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Ferguson
operation news - 'great success' .. Rovers.co.uk report that Barry Ferguson has had a two hour operation in a Manchester Hospital on his 'dislocated' knee, and it was a 'great success'. He might now miss just three months and be back before the end of the season. (30th Dec 03) FULL Story rovers.co.uk |
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a very Happy New Year .. As if having David Thompson and Barry Ferguson out for the rest of the season was bad enough - Garry Flitcroft and Andy Todd have now both amassed 5 yellow cards - and are now due a one match ban. The Captain will miss the Bolton Derby -and Todd the game with Manchester City, (29th Dec 03) Full Story rovers.co.uk |
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Historic
win for Rovers - but tragic result for Ferguson ...
Ferguson was rushed to hospital and the prognosis didn't look good. It was an innocuous challenge - by Garry Speed, but what might have been a dislocation - looks like a broken knee cap. Souness came straight on the field to check out his midfield star and looked away when he realised just how much pain the young Scott was in. Post match he told SKY - it soured the result for Rovers.(28th Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi Sport AND rovers.co.uk |
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Just
in case .. Should Rovers get a draw on January 3rd at Birmingham, Wednesday 14th January has been set as the replay date for Ewood Park SEE Fixtures list for full details. |
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Brace
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And
there's more (or there could be) ... Or there could be .. Rovers.co.uk report that the Manager talking ahead of the Boxing Day game at Ewood said that he's on the lookout for a couple of extra players - and the left side of midfield might be one. And BBCi quote Souness as saying "At this stage, it looks like I'm going to have to look abroad because there is no-one in the lower leagues who could do a job fir us." (23rd Dec 03) FULL Story rovers.co.uk AND BBCi Sport |
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Mahon
Back home for Christmas - and straight in the sqad! Alan Mahon - who only last week talked of a permanent move to Ipswich, has been recalled to Ewood and should go straight into the squad on Boxing Day. (23rd Dec 03) FULL Story rovers.co.uk |
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McBride's
name Back in the frame .. At the weekend Rovers Manager Graeme Souness told Radio Rovers that there were 'money' problems with the price the club were being expected to pay for the American striker. Apparently much more than either PNE or Everton were asked for. But today the story seems to have moved on - Souness told BBC Radio Lancashire "We were getting negative vibes last week, but we'll see what happens over the holiday period," (22nd Dec 03) FULL Srory BBCi Sport |
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a very Merry Christmas ... Rovers 0 - Aston Villa 2 Boss Graem Souness thinks it might have been the worst display in his three and a half years in charge at Ewood. Rovers went down to Aston Villa thanks to two second half goals - and many fans left early ... there were boos too! The Manager apologised via the TV media and the Club fell to 16th place in a congested bottom of the league. (20th Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi Sport |
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Going
Home? Blackburn are in talks with an Italian top-flight side about the sale of striker Corrado Grabbi. Blackburn chief executive John Williams said: "I think they would be quite interested in taking him but there's a long way to go in negotiations yet." (18th Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi Sport |
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Mahon
wants to move on for good... Alan Mahon is hoping to sign for First Division Ipswich on a permanent basis. The Republic of Ireland midfielder, whose loan at Portman Road expires on 8 January, is also keen to play in the FA Cup third-round tie against Derby. (16th Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi Sport also see archive news links |
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No
Goal- after all! Vraitislav Gresko's winning goal against Spurs on Nov 29th has now been declared as a Stephen Carr own goal, following a meeting of the 'dubious goals committee'. Sadly, Vratislav needs to wait a little longer to record his first Rovers goal. (16th Dec 03) FULL Story rovers.co.uk |
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Unlucky
