statement that he bought the title. What happened after the '94/95 season - did he lose interest or what?
As for Burnley, well, ruined by an ego - the Butcher Boy, but I did watch them play in the European Cup against Hamburg - and they won, back in the late '50s long before Rovers played in the European Cup.
At the end of the day, it all comes around that goes around. Mancie has been there since the '70s, for me it was Coleman, Edwards, Taylor and the like that caught my imagination - and my unswerving loyalty.
Each of us to his own, let us continue to enjoy the banter and most of all enjoy the football