

Gaël Givet
Fortress Ewood: 3 More points at home v Pompey + PODCAST?!
By: Jimmy |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 [...]
Wolves Preview
By: Jimmy |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 [...]
Man Citeh Preview – and an Invitation for all
By: Jimmy |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?
Matty Gone For Sure, Givet IN On Perm
By: Jimmy |Well, Matt Derbyshire has officially completed his move to Olympiakos on a four year deal for an undisclosed fee. Hopefully there was some sort of sell on clause thrown in there in case he blows up over there.
While that was going on, Gael Givet was signed on a permanent deal from Olympique Marseille. As per [...]
News Right From the Players
By: Jimmy |That took a while….not. Good to have use of the old photo shop Arrows I made again. Good thing I’m not a graphic designer. /fail
Onto more important things. The next bits of news have come straight from sources who directly spoke to players last night at the End of the Year Awards dinner for the [...]
So Much News
By: Jimmy |Happy Trails
Andre Ooijer’s long speculated departure back to PSV Eindhoven has been confirmed by the club as well by the Dutchman on the offish site. I for one will always think fondly of the defense man, and think he was always a very vital part of the back line. 29 start 2 sub appearances 2 [...]
Back From Break & Better Than Before
By: Jimmy |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 [...]
Some one call the WHAMbulance
By: Jimmy |West Ham Hammers tomorrow. Roque: Out. Vince Grella: Out. Ryan Nelsen: Late Fitness Test. Gaël Givet: Late Fitness Test. That’s looking pretty bleak. A spot of good news though, Warnock should be fit and ready to go. Givet has been pretty big for us, and I think him being fit for the game would be [...]
Its Official: Coventry = Boogey Side w/ highlights
By: Jimmy |Despite a early lead for Rovers after just 2 (TWO) minutes, Coventry added goals from Gunnarsson in the 61st and Doyle in the 76th to take the lead late from Rovers having forced the chances and issues most of the game. It wasn’t till the 93rd that Chris Samba was able to snatch a draw [...]
The Transfer Window Wrap Up
By: Jimmy |Well lets see who we brought in shall we?
Nick Blackman (Macclesfield, undisclosed)
Gael Givet (Marseille, loan)
El-Hadji Diouf (Sunderland, £2.8m)
And the Outs?
Frank Fielding (Rochdale, loan)
Eddie Nolan (Preston, undisclosed)
Sergio Peter (Sparta Prague, £500,000)
Jamie Clarke (Rotherham, free)
So only a net loss of £2.5m and we held on to Roque. But Emerton has been ruled out for the season [...]








