Blackburn Rovers

[Friday's Legacy]

SSN making a real meal of their possible relegation. Apparently a club like Blackburn should be in the Premiership.

My question is - A club like what?

They're not a big club. Look at their attendances. They're often in the 20k's and sometimes dip below that. The fans turn out for the big teams.

Similar to M'Boro! Their fans are possibly even more fair-weather.

I just don't buy into all of this "They're too big to go down".

West Ham, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday, Notts Forest, Man City... You're never too big to go down!

And Blackburn are smaller than all of the above.

[FiNeRaIn]

Yep, blame media, internet and the fact that idiots opinions are plastered everywhere these days.

The majority of this country has no clue what football is about. Its nothing to do with the history of the clubs, its to do with the quality of the teams playing. If you are s**t you go down, if you are good...you profit.

Im sick of hearing this plastic club, no history, big spenders nonsense. Not just about my club, or the likes wigan or whoever but as a whole, its pathetic and annoying. At some point in time those "big" clubs were successful and attracted fans..they weren't born successful and big, what these fans are now saying is that we've missed that cut-off point and we aren't allowed to be successful as we don't have a history in it - even though we are older than all of them. This really is their logic. When you break it down the majority football fans really are utter, utter retards. People give the americans stick about their sports...but you don't get nearly the idiocy and stupid stereotypes like this at all. The game is played in the present, you don't pick up bonus points because you have more fans and you won a trophy in the 70's.

[PieEater]

tbf Blackburn did actually win the league title, so from that point of view they are a relatively big club to get relegated.

Their fanbase is pretty limited to those living in Blackburn since Burnley is a few miles down the road and Preston a few miles in the other direction.

[TBM]

Only 4 teams have won the Premiership..............1 of those, Blackburn

[FiNeRaIn]

Blackburn have already been in division one since they won the prem in 95, so theres really nothing to see here. Its no shock.

[Ginger Ninjas]

And they've already been relegated once since winning the PL, so a big in all honesty

[weybridgewanderer]

tbf Blackburn did actually win the league title, so from that point of view they are a relatively big club to get relegated.

Big deal

they had a benefactor who spent a fortune to win them the league.

he passed away in 2000 and it has been downhill ever since

they continued to spend despite no longer having his money, until recently they have been budgeting based on finishing in the top half of the league

[Royal With Cheese]

I thought they were going to sign Ronalinho. What happened to that transfer?

[AthleticoSpizz]

it all hinged on Roberts going to Real Barcelona

[Mr Angry]

I'm probably the only person who will be sad to see Blackburn go down; apart from anything else, that was a really fantastic away trip last game of the 06/07 season!

Realistically, them and (obviously) Wolves are down; last place between QPR, Bolton and Wigan.

Though after my fantastic prediction of BHA causing Wham problems yesterday, Villa are probably going down instead!!

[From Despair To Where?]

Yep, blame media, internet and the fact that idiots opinions are plastered everywhere these days.

The majority of this country has no clue what football is about. Its nothing to do with the history of the clubs, its to do with the quality of the teams playing. If you are s**t you go down, if you are good...you profit.

Im sick of hearing this plastic club, no history, big spenders nonsense. Not just about my club, or the likes wigan or whoever but as a whole, its pathetic and annoying. At some point in time those "big" clubs were successful and attracted fans..they weren't born successful and big, what these fans are now saying is that we've missed that cut-off point and we aren't allowed to be successful as we don't have a history in it - even though we are older than all of them. This really is their logic. When you break it down the majority football fans really are utter, utter retards. People give the americans stick about their sports...but you don't get nearly the idiocy and stupid stereotypes like this at all. The game is played in the present, you don't pick up bonus points because you have more fans and you won a trophy in the 70's.

Add to that 1992 is Year Zero and Blackburn were bankrolled to a title in 95 so yes they MUST be a big team.

[DelBoyRodders]

Yep, blame media, internet and the fact that idiots opinions are plastered everywhere these days.

The majority of this country has no clue what football is about. Its nothing to do with the history of the clubs, its to do with the quality of the teams playing. If you are s**t you go down, if you are good...you profit.

Im sick of hearing this plastic club, no history, big spenders nonsense. Not just about my club, or the likes wigan or whoever but as a whole, its pathetic and annoying. At some point in time those "big" clubs were successful and attracted fans..they weren't born successful and big, what these fans are now saying is that we've missed that cut-off point and we aren't allowed to be successful as we don't have a history in it - even though we are older than all of them. This really is their logic. When you break it down the majority football fans really are utter, utter retards. People give the americans stick about their sports...but you don't get nearly the idiocy and stupid stereotypes like this at all. The game is played in the present, you don't pick up bonus points because you have more fans and you won a trophy in the 70's.

