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This Saturday 19th-placed Barnsley host league leaders Wolves in what is a crucial game for both teams. Speaking at the club press conference today, Barnsley manager Paul Heckingbottom talked injuries, new and potential signings, and on the opposition. “We’re a bit light at the minute in terms of numbers, Adam Jackson has come back in, […]
It won’t have escaped many people’s attention that there is something of a circus going on at Blackburn Rovers Football Club. Not an actual and literal circus of course, we’re a little short of elephants, ringmasters and trapeze artists for that sort of extravaganza. Although we’ve certainly got enough clowns for one. And we’d probably […]
BFTGT: What would have to happen this season for you to class it as a successful one for your club? Mike Delap: Promotion. End of story. The signals that have come out of the club since relegation and over the course of the summer is that we want to go back up at the first […]
BFTGT: What would have to happen this season for you to class it as a successful one for your club? Played off the Park: A top 10 finish and to generally be in and around the Play-Off area for the majority of the season. I feel this is a bit of a ‘transition season’, with […]
Let’s set the scene. It’s January 2011 and Neil Warnock is manager of QPR and has just seen his team knocked out of the FA Cup in the third round by Blackburn thanks to a goal scored ten minutes from full time by David Hoilett. To make matters worse for Warnock, one of his players, […]