Tough game this but we can do these 2-1 Hull City’s next Sky Bet Championship match at home to Blackburn Rovers has been selected for live Sky Sports coverage. The match will still take place on Boxing Day at the original kick-off time of 3pm. Tony Mowbray’s side sit one point off the automatic promotion places in the Championship and ran out 2-0 winners when the sides met at Ewood Park in September. A reminder that match tickets for this game have experienced a festive discount with junior pricing starting at £4.50 and Adults from just £21! Tickets are available to buy online here, in person from Tiger Leisure at the MKM Stadium or over the phone on 01482 505600.
The 1868 General Election results for Blackburn was declared null and void after allegations of intimidation of voters and bribing them with ale. Blackburn was at the centre of anti-powerloom 'Luddite' riots when a mob destroyed 212 powerlooms in the space of 35 minutes. It was the site of a Roman Temple and was then a place of medieval 'pilgrimage and healing'. Blackburn was the first town in the UK to take on mass fingerprinting. The club shirts are a consequence of the merger between two public schools. Hoghton Tower is the location of the sirloin steak getting its name. It is said that King James I knighted a particularly tasty piece of beef saying 'arise Sir Loin'. Susan Boyle is from Blackburn. The smallest dog in history was a tiny Yorkie from Blackburn. At two years of age and fully grown he was 2.5 inches tall by 3.75 inches long and weighed only four ounces. Athletic Bilbao and Athletic Madrid used to buy Blackburn Rovers blue and white kits in England. Once in 1911, Juanito Elorduy, former player and member of the board of Athletic Madrid, went to England to buy kits for both teams. When he failed to find Blackburn Rovers kits to purchase, he instead boughtSouthampton red and white ones. Athletic Madrid adopted the red and white shirt but opted to keep Blackburn Rovers' blue shorts, leading to them also being known as Los Rojiblancos."
The one who was on BGT is from Bathgate in Jockland. I don't personally know any Susan Boyle from Blackburn, but I know a Kittee from Blackpool.
Actually they opted to keep the whole Southampton kit. They played in blue shorts at the time. http://historicalkits.co.uk/Southampton/Southampton.htm