Superb post!

[Royal With Cheese]

Yep, blame media, internet and the fact that idiots opinions are plastered everywhere these days.

The majority of this country has no clue what football is about. Its nothing to do with the history of the clubs, its to do with the quality of the teams playing. If you are s**t you go down, if you are good...you profit.

Im sick of hearing this plastic club, no history, big spenders nonsense. Not just about my club, or the likes wigan or whoever but as a whole, its pathetic and annoying. At some point in time those "big" clubs were successful and attracted fans..they weren't born successful and big, what these fans are now saying is that we've missed that cut-off point and we aren't allowed to be successful as we don't have a history in it - even though we are older than all of them. This really is their logic. When you break it down the majority football fans really are utter, utter retards. People give the americans stick about their sports...but you don't get nearly the idiocy and stupid stereotypes like this at all. The game is played in the present, you don't pick up bonus points because you have more fans and you won a trophy in the 70's.

I agree with every word of that.

[watfordroyal]

Time is gonna catch up with some of these "too big clubs", and we're gonna get more pompeys in next few years.
Blackburn will struggle, but worse will be Bolton, with debts of over £100m, how could they survive in the championship even with parachute payments.

[Jackson Corner]

tbf Blackburn did actually win the league title, so from that point of view they are a relatively big club to get relegated.

Big deal

they had a benefactor who spent a fortune to win them the league.

he passed away in 2000 and it has been downhill ever since

they continued to spend despite no longer having his money, until recently they have been budgeting based on finishing in the top half of the league

He left a large slice of his fortune behind in a trust which was meant to subsidise the club as they average around 25,000 and charge £300 for season tickets and some games are as much as just £10. The trustees decided to sell the club to the Venkeys and pocket Walkers money. There fans have been so spoilt over the years punched way above there weight. When I first watched football in the late 70's early 80's they were at best a mid table Championship side.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

"Historic" clubs are always thought of as being bigger than they are.

Most people would regard Burnley and Preston as being bigger than Reading, for example, despite their crap crowds.

There's also the strange nostalgia-ridden belief that somehow those old giants of the black & white era are more deserving of success than clubs who've never had it.


It's not just at the top either. Look at Accrington Stanley. Failed once because of feeble support, yet people love the fact that they are back, despite getting feeble support again. What makes them more "deserving" of a league place than someone like Crawley?

[Royal With Cheese]

"Historic" clubs are always thought of as being bigger than they are.

Most people would regard Burnley and Preston as being bigger than Reading, for example, despite their crap crowds.

There's also the strange nostalgia-ridden belief that somehow those old giants of the black & white era are more deserving of success than clubs who've never had it.


It's not just at the top either. Look at Accrington Stanley. Failed once because of feeble support, yet people love the fact that they are back, despite getting feeble support again. What makes them more "deserving" of a league place than someone like Crawley?

Crawley are in the football league.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

"Historic" clubs are always thought of as being bigger than they are.

Most people would regard Burnley and Preston as being bigger than Reading, for example, despite their crap crowds.

There's also the strange nostalgia-ridden belief that somehow those old giants of the black & white era are more deserving of success than clubs who've never had it.


It's not just at the top either. Look at Accrington Stanley. Failed once because of feeble support, yet people love the fact that they are back, despite getting feeble support again. What makes them more "deserving" of a league place than someone like Crawley?

Crawley are in the football league.

Yes, but some seem to view them as upstarts who don't deserve to be there because their success is "new".

People get nostalgic about Bradford Park Avenue, Barrow, Southport, Workington etc, and have this odd feeling that it's be great to see them rise to the league again. Why? How are Workington any more deserving of possibly climbing into the league than Basingstoke or Hinkley?

[handbags_harris]

Look at Accrington Stanley. Failed once because of feeble support, yet people love the fact that they are back, despite getting feeble support again. What makes them more "deserving" of a league place than someone like Crawley?

Crawley are in the football league.

Yes, but some seem to view them as upstarts who don't deserve to be there because their success is "new".

I'm not sure it's necessarily that with Crawley - it's the fact they are bankrolled and have (until recently) had a convicted fraudster and utter utter c*nt in charge of them.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

I'm not sure it's necessarily that with Crawley - it's the fact they are bankrolled and have (until recently) had a convicted fraudster and utter utter c*nt in charge of them.

Well that certainly doesn't help, sure, but in general people somehow seem much more keen on teams "with history" doing well than those without.

Sometimes it feels like football culture is trapped in some weird period drama, where everyone should "know their place", and any threat to the status quo should be resisted at all costs.