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November 8th, 2009

Fortress Ewood: 3 More points at home v Pompey + PODCAST?!

By: Jimmy | Comments 3 Comments

Hello and welcome back to, what should be stable service one more, The Blackburn Offside. After my month long hell (aka internship) I am back with a vengeance, and now Podcast equipped.
Over the next few days, I’ll be posting write ups or podcast episodes of a review of the month I missed. With this new [...]

 
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September 9th, 2009

Wolves Preview

By: Jimmy | Comments 4 Comments

Proper football returns to us this weekend around the world and, more importantly, at Ewood Park as the Blackburn Rovers take on the Wanderers of Wolverhampton in the fourth league game of the season.
I’ll be honest here; this is a must win game. After this game we have league games against Everton and Villa, with [...]

August 14th, 2009

Man Citeh Preview – and an Invitation for all

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

Remember this gem from Benni Mac? Let’s hope this happens again tomorrow. The Blackburn Rovers start their 2009-2010 kicking off at home v the lesser of two evils from Manchester. (Thad over there wrote up his ow preview as well. click if you want to read) So what can we expect tomorrow?

August 10th, 2009

Kalinic Gets His Work Permit!

By: Jimmy | Comments No Comments

Well, that little confusion I had in yesterday’s blog has seemingly been cleared up. At work today I got a twitter alert from @OneRovers saying that our boy Nikola aquired his work permit, and they did not lie. Upon getting home today the article on the Offish site was up and, wallah, we have a [...]

August 3rd, 2009

Welcome, Mr. Di Santo!

By: Jimmy | Comments 12 Comments

Well, it’s official!We have signed Chelsea starlet Franco Di Santo on a loan deal till the January window, with first option to re up the loan till the end of the season if Chelsea doesn’t recall him. The 6 foot 4 inch striker is only 20 years old and made 25 appearances for the Argentinian [...]



July 30th, 2009

The Search for a Striker Continues

By: Jimmy | Comments 2 Comments

As the season’s start creeps quicker and quicker, we have still not found that striker (well two strikers) we need to sign to replace RSC and Matty Derbs, and the situation is starting to turn from “when we will get one?” to “will we get one?”
We’ve looked at a ton of strikers and have graced [...]

May 18th, 2009

Rovers 0-2 Chelsea w/highlights

By: Jimmy | Comments No Comments

Well, the battered and broke down Rovers lost 2 -Nil to Chelsea at the Bridge this past weekend. The game, played Sunday, had no effect on Rovers standing in the top flight as results from Saturday assured the team and its followers that the Rovers would live to play another year in the Premier League.
With [...]

May 12th, 2009

MAGIC 40! YES!!

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

Well while I was overcome with the end of my spring semester at school, Rovers fell to Man City. 3-1 was the final, and it was just another week Rovers didn’t want to lock up safety.
This past weekend though, Rovers were not to be denied. Having the lion’s share of chances and controlling most [...]

April 16th, 2009

Stoke Preview

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

Well, news out of the official site about RSC’s injury came out this week. The Paraguayan striker had an arthroscopic knee washout to help with some wear and tear on his troublesome knee. Roque is also tending too a hamstring injury and isn’t expected back too soon.
Striker Jason Roberts is hopeful about retuning to this [...]

April 4th, 2009

Back From Break & Better Than Before

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

First things first: SAMBA UP FRONT!?!?!?! GENIUS!
Well Rovers took a break for international duty last week and I used that time to catch up on some work and keep my GPA game up. But the lads are back and so am I, but I’m not the one stopping The Spuds’ six-match unbeaten league run.
Rovers started [...]






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