[Amelia Chaffinch]

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They're still owned by the Venkys and have been managed by Jon Dahl Tomasson from wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen since June '22.

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Blackburn's recent form looks worse than ours. However, our last win was against them on Boxing Day. I can't see us repeating it.
They got pumped 4-1 by the Baggies last Saturday whilst we managed a draw. Teams cannot survive on draws and losses. Will someone tell Moore that.

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Breaking News and Trivia

Sammie Szmodics was called up by ROI (Irish grandmother) but didn't play. Hungary are now looking at him (Hungarian grandfather).

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Lets talk feminism or, if not feminism, powerful women.

Barbara Castle, a hero of mine, was MP for Blackburn for 34 years.



Elsie Tanner with more power.

She was in many a ministerial role in Huddersfield's Harold Wilson's governments.
As Minister for Transport, she introduced the breathalyser, 70mph speed limit and seat belts (we won't mention the wassock that headed the TV campaign for that). She also rubber-stamped the Humber Bridge project.
As Secretary of State for Employment, she introduced the Equal Pay Act. This is dramatised rather well in Made In Dagenham. Good film.
My last car was called Barbara until an aggressive man ran into her. You see, contrary to what some men believe, men can be very bad drivers and women can be good ones. They are knuckle draggers and struggle to engage their two brain cells to come up with a rational thought. They'd rather look at lewd pictures of women and speak sexist twaddle, Terriers here excepted.

 In 1907, Louisa Entwistle who was 20 and a weaver in Blackburn, demonstrated with the WSPU in Westminster for votes
for women. She refused to pay a 10 shilling fine and elected to do 7 days in Holloway instead.

Louisa Entwistle

Gertrude Bentley of 204 Revidge Road was given 14 days for chalking on the pavement for refusing to pay 10 shillings + damages (that chalk is a bugger to get off). All she had done was chalk up the details of the next meeting. She claimed ignorance that chalking was against the law but they did not accept that. I don't remember any cases of hopscotching children being locked up. There were other pavements chalked but they couldn't pin those on her. 

There is more about these ladies and other Blackburn Suffrage stories here

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A bit of a test...

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Finish the sentence;

I'd rather be  ...

[theo_luddite]

.... stuck to a wall than stuck in a pub with a bunch of L666s fans?

[jjamez]

Are the photos stead Rhodes and sorba?

I'll add Damian Johnson to the list plus sondre tronstad.

Speaking of which coach I'd rather, I'd be inclined to go with theirs as he did fairly well last season in this division but has lost Diaz and not sure where Sam Gallagher is now

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Yes, they are. I mentioned Sondre.

[theo_luddite]

It took me ages to spot the player in picture 2. It looks llke some sloppy Pick'n'Mix containers.

[theo_luddite]

Blackburn have only drawn 2 games so far all season, both were 2-2 draws v Rotherham. Go figure. We've not won in our last 5 visits, that said, they have the leading goalscorer in the division in Szmodics but they've let more goals in than anyone, including bottom of the league Rotherham. You'd like to think our blank firing attack might find the onion bag on Saturday to at least cancel out what they might score? 'appen? Maybe?

[jjamez]

I blame bad eyesight

[theo_luddite]

To be honest, Specsavers keep bugging me to go for another eyetest jjamez. They can fer, fer, fer feckoff. I'll go when I'm ready.


Oh, do you mean our attack?

[Lord Snooty]

Sorry to say, with the site going tits up, I never got the chance to patronise Amelia on her excellent thread or read the link to Blackburn suffrage page. I shall do that later.

Well done, pet.

[Lord Snooty]

New signing from Groningen is out already. Their squad has been hit with a noravirus outbreak, including himself.