A bit about you: Name: Guy Riddell Current home town: Glossop (Peak District) Birthplace: Durham How long have you supported your team? Always been Sunderland, and never understood anyone not supporting their local team, just seems obvious to me, and it helps that we’ve always had local lads come through the ranks to give that […]
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Opposition Viewpoint – Preston NE
A bit about you Name: Rob Reid Current Home town (city!): Preston Birthplace: Preston How long have you supported your team: since I have been old enough to go, season ticket for 26 years Overview of your club Favourite thing about your home ground: Tom Finney Splash Statue Favourite match played by your team and […]
The Championship … they do things differently there
Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Leicester City Ewood Park is one of the few Championship grounds I have never visited, but a combination offamily commitments and the TV-inspired move to a noon kick-off on Sunday meant I could not visit it this time either. Instead, I donned my lucky pants as if going to the match (we […]
View from the Opposition – Blackburn Rovers
A bit about you: Name: Andy Dawson Current home town: Blackburn Birthplace: Blackburn How long have you supported your team? 35 years Overview of your club: Favourite thing about your home ground: Close to my house … and it remains in a prominent position in the town, not some out of town estate. Favourite match […]
Like We’ve Never Been Away – Post Match Analysis : Liverpool 3 Leicester 1
This was one of those rare occasions – which I guess can only happen in early season against superior opposition – when I came away more upbeat than before despite the defeat. Although the weight of pressure eventually told, we were treated to an early goal and half-time lead, and it required a thunderbolt during […]