at Highbury Rovers went down 1-0 at Arsenal despite another great performance - particularly in the second half. Blackburn also had another gaol disallowed when Marcus Babbel headed home in the second half. The win put the gunners back at the top of the table, and left Graeme Souness frustrated not to come away with at least a point, (14th Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi1 Sport or rovers.co.uk |
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ANOTHER
TV game for Rovers ... Rovers Easter Monday fixture at Loftus Road has been moved to a 20:00 hrs kick off for TV screening. Rovers were due to play Fulham at 15:00 - but make it to the little screen yet again this season (13th Dec 03) |
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'Clarets'
Call for young Jay .. |
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Rovers
confirm date for St. Andrews Blackburn announce that the 3rd Round FA Cup game with Birmingham City will be played on Saturday January 3rd 2004 at 3.00 pm. (10th Dec 03) SEE Fixtures list |
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Gally
injury worry.. Paul Gallagher is a doubt for Sunday's trip to Arsenal after damaging a knee ligament - an injury he seemed to have picked up while training. He scored his first Premiership goal at Birmingham last Saturday. Paul pulled out of the Scotland squad that drew 1-1 in the Future Cup match at Tannadice. (10th Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi Sport |
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Charges
brought against Souness The FA have charged the Rovers manager with "abusive and/or insulting words to a match official" following his encounter with Graham Poll at Ewood. Souness said at the time: "I said to Mr Poll, `I didn't know you were a Tottenham supporter,' and he's taken exception to that." (8th Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi Sport |
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A
penny for your thoughts? Birmingham City may face a Football Association inquiry after referee Graham Barber confirmed he has reported a coin-throwing incident involving Blackburn keeper Brad Friedel at St Andrews. Friedel drew Barber's attention to events behind his goal at the Tilton End of the ground after Lucas Neill had scored the decisive second goal in Rovers 4-0 win on Saturday. (7th Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi Sport |
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Short
- could be longer! The Press Association report that Manager Graeme Souness is so impressed with Craig Short, that he'd like to offer him a further extension to his contract. Describing him as the Professionals professional - the Manger hopes that Short will stay another year at Ewood. Since Craig's return from injury Rovers have kept their first clean sheets of the season. Craig signed a further one year deal in February this year (see archive story) (7th Dec 03) |
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It's
Groundhog day - for the FA Cup! Blackburn will be away to Birmingham City in the third round of this years FA cup. The draw made on Sunday afternoon gives Rovers an all Premiership clash, and back at St. Andrews where they had such a dogmatic 4-0 win just yesterday (7th Dec 03) SEE THE FULL DRAW on the FA official site thefa.com comment from BBCi Sport AND our FA cup pages for the 2003-2004 season |
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No
Dunn but all dusted! 0-4
at St. Andrews! Paul Gallagher (87'00) scored his first, first team goal for Rovers as we keep a second clean sheet and ran riot in the second half at St. Andrews. Barry Ferguson also scored his first Premiership goal and there was a first of the season too for Tugay! The other goal scorer was Lucas Neill, Facing Rovers for the first time, David Dunn couldn't help his team in a fast moving game. Rovers moved up to 14th place with 17 points. (6th Dec 03) FULL Reports BBCi Sport and rovers.co.uk |
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We
want 'US' striker? Blackburn Manager Graeme Souness says that the club have been checking out the American 31 year old for the past 6 weeks. He told the press at Brockhall that they've been talking to McBride's agent and John Williams is now trying to make a loan deal happen. (5th Dec 03) FULL Story rovers.co.uk and BBCi Sport |
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Peter
to stay another month. Rovers confrim that loan keeper Peter enkelman will be staying with Blackburn for a further month (5th Dec 03) FULL Story rovers.co.uk |
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Shalom!
Another player to come on trail .. Israeli international defender Tal Ben Haim is to have a trial with Blackburn after Christmas with a view to possibly signing at the end of the season. The 21-year-old is captain of Maccabi Tel Aviv and will be out of contract at the end of the season. "He has been recommended to us by Eyal Berkovic so we'll have a look at him," said Souness. (2nd Dec 03) FULL Story BBCi Sports |
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