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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
The first football match I ever saw was a team in Blue & White quarters against one in Red & White stripes.
It was at Ewood Park and my Uncle told me to watch the No 7 in Red & White - Yes, Stanley Matthews playing for Stoke before he went to Blackpool. Didn't encoyrage me to support Rovers though - they had those horrible thick cups to put the Bovril in, quite crude really so I eventually decided on class some 6 or so years later.  |
Ha-ah! NOW I understand where it all went wrong. If your Uncle had taken you to Peel Park for your first ever match, things might have been different and you might have been standing on the Clayton End tomorrow. Still...it's not too late...
