Ok, my threads are pretty reliable. We don't lose. I have stuck with the opening style of minimal effort for all the games except Cardiff - where I included a lovely little anecdote - and that was the one game lately I have enjoyed. Therefore, enjoy as much anecdotal crap as I can manage. 1. My son's teacher is married to James Beattie. The kids can't understand why someone so rich is a teacher. Nor can I! 2. Tony Blackburn grew up in Poole. 3. Blackburn Rovers FC was founded by John Lewis. He did not go on to found a department store. 4. 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire actually referenced 4000 plastic circles being provided to the Albert Hall to improve accoustics. 5. When I was 5 I played hide and seek in the park with my dad and sat in a tramp's first dump of the day. (Not Blackburn related but I need to account for the ****ty spell after half time). 6. Jelly Babies were invented in Lancashire. By an Austrian. But not one named after a Hare Hutch. We are decent at home. Let's win. Please be fun to watch.
Tony Blackburn's father was my GP when I was growing up in Weston, Southampton and he had a picture of Tony on his desk.
Southampton v Blackburn Rovers (15:00) Referee :- GRAHAM SCOTT Assistants:- Matthew Wilkes and Akil Howson Fourth Official : Lewis Smith
Tony Blackburn’s Golden Hour at 7.00pm on Sundays on Radio 2 is one of my favourite hours of the week, and possibly as entertaining as watching Saints.
Tony Blackburn was the first voice to be heard on Radio One, when it started broadcasting on 30th September 1967.
I took this from a crime rate website 'Blackburn is the second safest major town in Lancashire, and is among the top 20 most dangerous overall out of Lancashire's 236 towns, villages, and cities.' So it's a good job it's a home game for us because Blackburn is statistically quite safe, but also very dangerous.
The first song played by Tony Blackburn on Radio One was of course Flowers in the Rain by the Move. Goalkeeper Tim Flowers, who moved from Southampton to Blackburn Rovers in 1993, was a vital part of Rovers’ Premier League title-winning team 2 years later. Spooky.
What is even more spooky is that when he moved there he stood in the rain more often. So he really was flowers in the rain by the move.
1. My son's teacher is married to James Beattie. The kids can't understand why someone so rich is a teacher. Nor can I! That doesn't necessarily make her rich per se
Loadings Threads have secured saints longest unbeaten run in the football league since 1984. The weekend starts here. Thanks for the threads
Looking forward to this one. Considering both clubs have spent quite a bit of time both inside and outside the top flight it's weird that we've not played each other since 04/05. Last time we played them at home teenage me left the ground thinking Leandre Griffit was the next best thing and that Sturrock had just saved his job.
There was a young coach named Russ Who helped fix a broken down bus But if the team sheet we see Has Manning not Bree Then I really will make quite a fuss.
Blackburn’s main goal threat seems to be an attacking midfielder by the name of Sammie Szmodics. 14 goals from 19 league games is a great return from a striker, let alone a midfielder. He has another goal, presumably from the Carabou Cup, so 15 in total. Perhaps we should be tapping him up when they are down here, although at 28 he’s probably not on our radar.
