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Anyone care for a guess what the significance of Blackburn 1995 is?

This truly shocked me

That the misconception that they bought the title that season is exactly that - they actually spent less than the rags that season on players

Last team to win the title without a black player playing in it?

The last time Blackburn won the Premier League?

You gonna tell us then?

Well?

Can't remember anything too shocking about that team.

Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:Last team to win the title without a black player playing in it?

Why is that shocking?

Last all British side. But it's a wild guess.

Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:Last all British side. But it's a wild guess.

That's not a bad guess but I'm pretty sure Henning Berg was at CB alongside Colin Hendry. The no-black-players thing is probably right; there were loads of rumours about Uncle Jack being a bit racist. I vaguely remember something about the Nathan Blake signing causing a ruckus.

Are we all just being dicks or was it only my commentators that were banging on about this last weekend? Last time we were losing at half time away in the PL and went on to win.

roblues wrote:Are we all just being dicks or was it only my commentators that were banging on about this last weekend? Last time we were losing at half time away in the PL and went on to win.

Correct

The last time we won a Premier League game after being behind at half time. 20 years

nottsblue wrote:

roblues wrote:Are we all just being dicks or was it only my commentators that were banging on about this last weekend? Last time we were losing at half time away in the PL and went on to win.

Correct

The last time we won a Premier League game after being behind at half time. 20 years

that sounds like a really bad joke

nottsblue wrote:

roblues wrote:Are we all just being dicks or was it only my commentators that were banging on about this last weekend? Last time we were losing at half time away in the PL and went on to win.

Correct

The last time we won a Premier League game after being behind at half time. 20 years

Away or just in general?

We've been behind in plenty of games and come back and won regardless of what half it was, I don't understand why the timing of the comeback is significant in a game you've come from behind in? It's fuckin nonsense!

Mase wrote:

nottsblue wrote:

roblues wrote:Are we all just being dicks or was it only my commentators that were banging on about this last weekend? Last time we were losing at half time away in the PL and went on to win.

Correct

The last time we won a Premier League game after being behind at half time. 20 years

Away or just in general?

away, we beat spurs recently after behind 2-1

plus its only prem games, we were also behind 3-0 to spurs away at HT in the cup :-)

also watford last season.

I guess that's because for half of that time we were shit and unlikely to turn it around and often not actually in the premier league. Also the rest is because we've recently been very good so not actually behind often at half time.

freshie wrote:

Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:Last team to win the title without a black player playing in it?

Why is that shocking?

Jack Walker was (allegedly) less than enthusiastic about having non-white players in the Blackburn team.

Alioune DVToure wrote:

Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:Last all British side. But it's a wild guess.

That's not a bad guess but I'm pretty sure Henning Berg was at CB alongside Colin Hendry. The no-black-players thing is probably right; there were loads of rumours about Uncle Jack being a bit racist. I vaguely remember something about the Nathan Blake signing causing a ruckus.

I heard at the time that Dalglish left because of this ongoing 'problem'.

twosips wrote:I guess that's because for half of that time we were shit and unlikely to turn it around and often not actually in the premier league. Also the rest is because we've recently been very good so not actually behind often at half time.

this is it for me, you show me a stat that shows you the % of games we have actually been losing versus the % games we have been winning at HT

Its just a journo stat that they like to produce. anyway, spurs away next, time to put that to bed!