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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 27th, 2009

Warnock, OUT! Chimbonda, IN! Oh…and Gillingham too

By: Jimmy | Comments 2 Comments

So the big news today is Stephen Warnock is now a member of Aston Villa. On the replacement side, as soon as the door was hitting Warnock’s rear, a Mr. Pascal Chimbonda has moved in. A little case of the old switcheroo, and I’m not too upset. Here’s why…

August 24th, 2009

Internet and Normal Service Return to the Blackburn Offside

By: Jimmy | Comments 9 Comments

Sorry for not being around lately at this clutch time in our season’s beginnings. Internet went out for a few days and work in the real world and you lose track of how much Rovers stuff is going on.
Here’s whats been going on:
First off, Sunderland stole three points from us. With more corners, shots, and [...]

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 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 [...]

July 26th, 2009

Coming This Week on The Blackburn Offside

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

(Picture unrelated, I just got my away jersey in the post so I figured I’d show it off again)
Alright, I know I’ve been absent for a couple of days and there has been a lot of stuff going on. I made the trip to Baltimore Friday night to see the Chelski v AC Milan game [...]

July 3rd, 2009

How Ruud

By: Jimmy | Comments 3 Comments

So we’ve all seen the reports and heard the rustle, and now the the flurry of hopes and magnificent dreaming have calmed down, we can look at this a little more objectively.
Big Sam has come out and said he would like to sign Ruud van Nistelrooy from Real Madrid. Seriously? Maybe. A declaration of our [...]

June 30th, 2009

Rovers capture Steven N’Zonzi

By: Jimmy | Comments 7 Comments

The ball will not stop rolling as Rovers sign yet another player for the up coming term. Young starlet N’Zonzi is only just 20 years old, but stands a dominating 6′3″ and plays defensive midfield. Officially he has signed for four years at an undisclosed fee to his french lower league side Amiens SC, but [...]






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